Does Your Business Need a Website?

Even today many small businesses still don't have a website.

Most small business owners don't see the need for a websites as their customers are local, and they already know them, and they don't appreciate what a website can really do for their business.

It maybe true that some businesses can, and will thrive without a website, but there are many that won't, and there are probably even many more that will thrive because of their Internet presence!

Being a Small Business is No Reason Why Not! It May Even be the Reason Why!

If you have a small business where do you get new customers from? For most businesses it will probably be local advertising and/or the local yellow pages.

If this is you then you will eventually need your own website - and here is Why?

• A website is cheaper than the Yellow Pages and you can change it when you want.
• It is cheaper than local advertising.
• You can use it to interact with your customers.
• You can supply much more information to your customers than through either other methods.
• You can use it to accept email orders.
• Reduced running costs - If your business needs to produce brochures or any kind of sales literature it is cheaper to have the customer download it to his machine and print it then you to produce a brochure which you then send to him/her.
• You can use it to attract customers from outside your local area.

Comparing this to the cost of running a website per year then it is by far the cheapest option available besides being the most flexible.

Small Business and The Search Engines

Traditionally people search for local businesses using the yellow pages or the classifieds in their regional paper. All major search engines are currently adding local search facilities and it is only a matter of time before they become extensively used for finding small businesses.

It is very difficult to say with any degree of accuracy when local search via the Internet will overtake the yellow pages and classifieds, but it is almost inevitable that it will.

For those who are convinced they need a website then FastDesign will take you through the process of creating your own business site.

Many small businesses are missing out completely on email marketing, a standard feature of the FastDesign web solutions, unaware that it is probably the most inexpensive and effective form of marketing available.

Although it is possible to use email marketing without a website it is far more effective when used in conjunction with one.

What's Twitter, and how can it help you market your business?

Unless you've been living under a log for the past six months or so (nothing really wrong with living under a log aside from the obvious I might add) you will have no doubt heard of twitter and tweets.

So what is Twitter? A: Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author's profile page and delivered to the author's subscribers who are known as followers. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow open access. Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Short Message Service (SMS) or external applications.

So what can it do for you and your business? There are a number of ways you might consider using Twitter to build your business - some might work for you - some not. You be the judge, but the article here about 50 Ideas on Using Twitter for Business might give you something to twink about.

Happy tweeting.

WoW Account for Sale

Well, great news! It’s been a while since the last time I had a good review on here so I’ve been checking with a few people I know to see if they had any plans to buy wow account. As luck would have it, my own brother was about to make a buy of wow accounts when I called him. He had actually been planning on calling me to see where I thought he should go since he hadn’t made a buy in a while.

So I went over to his place and we started looking around for a good spot. Of course when you type in “buy wow gold” to google you’re going to get thousands of hits, so we started with the first page worth. It didn’t take long to nix a few of them. I think I could have done the site design better, and some of the claims they made were just entirely unrealistic. I mean, 10,000 gold for $5 with no stated delivery time? Riiiiiight…

After weeding some of those out, we took a look at the few remaining and I just dropped a few of the hints I did here previously to help out. First thing I told him to look for was the money-back guarantee. Also, I wanted him to think about the kind of payment type he’d want to use. He said he’s going paypal if possible. From there, he settled on Accounts.Net. I had to approve, since I’ve worked with them before and have to say they’ve been good to me.

So he made the buy and sat back to wait for the confirmation call. He wanted to see how that would go since most of the other sites we’d considered required a landline phone for the call, and he only has a cell. Sure enough, within 5 minutes he got the call and spoke with a pleasant fellow based right here in the US. After chatting for a couple of minutes, the rep said that the gold would be ready in about 20 minutes.

From there he logged on and started getting himself ready for a run. He figured it was as good a time as any to rearrange some of his skills. Fifteen minutes later he got a tell to meet in SW. Once he was there, it was only a matter of a few seconds before he had his gold.

Overall, great job Accounts.Net. My brother is a satisfied customer.