Top 10 benefits of having a website -Part2
By admin | October 25, 2007
6. User Interaction: Thanks to technological advancements, a user can interact with a website today, virtual tours, presentations and spinning objects that show the side of a product which a user wants to view is a reality now. Increased user interaction naturally results in increased sales.
7. Customer Relations: A website is a great tool in establishing highly productive customer relations. By strategically planning a website you can target each consumer individually and make them feel that they are being attended to at your website, again helps in building a brand Loyalty.
8. Availability: A website unlike your office is available round the clock, 365 days, and by outsourcing your sales desk/customer service departments you can be available to your customer anytime anywhere. So on a public holiday or Read the rest of this entry »
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Top 10 benefits of having a website
By admin | October 22, 2007
- Highly economical: the startup cost of a high quality static website would be around $500 and the recurring costs might be less than $100 a year but for a yellow page you might have to spend more than $1000 every month.
- Market Expansion: Internet allows you to open a new front for your business. On the Internet you are not bound by geographical limits. You can sell goods or services to customers across the globe.
- Increased awareness: Through internet you can create increased awareness about your products and services as a website also attracts non target visitors. While making a search related to your website, searchers are likely to land at your website and if your website seems useful to them they’ll not only come back but also refer your website to others. All this can only help in spreading the word about your business to corners of the globe you could have never Read the rest of this entry »
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The Importance of having a website, Top 10 benefits -part2
By admin | October 19, 2007
A website has many facets, it can allow you to reach new markets and realize your dream of global presence, or it can simply help you retain your present customers by providing them easy access to your products or services. It can act as an advertisement and familiarize new clients with your business or generate its own income as an online business. It can act as a meeting place, a resource for your clients and help in building brand loyalty. That’s right, whatever your plans, your goals may be, a website can only help them by adding value in more than one ways. If groomed properly it is not unlikely that at some point of time your offline business will become secondary and complementary to the online business.
An advantage of using a website over the media when talking of advertising is that it reaches a global audience, and allows you to deliver the ads to a targeted audience in a manner that actually gets the message through to this targeted audience. Read the rest of this entry »
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The Importance of having a website, Top 10 benefits -part1
By admin | October 16, 2007
As the owner of flourishing business that is returning optimum to the scale what can you do to almost double the returns without investing heavily into fixed assets? Simple, you have to find a new market, which needs minimal investments. Now the questions that might have sprung to your mind: which market has been left un-explored? Are you asking me to go overseas? Or are you asking me to expand my local business? Is that possible without additional investments into fixed assets? Is this possible without recruiting additional staff?
The answer to all the above questions is yes and the market that I am suggesting is the Internet, yes, whatever be the nature of your business it can also profit from the vast possibilities of the internet. You needn’t invest a lot into any fixed assets or recruiting more staff for having a website and doing business online as all major online business functions can be Read the rest of this entry »
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Points you can consider while selecting the best web-host for your website
By admin | October 13, 2007
- Operating System and Program Language Capabilities - Most web site hosting companies allow front page on either a Linux or Unix or windows based system but if you are using .ASP you will need a windows based server. Many companies provide both windows and Linux or Unix based hosting though their package rates may differ.
- Full Management tools including email setup, file management, web based security, FTP support (to transfer files), and online page creation. See if the web hosting company includes an online demo of their web site manager tool.
- Additional applications that can easily be added to the web site, like bulletin boards, shopping carts, calendars, and banner management
- Fast connections to the internet (T3 connections or better) so the users can get to the pages quickly. Read the rest of this entry »
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ADVANTAGES OF WEB-HOSTING
By admin | October 10, 2007
As discussed in the previous blog there can be numerous uses of web hosting -
- As it is outsourced, the physical location of the web server is not the consumer’s premises. This means that, the responsibility for maintaining a web site infrastructure effectively transfers from the customer to an organization that is more competent to do so.
- Many individuals and small businesses take advantage of web hosts in order to free themselves from pre-occupying their scarce human and financial resources on web hosting issues.
- It helps in reducing and controlling operating costs, allowing them to improve focus on their own company while gaining access to in-depth expertise. It also frees internal resources for core competencies and provides access to Read the rest of this entry »
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Web Hosting -Part2- Introduction
By admin | October 7, 2007
Webhosting is a primary service that consumers can utilize after obtaining either dial-up or broadband access to the Internet. It allows you to:
- create a website that may act as an online visiting card and introduce your company to a wide range of viewers without incurring heavy advertising costs and double up as an online shop using eCommerce features your web host offers.
- share your own information resources, images or news with any Internet user who might be interested in it. Nowadays, people prefer blogs (weblogs) to websites for sharing and publishing information directly on the web.
- start an online community by developing a forum, online communities are very popular among internet users, top Read the rest of this entry »
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Web Hosting -Part1- Introduction
By admin | October 4, 2007
To have a web site on the Internet you need a web server. However, owning and operating a web server can be very costly and requires technical expertise that most people or businesses do not possess. This is where “webhosts” come in. Web hosts provide the equipment and other technical resources that are required to provide a consumer with their own customized web site. Hosting companies charge a rental fee for the service of storing personalized web sites and allowing website visitor traffic flow through their computers to get to the information on the specified site.
Web hosting refers to the process of publishing a website or a blog, so that it’s available to the world on the Internet, it’s the system that makes content, you want everyone to be able to access online, available online. In other words, a service that Read the rest of this entry »
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cPanel an Overview
By admin | October 1, 2007
cPanel is unquestionably the leading web hosting control panel, it’s a GUI (graphical user interface) for managing everything related with your web site and web hosting account. By using cPanel you can easily create ftp/email accounts, subdomains, setup email accounts, Private SSL, install scripts etc. Its use is limited to *nix based web servers and comes in two flavors: WHM and cPanel. WHM (Web host manager) is for use at the root level and allows you to create user accounts, manage quotas, resources, update services, i.e., server management. On the other hand, the cPanel is meant for use by the end user, it allows you to carry out account specific tasks only.
Today, there are many web hosting control panels available. Many top web hosting companies have come up with their own customized control panels as well. Each one of these control panel has its advantages and disadvantages over others, so let’s Read the rest of this entry »
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Choosing a Web Host
By admin | September 27, 2007
There are thousands of web hosting companies from which to choose from but but a little research should help you make a decision on the best possible web host for your web site.
The first thing you should do is use Google to do a search for some of the companies you are considering. If there are lots of negative comments about the company, it may be a good idea to stay away. Often, unhappy users will post comments about their experiences online so you can get an idea of what to expect.
You should also cal and email any company you are thinking of using and see what type of response you get to your questions. Both the response times and quality of responses will be indicative of the level of service you may get once you are a customer.
Be careful when selecting a web host that is recommended on one of the many web host lists or directories. Many times, web hosts pay to be listed on these web sites and a listing is not related to the quality of service they provide. You may consider asking for recommendations in online forums or friends that you know who have web sites.
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