6. Do you know who your on-line competitors are? If you don’t, go to any search engine, enter a few keywords related to your industry and see who appears on first page. Visit a few of them. What is their message? What do you see as their strengths and weaknesses.? What do you like or dislike about their sites? How could you make your offering more attractive or enticing?

7. Can you be competitive? Knowing what your competitors are offering, can you realistically expect to compete with them, especially when it comes to pricing? Internet inquiries generally come from individuals looking for a deal so they are price sensitive. Do your competitors actual provide pricing or to they ask visitors to make an on-line inquiry or to call for a quote? If you are in a service related business, what are you going to have to do to compel visitors to act once they visit your site? What can you do to separate you from your on-line competition?

8. How unique is your product and/or service? Do you have a unique offering, or are you in a highly competitive industry? Obviously, more unique your offering, easier it is going to be to get exposure and greater your potential is going to be for success.

9. How are you going to promote your site? One of greatest misconceptions in e-commerce is notion that to succeed all one has to do to is submit a site to search engines. This, unfortunately, is full extent of marketing for far too many web sites and rarely gets job done.

One of primary considerations when it comes to search engine placement is popularity. The more sites linking or referencing your site, higher page rank it will earn. It is fairly inexpensive to get a link on a wide variety of permanent directories, but it takes more than directory links to significantly increase a site’s popularity. If you or your webmaster don’t take time to negotiate link exchanges with non-directory related sites, especially those who have high rankings, you are not likely to gain favorable positioning in any but most insignificant search engines. 10. What have you budgeted for promotion? If you cannot afford to promote your site, you might as well forget spending money on its development. To get a quick idea what it might costs to promote your product or service on line using a pay-for-performance advertising program, visit Overture.com again. Enter one of your industry related keywords in Overture’s internet search window on company’s home page.

When results appear, click on “View Advertiser’s Max Bids” link that appears to top and right. The highest bidder wins top sponsored position on Yahoo, MSN, CNN, Alta Vista, InfoSpace, Overture and a dozen or more minor search engines. The top three sponsored listings will appear above normal search results at top of these search engines whenever surfer uses keywords or keyword phrases advertiser has bid on.

These questions are not all inclusive, but they do provide food for thought. Hopefully, they will help those interested in establishing a web presence a better idea of what will be needed to achieve a predictable degree of success as well as a reasonable return on investment.

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The biggest advantage is reduction in travel to bank to deposit checks. Naturally cash will always have to be deposited physically to bank, but physical items could then be mailed or couriered to bank later for truncation and retention purposes. But for businesses that take in a large volume of checks or have security or staff related concerns, uploading check images directly to bank may have an enticing appeal. A business with capability of imaging and uploading checks will be able to perform their own research, thus avoiding check research fees. It could improve productivity and accounting accuracy. Instead of adding machine tapes or multiple deposit slips listing check after check, images could be quickly scanned and after some simple data entry and reconcilement, images would be uploaded to bank.

Depending on software and hardware investment this could result in significant long term savings for some companies.

Another possible savings are per item fees that some banks charge to process business checks. Most banks allow companies to deposit a certain number of checks each month, but after that, charges accumulate for each item over limit. Electronic exchanges will lift boundaries of how businesses can clear their checks. For example, it would be possible for a business to reduce per item fees by depositing checks with a clearing exchange or even another bank. The clearing exchange or bank could then electronically deposit funds into company's primary business account.

While banks are addressing Check 21 internally, they may not have considered potential that digital check imaging could have for their business account holders. Each bank will have to weigh factors such as; proof of deposit requirements, electronic security, fraud, regulatory requirements, and other issues, in order to accept deposits in this manner.

In reality, most banks have technical infrastructure in place to accept images from business customers. It is just a matter of creating policy and standards to enable businesses to realize cost savings from digital check imaging. But once banks are ready, it will change way businesses handle checks.

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