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6) You will have a global audience
You can reach out to a worldwide audience. Your services will be available for viewing locally, nationally and internationally, creating a much broader awareness of your organisation and potentially a larger customer base. Other more traditional forms of advertising reach a very small geographic area in comparison so a web site is potentially a very powerful marketing tool. 7) It can be easily updated
The information on your web site can be quickly and easily updated to include changes to your products, services, special offers or contact details. These details cannot be changed on brochures, flyers, business cards or any other existing print based advertising medium – they will all have to be reprinted.
8) You can trade online
Your web site can act as an online brochure, putting your products and services where people can see them. People can find your products and contact you by email to make enquiries, and you can provide online order forms. You can even have an online shopping cart where
customer proceeds to a virtual checkout and pays by credit or debit card.
9) You don’t have to carry lots of stock
You can have pictures and descriptions of your products and services on your web site. When you receive a request for a product you can order it in specifically for
customer. You don’t have to buy lots of stock upfront; money is not tied up. Some suppliers will supply
customer direct so you don’t even have to see
stock.
10) It will make
most of impulse buying
People can look at your online information straight away when it suits them. People are impatient and impulsive and may not be prepared to wait for your other advertising efforts to reach them. For example, if they have to wait 3-4 days for your brochure to reach them through
post, by that time they could have found another product from somewhere else.
Armed with these facts, you should now be in a position to tell if a web site is
solution for you.

Sharon provides affordable web site design services for small businesses and is the founder of www.featuredesigns.com. Send an email to enquiries@featuredesigns.com.