5. Provide Research information - Consumers spend hours of time researching potential businesses, products and services prior to making an educated purchase.

6. Reach desirable Demographic Markets - The World Wide Web is arguably highest mass-market demographic available. Mostly consisting of college educated or being college educated consumers making high salaries or soon to make high salaries.

7. Open International Markets - With a Web page, you can open up dialogue with international markets as easily as with company across street. Another added benefit is that they can access your offices information for price of a local phone call.

8. Create a 24 Hour Service - Business is worldwide but your office hours aren't. Web pages serve client, customer and partner 24 hours a day, seven days a week. No overtime either.

9. Feed Back from Customer - Having proper information, brochures, catalogs, sales presentations and still no sales or leads. What went wrong? With Web presence you are able to ask for feedback in a non-confrontational way and receive information instantly with out extra cost.

10. Help people make quick decisions - By providing product or service information plus prices and specifications almost instantly your website is able to attract new business for you.

Whether you decide to design and build your own website or hire a professional as saying goes..."Just Do It." Don't get let your competition leave you behind. Start increasing your sales and service by getting your own business website today!

6. Put testimonials from people you are doing business with now in an autoresponder and let people read them at their leisure. Everyone likes to read what satisfied customers have to say.

7. How about putting your entire website in an autoresponder. As people surf web after a couple of hours they don't remember every website they have been on. By emailing different pages of your website over a period of time they can learn about you as well as come back to your website for future reference without having to find it or bookmark it.

8. If you publish an eBook put different chapters or excerpts in your autoresponder. This will allow your customer to download eBook or just to read it as an email when you send chapter by chapter over a period of time.

9. Do you archive issues of your ezine? If so put some of best ones in an autoresponder an let your prospects and customers access them through your autoresponder. This is a great way to catch people up on your ezine as well as build relationships over a period of time.

10. Use your autoresponder for anything you can think of to keep in touch with people an a business and personal way. We have used ours for Christmas lists, when our best friend was dying of cancer, to train people on a product, to give updates on our kids, and many more ways.

To summarize let me say this. Get yourself a quality autoresponder and use it. I personally feel 2 of best are Aweber and GetResponse. http://www.team-schuman.com/aweber http://www.team-schuman.com/getresponse

They are reliable and and easy to use. It is a tremendous way to save time and build relationships over a period of time. There are very few things I will spend money on to build my business, but a good autoresponder is at top of list.