Why Every Business Needs A Professional Web SiteWritten by April Ward
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Today, customers expect more from web sites than ever before. They want option to pay online, they want to find information they are looking for quickly and they want to have confidence in doing business with you each day. By providing a web site, you are saying that you are willing to go extra mile to be there for your customers. By providing a web site, you are saying that you not only take your business seriously, but you take your customers seriously as well. Don't miss opportunity to leave a great impression with current and future customers. Hire a professional to design your web site and get competitive advantage you need!

April Ward is a professional web site designer with more than seven years of Internet marketing and design experience. To learn more about Internet marketing and web design, visit her website at www.aprilward.net where you can also subscribe to her free online newsletter.
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Now you may have some concerns that allowing anyone to add content and links to your site is inviting your competitors to steal your traffic. If your site has detailed reviews of products on your site, anyone who leaves your site to visit a competitor won't spend much time there before realizing that your site has useful, original content that they can't find anywhere else. If that doesn't put your mind at ease, though, there's nothing to stop you from including a disclaimer when someone submits a review. Explain in this disclaimer that direct references to your competitors will be removed to keep reviews informative and to avoid marketing hype. You are webmaster, after all. You can draw even more traffic by allowing visitors to rate usefulness of each review. Many reviewers will encourage people to visit your site so they can read and rate review. More important than just being a gimmick to increase traffic, rating reviews allows you to sort them by quality and expose your average visitors to best possible content first. Promote it! Once you've got code in place, it's important to publicize this new feature of your website. If you have experience or know someone with experience writing press releases, you may be able to garner attention from news and niche media. Another highly effective form of publicity is to mention new feature above fold on main page of your site. If you have a newsletter, promote review process in your next issue. In fact, as you begin to accumulate reviews, they can serve as great additional content for your newsletter. Simply include best reviews in each issue. As with reviews on your website, you are providing valuable content for your audience, giving your reviewer great exposure, and saving time for yourself. It's a win-win-win situation.

Copyright (c) 2003-2004 Clay Mabbitt. Clay Mabbitt writes articles about online income opportunities. He is the founder of a community of Internet entrepreneurs sharing knowledge and experience at http://www.affiliatescreen.com
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