7 Ways A Web Site Can Help Your Business Grow

Written by April Ward - Internet Consultant


By April Ward - Internet Consultant www.aprilward.net ©Copyright 2004 aprilward.net

1. Pay-Per-Click Advertising One ofrepparttar most cost effective and efficient means of advertising is onrepparttar 132587 Internet. Pay-per-click advertising, for instance, allows you to place ads on behalf of your business for as little as 5¢ per lead.

The best thing about this type of advertising is that you only pay a fee when someone clicks on your ad. That’s right! You only have to pay oncerepparttar 132588 customer clicks on your link and enters your web site. Pretty cool!

2. No Postage Fees If you have tried direct mail to promote your business, you probably discovered that direct mail advertising certainly isn’t cheap. Withrepparttar 132589 high price of postage these days, your costs for conducting a direct mail advertising program could run inrepparttar 132590 hundreds if not thousands of dollars. When you have a web site, however, you can send electronic newsletters, announcements, invitations and sales bulletins free of charge! This allows you to stay in contact with your customers on a regular basis without worrying about postage fees.

3. No Printing Costs Do you currently print-off information (manuals, booklets, brochures, etc…) that you send to your customers? Turn that information into an electronic file then send it to your clients via email. By making your printed files electronic files, you haverepparttar 132591 ability to distribute your information through email at no cost to you. Simply attachrepparttar 132592 file in your email and send it on its way.

4. Accept Credit Cards Many of you know that by accepting credit cards, you could potentially increase your sales by as much as 30 to 100 percent. By having a web site you could register at PayPal (there’s no fee to register) and begin accepting all major credit cards and checks for as little as 2.5 percent-2.9 percent for each transaction.

Website Psychology

Written by Wynn Wilder


Website Psychology incorporates three areas of research. Color Psychology, Psychological Triggers and Critical Thinking’s own Psychological process. Using Psychology, sales are optimized, customer interaction and retention is enhanced, and return visits are increased.

What exactly does all this mean? Lets take a look atrepparttar three parts of Website Psychology.

Color Psychology

Color psychology is under-rated. Web designers do not take color into consideration when creating a web site. The reason? Color is just color too many.

However, color affects everything we do. The way we perceive others. Whether we are comfortable in a room. What we eat, how we dress, if we stop or go atrepparttar 132585 nearest stoplight. We do not realizerepparttar 132586 true impact color has on us, consciously and subconsciously.

Take orange for instance. If you are on a diet, orange increases appetite encourages relaxation and sleep. Blue decreases appetite, lowersrepparttar 132587 body temperature and eliminatesrepparttar 132588 flight to fight response. As a sales tool, orange is pivotal for persons making a buying decision. It makes products more attractive and appears more affordable.

Without realizing it, web designers often use color in a way that is detrimental torepparttar 132589 web sites productivity. The web sites color should be chosen after a demographic profile is done. It should also depend onrepparttar 132590 product being sold.

Ifrepparttar 132591 company has an existing logo,repparttar 132592 color ofrepparttar 132593 logo must be taken into consideration. The color can be incorporated intorepparttar 132594 site. However, a balance must be achieved betweenrepparttar 132595 logo andrepparttar 132596 colors forrepparttar 132597 sites productivity.

Large corporations long ago discoveredrepparttar 132598 true importance of color to their products. Consider for a moment Coke and Pepsi. The predominant color for both is red. Walk into any grocery store andrepparttar 132599 majority ofrepparttar 132600 packages are – red. The reason? The taste buds become more sensitive, appetite improves, and reactions become automatic.

Color Psychology is used on you every day. So are Psychological Triggers.

Psychological Triggers

If turkeys moo are they cows too?

What kind of question is that? It’srepparttar 132601 kind that made you stop and think. It grabbed your attention. Probably made you shake your head and say, “Huh?” Without realizing it, you just reacted exactly as you were meant too.

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