With rapid changing climate of small business world you have to be more forward thinking than ever just to keep up with your competition.

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One of best ways to move your business forward is by getting you own small business website.

It's not as expensive as you think and when done properly can give you more return on your investment than almost any other form of advertising and promotion.

Lets take look at The Top 10 Reasons Your Business Needs A Website! I think you will see that some if not all of these can apply to your company!

1. Having a website can help you generate a professional image- A professionally designed website is one of best ways to instill confidence in new customers who are not familiar with you company. It gives impression they are dealing with a firm they can trust and will generate a sense of respectability.

2. Business Information available - You are able to communicate address, phone numbers, fax numbers, hours of operation and clients awareness of special offerings (i.e. sales, and discontinued items).

3. Your website is ideal promotional tool which can be updated at any time - Unlike yellow pages you can update your customer offerings at anytime. Plus it’s cheaper and quicker to update your website than printed materials such as brochures and flyers!

First of all let's define what an autoresponder is and what is does.

An autoresponder is a feature that allows you to generate automatic customized responses whenever a specific e-mail address receives an e-mail.

Typically, this feature is used by people when they are away, notifying sender of an e-mail that recipient is away and will be back on a specified date.

Alternatively, it can be used as a business tool to send specific responses with information, such as pricing information if a customer sends an e-mail to a specific address, i.e. sales@yourdomain.com.

Here's 10 effective ways you can use an autoresponder to improve your time management and increase sales.

1. Collect names and email addresses. I use an autoresponder on my website sign up form to capture customer information for follow-up with my weekly newsletter

2. Publish a price list of all products and services that you offer. You could also include order forms, product descriptions, and other sales material. This is great way to keep people up to date on what you sell.

3. Use it for training. When a new person joins me in a program I am in I follow-up with them with my autoresponder which contains a series of short messages designed to answer questions about program as well as give them my contact information if they have any questions.

4. Give away free reports. This is a great way to capture your prospects name and email address for future follow-up as well as pre-sell your product, program or service for future sales.