Web hosting is SO retail

Written by Alec Ellis


You have 1 or 2 seconds to make an impression, and 2 or 3 seconds more to make a sale, or forgetrepparttar web hosting business!!

Web hosting as a business has taken off inrepparttar 134428 last 12 months, with a vengeance.

How many web sites are onrepparttar 134429 Web today? They all have to be hosted somewhere,repparttar 134430 result being, there are now thousands of web hosts aroundrepparttar 134431 globe today. How do people decide to choose you?

Potential customers will talk to friends; perhaps ask a local web design group; or consult their ISP (Internet Service Provider); but this may result in knowledge of only one or two hosting companies. There are hosting directories, and review sites which may be governed by whoever pays forrepparttar 134432 largest ad or personal opinions that seem popular. The visitor will still have to makerepparttar 134433 final decision.

If these visitors make their own decisions, and there are thousands of web hosts to choose from, there are very few seconds to deliver your offer, which must be instantly obvious. What can you do to turn this streaming traffic into sales?

First View – The look of your web site

Arerepparttar 134434 design, content and delivery up to customer expectations? Ifrepparttar 134435 presentation has obviously been thought about; a conscientious effort to delivery and content; then it is likelyrepparttar 134436 visitor will believe thatrepparttar 134437 hosting company will also look after their site conscientiously. Ifrepparttar 134438 presentation is poor, then forget it, there are more than enough web hosts that look good. Of course, torepparttar 134439 other extreme, ifrepparttar 134440 web host’s site looks a million dollars, it is likely thatrepparttar 134441 visitor will be expecting to a pay a ‘million’ too!

The Initial Offers – What are your best packages?

Withrepparttar 134442 sudden growth ofrepparttar 134443 web,repparttar 134444 hosting industry has had to take a retail approach to content delivery. Inrepparttar 134445 retail traderepparttar 134446 offers are so many, thatrepparttar 134447 customer has to learn to speed read, or speed view. Visitors to web hosting sites have not gotrepparttar 134448 time to read allrepparttar 134449 details on each of every one of thousands of sites, so speed viewing is a must; or is it?

Web hosts who have nothing to sell usually hide this fact by showing columns of text, expectingrepparttar 134450 visitor to sort out what is good to them or not. The usual explanation for this is “ The visitor knows what they want and will find it without our hassling them.” The expectation is that with less hasslerepparttar 134451 visitor will more likely become a customer. Not true.

Web hosts that have special offers, great deals, or offer specialised packages for say private, business or corporate customers; will tell you just that. Think about it, why hiderepparttar 134452 fact you have a winner? By taking a retail approach to a very retail business,repparttar 134453 real dealmakers are not ‘backward in coming forward’.

Obviously making everything onrepparttar 134454 site an ‘excellent’ offer isrepparttar 134455 other extreme. Most web hosts offer 90% of what their competition offers, so to point out every good point offered would be overkill. The likely result would be that you would showrepparttar 134456 visitor that you are new torepparttar 134457 industry, and less experienced; not good in times of future support.

The benefits of having a web site

Written by Candice Humbley


When you’re searching throughrepparttar Internet you will find endless amounts of information, about everything, and all at your fingertips. The Internet isrepparttar 134427 largest source of knowledge inrepparttar 134428 world. Why is this? Because anyone can get their information on there. All you need is a web site and a resource generous web hosting company.

Many people think that getting their website onrepparttar 134429 Internet is an expensive venture, fortunately though, this need not necessarily be true; if you findrepparttar 134430 right web host,repparttar 134431 benefits of having a web site will definitely outweighrepparttar 134432 costs.

There are many different ways to benefit from having a web site, whether it is for personal gain, or to aid your business success. Those who have their own personal websites generally use them to further an interest or a hobby; having a web site is a great way to share and exchange knowledge with others. Businesses onrepparttar 134433 other hand use a website to promote and market their goods and services, while cutting back on such expenses as postage, couriers and advertising, etc.

These are but a few key benefits of owning a website:

Increased awareness of products and services – Businesses can now greatly expand their markets, no need to constrainrepparttar 134434 focus to onlyrepparttar 134435 local scene, but by usingrepparttar 134436 Internet, businesses can venture into international and regional markets, with greater ease. This dynamically changesrepparttar 134437 nature andrepparttar 134438 marketing activities of some businesses, possibly encouragingrepparttar 134439 business to expandrepparttar 134440 diversity of its products and services, to meet these new markets. Websites, in their nature, allow hundreds and thousands of items to be on view 24/7; thus encouraging wider viewing, and extended trading hours.

Freedom – Withrepparttar 134441 freedom of being able to post your information on your website, hence onrepparttar 134442 Internet, at any time ofrepparttar 134443 day; available information of all variations is increasing at a huge rate. The freedom to browse anywhere and interact with anyone is enough to temptrepparttar 134444 smallest of businesses andrepparttar 134445 most introverted of people to get onrepparttar 134446 Net; hence Net users are increasing in numbers, at an alarming rate, approximately 50,000 per day. Businesses are buzzing onrepparttar 134447 Net, they have found a way to compete on an even field, with evenrepparttar 134448 largest of corporations; and within a daily increasing customer marketplace.

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