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Conducting business on the Internet (World Wide Web) begins with determining
how your business will benefit from the web. There are several positive
reasons to conduct business on the web.
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24/7
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"24/7" is a web term coined to let your customers know
you are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Customer can visit your
business on the web and interact with you on their own time frame. This
does not mean you lose the face-to-face value of business-to-customer
interaction. The kind of interaction and amount of information a customer
can view is defined by your unique web design.
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Direct Sales
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You can expand your customer base and product
availability by offering products on your web. Empowering your web site
for online ordering can range from offering customers your email to contact you,
an online form to request a product, to a secure interactive catalog with
capability to accept payment.
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Enhanced Customer Support
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Many products and services can be enhanced
with education. You can use your web site to offer education and technical
support for all your products and services. Your web site will
provide a cost effective way to include colorful tutorials and detailed list of
questions and answers.
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Public Relations
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All business benefit from good press about their
services and products. Fortunately, you can create your own online public
relations area in your web site. You can schedule your own publicized
product releases and even announce them with a email distribution to your
existing customers.
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Marketing to global audiences
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The Internet reaches all parts of the
world. You can expand your business base far beyond you home town.
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