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Your website is your office on the net. You may be a businessman, a professional, NGO, shopkeeper, travel agent, whoever - if you don't have a website - you may be losing out on customers who are looking for your products or services online. Internet is becoming a powerful medium and increasing number of people are getting used to finding what they want online. Your website helps you get closer to your online customer and drive free and targeted traffic to your business. Basic reasons to have a website include; a website helps you to reach out to target audience worldwide in a way that your business card can't do for you. Your website represents you to your customers, clients, or even friends when you're away, asleep, spending time with family, and busy doing other things. Another thing with website is that it answers the same questions for you over and over and over without you having to lift your finger. Website makes it easy for people to find your phone number without having to look into the phone book. It enables people to send an email on the address they find on your site. A website offers you an opportunity to have worthwhile one-on-one conversations with different people and display your personal / professional information. Now let's look at some advanced reasons for getting a website and see if any of them apply to you: Do you want to communicate information to a specific set of audience ? Are you looking for improving visibility of your business or organization, and getting ahead of your competitors? Are you selling a concept, goods or services, or soliciting donations about which you'd like to spread a word around? Would you like to provide `24x7' help-desk to your target customers? Are you looking for people to sign up for a service or membership? A website can do all this for you and more. Right from helping to grow your business to build your brand it can do everything for you - provided you can make it work for you. But if you know of better ways and vehicles to communicate with your audience, and improve visibility of your business - then you don't need a website. But in most cases it is not a preferred option. There are misconceptions constantly doing rounds that designing a website cots a fortune. Most small business owners have the impression that having a professionally designed website is beyond their means, but in most cases it’s not such a big deal. There are basic costs that you need to budget for. If you can find a web professional who can look after all of these expenses for you, great. There are four main areas for a basic website that you will need to budget for: Registering domain name & hosting space, designing your website, and maintaining it. So go ahead and give your business a new identity. And if you have one already make sure it is adding value to your business. A website is your office online. So don't just let it lie there, make it work for you. contact me at purvaiyengar@gmail,com to know how I can add value to your website
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