Why Do I Need a Website?
The Internet matters!
More people are using the Internet today than ever before to find information, do their shopping, and communicate. The number keeps increasing; consider these statistics:
- It took only 4 years for the World Wide Web to reach 50 million users.
- In 2000 there 122 million Americans online (44%); ; in July, 2004, the number was 185 million.
- More than 44 percent of the active Web population visited a finance site in January, 2002.
- There were 101 billion email messages sent worldwide in 1995; in 2000: 2.6 trillion. Estimated in 2005: 9.2 trillion.
- U.S. retail e-commerce sales for the third quarter of 2004 totaled $17.6 billion according to the Department of Commerce, up 21.5% from the third quarter of 2003.
- There is no other media that is more cost effective in the number of people it can reach.
Obviously,
you can’t ignore the Internet any longer. Don’t let your competitors outpace
you in taking advantage of this opportunity for global communication that
is so easily available to anyone.
How can I get a website?
Creating a website involves arranging for hosting services, registering a domain name, writing the text, creating the graphics, and arranging everything into an attractive and usable format. Upload all of your work to the server, make sure everything works and, voila!, you have your own website.
If you are computer-savvy or have a nephew who spends time on the computer, you can try creating your own site. If you surf the Internet you will find loads of homemade sites. They usually have many bouncing balls, misspellings, and sprawling text, with everything center-justified, and/or using basic Microsoft themes.
Why should I hire someone to do my site?
You work hard every day to put forward just the right image. How do you carry that image over to the Internet? You could create your own site, but do you have the eye for design and the technical savvy to create that great first impression? You could go with prewritten templates offered by some hosts, but do you want to look like a hundred other sites? You’ll save money, but is it worth it?
No, your website should reflect the same attention to detail and quality that you put into your business. Hiring someone is more costly than doing it yourself, but isn’t it worth the expense to have a professionally executed site that will reflect positively on you and your business?
Is the Internet important to your business? Absolutely! Have you taken advantage of it, yet?
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