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s	S E R V I C E S Home Our Mission Statement Keeping up with E-COM Need a Logo? Katavi Client Listing IT Resources Contact Katavi Arts A R T I C L E S Can a website help my business? Keeping up with E-COM TOP !0 Tips for Web Design Search Engine Optimizing (SEO)	W H Y W E B D E S I G N ? How can a website help your Business? The internet has revolutionized the way consumers buy products online. Having a strong web presence and effective an E-Commerce application has changed the way businesses make money nowadays. It has even become a necessity in today's modern business market. If you’re still holding back from getting your business on the Internet, or skeptical about the results you will receive from a strong web presence just read the below and I think you will agree E-Commerce is business owners out there very happy. . E-Commerce is not just beneficial if you want to compete with your competitors, it's essential. If you don't have any sort of E-Commerce, or URL business solution presently in place for your small business you are behind the power curve and doing yourself and your business a huge disservice. Just take a look at what your competitors have been up to. Here are the five ways that your website could be helping you: 1- A website can reach more people – Because your website is never closed or taking time off for the holidays, you can be up and running 24 hours a day giving your customers information at all times of the day and night. This allows customers to browse your selection of goods and services at their leisure, 24/7. This also means that everyone from around the state, USA, Australia to Canada and the United Kingdom can all be looking at your site at any given time – even if you’re operation is based out of Poulso, Washington. 2- A website can boost your sales – It’s very simple for shoppers to purchase exactly what they’re looking for on line, place orders, request services, read testimonials from past clients, look at merchandise, review your licensing information, etc. Having a website also allows you to do all this with just a click of the mouse. A website generally allows customers to be repeat customers without much hassle. Imagine logging on, clicking on the the below items and getting all the services you need. - Place an order - Receive order confirmations - Review your merchandise selection - Review your prices and estimates - Read about your services - See pictorials of your work - Read client testimonials about your service - Inquire business hours - Get directions to your store - Review your licensing information - Make "service calls" - Read your credentials, experience, & business testimonial - Gives customers a way to e-mail you - Provides a link to all your business partners and associates - Review a "take out" menu - Customer blogs and testimonials 3 - A website is more convenient – Customers love convenience, this will never change. Though you may already realize that the website is always open and always ready to take orders, a website is also a way for customers to learn more about your business and its services without having to interrupt their day or yours. They can look up items during their lunch hour and then order them a few days later when they’re ready for their purchase. They won’t have to lug around packages, or make a drive either because everything will be shipped right to their door without any hassle. Having a website saves time and frustration! 4 - website allows you to be where your customers are – Because more than 50% of all people have shopped online at one point or another, you need to start being where your customers are - online. More people are looking to the Internet to avoid the lines, the parking, and the hassle of traditional shopping. Customers like shopping on the Internet. Having said that it's important for your company to pop up at the top when a customer types in "Engravers in Bremerton". Your site needs to be found during internet searches as well as general industry searches. This is called Search Engine Optimizing or (SEO) and is a huge part of what we do. 5 - It’s an inexpensive way to boost sales – Mark my words Having a website is one of the absolute best marketing tools you’ll ever invest in. There are many options for building a website. Keep one thing in mind- cheap hosting typically does little to drive traffic to your site. Without traffic, you have no business. KATAVI ARTS utilizes Go-Daddy which is the best in the business. Whether you build a website yourself or hire someone like KATAVI ARTS to do it and maintain it for you, you’re priority should always be on landing in the top of the search engines. Everything you do should please 2 target groups: your site visitors and the search engines. Again this is called Search Engine Optimizing or (SEO) and it is absolutely critical for your business success. A web site can give also contact facilities e-mail, phone, fax… so that your clients can reach you easily. How can a website improve my bottom line? - More Profit & Business - More Customers - More Contacts - More Orders - Modern Up-to-date Marketing - More Satisfied Customers - More Business - Bigger Market Share All your objectives and services can be reached through your web site. - You will be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and 365 days of the year, without more employees or customer service. No need for a lot of money for advertising. - Your targeted clients will reach you through your web site anytime, anywhere. - You can save money that you would spend on catalogs, brochures and mails. Creating an electronic version of your catalog with no limit on size, more pages in web site is not by more money. - Turn your catalog into a web site and since space on the web is inexpensive, you can describe each product in greater detail than you would do in a printed catalog. - Forget about full-color printing, forget about catalogs, brochures and all other things. All your company products will be online 24 hours a day, not only in distributors area but all over the world. - If you want to change your catalog, change the design or add more products.. No problem, quick documents changes and every thing will be settled without expensive reprinting or extra money for mailing, you have free-mail. Compared to other mediums, It's definitely worth the investment. You pay a lot of money on traditional advertising for a huge number of people even though very few of them may be interested in your products. Internet advertising is alot different, it is targeted. Everyone who visits your web site is there because he has specific interest in your product or service. A web site can serve all kinds of companies Companies that are trying to reach customers in different locations all over the world and have products that can be shipped to them, as well as local companies can benefit from the web site by introducing themselves to customers, show their location, list their services or offer special promotion. The Internet solved the problem of limited space, your business now is online every time, every day. If you want more customers, you should be online, regardless of the kind of your industry. If your presence on the World Wide Web is beneficial today, it will be essential tomorrow. So all what you need now is to collect money and ship your product. Let your customers reach you and watch your business grow. Put the World Wide Web into your hands and save your business.