Why you should have your own website
Don't get left behind while technology is constantly racing towards the future!
Millions and millions of people have internet, and use it to find what they're looking for.
If they type in keywords related to your business, don't you want a link to your website coming up on searched pages of the internet?
How many people do you have phoning you, everyday, asking questions about your business, but never arriving to use your services or buy your products? You can use the time saved to spend better quality time with the customers that do arrive, customers that have seen all you have to offer, on your very own website.
How much are you spending on advertising in local newspapers, brochures, and other forms of advertising, including adverts you place on other people's websites?
By all means, it is advisable to continue advertising in this way, but not as much advertising will be needed. The advertising that you still do will now include a link to your own website, where customers can browse what you have to offer.
Don't stop placing adverts in the usual manner that you do, just place less of them, and include the link to your website. Visits to your website, as well as carefully chosen text in your website, and good meta tagging in the coding of your website, helps search engines find it more easily, and the link to it climbs the searched pages of an internet surfer.
Having your own website means that your advertising (this time in the form of a website) is aimed directly at the people looking for you, instead of having a small advert somewhere, lost amongst others, that somebody may stumble across.
How much would you pay for an A4 size advert, in colour, in your local newspaper, for one day, that will reach a few thousand readers? How much would you pay for a week? For a month? For a year?
Think of a website as something better than an advert, as it is more targetted to the market you need for your business to grow. And it's a huge market - people are actually looking for you. And if you're not there, you lose out to your competition.
A one-page website, designed by us, TnT Unleashed, costs only R200. And there's your new advert! Not for one day only, or a week, or month, or a year, but DONE. Forever.
Our domain registration price is R100, renewal yearly.
Our hosting price is R55 per month, or R40 x 12, once off, for a year.
This all includes up to 5 email addresses on your website, if needed.
It also includes design of at least three proposal webs (or three homepages if wanting a larger web than just one page), for you to choose from.
Also free of charge is careful meta tagging we put into the coding of your website, as well as a meta description. This helps search engines find you, and like you, more easily. We include robot crawl instructions into the coding for free too. This, combined with good content in your web, and many visits to your website by the public following links you advertise elsewhere, all help your findability on the internet. Wouldn't it be great to reach page one of internet searches related to your business? You could soon greatly reduce what you spend on advertising elsewhere.
We cannot promise you will reach page one, as it depends, too, on how frequently you advertise the link to your business. But we can do everything we can to help you, with careful meta tagging, and advising you on good content in your web.
Need the kind of website that is updated from time to time, if you have specials or new products? We do alterations to a website at R75 per page.
Save on your advertising costs, save on time spent talking to customers who are just browsing, and, increase your sales. A one-page web design, with hosting and domain registration for a year is advertising of your business at less than R3 a day!
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© Teresa Schultz 2009
