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Top 10 Benefits of Professional Web Site Design

Building the Business Case

The benefits of having a professionally developed web site might not be all that obvious. At first, many small business owners choose to get someone's kid or friend to put up a web site, thinking it will just be like a business card, but online. Later on, most will discover that building a successful and profitable online business requires time and specialized skill sets that their organization does not have.

The following are 10 key benefits of outsourcing your web development projects to a professional:

1) Time Savings

Web development is very detail-oriented work that requires time resources that might not be available to your small business or organization. Outsourcing your Web development projects to a professional developer will allow you to focus on what's most important to you - your business.

2) Cost savings

A web site reduces your cost in answering inquiries on products or services. A FAQ page can answer questions currently handled by your staff, freeing not only them but your telephone lines.

To reduce distribution costs of promotional material.

Many companies are now using their web sites to electronically distribute marketing materials such as brochures and catalogs. Web visitors will be able to download these materials quickly and without any hassle. Imagine the huge cost savings you will enjoy while not having to pay the expensive printing and and mailing fees.

3) Cost Effective Marketing - 24 hours a day

The web is one of the most effective and cheapest methods of advertising available. For about the same cost of a small one time newspaper ad you can have a 4 or 5 page web site, open 24 hours a day with, the potential to reach millions of customers.

4) Timeliness

Your potential customers can obtain product information when they want it, not when your business is open. Many people will give their custom to the business that supplied them with product information when they required it, which in many cases is outside normal trading hours.

5) Comprehensive Web Site Planning and Integration

Too many small businesses fall victim to the "build it and they will come" philosophy. A professional developer will integrate proven marketing techniques into the Web development process to ensure that sites receive targeted traffic and generate leads or sales.

A web site can show more than just your company's contact information - your site can showcase your products and services, illustrate your location, incorporate pictures, sound and other forms of multimedia! In short, it can 'sell' your product for you in a consistent and comprehensive way. The potential client can get as much detail as they wish, so you can cater to many client types.

6) A Professional and Polished Look - just like the larger companies

The Internet allows small businesses to compete with the larger corporations. It has a low cost of entry and allows you to market to a global audience. A professional developer can analyze your existing promotional materials and integrate these elements into a coherent design for your business' Web presence. This allows for a more custom marketing presence than can be obtained by just using templates included with off-the-shelf software packages or online services.

7) Greater Flexibility

One of the powerful aspects of a professionally designed site, is that it can be quickly modified to take advantage of ever changing market conditions.

Instead of just having an off-the-shelf template web site, a professional developer can analyze your business to make your web site work for you. The developer can add features and functions to your web site to save you time or help grow your business and increase profits.

8) Greater Functionality and Responsiveness

To establish a 2-way interactive method of communication with your customers

A web site provides a perfect method for receiving feedback from your customers without taking up sales staff time. Your web site can display online feedback forms and surveys / polls that your web site visitors can fill in and submit to you. These forms are automatically emailed to your company for review, or can be saved in a database.

Sell your products or services online 24/7. As the Internet never sleeps, you can create a revenue stream every hour of the day. You can sell products, distribute materials and/or contracts and integrate it all with your internal database and systems.

9) Avoid marketing pitfalls

It is not generally well known to many small businesses that developing a web site incorrectly will actually limit the amount of potential visitors you could have. You may have invalid code or html behind your web site, incorrect server headers, your web pages may be viewed as too spammy by Google and Yahoo, or you may be using spammy and 'unethical' promotion techniques. Some link exchanges are viewed as spammy. Any of these missed opportunities will mean you will will most likely be penalized by the search engines.

Because search engines take from a few weeks to many months to index new sites, it is therefore essential that your web site is fully optimised prior to submission. Remember, do not auto-submit an unoptimized website to hundreds of free directories as some promise.

10) Technical Expertise

Even with the most robust, feature-packed Web development software packages available today, there is a tremendous learning curve involved in developing a technically sound Web presence. A professional developer will stay abreast of current technology trends to ensure that your Web site loads quickly and is accessible across a wide range of computers and web browsers.

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