Points to Consider before Web Promotion
by: Nowshade Kabir
Doing business online is not as easy as it seems! You may have the notion, with millions of prospective customers being only a click away, all you need is to build an eCommerce website and you will start selling your goods or services. Nothing can be further from truth! Most of the Netpreneur learn this hard way! I have seen people abandoned their online business endeavors after having worked unsuccessfully for several years. Like any brick and mortar business, online business could also fail for a number of reasons. However, many failed online businesses have one thing in common – their inability to bring quality visitors to the sites. Quality visitors in this case mean visitors that you can convert to buyers easily.
Making a site popular enough to profit from is not a simple job! According to a survey conducted by Netcraft in June 2005 there were approximately 65 million sites on the Internet. In the first six months of this year alone, 7.83 million new sites were published. Just like your site, all these other sites are also vying for attention of the Internet users. How do you attract traffic to your site? How get the right visitors, those who are interested specifically in the products and services that you offer?
Website promotion and marketing has become a thriving industry on the Internet. In a discipline where today’s knowledge can become obsolete in a month, the name of the game is to be constantly vigilant and learn new tips and tricks. Not every Netpreneur has the time or the ability to learn all the complex issues of website promotion. However, with little patience and eager interest you can acquire enough knowledge to promote your site successfully within a several days.
Before you start promoting your website, you need to work on the following points; otherwise all your efforts will be futile!
Your products or services
Whatever you sell, make sure that your products or services are of high quality! Go to your prospective competitors’ sites and check out, how compatible you are. Trying to sell an item, which has dubious quality or reputation, will take you nowhere. Ask yourself if you were the client, would you buy this product for your own use?
Your eCommerce site or Web Store
Many Netpreneurs don’t take the quality and design of their websites seriously. They reckon that first I’ll make some money and then only I’ll go for a high quality website.
This is a totally wrong attitude! It does not make any difference if your online business is only an extension of your successful offline business or it’s completely a new venture, you must take building your eCommerce site seriously. Your website is your online office, showroom and sales channel. Decision whether people will buy from your website, is based in many cases just on the look and feel of the web store. A lost visitor may never come back to your website again. That’s why it’s a good idea to spend enough time and money on the development of the right website.
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About The Author
Nowshade Kabir is CEO of Rusbiz.com, a global B2B portal for small and midsize companies. Our distinctive web stores along with many outstanding features like e-marketplace, e-catalog, supply chain management solutions, and trade leads section will allow you to build robust Internet presence and manage key business processes online. Rusbiz also develops Corporate B2B portals.
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