Top 10 Reasons For Having a Business Website

1. Your Business is Open 24/7, 365 Days a Year
Not just in your locality but take note, TO THE WHOLE WORLD! Unlike your business' physical office that may be open from 8am to 5pm, Monday to Friday, your business' website is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and 365 days a year. This is specially useful if your business is operating on a different timezones or if you have potential clients worldwide.

2. It's Your Online Catalog / Brochure / Product Manual That Can Be Changed at Anytime
A website is much easier and cheaper to update than print materials. A website can have almost limitless feature in terms of modifying contents and information. This is very cost efficient in such a way that you can easily change information anytime without having to worry about distributing them.

3. Extend your market reach Globally
Once your business have a website, you aren't that local small business anymore. Your business is now visible to potential clients across the country and across the globe. Internet, without a doubt, is the most effective way to trade internationally.


4. Present a Professional Image
If you are a small or start-up business, a professionally designed website is a great way of making your business look bigger than it actually is. Nowadays, customers assume that you already have a website. In fact, your top competitors probably have a website.

5. Improved Customer Service
You make it easy for your clients to answer common questions about your business by publishing a Frequently Asked Questions. Many business website nowadays have the feature to request quotation, fill-up an application form, download invoices and other important documents such as product specification and activity reports.

6. Promote Your Services
Many customers nowadays refer to companies' websites when making major buying decisions. Even self-employed professionals such as lawyers, physicians, dentists, engineers, financial consultants or entertainers and many other service oriented business should let customers know that they have options.

7. Sell Your Products online
I know a many big online stores that enjoys the benefits of not having to pay huge office rent, electric bills and other costs that go along with running a business. Selling on the internet is much cheaper and is a good way go complement your offline selling strategies. Providing secure online ordering has become very affordable and can easily be set-up even for small businesses.

8. Gather Information and Generate Valuable Leads
Your clients' views and opinions counts a lot if you are to stay in business. By having online forms such as comment, poll and survey, you can gather information about your customers and potential customers. Instead of going out to get these valuable information, let them come to you by visiting your website and generate new leads from visitors who are potential clients.

9. Provides Instant Gratification to your Clients
Most people are so busy and don't enjoy waiting for information. A business website can give them what they want, when they want it. Clients use to ask for product specification, price lists or catalog and will have to wait 'til you fax it to them. But website makes it so easy for you to simply give your URL where they can see those eye-catching pages that says it all for your product.

10. Great Recruitment Tool
Many job applicants won't do walk-in application anymore without visiting the company's website to check out how they would fit in to the organization. By having a job posting page in your website, it becomes an instant recruitment tool. Both you and the applicant saves time because you can first screen the applicants
qualification before asking him to come to your office for an interview.