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[C1179]Creating A Website Business

by David Risley, Dav

* How do they make their money?
* Who is their public or target audience?
* How can their public be promoted to?
* How can the web be used to help automate their business?

I'll listen to what they want to achieve with their website and then recommend options to help that website achieve the points above: making money, automate and promote to their target audience.

Anybody looking to put up a website for business purposes needs to look at this. Too many business sites are very poorly thought out and underutilized. A good website is a lot more than good design. A good design and some content means only that a website is acting as a glorified brochure. Its better than nothing and any business today which does not at least have that really needs to get on the ball. However, beyond design, you can look at how the site will achieve the points above.

Now, a business which is all web-based is very straight-forward in this department. A web-based business is going to want to collect payments from customers via the web, so we're going to want a secure payment system on that website. We also want that website to be well-designed so that it does not confuse people and attracts the customers' eyes to those things which make the business money. We're also going to want to discuss how the web can be used to promote. A business which is not web-based would want to consider what they can provide on the web to extend their business. Traditional brick-and-mortar businesses may have a storefront or may need to deal with clients in person, but what can they do on the web to extend their reach?

Promotion is paramount to success in business and on the web. A website can perform any of many promotional tasks such as:

* Collecting sales leads by asking visitors to fill out a form. Perhaps give them some free, valuable content in exchange for their information.
* Collecting email addresses for use on a mailing list
* Auto-responders sending targeted emails automatically based on customer's indicated interests on a form
* Providing metrics on customer interest using landing pages and keyword advertising
* Running polls and surveys to find out what your potential customers want
* Running free articles which educate your customers on the subject matter of your business and get them interested.

A website is a footprint on the internet which is viewable worldwide. Depending on the nature of your business, visitors located well away from you may not be that useful in terms of potential clientele. However, there is no reason why you cannot still gather information from them to use with your local clientele. After all, if they arrived to your website, they were interested enough to come. They are a public for you regardless of their location. Perhaps you can even find a way to change your business model to include these people which are not located locally to your business.

In terms of automation, keep something in mind. A web server is simply a computer. Computers are great at doing repetitive tasks that humans either hate or would find a huge waste of time. For this reason, it is always a good idea to look over those business functions which are repetitive and see if your website can serve to make your life easier. For example:

* Sending your email newsletters could easily be done using your web server. Click a button and email your entire mailing list. Easy.
* Auto-responders can take care of automatically emailing your customers relevant information at regular intervals.
* Automatically compile sales statistics and email them to you each morning (if you do web sales)
* Export sales transactions directly into your accounting software to avoid typing them all in manually.

There are a number of ways a web server can be used to serve a very real business function and actually do some of the work for you.

A lot of this comes under the heading of programming. Design is design, however making the site actually DO something means it has to be programmed. So, if you are skilled in this area, you can do it yourself. Or perhaps you can hire it out to somebody. Before any of that, though, look over your entire business and the website you have and see how it can be utilized to make your business easier to manage or actually drive in business. Unless your website is personal in nature, then it is through the lens of business that your site needs to be evaluated.

Once you post your article the article site administrator needs to approve your article, one the article is approved you link will become active and visitor will be able to visit your site. More and more article sites are placing restrictions on the type of articles, format and word count and the category the article is in, check the article sites policies before submitting.

We see innovation in so many industries and market sectors, as it seems there is no end in sight to what possible futures lay ahead. Indeed one interesting new trend on the Internet is the Online Article Submission Websites. The internet is loaded with links to article submission sites for you to submit your articles. People will read your articles if you make them valuable. The Internet is the place to share information. When writing articles make sure the article is intended to help the reader, the more you help the more publicity you will receive from the article, webmaster are more likely to reprint articles that help people. The Internet is choked with fluff articles.

In a short period of time article marketing has boomed, both professionals and amateurs are writing articles for publication and to get their name out there as a professional author. Of course some online article authors are scraping by and maybe a little money and taking a little bit of a risk makes a little bit of cents.

When writing articles you need to create articles between 450-600 words, most article sites have put restrictions on the number of words in the articles, so be sure to follow the rules of the article site so you can publish the article. Article submissions have increased across the internet, it is highly competitive and more webmasters are writing articles to establish themselves on the internet. Many article site owners are looking to attract the great writers, one way to attract these professionals is to give more tools to use, spell checkers, tracking software, make them a top author. However many niche writers are reluctant to post their articles on online article submission sites which lack the proper categories to adequately describe what they are writing about.

Compose your article in your favorite word processor; 450-600 words is an optimal length. One SEO technique is to collect data from other sites and analyze it, pick out the keywords they are using and use them to market your website. Do research and make sure you write articles that correspond to your sites theme, your efforts will be better received.

Article submission is a great way to drive in traffic, plus it give the readers away to trust what you are saying. The method I am talking about to get more web site traffic is called article submission marketing.

The more links you have the higher you are ranked. So, part of your search engine optimization strategy should be to use article submission services. Using article submission services allows you to submit your articles to many services at once. This gives you the best exposure and builds your one way links to your site quickly.

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