is internet useful

The changing communication and data transfer technologies of the internet today are effecting the way many companies do business. Depending on the nature of your organization, the benefits of internet presence will vary. We can help your organization take advantage of the internet by developing a web presence that promotes your company on the web, fits your budget and helps your company gain a great audience. Here are several benefits of internet publishing. EXPAND REACHABLE MARKETS With a presence on the internet companies gain access to previously unreachable local, regional and international markets. Existing and potential customers can access your site from the office of at home on their own schedule with not assistance from you. INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION Provide information to the public about your organization's products and services, allow visitors to browse a museum, or guide users through a presentation. Whether for gathering or distributing information, a web presence is a great place to engage and share information with your audience. VALUE ADDED SERVICE Establish a pro-active customer service oriented image of your company by providing useful information to your customers online, such as technical publications, examples of product use, instructions and other value added bits of information. Establish your company as technologically savvy in the forefront of communications today. USER INFORMATION REQUEST Make it easy for customers to request specific information from your company, place a purchase order or send an e-mail with user request forms. Your site can also gather valuable customer information with customer reply surveys. EASY LOCATION OF DATA Allow visitors easy access to information in your site by utilizing a search engine that can search the pages within a site or a specific relational database. CONSISTENT MARKETING Utilize your existing communication, marketing and outreach strategies on the internet to establish a consistent communications approach. Integrating current or existing marketing assets like logos and customer artwork, can help save on web development costs. SAVE MAILING COSTS Begin to reduce the cost of paper, printing and mailing by providing the same material digitally on-line. Distributing information on the internet may not eliminate the need for hard copy promotional materials, but if you've ever had to update a printed brochure you'll appreciate the cost savings associated with internet publishing. CHANGING CONTENT IS EASY After the design and architecture of a web site has be established and produced, making revisions and adding or deleting content from a site can be very cost effective. We provide site maintenance plans if desired or we'll share options to educate your staff about basic web page structure and maintenance. UTILIZE EXISTING NETWORKS Take advantage of established industry specific networks to attract the visitors you desire. Promote your presence with links to your site from related resource lists, internet catalogs and the best search engines available. Use e-mail updates to specific usergroups to promote changes and additions to your site. PROJECT AND WORK SHARING Connecting your web site to an FTP server allows your audience to share documents by downloading and/or uploading files and folders in application specific formats. For collaborative projects this can be a great file management and quality control document sharing solution. Whether within one building or spanning large geographical areas, FTP sites are easily password protected.