Companies should understand that such a simple site is just a first step. They should be ready to develop their web presence more completely with a few months. Those businesses that feel they're ready to try selling over the Web have a lot of people who want to help them. During 1999 a flock of companies, some as large and well known as IBM , and some new startups like Bigstep. Com , have begun targeting small businesses with own e-commerce services.
Cost varies as well.
IBM charges for all its e-commerce setups. BigStep and some other sites offer basic services for free. Locally, Maple Tronics, will soon be offering e-commerce site development for businesses. Black Coat Communications, parent company of CStation, offers services to help develop a web front to e-commerce business systems for increasing traffic and use of those sites. Black Coat also offers basic web development.