10 Reasons Why You Need a Website

1. Your competition has a Web site. If you're in direct competition with another business that has a website, they have a clear advantage - especially if they know how to market their site.
2. Your Web site is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week - including ALL holidays. Many people shop online and surf the web in the evening, when most businesses are closed. If you have a website, they can find you. Is your competition ALWAYS open?
3. Deliver relevant and significant information. More now than ever, the "traditional" means of finding information is to look online. Phone books and printed materials are being used much less.
4. Improve your image and customer confidence. A website for your business is an online brochure that is perfect for telling potential clients what you do and why you're the best at it. A great website instills customer confidence and will greatly improve your image.
5. Websites generate revenue. According to the SBA (Small Business Administration), businesses that have websites average $1.07 million per year in sales more than businesses without them.
6. 2/3's of the population. That's 217 million Americans that regularly use the Internet. Worldwide Internet usage is one billion.  If you could reach 1/2 of 1% of those people, you'd be reaching 5 million people.
7. More new customers. According to the SBA (Small Business Administration), half of all Internet sales are from new customers. Want new customers? Get a website.
8. Save the planet.  Websites are paperless, allowing you to cut printing costs while telling people as much as you care to about your businesses philosophies, products and services - and you save some trees at the same time.
9. Know your customers. A website is a great tool for gathering information about your customers to learn where they come from, what they want, and how you can better serve them.
10. A Global market.  Businesses without a Web site can only market to their surrounding community. With a website, your reach is UNLIMITED.  Can you service customers in South America, Europe, or Africa?