Do people go online for information?

People are busier now than ever. Time is at a premium. There is not enough time to get in the car and shop for the best product at the lowest price. The growing trend is to go online to research products and services. It's quicker and requires a lot less effort. And, if you can buy it online delivered to your door, well, that's a bonus!

It has never been more important for businesses to be online. A majority of customers now consider a website to be a basic credential of a genuine business and will base their purchasing decisions on information researched online. In Australia, 50% of all adults access the Internet each year. This number is growing. The internet is now the universal tool for both information and commerce. There are billions of pages available on any subject imaginable and an estimated $254 billion dollars will be spent online each year by 2004.

To be a part of this buying revolution, businesses are putting their products and services online. Businesses who use and have a presence on the internet earned on average three times more revenue per employee than businesses who were not connected.*

A well designed website is just one piece of putting together the bizOnline™ for your business. Once you have created your carefully designed website, without a strategy to get your business noticed, you will have wasted your time and money.

Online retail sales in Australia is a $5 billion dollar industry

With Australian online retail sales already growing into a $5 billion dollar industry, consumer confidence in e-commerce is growing by the month. To capitalise on this booming market, your small business must define its target markets and develop an effective online promotion strategy.

The most popular online advertising is the search engine. Google, one of the most popular search engines today, boasts more than 6 billion searches a month in 89 languages. Enterprising marketers however develop new techniques to reach target markets all the time. Newsletters, e-zines, mailing lists are just some of the methods that touch our lives daily. A small business must evaluate and implement the right strategy. The wrong decisions waste valuable advertising dollars and could even alienate your target audience.

A small business that has a good website with a successful marketing strategy will be a busy small business! But if your business does not have the right technology to manage this success efficiently, your profits will suffer.

The next part of bizOnline™ will help.

Can a small business succeed without the right technology?

The pressure is on for small business to use computers for everything from email to invoicing. Customers, short on time, want quick service, a quick checkout and information in an instant. Computer crashes or a computer that doesn't deliver...quickly...is downtime! Downtime costs money. If you're waiting around for your computer, you are wasting money.

And, just like cars, computers require periodic maintenance and attention. The unfortunate truth that all computer users have discovered is that, not keeping your computer equipment properly maintained results in slow performance, system crashes, and lost data.

To deliver what your customers expect, your business needs the right technology that is properly secured and maintained.
A business with a developed internet presence and the right equipment is well on the way to success.

To complete bizOnline™, one more part remains...

Everyone can use a computer, right?

As soon as we can, we all rush to get our driver's licence. We study, take the test and prove our competency to drive a car. While you may not be risking lives, it is definitely possible to lose valuable information on a computer if you don't know what you're doing!

Anyone can buy a computer, turn it on and go. But how many actually know what they are doing? Bill Gates has tried to help. The Windows start button is the best example! But what do you do when something doesn't happen the way it did the day before?

With the right training you can find your important files. You can maintain your data efficiently and secure your critical data, reducing downtime and saving money. Without training for everyone in your business, disaster is inevitable!

If it doesn't work, who do you call?

A familiar story....

Mary logs on to check her overnight sales...she gets an error message. She hesitates...should she call her ISP, her hosting company, her website designer, her PC support service or the shop that sold her the computer? If she gets it wrong, she'll be wasting time waiting for the right person to give her the answer. Using our unique service, Mary would have just one call to make. Our 7 day support makes sure she gets a quick solution.

"bizOnline™ is a proven process that works"

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