Today Website is the most significant marketing tool available
to companies. It has consistently proven to be highly cost
effective and is by and large the most popular medium prevailing
in the market today.
But the real predicament SME's find themselves
in is to understand and implement technologies which enable
them to take complete advantage of this tool. More often
we find that companies are not taking the full advantage
of this medium. Most of the companies build singular, isolated
website models which are not fully integrated with the business
processes and are at times left on sidelines presumed to
be a forced requirement.
It is mistakenly believed that Websites are costly to maintain,
update, upgrade and developed and that they are constantly
in need of funding. This attitude stems from the singular
notion which is further strengthened by the expensive rates
charged by Website development and service providers in
the market today.
Any where in the UK, the approximate web
maintenance cost starts at £ 300to 400 pounds per
month and prices could mount up by couple of thousand pounds
per month. Hence, most companies choose to leave the website
as it is. But how sound the decision is?
Well, consider this; your website is a
place where 90% of your potential customers would check
out your business prior to actually getting in touch with
you; so the question you should be asking is, DO YOU want
to provide these 90% of your potential new clients with
information which is stale and out of date? Answer most
logically will be a big NO. And yet this happens and most
businesses lose 60to 80% of those online visitors who could
have potentially given you business but did not do so due
to the out of date content, presentation and design, inactive
links, expired concept and information available on their
site.