OK, you’re a business owner with a storefront or office. You have customers (although you may not know how many) that do business with you now. How do you know if you ‘need’ a website, email, and all the modern methods that large companies spend tens of thousands of dollars a month to implement??
Ask youself these important business questions:
- Do you have a ‘Yellow Page’ or similar ad, contracted on a yearly basis?
- Do you ever advertise in the local daily paper, weekly paper, or ad circular?
- Do you do mailings to your current customers?
- Do you ever run promotions in your local community to gain new customers?
- Do you have a tracking system to determine who sees your Yellow Page ad, your newspaper ad, etc.?
- Do you advertise special sales at certain times of the year and/or special occasions?
- Do you have an easy, automatic system new clients can use to give you their information?
- Do you keep client information updated on an ongoing basis?
- Do you regularly contact you clients with updates about sales, special inventory, etc.?
- Can you contact your entire client base by writing one letter?
- Can people contact you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year and get an immediate answer?
- Can people instantly find you on a map system available 24/7/365?
- Do you ever have someone ask, ‘what’s on your website this month’ and you have nothing to say?
- How often do you check your business email for orders, questions, etc.
- Do you have an automatic help desk so (most) customer questions can be answered 24/7/365?
- Have you ever wondered how your competition is doing compared to you?
You probably answered YES to some of these questions, but NO to most of them if you’re like 95% of the small businesses in America.
But, you need to answer YES to ALL of them if you expect to keep up with the big-box stores and online retailers that are spending literally millions of dollars a day to grab your customers from you and keep them from ever walking through your door!
Main Street Marketing LLC specializes in helping businesses with a ‘real’ store or office location to quickly and cost-effectively answer YES to ALL of the above questions and offer services to local customers that a big-box store or online retails cannot possibly offer.
Most of your potential customers will research a purchase - from large-ticket items to hobby interests - on the Internet before making a buying decision. If you are not ‘there’, a buyer will never find you to visit your ‘here’.
Additionally, Internet-based marketing can massively and cost-effectively expand a bricks-and-mortar business’s efforts to acquire new customers and sell to an existing customer base.
It is not effective for a small business owner to spend 12-18 months learning how to put their business online, when it can be done in 30 days for less than the cost of a ONE-TIME small display ad in the local newspaper.
Okay, that’s great…but what is it going to cost?
Our basic business package for putting your website on the Internet starts at $995. (Call me to hear how you can qualify for a $500 discount!)
That startup package includes:
- Consultation with business owner for look-and-feel, content
- Design of 5 page website
- Registration of domain name, installation of website on domain
- Hosting of domain and website for 1 year
- Listing business with local/regional/national business directories
- Setting up site logs and domain metrics (who visited, from where, and when)
- Proprietary optimization techniques for our clients only
- 3 months maintenance of website - monthly subscription required afterward
Let us know when and where you’d like to meet. We’d suggest a meeting at your business during business hours.
Regards,
Jonathan Phillips
CIO
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PS. Have you heard that certain communities are considering banning the Yellow Pages books, because of the tremendous amount of recycling, etc. that they create?! This is no joke or urban myth. Google it.
For more information, please CONTACT US.