Service Businesses Need a Web Site Too

How can service businesses benefit from setting up and operating a web site? Even if you don’t have merchandize to sell through an ecommerce operation, your web site can still provide a font of useful and unique data for potential customers.

By putting forth facts and tips that are unavailable anywhere else on the internet, you distinguish your web site as unique and establish yourself as an authority in your field of expertise. Customers can then recommend friends to you, and other e-business web site owners will likely want to link to you or otherwise affiliate themselves. You can then cross promote as you see fit or use your new “web site celebrity” to leverage other aspects of your business for profit.

In addition, as a service professional, your time translates directly into money earned. If you have to deliver the same spiel to every custom about how your operation works and who typically benefits from what you do, you waste time and resources. Even if you are only spending 10 to 15 minutes a day answering redundant questions from potential clients or partners, when you extrapolate that time lost over a longer period (like one to two years), the time costs to your company can add up to tens of thousands of dollars.

By directing these inquisitive people to your web site for answers to FAQs instead, you instantly save time and resources. In addition, you can urge clients to review testimonials from past customers and independent industry evaluation groups. Indeed, these unbiased reviews land your business a level of credibility that you can’t get when you deliver testimonials in person or vis-à-vis a brochure.

Your e-business web site can sponsor forums to help customers connect with one another. You gain instant feedback, and you also promote your e-business during non-work hours. If customers need to contact you from some remote location, they can surf to your site and access your email address, phone number, or IM chat hotline. In short, e-business keeps you connected in a way that typical “phone and newsletter” synergy cannot provide.

Finally, in today’s service industry climate, customers expect businesses to offer web site assistance. Thus, the absence of a web site may be considered by some to imply a lack of professionalism on your part.

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