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Let's examine the issues
in more detail
It can help you sell
more of your stock – you can add to your market
for merchandise or services, easily selling to a world-wide
market, instead of your usual 5km radius from your real-world
business.
You can open up markets which would be otherwise inaccessible
for you.
Everybody now realises that
online sales are booming worldwide . In the USA online
shoppers spent a total of US$30.1 billion during 2005
Christmas holiday season alone! (eSpending
Report from Goldman Sachs, Nielsen//NetRatings and
Harris Interactive. This is an increase of 30%
over 2004.
According to the CIA Factbook
there are over just over ONE BILLION Internet users
online!
And according to Forrester Research,
online retail sales will grow from $172 billion in 2005
to $329 billion in 2010.
The Interactive Media in Retail
Group (UK) predicts a 400% increase in the 2005 e-retail
market by 2009.
People are more than happy to
buy on the Internet. If you have a product that is not
available in every corner store, chances are you can
sell it on the Internet.
A website helps you
present your case – Your web site can be an
excellent way to present your business in the best possible
light.
It allows you to persuade people
who are ‘just looking’ that your products
and services are exactly what they’ve been looking
for.
This is evidenced by the millions
of affiliate websites out there – people who have
built a dedicated website specifically to market someone
else's product or service (or both).
Web sites like these receive
a commission on any sales made when visitors buy from
the primary website via the affiliate site. Affiliate
we sites pre-sell you and then give you a link to the
web site that actually makes the sale. Billions of dollars
are made each year from this type of web site.
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