« 15 Reasons To Sell Your Products via Internet »

The Internet user looks for a solid and responsable company that will offer them practical, economical and effective solutions.   Here we give you some of the reasons you should consider to invest and set up your e-commerce as part of your business plan.

1- Expand your business frontiers.

Instead of closing your business to a local seller’s market, Internet could help you open foreign markets doors to find out about your products and services.

2- Make inexpensive precise advertising.

Advertising in the Internet is less expensive than any other format.  If we ask ourselves the cost of a newspaper ad the figures will not even star covering the clients expectations taking them to look for new advertising prospect in the “INTERNET” (One thing is to be inexpensive which is not the same as fast, easy and well manage).

3- Sell directly from the Web.

With the help of new modern technologies such as SSL (Secure Socket Layers) and credit card payments Secure Payment Getway companies are able to sell their products in the Internet 24 hours a day.

4- Include a useful and resourceful salesperson.

More than a sales representative, your web site can be an effective salesperson if you are able to write the texts in the clear and easy away in were the visitors will read and understand them, and if you are able to give them benefits instead of technical characteristics your site will surely be a hit.

5- FAQ (Frequent Ask Questions).

The Internet will let you add a section “frequent ask questions” about your Business and/or products/sevices.  This will allow you to reduce costs by not having people answering them via phone. 

6- Offer a better service to your actual clients.

Internet helps your company create an Interactive way in which your clients are able to check information about the products characteristics , prices, ways of buying, pending orders, overdue receipts, payments among other issues.

7-Cut cost in clients relations.

From all the items discuss above we can clearly see that if we are able to use our web site as an answer to any type of the clients questions or worries (pre-selling or post-selling) it won’t be necessary to have a call center with many telephone lines.

8- El que pega primero, pega 2 veces.

Sooner or later all Business will have their web site, including your competition.  If you take long in making the decision you will only be making it easier for them to take the advantage over your company, the worldwide portion of clients that your competition will capture will be difficult to recover.

9-Go into International markets (or) To penetrate the International seller’s market).

With a virtual web site you’ll be able to commercialize your products in markets that you are not able to access today, mainly because of the high promotion costs.

10-To placed your company in a potential top market place.

The internet users are people with a high quality profile.  Usually they are relatively young persons, professionals, owners of companies and executives who have a high cultural and economical life standard.

11- Acquire Business in a more direct way.

The previously mention issue in item three, to sale directly to the consumer is a great  achievement but mostly if it comes together with the system and logistics organization that will allow to receive and deliver the merchandise (if it is not a digital sale) in an effective way.

12- Achieved business between companies.

Big companies have already realized that Internet reduces costs by the automation process and eliminating intermediaries. That is why they required that their suppliers and distributers make estimates, orders, and payments via Internet, making it possible for more business to be made between companies.

13- Publish important information immediately.

Internets helps you spread electronically in a rapid and economical way any information relating about your company or products such as:  alerts, warnings, press releases, or any other type of important related information.  If necessary the Web sites can be brought up to date to reflect any immediate and important information.

14- Obtained prestige as an advance company.

Being on the internet helps the image of the company as well as its transactions with foreign clients.

15- Star the internal mental change.

The use of technology is not easy, changes are slow, hard  and sometimes the company’s personnel is not  train at the beginning to the use of new technologies, nevertheless,  if the web site is already in place it would be easier for many valuable employees to realize its benefits and become more involve with it.