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1. The Internet is the World’s Best Salesman:
bulletYour company is open for business 24 - 7 - 365. 
bulletPresent your message to the World.
bulletAnother  communications channel for your current and future  clients.
bulletAnother channel to sell, support and enhance your business.

 
2. Internet Explosion:
bullet71% of all American business owners have, or are planning to have web sites!
bulletEvery 1.6 seconds, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, new person is getting online. (70,000 new people every day).
bulletThere are approximately 400,000 people are online right now.

 
3. Costs Per Sale:
 Typically, the 'costs per sale' breakdowns are:
bulletYellow pages - US$ 5094
bulletNewspapers - US$ 690
bulletSector-specific print media - US$ 597
bulletYard signs - US$ 341
bulletOnline Marketing - US$ 60

These costs may vary .  The Internet provides an relatively inexpensive method to communicate your company's message.
 
4. Competition:
bulletYour Competition alone is good reason why you need a Web Presence.
bulletIn order to compete, you must match the marketing power of your competition.

 
5. Level Playing Field:
bulletA small business can establish  a presence on the Internet as a bigger company.

 
6. Cost Effective Means To Advertise:
bulletMost cost effective means to advertise.
bulletYou can reposition your marketing message to a changing marketplace with relative ease and low cost.
bulletSignificant savings when compared to printing costs of Brochures, "Slicks"  and other printed marketing material.
bulletNever outdated.

 

 
7. Development Cost:
bulletExtremely low development and distribution cost.
bulletCompared to costs of promoting your business in traditional media, a web site is the most effective form of marketing.

 
8.  New Products and Product Information Current:
bulletNew Products can be introduced and described quickly.
bulletYou can change Product and Services information  on a web site, so your marketing material is always accurate.
bulletYou can support your products with the internet with FAQ's , Support information and product surveys.

 
9. Your Web site has virtually unlimited grow capabilities.
bulletYou site grows with your business.
bulletExpansion is simple and  cost is incremental and relatively low.

 
10. Work away from the office:
bulletYou and your employees can have your business Internet activities managed  from home (a part-time employee or employee on maternity leave for example).
bulletWhen you travel, you can continue to conduct your business.
bulletWith a secure integrate data base, you can integrate business functions and develop a virtual business environment for both the internal operations and the interactions with your clients.

 
 

 
11. Promoting Your Business:
bulletYou control your message.
bulletYou control your message with an up-to-date,  accurate presentation of the benefits of doing business with your company.
bulletYou make it easy for clients to communicate with you.

 

 

The World Wide Web is a system of Internet servers that supports hypertext to access several Internet protocols on a single interface. The World Wide Web is often abbreviated as the Web or WWW.

The World Wide Web was developed in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee of the European Particle Physics Lab (CERN) in Switzerland. The initial purpose of the Web was to use networked hypertext to facilitate communication among its members, who were located in several countries. Word was soon spread beyond CERN, and a rapid growth in the number of both developers and users ensued. In addition to hypertext, the Web began to incorporate graphics, video, and sound. The use of the Web has now reached global proportions.

Almost every protocol type available on the Internet is accessible on the Web. Internet protocols are sets of rules that allow for intermachine communication on the Internet. The following major protocols are accessible on the Web:

bulletE-mail (Simple Mail Transport Protocol or SMTP) Distributes electronic messages and files to one or more electronic mailboxes
bulletTelnet (Telnet Protocol) Facilitates login to a computer host to execute commands
bulletFTP (File Transfer Protocol) Transfers text or binary files between an FTP server and client.
bulletUsenet (Network News Transfer Protocol or NNTP) Distributes Usenet news articles derived from topical discussions on newsgroups
bullet HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) Transmits hyptertext over networks. This is the protocol of the WW

Many other protocols are available on the Web. To name just one example, the Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) allows users to place a telephone call over the Web.

The World Wide Web provides a single interface for accessing all these protocols. This creates a convenient and user-friendly environment. It is no longer necessary to be conversant in these protocols within separate, command-level environments. The Web gathers together these protocols into a single system. Because of this feature, and because of the Web's ability to work with multimedia and advanced programming languages, the World Wide Web is the most popular component of the Internet.

Lets look at a web site.   Out on a Web server somewhere, there is an addressable file containing your information that describes your web site definition.   This definition is interpreted by the web browser of your choice.  The web browser then uses this definition and 'paints' the monitor with your page.  The browser also permits you to move about the web site using 'links'.  There are two types of links.  Those that navigate within the site and those that go beyond the site to other web sites for information.  The site may contain several types of files.  Some of these are textual in nature, some are pictures and some can be movies.

Some web sites permit the user to enter information. Others allow the user to create new information for example a Loan Payment calculator or a Map based on address information.

You will discover some sites are easy to use; others more difficult.  Site Design is a consideration.  It is the 'feeling' a client has when leaving your site that makes the difference.

The Internet has become as necessary to the business of business as the telephone.

Your clients use the Internet.   Allow them to Integrate their activities to yours.

 

So how can OSG7 help you?

bulletWe will help you with the domain name.
bulletWe will help you with the design.
bulletWe will help you with a hosting platform.
bulletWe will help you market your site on the WWW.