Not long ago we read a comment of a well-known industry observer, where he stated that companies do not sell over the Internet in 2007, is likely to become extinct. As dramatic as it might feel, although exaggerated, but there are some truths in it.
Consider this: Although the decline because of bad economy, average growth in e-commerce is about 25% a year. 81% of small companies that have an online presence over the last year, aos holiday season reached new customers, leading to an increase in sales and profitability, according to a survey conducted by Harris Interactive. Thirty percent of small businesses with a web presence and fewer than 20 employees now generate more than 25% of their revenue online claims Gartner research.
If this does not convince you to take your business online, below we identified 10 additional reasons to begin doing business online right now.
1. New economy Internet has created a new economy in its explosive growth 
and sheer size already changed our perception of traditional way of doing business. Companies like Amazon and Ebay have established dominance in areas where only a few years ago traditional brick-and-mortar companies were kings. But to be a success online, you don, AOT has to be a giant like them. Many small and medium enterprises managed to build online businesses quite profitably. In fact, studies show that SMEs will be the main growth force of e-commerce in coming years.
2. The Internet is a perfect place for business in order to make a sale you need visitors coming to your store. On the Internet, your shop is just a click away from your potential customers. With proper marketing your Internet storefront can have more buyers than you can ever get in a brick and mortar store.
3. Company aos Image Whether you sell products or services online or not, today, aos world, you have to have a corporate presence on the Internet. Otherwise, you must have noticed that people simply don, AOT take your business seriously if you tell them that your company has a website. A nice corporate site definitely increases the image of a company, especially if it has a great product or service related content to go with.
4. Provide better customer service. Customer accusation and retention is one of the most important factors in the industry value chain. Thanks to Internet technology, the company can provide customer support more efficiently. This means better customer satisfaction and increase profitability.
5. Make information more easily accessible to customers. Just a few years ago, used companies to require days to deliver products or services to update information to their customers. Things have changed since then. Today, you can add or change anything in your company and product names related content almost over few hours, publish on your site and share with the world.
6. Reduce costs. New technologies allow you to take virtually all parts of your business online, which includes supply chain management, billing, shipping, procurement etc. Streamlining these business processes through online systems will allow companies to reduce costs significantly in almost all areas of any business. For example: companies can reduce more than five percent of their maintenance, repair and operating costs by introducing e-business solutions. This five percent savings can be 50% of a company aos net profits!
7. Ability to do business 24 hours How else can you continue to make sales, while your feed is sleeping! The main advantages of online retailers is that they are open 24 hours a day year round. Thanks to Internet off time, when your shop is generally closed, sales in some cases be more than your normal opening hours!
8. Low establishment costs
Building a website does not require large investments. There are many cheap tools available today that can help you create sites from very scratch. Many business portals allow you to build Web sites from templates. For less than $ 100 per month you can have a fully fledged corporate e-business site with all e-commerce features!
9. You physical presence could be anywhere The World Wide Web allows you to do business from any part of the world. Your physical location, except a few cases is not as important as you conduct your business online.
10. Go global Thanks to Internet you can instantly become a global player. Actually you don, AOT have to invest large sums of money to do this. There are literally hundreds of vertical and horizontal e-marketplaces on the web. These marketplaces allow you for a nominal fee to get access to a large audience of potential customers from around the world. According to AMR Research more than $ 1.3 trillion of goods and services will flow through the B2B marketplaces. Who does not want a piece of this cake!
The real factor for e-business success is the same as any offline business. You must have a great idea, you need a business plan, there should be a value proposition for potential customers, and you must have faith in it, and your ability!
Getting online is cheaper and easier to emergence of new technologies but marketing on the Internet becomes more expensive. Take your business online now, before selling costs become too expensive for small businesses.
