A website acts like your shop window. It presents your business to the market 24 x 7 and displays the products and services you offer. Customers can visit you and check what you have to offer. They can stay a while gathering information they need or they request that you contact them. They can even buy from you while online when it suits them because you never close.
Websites are an essential marketing tool that combines extremely well with all the other promotional activity your business undertakes. They dont work alone but rather complement existing initiatives such as a brochure, print advertising, billboards, direct mail, sales promotions.
You can allow visitors to download information, request a quote, send a newsletter to your customers, present testimonials from satisfied customers, offer specials and rewards for referring new visitors. The opportunities are almost endless for you to promote your business via the internet.