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Gary Maller. This Digital Life.

Reprinted from The Range news

Not long ago the going rate in Brisbane for a custom designed, static website was around three thousand dollars. How things have changed! I Googled the words "free website" yesterday and the search engine found 250,000 listings in 0.17 seconds. While most of these results offer basic website templates, it does show how quickly the website business has become commoditized.

But before you haul off and fire your web-designer, think through what you want your website to do. For most, it's kind of electronic brochure describing products and services. But people making money on the World Wide Web know a website is far more important than that. It's the key component of their e-business strategy.

An e-business strategy takes on board best practice in your industry and sets out the way you can use digital technology to maintain your competitive edge. That's important, because whether you like it or not, the way business is being done in every industry is changing very fast. Look at the way online services have revolutionized banking, travel, publishing, and retail in just a few years.

"We can't afford to invest in technology", I hear the capital constrained voice of the small business operator complain. But the most dramatic changes in technology in recent years has been to the World-Wide-Web itself. The Web we know and love, Web One, was all about low cost access to information. Web Two is all about low cost access to hosted business applications.
Designed to manage customer and document databases, marketing, website content, communications, staff, customers, sales, and after sales support - even your own call centre- these applications can be fully integrated into your website at a price you can afford. For assistance with your e-business strategy Ph: 54296888

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