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You can design your website yourself, using modern software that makes it no harder than using your familiar word processing software. You can hire a web design agency to do it for you. Or you can use a service that gives you a fixed-price deal for a set number of pages.
Email is a productivity and marketing tool that is cheap, easy and fast. Many people find it more convenient and less formal than letters or fax.
The Internet is a vast store of information and data, some of which could be highly valuable to you. But finding the specific information you need can be difficult and time-consuming.
Going online to the Internet vastly improves the ease with which you can communicate with the rest of the world.
A direct connection to the Internet is too complex and expensive for all but the largest organisations. Instead, an Internet service provider (ISP) acts as a gateway, providing the link between your own computer system and the Internet. An ISP may also host your website, making it permanently accessible to other web users.
An intranet is like your own private Internet. It uses the same technology as the World Wide Web and the same easy point-and-click approach.
Using the Internet gives you access to a number of new and powerful marketing techniques that were unavailable even five years ago.
Your IT system, and the information you hold on it, is valuable. Accidental or malicious damage is at best inconvenient, and at worst disastrous.
The Internet enables you to sell 24 hours a day and the sales process can be fully automated. Your Internet shop can attract a new customer base and provide better service for existing customers.
Among the millions of interconnected sites that make up the World Wide Web, there are many that can save business people time and money. You can source information and contacts for any aspect of your work.
A website lets you put your products in front of a worldwide audience. It can help you generate new revenue, cut costs and build better relationships with both customers and suppliers.
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