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Benefits of the Internet

Most small businesses can benefit from the range of technologies that make up the Internet. The Internet can help you to:
  • Improve business productivity see Utilizing the Internet below
  • Communicate more effectively - both internally and with customers and suppliers
  • Boost your business profile - levelling the competitive playing field
  • Sell online - increasing shares of existing markets and diversifying into new ones with a medium available globally, 24 hours a day and 7 days a week
  • Sell direct - cutting out the middle man
  • Reduce advertising and marketing campaign costs

Utilizing the Internet to obtain the Business Benefits
Email is probably the most widespread business use of the Internet. Many businesses use it to speed up communication and decision-making and transfer documents. But perhaps the most important step to exploiting fully the potential of the Internet is to create a company website. This can:

  • Act as an online brochure - putting your products where customers and potential customers can see them
  • Include interactive features such as online ordering, response and registration forms and customer account records
  • Act as a trading website - allowing customers to purchase from you and make payments with credit and debit cards. Contact us to set this up for as little as £50
    if you have an existing web site.

Many businesses - particularly those which trade online - are increasingly integrating their websites with back-office systems such as databases, accounting packages and stock control and order-tracking software.

This can reduce your administration costs and improve customer service by giving quick and easy information about an order's progress.

Setting up an extranet can help you improve the way you communicate and share confidential information internally and with selected customers, suppliers and other business contacts. It's a private network that users can access securely through the World wide web.

Similarly an intranet is a way of sharing information and knowledge between people in your business. Again, staff use a web browser to access the information available. An intranet can't be accessed by people outside your business.

Read about our web design and development services > and see how you can obtain the Business Benefits of the Internet.

Article - UK online sales set to double by 2010
Yahoo News UK & Ireland 19/08/06

Online sales set to doubleLONDON (Reuters) - British spending over the Internet is set to double, hitting almost 40 billion pounds, by 2010, a survey showed on Friday. Online spending is expected to surge to 39 billion pounds, on the back of a more than 70 percent rise in the number of Internet shoppers, according to research by global payments system firm PayPal. It is anticipated the number of online shoppers is to soar to 24.9 million in 2010 - a rise of 71 percent on 2005 figures. That would see the future ADVERTISEMENT online retail market balloon to 49 percent of the adult population. Carl Olav Scheible, head of merchant services at PayPal, said: "Over the past few years, we've seen the Internet gradually eating away at the high street. "Consumer interest in broadband has been a key driver for the emergence of 'convenience home shopping' with 10 million UK households now signed up." By 2010, a fifth of purchases in the UK that would not have happened on the high street will take place online - creating an extra 3.2 billion pounds in consumer spending. The largest gross profit areas are expected to be food and groceries, do-it-yourself and clothing. It is anticipated that the grocery sector will take the lion's share of the online retail market. It is expected to rake in 6.25 billion pounds - an increase of 235 percent on 2005 figures. DIY, meanwhile, is expected to be worth 1.2 billion pounds, up 172 per cent on last year, and clothing and footwear 2.27 billion pounds, a 160 percent rise on 2005. Other sectors in line for a surge in sales include health and beauty, music and video, books and electrical goods. The latter, in particular, is expected to be boosted by a shift of sales away from the high street. E-retailing of electrical goods is expected to be worth 4.6 billion pounds by 2010. Online shopping grew at its fastest rate ever in Britain in the 10 weeks before Christmas last year, the Interactive Media in Retail Group, an industry body for electronic retailers, said earlier this year. It expected the UK e-retailing market to grow 36 percent this year to 26 billion pounds. The group predicted that average individual spending would exceed 1,000 pounds for the first time during 2006. Britain's retailers have acted to try to take a slice of the burgeoning online market. A quarter of the UK retail sector operated online in 2005, compared to just 7 percent the previous year, according to online retail technology firm Actinic.
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