Text Box: Anglox – Web Sites for Small Businesses 182 Sturminster Road, Bristol, BS14 8AR Tel: 01275 837577:  Mobile: 07944 629023:  Email: anglox@email.com Bristol Business to Business Communication       Dear Business Manager,                                             At Last! Affordable Web Sites For Small Businesses For those who haven't developed a web site for their business yet, now could be a good time to start. Local competitors may already have one. And remember, it's now much easier for almost any business to tap into almost any market, from almost any geographical location. Just think for a moment! How many people might have been looking for a local service just like yours, on the Internet last night? How many people wanted to know more about your business products or services but couldn't phone you because your business was closed or it was just too late in the evening? How many people might have sent you an email from your site wanting to buy your products, make a booking or an appointment for your services? How much more business could you have generated from your own web site? Guess you'll never know! 12 reasons why you should consider putting your business on the Internet Today the technology is available to all businesses large & small. So it doesn't matter whether you're a 'one man band' or a multi national company or whether you operate nationally or locally. You have equal status on the Internet. The Internet has opened up all kinds of niche markets that either never existed before or were too expensive to reach. By linking your site to other related but non competitive sites, you could attract many more customers to your business. Raise your company profile. With a professionally designed web site, it's now easy for a small business on the Internet to have the appearance and credibility of being a large professional company. Your web site becomes your store front, sales letter, marketing pitch and advertisement all in one. Compared to other media, the Internet enables a business to advertise at considerably lower costs. It may not be a replacement for other marketing, but the Internet is generally cheaper than advertising on television, radio, or in newspapers, magazines and even by direct mail. Your own web site could cost you as little as £1.00 per week. (From year 2 onwards) By automating a web site, a business can be open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. No extra staff costs and no overtime rates to pay! Your site is accessible to anyone, anytime. Not everyone has the time to drive all over town to shop or thumb the 'huge' telephone directories for services. It’s a fast moving world and it seems that we all want things to be quick and easy. Using the Internet is a quick and easy way for people to access information about your products and services from the comfort, convenience and privacy of their own home. No fuel costs, no traffic jams and no time wasted! Locally based businesses are what potential customers are looking for. The Internet makes it possible to capture information including email addresses from visitors to your site. Keeping in touch (via email) helps to cultivate long-term relationships with your customers. You could easily send them reminders for appointments ask for recommendations and testimonials and confirm orders etc. Also, the widespread use of forums is a popular way to get quick, low-cost customer feedback. Questions that would normally be answered by phone can be answered on the Internet. A website can list the answers to the most frequently asked product or service related questions. This can save on phone bills and free up a lot of time and maybe an extra employee. The Internet offers quick and easy ways to conduct low-cost market research. A questionnaire on a web site, or by email, can test very quickly and inexpensively whether a product or service gets a good response. What's more, different offers or marketing approaches can be tested using different pages on the same website. It's quite easy to quickly change promotions or offers on the Internet. Emails can be sent out or a website offer changed almost instantly. Time sensitive promotions such as contests or product special offers can be a good way to attract traffic and sales to an online/offline business. All your present and past customers would have access to your web site. They could easily be encouraged to pass on your site address and email to their friends and family. Staff recruitment. You could have a permanent page on your web site advertising any vacancies you may have from time to time. You may need full time staff at short notice, part time staff, casual or temporary staff to help out during your busy times. An advert like this on your own web site would cost you nothing and take only minutes to put up. Affordable and tax deductible. Your web site could be up and running within a week of placing your order and at a fraction of the cost of other forms of advertising. Plus, because a business web site is a genuine business expense, you can offset the cost against your tax liability. So in fact, a web site can cost even less than you think. Your new web site could be up and running in a matter of days! We could build a professional website for you. Register a domain (if you don't already have one), then upload your site to the Internet for all to see. Why not discover the possibilities?  Please call us any day, evening or weekend, to arrange a free no obligation consultation. This is the service we offer to small enterprises including the Small Office, Home Office type businesses and you may be interested to know that our fees are small too. We could build you a basic web site (i.e. up to 5 pages) with graphics and descriptive text for only £65.00. We could also register your company or business name for you (if available), i.e. www.yourbusinessname.co.uk plus have your site hosted on the Internet for an all inclusive £55.00 a year. Included in this package is, e-mail redirection. That means you could have an email address like, enquiries@yourbusinessname.co.uk. Looks much more professional than: johnsmith148@servers.freeinternet.co.uk So for only £120.00 (That’s a fraction of the cost of a Yellow Pages Ad), you could have an email address with your business name plus your web site up and running and advertising your goods and services 24/7 all year round. Plus as an additional bonus, we will register your site with all the major search engines and local directories, free of charge! Want to design your own web site? If you prefer, we can show you how to design, register and get your site hosted, giving you complete control over content and updates. Basic training at your place of work, or home in web page design is charged by the hour. One hour or first hour is £20.00. Subsequent hours are then reduced to £15.00. Further sessions would then be charged at the reduced rate only. Our friendly and patient tutors will teach you everything you need to know. Building your own web site can be fun but you do need to have time to spare and most businesses don’t! There is no minimum booking requirement. Should you prefer the DIY option, there is no minimum booking requirement. You could book a single hour every week or month, if you think that's all you need. We're flexible, so it's entirely up to you. Whatever you decide, don’t get left behind. Find out today, how you can best make use of Information Technology for the continuing success and growth of your business. And at the lowest possible prices you will ever be offered. (We can't keep them this low forever!) If you’re interested in any of our services to small businesses or would like further information, please don’t hesitate to either email us anglox@email.com (preferable) or give us a call on 01275 837577. Or call me personally, Bill Knight on 07944 629023. You can call anytime up to 8 pm including weekends. (Yes we're slaves to our business too!) We look forward to working with you.  My very best regards,  Bill Knight Bill Knight Anglox Email: anglox@email.com   P.S. Remember you can have your own business web site for £120.00 inclusive. That’s inclusive of your domain name, i.e. www.yourbusiness.co.uk and your site hosting plus your own email address, i.e. enquiries@yourbusiness.co.uk . Included also, is search engine registration. P.P.S. We can also offer 12 month site maintenance contracts. That means we will update your site as often as you want and make sure that everything on your site is working all of the time. Plus we will re register your site with all the major search engines every month. Prices start from as little as £2.00 per week. P.P.P.S. Enquire about our other services: PC tuition in MS Office, e-mail marketing, copywriting, e-archiving, e-book & e-catalogue production, digital scanning to CD-R, typing services and direct response mailing. We supply Printer Inks and refills for most makes, CD-R Media, PC Accessories, Software and many other related products. Visit our product site: http://www.asaps.co.uk We also create advertising banners from as little as £20.00. Below are a few of our own examples:         No long term contracts, no obligation, no hassle and no fuss. Just friendly advice, information and basic training from experienced IT and e-commerce tutors, who know about small business needs. We specialise in Information Technology for small to medium enterprises.