Many Entrepreneurs in Malaysia are still considering, whether is it compulsory to have a website. If yes, how much will it cost? Must I have IT background to maintain my website? Is there any benefits if i own a website? Well, there are a few main tips and benefits that you should know before choosing the right hosting service provider and web designing company.
We assure by the ratio of 100% that owning a website is important if you are running a company based on services and selling online products. By putting ourselves in our customer's shoe, we definitely know that budget is important when it comes to making decisions. In Vishtech.Biz our mission is to provide you a dynamic IT solution where it will cover all the criteria's that must be considered when you decide to have a website. Here we go with the benefits:
- Internet business is borderless. By launching business online, your service or products will be exposed to not only local buyers, but potentially international customers.
- Lower Startup Cost. When Vishtech Quote RM 900 to RM2800 to design a standard business web site, people first reaction is "Wah, so expensive !" . People who reacts like this has never think of how much he spent initially for his physical business. RM40,000 may be ? for shop renovation and set up. So what is RM 900 to RM2800 ? A few hundred ringgit for a web site ? yes there are... from a guy next door with part time job may be...
- Low Maintenance Cost. Paying your shop rental RM1000 to RM3000 a month ? Then what is paying RM 80 to RM240 a YEAR for server hosting fee ? Design fee is only 1 time, and the rest is just paying for the server rental only. You need a web server operating 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to run your website online.
- Customer's convenience. Tired of faxing your product catalogue when your client required ? And costly too if faxing to overseas. Further more, in black and white only. So why not putting it online and let your client or potential customer browse by themselves easily and conveniently from their place.
- Easy & Fast Product Update. When product specs changed, or new products arrived, you need to reprint your catalogues, and dispose off your old catalogues, and re-inform or re-post your new catalogues to your existing clients. Waste of time and money, isn't it ? With online system, you can easily manage, insert new, edit or delete product information and photos in a matter of minutes. Just inform your existing client to get the update from your web.
- Easy Ordering. Customer doesn't have to come from far to your shop in order to buy a piece of cake. They can order it online, pay it online, and you deliver it right to their door step.
Advice: DO NOT just look for cheap, but also think of the quality of the web site and hosting you will be receiving, the features that the web site has, and whether it is made for a non-programmer (you) to update (DIY capability). If you do not have the easiness to update web info, you will have to rely on that designer for updating all the time. Nothing is wrong though. Just in case.. he is gone or out of the business... who knows ?