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Sunshine & Company,
is a local website design and maintenance company located in
Burnt Hills, New York. We are a small company working with little
overhead. We are able to keep our prices low because of:
- Our low overhead,
- No middle man profit as you deal directly with the
person working on your site,
- The service we perform is not the only thing we do
to feed our children.
May I have a couple of minutes of your time,
if for no other reason, to give you a quick view at what your
competitors are up to. Not to mention, in my opinion, what every
business, your business, should do to
stay competitive.
With the ever increasing usage of the internet
and electronic technology as a whole, to communicate more effectively,
and move products less expensively, it is vital today that every
business have a presence on the internet.
How
can a Web Site benefit a small business?
Exposure. Your
Competitor has a web site.. If he's using it right he is displaying
much more of his stock and services which are available to his (and
your) customers without the added expense of ads in print
or airtime. Can you afford to be left behind?
OK, so you don't just want
to jump on the bandwagon..How about...
Inexpensive
advertisement. A web site is inexpensive... no that's
the truth, it is really inexpensive
if used properly! Please read on...
How about an Electronic Store (e-Market).
If you set up an electronic store it can operate 24 Hours a
day with no additional cost... Your prospective customers can
find out your policies or hours of operation. You can even set
up a section so they can brows your inventory while you sleep
... Maybe they'll be waiting at your door when you arrive in
the morning.
Have you ever given any thought to Mailing
lists. You can create e-mailing
lists for weekly or monthly specials with customers who
want to be informed unlike other forms of advertisement
that just bombard the public. You can set up information
request forms on your website for your customers to fill
out. Once you have their email address, you can send them
information without all that extra cost of advertisement.
What about e-Newsletters.
New products, new services, new inventory, OLD inventory you
just want to get rid of...
There's just so much more...
What's
the bottom-line? How much is this going to cost me, you
ask?
First, lets look at what a typical business,
your business, may spend on advertisement.
What will a place like yours spend on local
advertisement? How much did it cost you (or
your competitors) last month advertising with...
- Penny Saver...
- Times Union..
- Schenectady Gazette..
- Radio spots..
- Television spots, oh
my, big bucks...
- Word of mouth (that's free, right??)... how much
does that really cost you?...
How much could you have saved had you mentioned
in a streamlined version of those ads, "for
more information, please visit
me at www.yoursite.com.". This
way your customers can see so much more of what you have to offer
with no extra costly advertising..
Sunshine
& Company can
put up an inexpensive web site for you, with an extremely low
monthly server fee.
Server
Fees
My typical customer pays less than $7.00
per month for their server, a little more for a secure server
which is needed if your doing transactions online.
I use a third-party Server Farm for this...
they are much better then I can ever be. They back up the files
every day. Store the backed up files at a separate location,
to prevent loss. They boast 99.9% uptime which translates
to NO
Downtime for your web site.. You can also have
as many as 100 email addresses for you or your employees for
this same price.
I can put up a web site for you, with an
extremely low page cost...
Page Costs
The pages on your site have to be designed,
typed and checked... Graphics needs to be produced, cleaned
up, optimized and incorporated into the pages and checked again.
After all of this it all needs to be uploaded to the server.
I typically charge fifty dollars per page.
Believe me, that's inexpensive for what I have to do. I do charge
more for graphics, and graphic optimization (optimizing the
graphics to as small a file size without reducing quality).
The reason for optimizing your graphics is to keep
the graphic-file size small/without sacrificing quality. This
will insure that the web page loads onto your
prospective customers computer as fast as possible.
I can do it all for you, or do as little
as you want.
You
can do...
I can set up your web site, and you can maintain
it...
Sunshine
& Company has
options available so that YOU or
your staff can update YOUR
own web site. You can easily upload text, graphics,
create forms or add links, and even add pages right through
your web browser. No special software is needed. By doing
the updates yourself, you can avoid extra webmaster fees (Hmmm,
I don't think that's good for me) every time you want
to change or add something to the site.
Then
of course, you can always call on Sunshine & Company to
do maintenance should problems occur.
Or
we can do...
Or for another option, you can go with the Ten
year, One
hundred thousand mile warranty. That is,
we can do it all...
- Register your dotcom name.
- Set up a server account.
- Create the site; Create and optimize the graphics.
- Upload the site.
- Check to see if the site works correctly, fix problems
on your site as they occur (and
let me tell you... sometimes problems occur for no reason
at all).
- Set
up and maintain your email accounts.
- Make
changes to the site as your inventory changes.
Or
we can do anything in between..
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