Redwood City, California design company Ridge is a small mountain bike parts design and manufacturing company. The company will sell to middlemen, then they sell to customers. In late 1995, Ridge’s chief operating officer and director of information systems decision Irene Wu website, allowing companies to hear directly from customers. He found a network of business software, the company spent a year and 7,500 U.S. dollars, will be a static website into an interactive marketing tool.
Ridge’s Web site carried out customer surveys. In order for consumers and retailers to understand the company’s high-end products Ridge technological advantages, Irene Wu set up an electronic catalog. Visitors enter the directory to see the product details and image data. Dealers can place an order through the website, but also learn about new products, the situation quickly, so they are no longer limited to selling a range of familiar products of the past. This strategy to save one million U.S. dollars annually marketing costs, corporate profits and therefore increased significantly.
Above examples illustrate the effective use of network marketing business tool that can help companies profit, the marketing aspect is the transformation of enterprise e-commerce is an important part of the necessary attention. Business entities in the marketing aspects of e-business transformation on the general work should be done as follows:
1 set up a business website
Enterprises are many ways to build its website, many companies consider that the business-building site is a need for a large number of financial and technical strength, so stay away. In fact, the business enterprise website construction can be carried out in various ways, such are three main ways:
1.1 self-built website. In this way most expensive, highest technical requirements. Enterprises to build their own web site server, the internet’s cable access, so users can access the corporate website. As small and medium enterprises should not use this approach.
1.2 server hosting. Is to build the server into your network operator of office space, so have a strong network technology, ISP (Internet service providers, network operators) is responsible for the technical work site, but enterprises are only remotely update the content on the site. About the cost of access for the Fast Ethernet cable is about 7,000 yuan in cost, server costs about 40,000 yuan. Medium-sized enterprises can use this approach.
1.3 space rent. Network operators that lease the space available to run their own server website. In this way do not need to set up the server, just ready to website content can be. General expenses 100 MB web space 200 or so dynamic, but different ISP, costs vary greatly. This approach is suitable for small business use. The advantage is self-evident.
Build network marketing business website is the first step, in order to make the site function, needed a site for the promotion.
2 Website Promotion
Although many of the Internet content can be a lot of information for business decision-making, but the Internet also has its “inherent” flaws – the cumbersome structure chaos! Companies to make their services and products will not be submerged in this ocean of information years, the need for website promotion, publicity that is on the website.
Website Promotion many ways, commonly used methods are: banner ads, e-mail, forums, newsgroups, online road shows, the traditional method and other methods, these methods, many of which are free but very effective. Companies use these methods, the key is to have mastered these skills.
Web site design interactive mode 3
Will do their own corporate website with marketing tools, but also design websites interactive mode, that mode of communication between enterprises and customers. Online store business model, customers can view products online, online shopping, online payment. Online spending by consumers, enterprises can quickly gather information, but also greatly reduced marketing costs, make business profitable.
4, an interactive website as a platform, other combinations of network marketing
Use of networks such as customer service, electronic products, online downloads. When companies can site as the center for comprehensive utilization of various network marketing companies marketing activities, corporate marketing aspects of e-commerce transformation is complete.