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 Knowledge
: Guide for New Users |
If you new to the internet, websites and web
marketing, we have a brief guide that will tell you what the
various terms and concepts are, how they work and can be beneficial
for you and what you should be doing to gain from these.
We will also be happy to answer your questions and help you
set up a website and web marketing initiative for yourself,
your organization, product or service. Please email us at sales@indiamaphosting.com
and we will be delighted to work with you.
Using the Internet
The internet presents a vast world of information about almost
any topic that you would like to explore. It is now the first
point of information about products, services, companies, economy,
investments, research subjects, healthcare, education and almost
any type of information that you need for your study, research,
work, career, business and recreation.
The internet is therefore one place where you are most likely
to find updated information about your locality, city, state,
country and the world at large.
What you need to do to view this information is to browse the
various websites that present them. There are millions of websites
today, in various languages although the predominant language
is still English, managed by various organizations, groups and
individuals. The internet has complete freedom and is fully
democratic so anyone can publish information without any form
of censorship or controls. While viewing information therefore
it is also important to see the source and its credibility and
then accept the views, opinions and facts presented.
If you new to the internet, websites and web marketing, we have
a brief guide that will tell you what the various terms and
concepts are, how they work and can be beneficial for you and
what you should be doing to gain from these. We will also be
happy to answer your questions and help you set up a website
and web marketing initiative for yourself, your organization,
product or service. Please email us at sales@indiamaphosting.com
and we will be delighted to work with you.
To find the websites that present the specific knowledge or
information that you are looking for, you have search engines.
The most popular of search engines are Google - http://www.google.com,
Yahoo - http://www.yahoo.com and MSN - http://www.msn.com. These
search engines have an index of the millions of websites that
are present on the internet and update them every few weeks
so the chances that you will find the websites you are looking
for is very high.
The internet is however filled with a very vast store of information
and millions of pages are being added to it by individuals and
organizations all over the world, every day. There are an estimated
20 billion webpages now on the internet so you can imagine how
much information there is out there.
Therefore a search for a subject might throw up a few thousand
or few million pages that you will need to search through if
you want to be very exhaustive in your reading. This is not
always feasible and therefore more readers read through the
first 50-100 websites that are listed by the search engines.
Search engines use a method of ranking to order the list in
which they present the websites for a specific query that you
ask for. This ranking is based on popularity of the website
and various other parameters and most websites try to get to
the top of the list since readers do not usually go beyond the
first 30-50 websites that they get from their search.
Another way to reduce the lists of websites that come up when
you search is to use a more precise set of words. For example
"cdma mobile phones from nokia" will get you a better and more
accurate set of websites to look through than "mobile phones".
If you want to search for a specific model it will make sense
to search for "nokia 3310 mobile phone product specification".
By searching for websites you can get a lot of updated information
on almost all that you need from the internet. While most of
the internet is free, there are now websites that have started
charging for content or having subscriptions. High quality and
well researched information is likely to be now charged or be
available only through subscription and many times you might
find it worthwhile to pay for these. The most common mode of
payment on the internet is the credit card and for those who
do not feel secure about paying online there is a section that
we have here that you can refer to to understand about online
payments.
Despite these restrictions there is still a very large amount
of free content that is available on the internet and you are
likely to find a lot more than you actually came for.
Harnessing the power of the internet
If you are a user of the internet you will see that this is
now the de facto or first place that you will go to when you
search for information, products, services, companies, research
papers, customers, suppliers and partners. If you are doing
this and there are millions of others around the world who are
24 hours a day searching for products and services, suppliers
and customers, think of the possibilities that this could have
for you.
You could harness the power of the internet to sell market,
promote and sell your products and services to the millions
of potential customers around the world. If you did not think
about the world until now, it is time to change. With the internet
and globalization, boundaries of countries have lost meaning
for trade and commerce and people are now willing to buy from
any country provided that they get the right products with good
quality and at lower prices than they get in their own countries.
You could therefore actually have global customers for your
products and services with the internet, something you might
not have imagined earlier.
Besides this India itself has about 20 million people in its
population browing the internet and they are also looking for
products and services. They could also be the customers you
are targetting.
Let's face it. Almost every company now small or big has an
email address and many of them have websites. This means that
the management and executives of these companies are using email
for their communications. Almost every executive in a company
at every level has an email address if not an official one,
atleast a hotmail or yahoo or rediffmail address.
All these people are therefore regular users of the internet
and are therefore potential customers for you. As you read this,
some of them might be actually looking for the products and
services that you offer.
It is therefore most important that you start featuring yourself,
your company, your products and services on the internet immediately.
You will never know where your next customer could come from.
Let us give you an example.
One of our customers makes and sells garments and came to us
for a simple website. This firm is a small one and they were
only selling locally but had good products and were willing
to sell to other cities and countries if only they could find
their prospective customers. They had heard that businesses
have a website and therefore thought of a simple low-cost website
that they could present to their customers with their contact
details and products.
Indiamap Hosting created a simple website at a low cost and
got it registered on the search engines. Within two weeks, the
company had a customer with a serious enquiry and this small
firm is now exporting the garments, something they would not
have thought or dreamt of earlier. The customer is someone totally
new and they have come through the internet and finding the
garments to be good, of good quality and cost, they are ready
to buy them even if it means transporting them from India.
This firm has over the past couple of months got several similar
enquiries and some of these have been converted into orders,
something they would not have imagine a few months ago. They
are now seriously pursuing exports and expanding their operations.
Their investment in the Indiamap Hosting eBusiness Package is
paying back several times what they invested.
This is just one example. There are thousands of other similar
stories from India. Indiamap Hosting has helped created many
such successes through well designed and hosted websites.
It is time you got to harness the power of the internet for
your business. Indiamap Hosting will show you and manage these
for you. Read on.
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