Informational Site

A good place to begin with the Web, for any organization, is a professional and effective Informational Site. Such a Site typically contains your organizations Home Page, a section about your organization, a products and/or services area and a page with your organizations contact information including the ability for people to e-mail you with questions and concerns. The Site is in full color, with internal and external links to pages and your choice of graphics (whether still or animated).

You can then announce to your current customers, and potential ones as well, that you now have a Web Site complete with current announcements and details on your products and/or services.

This type of Site is also an excellent way to provide customer service. You can have a "Frequently asked Questions" section and a "How to" section providing information on let's say, assembling a product, detailed product specifications, service rates, etc. Including a discussion board feature will allow individuals to review and post comments on a variety of topics.

With this type of "baseline" Site in place you can begin to think about additional features and ways to further utilize it both inside and outside your organization.

Informational Site with Audio Enhancements

You can begin with all of the above and have some embedded audio added to provide more of a multimedia experience. Maybe your company already has a jingle or sound bit that identifies it. Why not have that play a few seconds each time someone opens your home page.

Perhaps the President, CEO or CFO wants to make periodic announcements to your organization or the public. Here's a thought, why not have the President or CEO welcome visitors to your Site with an audio message. This audio message can be updated as often as you would like. It can be programmed to play automatically or on demand.

Informational Site with Audio and Video Enhancements

Streaming video over the Web is improving every day. If your organization has a need to stream video of an important meeting, event or announcement we can make that happen. We can also put together smaller multimedia segments for you that can reside in an archive. These segments can touch on literally thousands of topics regarding your organizations products, services, corporate policies, etc.

Now customers and employee's can download a video clip and "watch" an engineer work with one of your products or see the President of the company talking about the upcoming merger. The possibilities are endless and not very expensive.

Now, when a new employee asks, "What do I do to change my personal information in HR" or "What is the corporate policy regarding this or that", there can be a video archive that was made once but continues to communicate a consistent message about how your organization runs. No more, "Well, he said we did things this way" and "She said we do things that way".

There can be a centralized source, easily accessible by most, for communicating the messages you deem important to both your customers and employee's.

E-Commerce (Electronic Commerce)

Besides posting product and/or service information on the Web why not actually sell them over the Web? We can develop for you an E-Commerce Site that will allow for product and/or service orders. This is quickly becoming a business model for many companies and it's only predicated to increase.

Your companies offerings may not be suited for E-Commerce but if they are we can help you bring them to the world.

Selling Advertising Space on Your Site

It may not be a possibility at first however you can probably find many other companies within your industry who would pay you to have them linked to your Site or use manufacturer's and vendors co-op dollars to "give them a plug" while increasing your Web Sites presence and feature's.

Documents and Forms Available on Demand

How many times have we all walked down to HR to get a vacation request form, dental form, medical form, etc.? The need for forms and paperwork within an organization can abound.

And how many times have you filled one out only to find that it's not the right one or the current version of that form? When we do it once and lose 5, 10 or 15 minutes in the process it's not a big deal but when you multiply that by how many times we do that a year by how many employee's are within your organization the lost time and costs involved can be staggering.

If the majority of people within your organization have access to the Web via a "Browser" why not make this kind of paperwork available on-line. You can control the security if you would like and then when that new insurance form comes out instead of sending it by mail to all who have to make copies in order to distribute it, make it available to all, on-line, giving them the ability to print on demand. You'll reduce the lost time of the employee's, mailing costs, copying costs for old forms never used, etc.

We can set up a system for you just as I've described above and then train one of your people on how to add new forms while keep the existing ones current.

Training and Education Over the Web

What a beautiful way of saving some money while still providing quality training and education to your customers or employee's. The money spent to fly people around the country, the time lost in doing so and the lack of being able to review material being covered during training's can be very high. Sometimes it may not be necessary.

Your organization can present educational or training material to customers or employee's in paper form, electronic format, a multimedia experience (through your site) and we can then help you build web based tests for this material.

Let's say you have a new sales person starting Monday. Sometimes it's difficult to have a senior person spend two weeks with every sales person who starts at your company. We can present that new person with your organizations tailored, training material which could be followed by a test (if desired). All this done over the Web, through a simple browser interface, created once, used many times over and over. You get instant feed back on where this person is with their knowledge of the particular topics covered during that training.

This type of training also helps communicate one central message regarding how you organization does business. No more, "How do I write up that sales order"? and then get 5 different answers from 5 different people. The process is documented and it's available to all, creating one nice clear message, with testing after the fact if you desire.

The same can apply for any situation where information needs to be disseminated, learned and/or tested on.

Above are just a few examples of what your organization can do with your Web Site and the Internet.

So, Let's Get Started!