SITE DEFINITION

What is the purpose of your web site?

  • To advertise and promote my business and strengthen brand identification.
  • To provide information and/or pricing to customers or distributors.
  • To collect information and develop a qualified list of prospects
  • To encourage potential customers to contact us by phone or mail to consummate a sale.
  • To sell my products and/or services directly by taking credit card information over the Internet
  • To promote a cause or for a nonprofit organization
  • To take my business National or Global
  • Other?

What size website did you have in mind?

  • Basic site 7-8 pages
  • Basic, but ever expanding
  • Comprehensive and informative Mid-Level 8 to 26 page
  • Mid-Level 8 to 26 page with forms or database integration or other functions
  • Mid-Level ecommerce with 30 to 50 products
  • Large Scale Application
  • Large Scale Application with independent hardware

What will your site include?

  • Text information
  • Few photographs or graphics with accompanying text
  • A visual Catalog, Portfolio or Gallery
  • A searchable database
  • Streaming audio or video
  • Live Internet Broadcast, audio or video
  • Downloadable files such as MP3s, PDFs, Coupons or other file types.
  • Wireless Application Protocol
  • Blogs or Message Boards
  • Forms to acquire information
  • High security or password protection
  • Ecommerce and Credit Card payment integration
  • Auto Response or Automatically generated pages
  • Live customer service response

Who will be your main, or target audience?

  • Business people and professionals (Business to Business, targeted)
  • Predominately Female
  • Predominately Male
  • Children & Youth
  • Teenagers and early twenty's
  • Students, college or trade schools
  • Median age 26-50
  • Seniors
  • A targeted income bracket
  • Everyone (Business to Consumer, non-targeted)
  • Other Specific target

With your target audience in mind, how do you envision your site to be?

  • Speed is the most important so as not to eliminate users on a dialup
  • Fast, yet tastefully designed for all users
  • Highly visual and interactive interface and elements with dialup and broadband choices
  • Rich in multimedia, audio and video primarily for broadband
  • The maximum integration of unique technology for specific users...

On what level will you promote your site?

  • Local
  • Regional
  • National

How do you plan to promote your site?

Online Promotions

  • Search Engines
  • Reciprocal or Link Exchanges
  • Banner Ads
  • Targeted E-mail
  • Newsletters
  • Free Incentives or contests
  • Free advertisement
  • Paid advertisement

Off-line Promotions

  • Brochures
  • Flyers
  • Business cards
  • Direct Mailing
  • Newspaper ads
  • Magazine ads
  • Radio
  • Television

Who will you maintain the site?

  • The original production firm
  • A combination of the firm and us.
  • We will maintain it, we just need it built.

What is your budget?

  • Analyze your materials that are readily electronically usable. (Such as the original electronic files from brochures, newsletters and other collateral materials.)
  • Estimate for content and technology that will need creation.
  • Analyze your company's future needs and look at the possible directions for your site's evolution.

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