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It seems as if everyone is getting a website these days.  Major corporations and businesses have their spanking glossy websites and more and more people are putting up websites for Internet marketing.  You are probably asking yourself, is a website for everyone?  What if you are just a bookstore operating in a little corner in a little town?  You are catering to a local market being a local business.  You are a part of a brotherhood called small business owners that have been operating the business since your parents passed it on to you.  But times have changed.  Do you go with the flow or keep it small within the community?

If you are considering it, then you probably know the benefit of putting up a website.  It gives you the chance to be a global player.  But for the example of that bookstore, how can that benefit you?

In the 1998 movie “You’ve got Mail”. Meg Ryan owns the small bookstore “Shop Around the Corner”.  It was doing pretty well until the big “Fox Books” bookstore took over the other corner and took her business away with it.  It is an example of how global businesses are taking over from the local businesses.

It’s easy to see how global businesses beat local businesses.  Global businesses cater to a bigger market as one of the benefits of a website that they have.  At first, it doesn’t make sense for a local business to offer globally since they have been established to cater to their small town.  But here are some tips for a local business website to succeed:

  • Search Engine Marketing
    Search engine marketing can help you be known globally.  Even though you are initially catering to a local market, there are still travelers who visit or passes by your town.  Most travelers do research about the town they are visiting and if they are book lovers, they would search something like “bookstore (city and state where you are in)*.  If you’ve put some efforts in search engine marketing, you will get additional customers this way.
  • Use it to improve communication between you and your local customers
    The customers can use your website to look for information that can save them time and effort.  They can contact you through the website and they can even see promotions and events that you are holding.  You can also use it for request marketing wherein customers can sign up so that they can be informed if there are new books coming in.  Websites of small businesses are often used this way.
  • Offer delivery
    This is something that you should consider if you want to be a global market.  You can also focus on a niche so that you can have a small but profitable market globally.  They can order through the website and you can have it delivered to them.

Just like any other strategies, it’s just a matter of weighing the pros and the cons.  It’s a case to case basis and only you can answer if a local business website is the answer to your problems.  They say that the only thing constant is change.  You should be ready to change your old strategies because your survival as a business may be dependent on it.  You can see more and more websites of small businesses.  You know the benefits of a website to your business.   It’s just a matter of knowing how to get it because a local business website is what you might just need.

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