Most of us still think that the net offer few opportunities for business with a customer base clustered in a small geographic area. Think again, matters had change, more and more local businesses are coming online. Potential clients are using search engine to get information and solution for the problem.

Eventhough some potential clients still use the business directories but more and more are using the net. It's easy and faster to use search engine to find information.

Local businesses are now using the net to:
• Build trust and deepen relationship with existing customer by providing friendly, professional information, about their business, great content.
• Raise their local profile and position their products and services.
• Promote locally and take customers from competitors.
• Continue to stay “top-of-mind” and deepen customer relationship using e-zine
• Build targeted traffic both local and global to find new customers, even added entirely new income streams
• Leverage their local expertise and knowledge for global clients, selling their goods online, even through online auctions.

It’s is time for everybody to get their offline business online. E-commerce is for everybody. A properly develop web site give your business solid web presence. With a newsletter for your targeted traffic, you could build customer loyalty thus get the edge on local competition and add new income stream.

Think of a web site as a super-business-directories. People are searching more by the online. A properly build web site for your business has its advantages over those local businesses that do not have a web site. You could update your web site any time with the latest information on your products/services. You could make special offer or even let them know of new development on your existing product or service.

A rich content web site get your prospective customer 100% attention, thus build trust and credibility. A web site that provide excellent content along with friendly and useful information allows the prospective client to know that you as an expert who share and thus trust you

A web site offer the advantage of substantial exposure, attracts hundred, even thousand, of targeted traffic, per day on an ongoing, ever-building basis. In addition, if you do it right, they will return to your site. Maximize your ezine’s wealth to reach your customer on a regular basis.

Your web site allows you to know exactly how many visitors arrive, everyday, and even hours. You know the lifetime value of a new customer. It makes computation on your Return on Investment easier. By offering your ezine to your customer at your site, you develop an increasing sense of loyalty with existing customer, as well as repeat business. You can reach them, free, whenever you want to.

Let take the mystery out of the term "e-commerce". It's time you focus on using the net to build your local business and diversifying it into a broader more profitable business. And that’s all e-commerce realty is, using the net effectively to grow your business.