Did you come across with people on the Internet who were promising you the Holy Grail of making money, getting out the carefully guarded so called "Secret Formula", the "Cookie Cutter Method", "from Rags to Riches way", the "Superfast, guaranteed way to get on top of the search engines" and a lot more?
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Added by Kevin B on Mon, Nov 16, 2009, 02:45 PM
In the early 2000s (up to 2005) Flash pretty much dominated the Internet especially the small business websites. In the meantime CMS was considered to be 'not fashionably' or 'overly geeky' and it was somewhat forgotten.
Mostly some college kids, the so called 'geeks and nerds' used it and continued developing it. Some of the bigger users of the CMS were the few of the dotcom companies that survived the bust. At that time (all the way up to 2005) Flash was thriving. Everybody wanted a Flash website. However, many business owners soon realized that they did not get the bang for their big bucks and many of them abandoned their websites and wrote off the huge expense as advertising cost. Many of the web design companies started to have problems selling Flash. So, easy by easy they started to look at CMS and web based applications a little more in depth. Many web design companies recognized the importance of these and nowadays they are very aggressively and heavily pushing their template based websites that look very 'modern' to unsuspecting clients.
Regardless, how 'modern' an offer that you come across with may look, one thing you must not forget as a reasonable business owner: Do you remember the 'good old days' when web design companies came to you and told you that they would design you a website that would make you rich?
The same guys are doing their trick again,
this time with CMS systems. If a fast talking salesman comes to you promising that their company will design a 'modern looking' CMS based website and provide Internet marketing 'service', just ask them if they have this questionnaire or anything similar to that.
Have you heard of Myspace?
Your kids most likely have. Since the birth of Myspace almost everything changed overnight in the way business owners and Internet users (your customers) look at web design and the way they should look at web design companies. A new concept called the Web 2.0 was developed.
What is Web 2.0?
In a nutshell: the content of the Web no longer belongs to the web design companies, but belongs to, made by and constantly updated by you, the consumer or the business owner. Many social networking websites followed Myspace (Facebook is the biggest one and now it overtook Myspace as it has a neater interface that users like better) and they are in fierce competition for your advertising dollars. Their business model and the chance of survival is still questionable, many experts say. For example, Linked-In, a prestigious social networking website for executives and business owners just recently got a substantial capital infusion from an investor.
The good news is
that the consequence of social media and web 2.0, a new concept called 'cloud computing' was formed. Cloud computing is nothing else but your business doing lead generation, fulfillment, communication, placing and tracking of all business participants and activities on an easy to use content management system on the Internet. Why is this important? You as the business owner do not need to invest heavily on equipment and infrastructure on your business location and you pay only when you use the services. Personalized web based applications can do almost everything you can imagine for your business in the 'cloud' (in other words, on the Internet). We specialize in developing many of these applications for you based on your circumstances and we do take your strained budget into consideration.
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