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August
2001
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An
E-commerce store on the Internet allows you to take orders and/or sell your
products 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Presbury.com provides various solutions
to your E-commerce requirements. These can be stand-alone, added to an existing
website, or incorporated into one under construction and provide a simple way
to display and sell online.
E-commerce stores can be as straight-forward as a booking form, can be developed
into an ordering system, or into a full-blown store with totally secure facilities
able to take credit card payments over the Internet.
The E-commerce stores that we supply can be driven either by our standard database
or, if required, we can produce a fully bespoke database program built to your
exact requirements.
PACKAGES
Standard:
£25.00 per month + VAT
A database package with a large selection of templates to choose from and a
standard shopping cart. This store can be created by yourself, following the
straight-forward on-screen prompts. You can then input all the relevant information
into your database and once up and running, you can make any alterations whenever
you need to.
Customised:
£850.00 + VAT + £25.00 per month + VAT
This is the standard e-commerce package, but we design and build the template
pages to your own specification, to co-ordinate with your existing website,
for instance.
Bespoke:
£1200.00 + VAT - £1500.00 + VAT (depending on complexity)
The complete database program and template pages are designed and built to your
exact requirements and without monthly charges.
OTHER
SERVICES
We can offer you a total Internet package. We have designed and built many successful
websites, a selection of which you can view by visiting our website. We are
also an Internet Service Provider and as such, we can host your website and
e-commerce store on our server.
The Basic Presbury.com ISP package (£5.00 per month + VAT) provides your basic
internet access at local call rate, 10 e-mail addresses, 15MB of web space,
virus protection for e-mails on the server, your domain name hosting, web hit
statistics and more.
The Standard Presbury.com ISP package (£30.00 per month + VAT) adds Search Engine submission and Meta-Tagging to the basic package.
The Full Presbury.com ISP package (£65.00 per month + VAT) has additional breakdown cover and minor text/graphical alterations to your website.
Populate
a database for £45.00 + VAT per hour and we will add all the information about
your products to any of the databases for you.
Jargon hides the real meaning behind so many everyday things and e-commerce is no exception. Take a look at what e-commerce can really mean for you.
E-commerce
has been around for a while now and in many ways has changed the way business
is done. The time to get your company on-line has not yet passed, though now
it is perhaps even more important than ever.
At Presbury & Company we believe part of the reason companies wait to incorporate
e-commerce are due to the myths surrounding e-commerce. One common myth is the
belief that to use e-commerce you need to accept credit cards. Another myth
is the belief that starting up e-commerce requires heavy amounts of investment.
The fact is that neither are true. The last few years have seen incredible developments
in the e-commerce arena, as well as increased competition between e-commerce
solution providers. That is good news for you, because it brings e-commerce
solutions prices down.
Just as e-mail means ‘electronic mail’, e-commerce means ‘electronic commerce’.
E-commerce is a broad category including all forms of commercial activity that
take place over the internet.
Perhaps the most commonly recognised form of e-commerce is the ‘on-line’ store.
Though this is by no means the only form of e-commerce, it is a good starting
point for retail companies.
Other forms of e-commerce include on-line Hotel, or Restaurant bookings, on-line
auctions, remote printing, dating agencies, insurance quotes, estate agents
and mortgages etc.
E-commerce doesn't necessarily mean taking money via the internet. You could
have an on-line catalogue, or brochure that draws in business leads, or orders
via e-mail, or phone, allowing you to process the actual transaction by more
traditional methods.
No longer are we limited to e-commerce through websites. The development of
channels such as WAP (internet mobile phones wireless application protocol),
or hand held computers, means more and more people are looking for information
while on the move and you are now able to reach them.
The fact is that electronic commerce can provide a solution to help you meet
the business objectives of almost any organisation. Whatever your thoughts on
e-commerce, there is one thing no business can afford to do and that is ignore
it.
Our
Presbury.com ISP packages provide comprehensive statistics about the visits
to your website. The full list of all the information that is generated is far
too long to go into here, so I shall just mention a few of the key statistics
that will be of interest.
To begin with, there is a summary page. This shows the number of visits i.e.
the number of times someone has entered your site, the number of pages looked
at by those visitors and the number of hits, which is how many pages have been
viewed in total and includes repeat viewings of a page. These figures are shown
as a total and daily average for each month and a grand total for all the months.The
next pages show in-depth statistics for each month and include:
• The time of day when the visits were made
• The number of visits/hits per hour and per day
• The top 20/30 URL’s from which the visits came
• The top 20/30 types of browser being used
• The top 20/30 sites that visits came from as referrals
You can also find out which were the most popular pages for entry and exit from
the website. This could help, for instance, to decide whether certain pages
might need updating, or making more interesting.
All the figures are displayed in tables and easy view charts and can be downloaded,
if required, at any time.
To take advantage of this amazing facility, you need to subscribe to one of
our ISP packages. Contact Presbury & Company on 01509 600367 for details.
There
are several ways in which Ophone puts Telephone power into your hands:
• You can have more than one number connecting to a single phone line
• You can take your number with you when you move, or change mobile phones
• You can have one number for family, or friends and another number for business
contacts, or new acquaintances - with no change to your existing phone number
• You can even earn money each time someone calls your Ophone number. If you
receive a lot of calls, a portion of the cost of those calls is credited to
you. This is especially good for businesses that receive a high number of calls.
Let the phone pay you back for a change. Whenever someone calls your Ophone
number, they are automatically re-directed to your real number without knowing
any different.
Ophone allows you to discontinue, or change your Ophone number at any time, leaving your real number unchanged.
There
are many reasons to have an Ophone number:
• Moving house, or business premises and want a number you can take with you
• Getting a new mobile and keeping your personal number
• Running a business from home and don't want to give out your home number
• Have to give out your number a lot, but would rather keep your existing number
private
• Want one number for family and friends and another for business, or new acquaintances
from your social scene.
Whatever you need an extra number for, you can get one at Ophone. They don’t
cost you anything, can be changed, or disconnected when you need and don't affect
your existing landline number.
For
more information on any of the topics above call 01509 600367
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