Some known facts

August 28, 2007 in Affiliate marketing

by: Mac Brandon

If you’re looking to set up a website but you just don’t know where to start – and you have a limited budget – this may be the most important information you read this year…
Having your own website these days isn’t a luxury — it’s a necessity.

People expect you to have a website.

They want to check you and your business out in their own free time, in the comfort of their own home — and without feeling “pressurized” by a salesman.

It’s a fact that more and more consumers are searching the Internet before buying a product.

Research recently conducted by the highly-respected Forrester Research shows that online sales this year are expected to hit $211.4 billion.

And 20% higher than last year.

Internet World Stats reports that there are now an estimated 1 billion Internet users – a figure that continues to balloon.

In short — this is not a “craze” – it’s a serious marketplace, and one that you can’t (and shouldn’t) ignore.

Every day you don’t have a website is a day filled with lost orders, lost revenue and lost profit that could have been yours.

And every day without a website your competitors grow stronger – stealing customers away from you.

Leave it too long as you’ve lost the “first mover advantage”.

You see, these websites grow so strong and so big, that if you don’t jump in quickly enough it becomes almost impossible to compete.

Imagine trying to set up an auction site now to compete with eBay. You’d have to be mad, right?

Well that’s the first mover advantage. You get in there early, establish yourself in the market and like trees in the rainforest you slowly outcompete the other plants until there aren’t enough nutrients for them to survive.

The weeds and other small plants wither and die.

Is that what you want to happen to your business?

And after all that, don’t you want your slice of that $200 billion going begging each year?.