Features in detail
Want to know the detailed nitty gritty of each features? Here are the descriptions of each feature, as well as some great marketing ideas and things you may not have known before.
Simple to use
Gives you access to change your own website
Ecommerce ready
Display a catalog of your products
On-line invoicing and payments
On-line appointment booking
Allow your clients access to certain parts of your site
Publish articles and information
Print information or email to a friend
Publish testimonials
Blogging
How does the pricing work?
And much more!
The MOBS template is designed with non-computer users in mind. It is built so that it is consistently easy to add items. The interface for your client is built with a "one click" system in mind, meaning they can find the area of information they are looking for in 1 click from your home page.
Gives you access to change your own website
The traditional HTML model of getting a website done includes hiring a web designer to do an attractive, functional website. BUT, what many people don't realize is that that website is designed in HTML program code. Most small businessess will not have a web designer on staff, so that means that every time they want to change the smallest piece of information on their site, they must re-hire the web designer to do the changes. Because of all the costs involved, many small businesses will opt to get a static site, which means that the information on the site does not change.
MOBS does not work that way. We use a template which allows you access to change most of your information, add information, articles, news links, new front page information. PLUS, we help you along by giving you some templates to choose from.
So....
...advertise a monthly special! It costs you nothing more!
...put up a new feature, or a new image. It costs you nothing more!
...post new information about your business. It costs you nothing more!
...add a testimonial. It costs you nothing more!
...change your phone number, your logo or slogan. It costs you nothing more!
...add your newest product line to your catalog and sell it online! It costs you nothing more!
See the pattern?
Display a catalog of your products
Your products and services are what sells. They are the heart of your business. It is incredibly important to have a catalog of your products and services available online.
According to statistics, 84.3% of Canada's population uses the internet.(1) Translate that figure to your business. 84.3% of your clients have internet access, or use the internet regularly. At MOBS we monitor the traffic on our member sites, allowing you to see what parts of your site are important to your customers. We find that on most sites that have their products and services online, viewing of the catalog accounts for 70% or better of all internet visitors to these sites.
Does that mean that you will sell 70% more if you have it online? No. What it means is that your clients have the opportunity to check you out first before they come into your place of business or pick up the phone to call you.
Think about how you use the internet. Do you use it to purchase your products? Maybe. But most often you use it to gather information about potential vendors in your area. The website content convinces you whether or not the vendors that you view are the vendors you want to buy from.
So, loosely translated, that means that your business has more opportunity to capture your potential customers if your products are there for them to see from the comfort of their own home.
Everybody wants ecommerce. It is the new way to shop. And it is surprisingly easy and cost effective to set it up.
All of our sites are equipped to handle ecommerce purchases. Our sites allow you to choose a variety of payment types, including Paypal, purchase orders, cheques, or in store transactions. However you decide to set it up, make sure that your customers have the ability to order their products with you from the comfort of their home.
With Paypal your site can take all credit cards. Any credit card transactions are handled by them, so you don't need to do anything! Their fees are similar to any other credit card vendor plus you have the added advantage of not paying any monthly service fees. To check out their services and transaction fees, click here.
On-line invoicing and payments
So your catalog is up, and you site is ecommerce ready. Customers now have the ability to purchase online. The fun really begins here when you start looking at how this will work on your site. First of all, the site will tell you when something happens. There are automatic emails that will go out when needed. The automatic functions will take care of sending an invoice to your client. It will take care of sending an invoice to you. It will allow clients to log in and see a history of their puchases as well as reprint an invoice whenever they need it to.
The best part....it will stay on your site for an easy way of printing off your revenues at the end of the year. So now you are saving time on bookkeeping costs! Better still, you can have it email your bookkeeper every time an order is created, so now you will save room in your shoebox as well!
Want to use your internet site creatively? Use it to generate your invoices for your clients. Take credit card payments with them in front of you. Then the system can email them an invoice and it will be in their email inbox when they get home. No more paper for your clients to lose.
A very flexible system and solution for your business, and no monthly credit card fees!
As we move forward in our technology age, people don't want to pick up the phone and call. They want simple. They want to be able to book online.
There are many choices out there for online bookings, some we recommend more than others, and what you use should depend on your individual needs.
Whatever you decide, we can set it up for you, link it to your site, and ensure that your clients are finding it easy to use.
Imagine how much time you can save by not having cancelled appointments or no-shows.
The ability to book appointments can be limited to just your clients, or people that you give special permission to. It is flexible enough to suit all your needs.
Allow your clients access to certain parts of your site
There could be many reasons that you want a client to have "behind the scenes" access to information on your website. Here are some examples of what clients can do to interact with you. In all cases, the client would have a username and login, so they can only access the infomation AFTER they log in.
- see a copy of their invoice
- record updates between sessions with you
- access to instructions from your last visit
- have exclusive access to articles and other private information for client eyes only
- book online
Publish articles and information
We all have information that we give to our clients regularly. You can build your own library of information and allow your clients to access it as they need it.
You are able to put your articles and information online yourself. You can copy-paste from a word processing program, such as Microsoft Word. You can categorize your information. You can also limit and define who will see what information. You can also specify that clients can only see certain articles if they are logged in with a username and password, therefore protecting your information.
Print information or email to a friend
Loosely translated, this is "printer friendly pages", or "print this page" type of links. Any information that you have can be set to have a printer friendly page. You will also be able to "email this to a friend". These are optional and you can turn them on or off as you desire.
Testimonials are a must-hvae on any internet site for a small business. Your clients want to know WHO you are as well as what you do. They want to know that you are capable of taking their business.
Testimonials are a good way to show your clients that you have a great reputation.
Our system allows your clients (or yourself) to type in the testimonial, and once you approve the content you simply press a button to "approve" and it is put up on your website immediately. Easy!
It is a blogging world out there. Facebook, Twitter, Wordpress, Blogspot just to name a few. It is indeed a time for social networking.
You can do your own blogging on your site. Put a link to your blog on your site from your Facebook or Twitter page, and watch the traffic come. Once your potential client is there to read about you, then they may start clicking around your website to see what else they need to do.
The pricing is based upon full functionality of the website. If you choose NOT to use certain features, then the price decreases by a certain value.
MOBS is template, and it has funcationality that is programmed in for everyone. We have been sure to allow some flexibility, but the reason we can offer so much power at at incredible price is because it is a template. When we do work to enhance the website, we are doing it for everybody and that automatically lowers your cost.
Many people are concerned about how the website looks, and this is a very important point. You can have all the existing funcationality, plus for an additional fee, we will custom design the look and feel for your website.
Have we covered it all? Nope..not even close. But we hope that we have given you a fairly good overall view of what our site can do. Please contact us for more information!
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Sources:
1. http://www.internetworldstats.com/am/ca.htm