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Only large corporations with their impressive annual turnover (hundreds of thousands dollars) can afford themselves mass-media advertising. Representatives of small scale business usually have to content themselves with more modest income. That is why an own website is the best variant of cheap and effective means of advertising their goods or services and attracting clients for representatives of small scale business. Are you a representative of small scale business? Then let us decide if your company really needs website development by giving an example.
Let us take a computer shop as an example. This shop does not have its own website yet. Let us assume that potential clients of the shop under discussion want to buy some computer periphery so they have decided to look for information on the Internet.
In modern computer shops you can buy anything you may need for work with computer: off-the-shelf computer models, periphery, various component parts, related products and expendable materials. That is why it is most likely that potential clients will search for needed goods either by the name of group of goods (computers, computer periphery, computer shop) or by the name of the good itself (mouse, display, hard drive, CPU etc) or by the name of certain manufacturers (Asus, Gigabyte, Intel, AMD).
In the table below we offer you a list of the most popular queries entered by potential clients of the computer shop. The frequency of these queries per month is given according to Google Adwords statistics.
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keyword
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number of queries
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According to the group of goods |
Computer
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45500000
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Desktop computer
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368000
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| Computer shop
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246000
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Buy computer
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201000
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computers for sale
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135000
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Computers on sale
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135000
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Cheap computers
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110000
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Best computers
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110000
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Buy computers
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74000
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According to the names of goods |
Laptop
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30400000
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Monitor
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16600000
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Mouse
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16600000
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| Printer
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13600000
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Keyboard
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13600000
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CPU
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9140000
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Scanner
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9140000
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Hard drive
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7480000
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Motherboard
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4090000
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Graphics card
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823000
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According to the manufacturer |
asus
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24900000
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intel
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20400000
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ati
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13600000
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nvidia
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13600000
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| radeon
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7480000
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amd
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7480000
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msi
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7480000
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gigabyte
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4090000
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As you can see from the table every day tens and hundreds of thousands and even millions of users use Internet to search for the goods which are sold in the computer shop under discussion. And these users are, as a rule, target users, i.e. they search for a place where they can buy computer periphery purposefully. And they find it! They find the competitors of the shop under discussion because they do have their own websites and this shop does not! But the shop from the given example can afford itself development of a small high quality website and its further promotion.
Therefore a competently developed and promoted site permits to attract a lot of potential clients not only to large corporations but also to small private firms. And the main advantage is that every representative of small scale business can afford himself development and promotion of a small business site!
TAGS
website development,
small scale business,
small site,
small business site,
computer shop |