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About
iBuyNW
Retailing on the
Internet
Getting
Started
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Why
build an Internet business?
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- The
Internet provides an opportunity to
provide detailed information about your
business and products to consumers that
those same consumers cannot always get
when they enter your store.
- The
Internet gives you the ability to
market and sell your products 24 hours
a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a
year.
- Having
an Internet business can also improve
your in-store traffic sales,
particularly with iBuyNW's Regional
Mall Focus!
- A
properly developed Internet storefront
can help equalize your image as a
smaller retailer against your bigger
and more established
competitors.
- An
Internet business can help reduce costs
such as labor, order processing,
accounts receivables, inventory,
overhead, and capital.
- An
on-line business allows you to get more
information about your customers and to
better serve your customer's
needs.
- An
on-line business allows you to easily
expand your business market beyond your
local market area at a small
cost.
- A
website can expand and enhance the
advertising dollar investment you are
currently expending in traditional
advertising.
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The
Internet Retail
Industry…
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Still need
convincing about building an Internet
business? Consider these facts:
- A
major new shopping study finds that 39%
of the those with access to the
Internet say they go to the store or
mall less often now that they can
easily shop for and buy a wide variety
of products online.*
- Americans
who use the Internet hold 60 percent of
the buying power of the total US
population.*
- 64.2
million adults are go online in the US
every month**
- This
year 56 percent of all US companies
will sell their products
online.**
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Small
businesses who use the Internet
have grown 46% faster than those that
don’t.***
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- *Greenfield
Online
- ** NUA
Internet Surveys
- ***American
City Business Journal
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