CALLING ALL ENTREPRENEURS
Whether you are looking to expand brand awareness or thinking of franchising your business, this article might be of interest to you. Design Four now offer multiple websites. What does that mean? Basically, this allows multiple domain names or sites to be controlled by ONE master website. Sharing files and folders, users, extensions such as shopping carts, community builder, social media is now a reality. This simplifies the maintenance of your operating system as you have only one instance to update 100s of websites. The system can be used for many business sectors and can be extremely cost effective as if encourages shared information and shared costs. In today's credit crunch cost savings are a must!
What are the cost savings?
If you are running one system there are big savings to be had. There is a initial set-up cost to develop the main master website and branding other partner sites. The main core files and folders can be update by the administrator / webmaster who can add value with his/her specialised knowledge within a certain business sector. Just think, your partners will not have the headache of updating and maintaining their sites unless they want to. All sites will share the cost of the following:
- one administrator / webmaster
- partner forums to share ideas
- shared hosting
- shared design
- shared maintenance
- shared support
- shared online training
- avoid signing up for multiple reseller packages
- shared extensions, ie, image galleries, slideshows, videos, web feeds, shopping carts, community builders
- shared optimised for mobility! Dedicated rich mobile theme for Apple iPhones and Google Android mobiles
- shared social media links including YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin
- shared search engine optimisation techniques
- attract sponsorship and advertising
- add other languages
In conclusion, if you have a successful business model that requires expansion then do consider the possibilites of offering your goods and services via multiple sites. Why have one shop when you can now have many shops in many locations with managers who have the emphusiasm and energy to succeed and all at the fraction of the cost it would cost you if you do it alone.
Design Four now offer FREE online training as well as one-to-one training programmes to support your business. Why not call us today to discuss your ideas and project feasibility.