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The standard package will get your story out there. To help your web site work even harder, upgrade it with any of these time-saving, money-saving or sales-boosting options:
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Video Sells Like Nothing Else
Shoppers need to experience your product before they feel comfortable buying -- but on the web, a single photo and some description is normally all they get. It's not enough.
In a physical store, shoppers can pick up and feel your product. This tells them immediately about it's dimensions, weight and quality.
Information like that helps with their Experimental OwnershipSM process, an internal dialog about what it would be like to own the product.
In a modern web store, product videos show your product in action, convey its characteristics, or tell it's back story.
Product videos are the missing piece of the online shopping puzzle; they restore the information needed for Experimental Ownership.
SFW Web Videos start downloading immediately so they're ready to play right away. No waiting for downloads!
Our web video process plays your video right in the web page, not in some media player in another window. Your video stays right next to your Buy button, prices and supporting information.
Ask us about processing your existing video for the web. Or we can produce a video specifically for your web site and your products.
Save A Tree Mail makes it easy to send a dynamite email message.
Update Your Email List Automatically
Adding and deleting people from your email list by hand is a royal pain. And what do you do with the "bad" email addresses? Try again next month or remove them from the list?
Save A Tree MailSM handles all that automatically. Subscribers add, remove and change their own subscriptions to as many as 10 different topics. You never have to think about it again!
Send Professional-Quality Newsletters, Coupons and Notices
You want your emailed newsletters and notices to look great, but your email software can't keep up.
Save A Tree MailSM makes it easy to prepare professional-quality mailings with logos and product photos. You can schedule delivery up to 60 days ahead, at any hour of the day or night. And, your mailing is sent in full compliance with the current spam laws.
Move Large Files Securely
Email is not secure, and attachments are often limited to 2 megabytes. FTP can move large files, but it's not secure. Mailing CDs gets old very quickly. So how do you move files to and from your customers easily and securely?
File ForwarderSM lets you send and receive files up to 2 gigabytes in size over a secure web connection. It works completely unattended once you start uploading. The recipient automatically gets an email telling them the file is ready for download.
Great for accountants, engineers, architects and printers. Life's too short for moving files any other way!
SFW's Online Ordering via PayPal option is an economical way to sell products directly from your web site.
Process Web Orders Securely
Sometimes a full shopping cart setup is too expensive or too limiting for your product line. Simple order forms don't offer security for payment information. So how do you make it easy for shoppers to order from your site?
Our Online Ordering via PayPal option presents each of your products alongside a "Buy Now" button. Clicking the button adds that product to a customized PayPal shopping cart. Visitors add as many items as they want, change quantities, and check out securely.
Great for small product collections where each product has simple ordering options. Even better, setting up the required PayPal account is free and we'll help you with the details.
Accept Payments Online
Your customers are paying their phone and power bills online, so why can't they pay your bills online? They can if your web site has our Online Payments Page option.
You can accept PayPal, Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover right through your web site. It's fast and secure. Your customer enters the payment information. You get an email from PayPal about the payment. All you do is record it. Ta da!
Both you and your customers save time and money. If you also send your invoices by email, you have a super easy, postage-free payment system. Here's ours
An online Quote Request Form saves time because visitors fill it out unassisted. On-screen help gives your customers the answers they may need, without a phone call to your office.
Get Quote Requests Anytime
Your product or service has many choices, and they all affect the price. Quoting by phone takes a while, and you can only do it when you're open. What if prospective customers sent completed quote requests on their own time, at their own convenience?
You could respond much faster, doing more business in less time.
Add a Quote Request Form to your web site and get quote requests from anywhere, any time. Prospects choose among your options, click a button, and you get an easy-to-read email with all the details.
Saves time for you, adds convenience for them -- especially for prospects in other time zones. Our Quote Request Form fits right into the flow of a fast-paced business.
Let Shoppers Find Their Price Point
Every prospect wants to spend a different amount. Your product line covers them all, but how do you match prospect with price point -- especially online?
Give them an Estimate Calculator that finds the approximate price for their chosen set of products, quantities, features and styles. Link it to a Quote Request Form or Online Ordering and you have a powerful ecommerce tool.
Keeps the tire-kickers our of your way. Helps serious shoppers decide at their own pace if they want your product at your prices.
A staged Secure Online Application form makes a long application much easier to complete. On-screen help is available.
Stop Faxing Blank Forms
Applicants for employment, apartment rental and credit accounts can't easily visit your office but they need an application form. Out goes the fax and out the window goes your staff's time. When the application comes back, no one can read the handwriting!
Instead, point them to your Secure Online Application. Applicants fill out small sections at a time, which encourages completing long forms. Smart, polite error messages show the applicant where to fix errors or add information.
Never fax out blank forms again. And when you get the resulting application, you can read all the entries!
Show Off Your Work
Your portfolio works great with prospects, but you don't have time to show it around as much as you'd like. With our Portfolio Tour option you can let the pictures tell the story, and let your prospects set the pace. They click buttons to flip the "pages" back and forth. Captions explain each project. Makes your portfolio available to prospects all day, every day.
SFW WebMail boxes let you correspond from work, home or from one the road.
Access Your Email Anywhere
While on the road, a client calls about an email he sent you this morning. You're out of the office and can't read it. Aargh!
But wait! You can log into your SFW WebMail box from any internet connection. Reply to the client and get on with your trip. Now that's great customer service!
SFW WebMail boxes let you and your staff work in Outlook, Outlook Express or any similar email program at the office PLUS access new emails and reply to them from anywhere with an Internet connection and a browser.
On-the-road email access gives you flexibility in daily operations, without down time just because you are away from your desk.
Put the Past in the Past
Conference schedules and events lists need lots of attention. You don't want to show items that are already over, but manually removing them right on time is entirely impractical.
Add the Smart Events List option and forget the hassle. Each event entered gets an expiration date and time. When that moment arrives, it no longer shows up on your site. Simple as that.
Great for speaking engagement schedules, industry conferences, association calendars and community events lists.
Where in the world is that shipment?
Allegheny Brokerage Company's customers can log onto ACustomsBroker.com and find out!
Keep Clients Informed
"Where's my shipment?" "How long before you finish?" "Do you have all the permits?" You answer questions like these all day long, and it takes up too much time.
With our Project Status option, you can point your clients to their own private web page showing everything they need to know. Backstage, you or your staff members enter the updates to each project as they occur.
Saves phone time and provides a handy reference for everyone on your staff, too. Great for architects, freight forwarders, engineers, planners and consultants.
Update Association Member Lists Automatically
Your membership database is growing, and the change requests are piling up. Everyone's moving offices, changing email addresses and adding phone numbers.
Our Member List option lets each member maintain his own contact info. You simply add new members and delete lapsed ones.
Relieves you of the update burden, letting you focus on the rest of the association business. Great for small trade organizations, homeowner's associations, and industry groups.
Blog Your Business
You have plenty to say about your projects, products and services but nowhere to say it. Normally your great customer stories never make it out the door except as lunch chat.
Your Blog HereSM lets you post them on your own business blog. Post photos, sound files and documents along with your personal viewpoint.
Revs up your credibility for those who don't yet know you and your business. Tells the success stories that don't fit anywhere else.
Full Site Search works well for large sites with many pages and downloadable documents.
Help Them Find Your Stuff
Our Full Site Search makes it super easy for visitors to find what they came looking for. Full Site Search even searches the contents of .pdf's and other documents posted on your web site.
Search results come back very quickly in a format everyone is used to. The familiar search box encourages visitors to dig deeper into your product information.
Help Them Visualize Buying
Interactive Floorplans are one of our Experimental OwnershipSM functions. They provide a floorplan of your rental property with scaled furniture that visitors can arrange in the various rooms.
Your apartment rental or real estate prospects will arrange "their" furniture and imagine themselves living at your property. Try It Now
Don't See What You Need?
If you need an option we didn't mention, please email us or phone (540) 381-9290. We want to hear about it!
Our Portfolio
Now that you know what else your new web site could do, we invite you to see these time saving functions working for our customers in our Portfolio.
