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Small and Medium business owners are finding the going very tough in this falling economic situation and OneWebHosting Website has released five valuable tips to withstand the downturn and take advantageous steps in this turbulent time.

 

OneWebHosting.com provides an all-inclusive solution for web design and hosting. The company hosts over 10,000 small business customers nationwide and in several countries including Mexico, Japan and the UK.

 

The Website was started by Tem Balanco along with his brother Tony Balanco, "My brother and I founded OneWebHosting.com during the .com bust," said Tem, co-founder and CEO of OneWebHosting.com. "Unlike other local web hosting companies that went out of business that year, OneWebHosting combined web-savvy, creativity and cost-efficient services to survive and thrive during economic downturns. We have experienced triple digit growth since that time."

 

The Website says that their mission is to help their clients leverage the power of the Internet to grow their businesses. These 5 tips they have formulated for business owners to survive the economic downturn using their respective Websites are derived from the founders’ experiences from the last recession in 2001.

 

The first tip states business owners to automate the management of back end administrative processes like customer input, log info, survey details. The automated process will reduce the time taken to manually manage this data and administrators can redirect saved resources to important aspects like sales and marketing.

 

Second is to take the Website out of geographic limitations. Most business owners tend to look away from the fact that small businesses can compete with larger enterprises at the national level or even at the global level if they are doing it online. If the business is geographically bound, the site owner might think about offering a product that is not. This can diversify the business and increase the return on investment for the website.

 

Third: business owners need to have healthy interaction with their customers. They can do this by opening up a blog page or by designing a good feedback system. They should try and address customer grievances quickly in order to retain customer loyalty.

 

Fourth: says that these days, more people are using Google (News - Alert) Maps to find local services. Google Local (google.com/local/add) has the largest reach. List the website with the local online directories. By being listed on local directories, SMBs can capture their share of local searches at no charge and profit from macro trend like the "death of the phonebook."

 

The last tip advises businesses to place their most profitable product for online sale first and not rushing every product into the sales pipeline and spending more amount of money on marketing all the products. They need to narrow their focus and have to test the water for their products. When the product starts producing revenue they can reinvest in other products and expand their site.