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So you've just forked out a handsome amount of money to put up your website. The consultants sold you on flashy graphics, interactive CGI scripts, funky 256 colour backgrounds and buttons and boxes and big words galore. The whole proverbial shebang.
Trouble is, its not getting any attention. Day after day your pages sit there in their lonely corner of cyberspace while the 'This site has been visited' counter tallies up its measly harvest. The sceptics jeer and the financial controllers fume.
Advertising on the Net? But I have a web page already!
The problem with advertising on the internet is its 'voluntary' nature. If people *think* they don't want what you're selling they won't come looking for it, no matter how well designed and useful your pages may be. And if the links to your pages are hidden away deep in some hard to navigate database, your chances of ever recouping your investment in webpaging are even worse.
So what can I do?
Here's our proposal. We will carry an advertisement for your pages on the Marques/InterneXt Southern African Web Database. The database has wide exposure and acclaim (it was nominated as the best web site in South Africa by Computer Buyer Magazine, is linked from all over the world, and mirrored at three different sites) It is visited daily by Southern Africans and people abroad wanting Southern African Information. Over 12000 documents are served every day from the main website.
Various Options
The top level option is advertising on our home page. This ad will be in the form of a picture linking to your site and will help to establish your netsite in the exploding South African webscene. Obviously this will get the best exposure to your site here, but the more directed alternatives might serve your purposes equally well: You might want to consider putting your ad on one of the sub-pages such as 'South African Entertainment & Art' or 'Southern African Business & Commerce'. A third level ad is also possible for highly directed advertising. If your company is in the property business for instance, it would make sense to put an ad on 'Southern African Business & Commerce : Property' where all the property and real estate businesses are listed. When a surfer then comes looking for property in Southern Africa the first thing he will see is your ad. For more information on the advertising rated send mail here : Pieter Hugo
Quality Hits
This is what we call a 'quality hit', because the surfer is in the market for property already, and its just a question of getting him to click on your link as opposed to the oppositions' link, and the deal is struck! The net is changing the face of marketing. A hundred quality hits are more valuable than 50 000 'saturation advertising' ads which newspapers and television claim as their circulation. We believe we might just have the vehicle to get these hits to your site.
Graphic Design
Furthermore we can offer graphic design services and will design your ad to the required specifications for R400. This service is optional, and if you prefer to use your own resources please email us for info on the required dimensions, sizes etc.
Let Us Custom Design Your Web Page
InterneXt/Marques offer the full spectrum of Internet Services and will gladly assist you in establishing a presence on the internet. We specialize in 'value added' projects and have all the skills to design highly interactive sites. Our team skills consist of HTML, JAVA, Delphi, C++, ASP, Visual Basic & CGI programming. Furthemore we employ graphic designer and have extensive skills in database integration. Have a look at Our Services for detail on costs.
Email us for info at Pieter Hugo.
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