Adapting Your Business to the Internet
By
Yesterday, I was a guest on WCCO Radio and I was stressing that almost any business could be adapted to the Internet. The example I gave was a residential window washing business.
You might wonder how a window washing business could be adapted to the web. Here’s how he did it.
The guy had a residential window washing business. He contacted a web designer and had a web site designed where people could sign up for window washing service in his city. Next they designed a calendar with week days between Monday and Friday and times between 9am and 5pm where people could sign up for window washing service.
He made a list of all the window washers in the city and made a deal with most of them for a standard price. His tacked on 20%. Then whenever someone signed up on the calendar and paid online through PayPal, he would notify all the window washing services and whoever jumped first got the job. He notified the customer that the date and time was confirmed.
Then he used a number of marketing methods including search engine optimization to get people who use the Internet to the web site and hiring high school kids to spread flyers door to door. great combination of offline marketing and online marketing.
if you can make window washing work online, you can adapt any business to online.
Originally posted 2008-08-06 09:06:12. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

- Why Are Link Building Strategies So Important For Business? Image via Wikipedia The most important goal of Online Marketing is getting the maximum number...
- Beware Internet Marketing Gurus Internet marketing "gurus" are like ants on a sugar cube.There are hundreds of them swarming...
- Article Marketing Services and Software - What not to do Article marketing services and software can be a nightmare and will hurt your business far more than they will...
- Online Marketing Options For Your Website - Read More Tips And Recommendations You are the owner of an online business and your...
- Article Marketing - How Articles Help Promote Your Home Business Web Site Writing Articles is a great way to promote your home...
- Word For Sale - Online Marketing Strategies Have you been trying around and looking several ways to...

Bloggernity
3 Comments
November 26th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Alexander Maxham, Menlo Park. Menlo Park said: Adapting Your Business to the Internet http://bte.tc/b2M #RTW [...]
November 28th, 2009 at 11:56 am
[...] This post was Twitted by FlyingLesson [...]
March 27th, 2010 at 4:24 am
Social comments and analytics for this post…
This post was mentioned on Twitter by howtofix: Adapting Your Business to the Internet http://bte.tc/b2M...