Independent Web Marketing has been helping businesses of every type and size to use the Internet since 1996. Our core market is helping small to medium sized businesses to really get the best out of the Internet. Regardless of whether you are establishing your first site, or want to set up and effectively use a CRM system, our role is to give YOU the tools to do the job and to support you by providing objective advice and ongoing practical help. We'll tailor a package according to your needs, expectations and budget. We help you to choose the right domain name. We host your domain - either conventionally or in the cloud - and ensure you use your domain e-mail and web addresses correctly. We protect your email from spam and viruses. We create your initial site for you and provide you with an easy to use content management system so you can update your own web site yourself. We help you to market your site and optimise it for the search engines. We provide FREE ongoing training and technical support "on tap" - and a human answers the phone! Our products are first class and highly reliable. We also provide a number of fantastic additional services, such as Cloud Email, CRM, Backup and Invoicing. If need help, either complete our on-line enquiry form or give us a ring on 01526 352919 and one of our web services team will help you.

Updating Your Own Web Site

Our content management system is incredibly easy to use and is continually being upgraded. Features include unlimited web space, slideshows, detailed site statistics and the option of your site looking pretty pretty well as bespoke as you would like it to looked! You can update text, embed code, upload PDFs and create photo galleries within - literally - a few minutes.

We provide one tuition over the phone with ongoing help, support and tuition "on tap" as you need.it. All our sites are built using our purpose built system. Many of the images displayed throughout the site are links to sites that use this system.

Cloud Hosted Email
The Cloud is changing the way we all use the Internet.

Cloud hosted email allows you to access your email from anywhere and can either replace your current mail client [Outlook, Outlook Express etc], or can work in tandem with it. The benefits are immense. Click here for more details.

Back Up Your PC Online
Our cloud based Backup service offers unlimited data storage for an unlimited number of computers with just one account and is ideal for home and small business use, whilst our Business Services are aimed at organisations with multi users and take cloud based sharing to a whole new level and will revolutionise the way that your own organisation works with files.

It doesn’t matter whether your users are in the same building, or in different countries. You can even share files privately or publically with people outside of your organisation.

Other services we provide for businesses include cloud based Customer Relations Management [CRM] systems. This can be set up for one or multi user capability.

News

Over half of UK workers expect the extinction of the office in a decade
A nationwide poll reveals that 58 per cent of the UK's workforce believes that companies will no longer require an office space to do business by 2021, as mobile working continues to grow in popularity. Read full article.

Web Site Updating - when you need it. It’s fine having a web site that you can update yourself, providing you do update it and do so tidily! Your clients and customers start to subconsciously build a picture of your business from the moment they land on your web site. It is vital that you keep it up to date. Click here for more info on how we can help.

Technical Support
We provide one to one technical support either by phone or email. You can also refer to our Training Manual, or see what all the sections in your content management system driven web site can do for you. We even provide on-line video training.

Site Marketing

Although basic optimisation of a site – title, description, keywords, relevant text on page etc – is a common sense start and serves a useful, initial  purpose on the long road to being found through the search engines, there is no doubt that if you want your business to develop and grow you have to be more serious about marketing your web site. Click here to read about how we can help your business develop.

Back Up All Your Computer Files from an unlimited number of computers with unlimited storage. The normal price is £36 per year, but you can sign up above for £26 if you insert iwm as a voucher. Or, set up a 14 day FREE TRIAL.

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Why Your Web Site Is So Important Nowadays, no business can expect to succeed without using the Internet. Although a web site that you can update yourself is a common sense start on the long road to developing your business on-line, there is no doubt that if you want to be really successful you have to be more serious about the amount of time you devote to managing it, the budget you allocate to marketing it, and the way you service the enquiries that are generated as a result. Firstly, Internet users are more discerning than ever before. They expect a web site to be professional looking and easy to navigate. They expect it to contain relevant information that they can “trust” because it is up to date. They expect easy to understand direction as to the action they need to take [ie to complete a form, to phone you, to go to their nearest stockist, to order on-line or whatever it is you want them to do]. Your web site should be an up to date statement of how your business is TODAY and if users don’t feel confident in what they see on your web site, they won’t feel confident about doing business with you. Secondly, you have to ensure that your web site is found by Internet users when they enter relevant search terms in a search engine. Although most sites are optimised to a basic degree with title, description, keywords and relevant text on pages etc, Search Engine Optimisation and Web Site Marketing is now a highly specialised field, and the businesses that are successful employ top SEO firms to handle this for them. Thirdly, on the basis that the above 2 points have enabled the potential customer/client to find you and they like what they see enough to have contacted you or placed an order, you now have to ensure that you communicate with them – either by supplying a quote, providing additional information, or sending them a product they have ordered. It sounds logical – and it is. But it is also very time consuming and requires access to skilled people to do the bits that you can’t do yourself.