Using GatherPages with your business or organization can help you in several ways. Here's an overview.

 

Building a website online does not have to be hard or time consuming. Nor do you need to be able to write or understand code. GatherPages toolbars and icons are easy to learn. The simplicity of the tools, however, pose no limit on how much your site can do.  From very simple "brochure" sites to full-fledged e-commerce, custom-designed, deep-navigation sites, GatherPages makes it easy to have your site quickly published and fresh with new content.

 

As a business owner, you can easily delegate certain areas of your website to other employees or contract workers, review pages before being published, schedule content to appear and disappear on specified dates, see when pages were last updated and quickly add events to a published calendar, for example.

 

Attracting new customers is vital to business. The best way for new customers to find you on the web is through search engine results. GatherPages helps your business website show up in all major search engines by supplying keywords and following search engine guidelines.

 

GatherPages includes site-wide and page-specific fields that allow you to specify keywords, search titles, search descriptions and other text that will help search engines find your business and website. In addition, all text created in GatherPages is instantly searchable by visitors and search engines.

 

GatherPages is not just a website builder for your business. It's also an e-commerce store. Add categories, products, descriptions, photos and pricing along with dates the item is available, what groups can see individual products, and where the items appear along with inventory levels. Customer orders come to your attention via email so you quickly act upon orders even when you're not viewing or managing your website.

 

GatherPages comes with everything you need to create and manage an online store. To handle payments online, you will need to create an account with one of the six most popular payment gateways (including Paypal, Authorize.net and Verisign) and contact your bank for a merchant account to handle credit card transactions.

 

Serve your customers and market better by uncovering their needs through structured interaction (like forms and polls). Get to know their needs by asking questions and encouraging feedback with tools already included in GatherPages.

 

Next, with analytics services, like Google Analytics, you can learn what content on your site, what day and even what hour is most popular, and what other areas of your site need improvement. GatherPages gives you the flexibility to use any major online analytics software that fits your specific needs.

 

Targeting customer communication by their interests -- or any other category -- can easily be accomplished with the community tools included with GatherPages Gold and GatherPages Platinum plans. Here you can set up groups and specify which content they not only have access to, but also what their level of participation on your website will be. In addition, GatherPages can send rich emails to any group -- all from GatherPages, all online.

 

Keeping in touch with the tech-savvy customers is easy too. GatherPages makes creating RSS feeds likes blogs, or even podcasts, easy.  You simply create the content and publish it. Your subscribers receive it through their preferred RSS reader.

 

GatherPages gives you access to one or more support options 24 hours a day.  By email and phone, customer support can help you find the solution you need to keep your website and business moving forward. Online support, video tutorials and tips can help you with detailed step-by-step instructions.

 

Customer support is one of the most vital services we provide our GatherPages user community. As a GatherPages user, you receive live support at no charge. Because our support team is located in our corporate office (not overseas), they meet regularly with our developers to continually provide top-tier, no-charge customer support.