The Power of the Web: Why Virtual Catalogues Have Become a Marketer’s Top

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Businesses across the world turn to virtual catalogues to increase their online presence.

Carlsbad, CA, January 26, 2011 --(PR.com)-- This month in African Business Review, businesses across
the world turn to virtual catalogues to increase their online presence.

In the marketing world, the advent of the Web completely transformed traditional methods of advertising
and brand awareness. Virtual catalogues have long been a part of this, but now, more than ever before,
they are integral to enhancing a company's overall online presence.

In their most primitive form, virtual catalogues are the web versions of shop windows, displaying to
consumers the products or services a company or retailer has to offer. But the introduction of affordable
technology now allows for much more than this. In terms of viewing a product with 360-degree views,
multiple angles and extreme zoom, users can do practically everything except touch the product they are
looking at on-screen. Information can now be found via keyword searches and presented better with sharp
text.

When comparing the costs of a virtual catalogue to a print version, it is no wonder marketers are turning
their focus towards the former. According to Jim Coogan, president of consultancy firm Catalog
Marketing Economics, prices range from $6 a page (around £3.77) to upward of $30 a page (around
£18.84). On this basis, a 52-page catalogue could be made for as little as just over £200. Add up printing
and distribution costs for the paper variety and this figure is dwarfed.

Read more on this article here: http://www.africanbusinessreview.co.za

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with the most fundamental operational issues in demanding and ever more competitive global business
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