Control IT Yourself.com provides all the services necessary to support you in developing, maintaining, and promoting your business Web system. Our services include, but are not limited to, the following:
A simple, yet very important way to remain on the tips of your customer's tongues is to be accessible through your own domain name, or through a sub domain of a Control IT Yourself brand domain such as "www.truevalue.net". For instance, the owner of Bob's True Value could choose the domain name "www.bobstruevalue.com", and/or "bobs.truevalue.net". This allows you to more effectively promote your store's site, and makes your site appear more legitimate to your local customers. When you sign up with Control IT Yourself.com we will assist you in securing a domain name that your customers will immediately associate with you and your store.
After we secure your domain name, we will host it for you and provide you with up to 50 email accounts for you and your staff. You will also have full online administration rights, which will allow you to control how email is used in your organization. Emails can be accessed on the Web (like MS Hotmail) or through your PC Internet mail software (like MS Outlook)
Control IT Yourself.com was designed for non-technical people. Our system has context sensitive help features riddled throughout its interface. If the answer to your question does not jump out at you, just remember that we are as close as your telephone. We provide full technical support to ensure that your time is not wasted on technical issues, but rather on refining and promoting your Web site.
We continually add new graphics, themes, and color schemes to increase the effectiveness of your Web site. Please be sure to participate in our focus group, where you can voice your opinion about the features you think would be most useful to your e-business.
We offer a selection of pre-filled content sections and pages that you can simply add to your site, and then edit as needed. This allows you to create content-rich sites in less than a half-hour, which can then be modified at any time.
We also continually offer new and improved functions that may be included in your Web site, if desired, such as the ability to create custom surveys targeted to various user types (such as contractors, plumbers, gardeners, etc). Read more about our current and future advanced functionality in the functions section.
Our system is not just friendly to you. It is also very friendly to your customers. One of the many ways we accomplish this is by helping you stamp your site with your store name. To promote your site effectively, your site must be strongly branded to your individual store, not just the co-op to which you belong. We help you accomplish this by producing custom logos for your store and by suggesting content that will keep your name on the tips of your customer's tongues. Our goal is to produce sites that appear custom-made for the store. By giving you complete control over your site, we help ensure that your site is a One of a Kind.
Control IT Yourself.com provides several Workshops to help you develop your e-strategy. The Marketing Workshop allows you to manage search-engine placement, learn about the most effective in-store Web marketing efforts, order marketing materials customized with your domain name for promoting your site, and much more.
To make our system even friendlier, we now provide migration services to storeowners who already have their own Web site but would like to use our system. These services will include transferring images to your image library, and migrating the content of your current Web site.
For members who desire functionality that is not already provided, we provide custom graphics and function development services. Remember, we are also a full service design firm. We will develop layouts, graphics, or functionality especially for you at a reasonable price. Or, if we like the idea and feel that other members could use it, we will do it for free and make it available to everyone.
In the future, we plan to offer in-store Kiosk systems so that customers in your store can make use of your Web site. With POS integration, Kiosks will allow your customers to browse your store's site to find the location of products in your store, or to view the current inventory and prices of your products. It will also allow customers to view and print product descriptions, projects in our project database, and a project-shopping list with description, location and price.
