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Website is meant to promote business

Our history
PBG communication LTD established in 2003, is a leading organization with expertise in website design and development. Our key objective is to offer a variety of personalized and professional website design and development service tailored to client's specific business requirements.

The spectrum of our website design, development services, is not limited to web design, web development, marketing and promotional services only but encompasses various other tools for business and commerce promotion. We also help corporate organizations in realizing their business enhancement goals through a comprehensive set of services aided by our experienced, multi-disciplinary teams, all under one roof.

The cutting edge technical skill at PBG is well integrated with creative design concepts and content that is rich in information. Moreover, our search engine optimization team ensures that all web sites are designed in accordance with the fundamental rules of optimization to ensure that the site is ranked well on all major search engines. We have gained expertise on revolutionary Internet technologies on a number of platforms.

Unique selling point
We are unique in so many ways, for instance, our website design solutions are not only up-to-date and optimized for leading web browsers but also operational with all varieties of browsers, versions and computer platforms. Our websites adhere to the various international norms and regulation on privacy and accessibility for users and also cater to people with varying degrees of disability.

Actually, a website is for the purpose of business promotion, and a successful campaign on the internet requires a bit more than just owning a website. A website, in other to achieve the most business benefit for an organization, must attract high traffic and one way is through search engines optimization; a website has to be registered and optimized in search engines so that it can appear among the first ten on the list, and that is what PGB Communication does.

We make sure we register our clients with major search engines and suggest to them other ways to advertise. These major search engines are Yahoo, Google, Searchwares and so on.
We are also into blogging but that aspect has not been popularized in Nigeria. Most business concerns in Nigeria especially small and medium scale enterprises are not showing interest in that area. So what we are doing is creating awareness because they think that they do not need a website; others feel that they have to grow big before they can have a website.

  But they must be made to understand that if they are small businesses and do not have website, they may not have the chances of growing big at the level they want.
The website allows you to market your product to large number of people.
     

Many third world countries have done this and they have succeeded. India for instance, embraced the Internet, showcases her products on the net; and countries of the developed world did business with them.
There are many companies in the US for instance, who would want to come to Africa to do business and they need to know what the country is all about. So if you have a website, explaining the things you do, or positioned yourself in such away that you can be reached by those people who are in the line of your business then, somebody can pick up a phone and call you and that will begin a business relationship between you and somebody far away.

The designer and creativity
Web designing goes hand in hand with creativity. You have to know what your client wants; sometimes clients find it difficult to explain the kind of thing they need. So you should be able to look at their businesses and understand what the business is all about and where the business is going to for you to know how you can help this business; and that is where creativity comes in.

Many things are involved in web design for instance; there is what we call Flash Animation that helps to attract customers to the particular market and package of the client. There are other dynamic concepts like making inquiries on net, booking reservation online. And this is quite helpful for the customer because he can do business 24/7, whenever he wants, and this is convenient for the client.
So we consider a lot when designing a website; we consider how the website will help improve the business of our client and that is what makes us different from others.

Need for a regulator
There is nobody that is handling regulation for now but many things are happening in the business. Let us take the host server for example; many people host their sites in servers that are not really of high quality. Some individuals who are in web design host people's site with stolen credit card. These are some of the things that are happening in web design business and up till this moment, I am not aware of any body doing anything in respect of regulating the industry.

Becoming a professional web designer
The profession is a dynamic one, so you cannot say that you have got it all; it keeps on developing, it continues to get better but to have the basic knowledge can take one at least 3 months.
Search engine optimization
The search engine optimization is all about using special key words to make one's site attractive to search engines. Search engines make use of key words to find a site, there are key words you will use to optimize a site and search engines wouldn't find them. There are also key words that you will use and search engine would find them so quickly that they may even be among the first ten leads.
Competition
We are not scared of that; we have empathy for small businesses. In fact, we

 
have always tried to get small businesses involved in benefiting from the usageof website. Though we have quite a number of big organizations that are our clients but we are looking at small organizations trying to help them grow.
We are talking to big organizations to boost their brand image by subsidizing websites for small businesses organizations. This is because we strongly beleive that if entrepreneurs are to contribute more meaningfully to the development of the Nigerian economy, they need to adopt a more outward oriented strategy, seeking export opportunity or finding ways to participate in production chains with large producers abroad.
  In view of this, and as part of its own contribution to entrepreneurial success in Nigeria, and to the promotion of SMEs as a vehicle for rapid industrialization, sustainable economic development, poverty alleviation and employment generation, PBG Communications has finalized arrangements to roll out 1000 websites for 1000 businesses free of charge.
First, we want SMEDAN to see what we can do before we begin to talk about partnership. We are planning to embark on advertising to reach out to the people that would be among the 1000.When we have seen the result then, we can be faced with SMEDAN and other interested bodies willing to assist small scale business in Nigeria.
The future
PBG Communications will continue to grow higher because we have what it takes. We want to be remembered as the company that
opened the eyes of blind businessmen. There are people who want to buy things but they don't really know what to buy, from whom to buy or where to buy. So with the website, the company can communicate very effectively with client and prospect the more.
 
Google in Q3 profit
Google has shattered Wall Street estimates in its third quarter, posting a profit of $1.07 billion, or $3.38 a share, on sales of more than $4.23 billion.
According to internetnews.com, excluding costs related to employee stock options, Google earned $3.91 a share, well above the $3.78 a share profit expected by most analysts.
"It's obvious to us that our model continues to work very well," CEO Eric Schmidt said during a conference call with analysts. "We're very pleased with our performance in what's
 

usually one of the seasonally weaker quarters." After shaking off a tepid reaction to its second-quarter results in July, Google shares have been on a tear, rallying up more than $110 a share in the past month alone.
Its shares closed up $6.14 per, or 1 percent, to $639.62 Thursday before rallying up more than $6 a share in after-hours trading following the sensational earnings report.

Google, in just its third year as a publicly traded company, has ascended to rarefied air and is now widely regarded as perhaps the most significant bellwether company in the information technology universe.
And its performance in the past quarter suggests its partners, customers and shareholders can expect more of the same for the foreseeable future.

 
WiMAX gets ITU nod

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has agreed to include WiMAX technology in the global family of advanced wireless technologies, making this a major victory for vendors and service providers on the eve of the World Radiocommunication Conference that the Bush administration hopes to build on during the next four weeks in Geneva.

“Including WiMAX in the IMT (International Mobile Telecommunications) category sets the stage for the WRC to consider the future spectrum availability for further generations of broadband mobile services,” said Ambassador Richard Russell, associate director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and head of the U.S. Delegation.

 
 
US search engines ‘hijacked’ in China

US Internet search engines in China were being hijacked and directed to Chinese-owned Baidu, analysts said, speculating that the move was in retaliation for Washington's award to Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama.

AFP reports that analysts at Search Engine Roundtable, a website focusing on Internet search, said Chinese users trying to search on Google, Yahoo and Microsoft websites were being directed to the Chinese search engine.

Google confirmed the blocking of its Chinese search engine and Microsoft said it was looking into the matter.
"It seems like China is fed up with the US, so as a way to fight back, they redirected virtually all search traffic from Google, Yahoo and Microsoft to Baidu, the Chinese based search engine," analysts Danny Sullivan and Barry Schwartz wrote at Search Engine Roundtable.

The authors said it was not clear exactly how or why the searches were being redirected, but China is known for tightly controlling the Internet and using a variety of filters to screen out search results for issues relating to dissidents or the 72-year-old Tibetan spiritual leader.

 
 
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