Content Management for Ebusiness Made Easy

In today’s fast paced business world, more and more companies are discovering that the key to using the internet to do business successfully and profitably is having a web site that contains fresh, relevant news and promotional material. After considering the options, most of these smart online businesses are choosing a CMS (Content Management System) as their number one tool for communicating with customers, associates, and prospects.

The traditional approach to business software is identifying the company’s needs and either hoping some company has a package available that fills those needs, or hiring a team of programmers to custom build a package that will deliver the things that that particular company requires at that particular time. The availability of stable CMS packages has changed that paradigm, much to the delight of value minded business people.

Using a free content management system like Joomla or WordPress has myriad advantages over the traditional ebusiness model.

For organizing and updating the company’s information, a CMS simply cannot be beat. These packages are designed to allow the web site owner to add and alter information regularly with very little training. For customers, prospects, and company associates, this means that they can find the information they need with very little hassle. From the point of view of the company, what this means is that the company’s web site is far less dependent on an individual webmaster. Indeed, many companies allow associates access to log in and add their own information. Before content management systems, there was never no way for companies to distribute information in an instantaneous, global fashion.

Content management systems are often open source. This means there is no single company controlling who can make alterations to the system. Because of this, the CMS is easily customizable. No longer does a company needing a custom software package need to reinvent the wheel. The wheel can now be inexpensively and quickly altered to meet both current needs and new needs that arise in the future.

The lifeblood of business is communication. Communication between various representatives of the company and communication between the company and its customers. The advent of open source content management systems represents a quantum leap in the effectiveness and ease of this communication.

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