Who Needs The World Wide Web-- You Do!

by David B. South, reprinted from the Roundup, Spring 2000

Our grandfathers considered the telephone a luxury. It quickly became a necessity of commerce. Twenty years ago the fax (facsimile machine) was a novelty for businessmen - now it is a necessity. The Web is going to be even more important than the fax and maybe the phone to the economic health of business.

From the web we will purchase supplies, and services. We will transmit blueprints, contact other businesses and, in general, conduct our daily business. Banking will go online (the word for web business). We will pay bills, order everything from tickets to groceries from the web.

Your future customers will most likely find you through the web. We can service you better from the web than any other way. And you will find the web working to your advantage in many ways. You just as well get involved now - early on - as you will be eventually.

www.monolithic.com Our website is awesome. It is far more effective than I ever could have dreamed of. The average number of user sessions per day was 1288 during the 4 weeks from January 30 to February 28, 2000. The user session length was 16:32 minutes. This means on average 1288 people visited the website and stayed over 16 minutes per day. Another measure of website usage is the terms "hits". Each "hit" means a picture looked at or a page visited. For this time period there were 1,011,883 "hits." There was a download of 6.8 gigabytes of data.

Some of the above sounds like "gobbledy-gook" if you are not familiar with the web. So let me translate: 1288 people spent 16.5 minutes looking through the website on average each day (1288 * 16.5 = 21,252 minutes or 354 hours). It would require over 44 operators per day on the phone to equal the time spent.

And still the information would not be as clear. No operator can equal the pictures and graphs and other information available on the website. We would be swamped. We could not get business done with that volume of phone calls.

The web is "saving our bacon." It allows us to provide the information wanted by customers in a timely and efficient manner. We encourage all to visit the website and see for themselves. Our staff is working fast and furious to increase the information contained therein.

Also included is the Monolithic Marketplace catalog to order equipment needed for building Monolithic Domes - both large and small.

www.domebuilders.com Domebuilders.com is linked from www.monolithic.com. It is our website where we list dome builders, dome architects, engineers and designers. Eventually we will link from there to suppliers servicing the Monolithic Dome industry. Also included is a bulletin board for use by the builders and others.

A bulletin board is a place where one builder can place a question and another can give him advice. Or a design topic can be discussed by all those who care to get involved in the conversation. It is an extremely easy and effective method of passing on great quantities of information to those who need it the most- the builder.

www.domebuilders.com/yoursite We believe in the web so much that we decided to help build web pages for anyone who wants one within the Monolithic Dome community. On your web pages you can brag about yourselves, show pictures of your work, your family or whatever you wish. For a fee of $250 for the first year and $120 per year thereafter, we will host a set of webpages for you on the domebuilders.com domain. Also included is an e-mail account accessible via the web and a domebuilder icon and link by your listing on dome-builders.com. Your web address will be a simple www.domebuilders.com/yourname and your e-mail address will be yourname@domebuilders.com.

As a bonus, we will create your web pages for FREE.Call 972-483-7423 or write mail@monolithic.com for more details.

You will be in on the ground floor of this innovative new technology.

E-mail Addresses Needed We do need your e-mail addresses. Every 30 to 60 days we intend to post new messages. If you have not received a message from us in the last 60 days it is most likely because we do not have your e-mail address. Send it to us at mail@monolithic.com. You will be included in the next message. ¬

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