WOZA Online Is Here! Digital Marketing Professionals Nightmare?

WOZA Online Is Here! Digital Marketing Professionals Nightmare?

Google has launched wozaonline.co.za just a few hours ago, their new initiative to get South African businesses online free of charge, with a lot of added features and goodies. What does this mean for the Digital Marketing Professional or Agency?

What Do You Get With WOZA Online?

• FREE easy-to-build professional website
• FREE sub-domain name on www.wozaonline.co.za
• FREE hosting
• FREE access to training materials and workshops
• FREE custom .co.za domain name for the first 10 000 participants for one year

So who is behind this great idea? Google partnering with Vodacom, DTI and HRDC has made it possible for all businesses to get online with ease and to help make sure these businesses generate great success with their online presence. But what about the digital marketing professional, web developer and web design professionals?

South African Business WOZA Online From Google Video

When signing up it really does take about 45 minutes to complete the process and whala your business and website is online and live. There are also some really cool free built-in features at no extra cost to make running your business easier and help with advertising startups.

Here are some of the awesome features:

• Free sms notifications of when a customer has filled in the contact us form.
• Free Google local places listing done automatically for you.
• R500 free AdWords voucher.
• Load of free learning material and help to make sure you make the best out of your newly created online presence for your business.
• Workshops around South Africa.

There has already been a few success stories, let's have a look at Quentin Duncan that had great success with WOZA Online. This is a business based in Johannesburg called the mushroom factory. Look at the video below for more details:

So What About The Professionals? What WIll We Do?

Well I say lets use this to our advantage and those businesses that want to get online free with Google, no problem we can still sell our services to help promote these new websites or even do it for the customer as a separately sold service. iLead will surely help you if you looking to go this way, and remember as much as the end-user can learn free from Google it's the experts that will always get you the best results when it comes to rankings, lead generations and over all ROI.