Profile: Web.com Group Inc (WWWW.OQ)
27.41USD
1 Aug 2013
$1.43 (+5.50%)
$25.98
$26.08
$27.49
$26.07
238,206
149,574
$28.21
$13.25
Web.com Group, Inc. (Web.com), incorporated on March 2, 1999, is a provider of a line of Internet services for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Web.com is a global domain name registrar, which seeks to meet the Internet needs of SMBs along their lifecycle with subscription solutions, including domain name registration, Website design and related services, search engine optimization, search engine marketing, social media and mobile products, local sales leads, eCommerce solutions and call center services. The Company offers its customers a range of Web services and products on a subscription basis. As of December 31, 2012, it had approximately three million subscribers. It offers services foe a range of customer budgets and expertise, from Do It Yourself Website and email hosting for the technically-savvy, to Do It For Me custom Website design services, online marketing and eCommerce solutions. Customers can engage its consultants for services that range from Web design to online advertising campaign management.
Domain Name Registration and Services
The Company is a domain name registrar and offer .com and .net domains, as well as the level domains, such as .co, .org and .info. The Company also offers a suite of domain services, including domain name registration, domain name transfers, domain name renewal, domain expiration protection and domain privacy services.
Do It For Me Web Services
These services have been created to allow Web.com to undertake all of the work associated with building, maintaining, marketing and enhancing an Internet presence to ultimately drive leads to the SMB owner. Using its software and workflow enabled processes; it develops and supports a subscription Web service package that includes the tools and functionality necessary for a business to create, maintain, enhance, and market an online presence. The Company builds, tests, and publishes the Websites and provides related services for its customers. The Company also provides tutorials and tools for customers to edit and manage their sites.
The Company’s primary Do It For Me subscription offering is eWorks! XL, a Website design and publishing package. The package includes a five-page semi-custom Website built on its self-editing tool. The offering includes a set of configuration and customization options using a Web browser. eWorks! XL includes domain name registration, initial site design, online marketing, hosting and technical support, toll-free telephone number, webmail, online Web tools, Internet scorecard, modifications and redesign service and mobile Website. The Company offers custom Website design services that provide sophisticated functionality and interactivity beyond those available under eWorks! XL and SmartClicks. Customers work directly with its Web designers to build a customized Website. Additionally, The Company is able to sell its subscription-based Web services and products to its custom Web design customers. The Company also offers custom design features and services, including map and directions pages, external links pages, the ability to increase the number of products listed on a customer’s Website, more advanced Website statistics, database applications, password security, expanded e-mail services, and hosting services.
The Company bundles services contained in its eWorks! XL package into its Gorilla Marketing offering, which is designed to enhance an online marketing program. These subscriber-based services include initial site analysis, initial search engine optimization, search engine inclusion, monthly online marketing submissions to more than 100 search engines, local directories, social sites and global positioning system (GPS) navigation devices, listing in online yellow page directories and site submission to search engines and search submission tools. The Company offers a trio of subscription products designed to optimize online exposure by presenting a designed Facebook Company page, building a fan base that likes the Company, and interacting with fans with periodic status updates, polls and promotions. Call center services offers eCommerce businesses a ‘virtual office’ customer service solution. In addition to providing eCommerce products, call center services can supply both eCommerce and brick and mortar businesses with a full suite of call center services, including answering services, live chat, and virtual office assistants.
Do It Yourself Web Services
The Company offers a variety of Do It Yourself Website building and marketing solutions for SMBs that want to build their own Websites or enhance their Websites with online marketing. These solutions include hosting services, an easy-to-use Web building tool, online marketing options and eCommerce capabilities. The Company offers core products that are managed hosting services that place customers on a single shared server. Its hosting services feature control panels and online documentation that allow customers to control their own applications. Its Website Builder package is an easy-to-use Website building tool which includes nearly 11,000 starter templates so users can customize their design. Its Business Builder package includes the Website Builder package plus edge marketing tools, including directory submission to more than 100 directories, search engines, social media sites and GPS directories as well as search engine optimization consultation. Customers can also add a Facebook Company page as well as eCommerce capability.
The Company offers an e-mail marketing tool that enables its customers to communicate with their customers and prospects. To assist its customers in collecting e-mail addresses, a subscription sign-up box is available for site visitors to provide their e-mail information. Included in this product are a variety of professional email templates, a contact management tool and a reporting component to help track an email campaign’s success. The Company is a provider of Do It Yourself logos and other design products to SMBs around the world through its LogoYes products. It also provides the LogoYes design and brand building tools to its Do It For Me web services customers.
Online Marketing Services
The Company’s online marketing products include search engine optimization (SEO), search engine marketing, smartclicks subscription-based services, budget-based search engine marketing and guaranteed click search engine marketing. Its search engine optimization products and services are designed to help improve organic search engine rankings and to increase qualified traffic and lead generation. The Company offers keyword research based on industry and competitor specifics, directory submissions, blogging campaigns and link building. Advanced Website analytics accompany these products so customers can track their success. It offers local and national search engine marketing services-pay-per-click advertising where it will manage an advertising budget for its customers on Google Ad Words or Bing Ad Center. SmartClicks includes all of the benefits provided in the eWorks! XL bundle and the added benefit of pay-per-click advertising in Google and other search engines. The Company creates the pay-per-click ads, buy appropriate keywords, monitor the program’s performance, and report results to customers. The Company offers businesses the option to base their search engine marketing efforts on a monthly budget, rather than a pay-per-click basis. Businesses receive monthly reports that track Website traffic and performance. The Company is able to offer companies hundreds of individual locations a product which is designed to drive traffic to their numerous local storefronts.
Lead Generation
The Company offers targeted lead generation directed toward service-related businesses. It can work with that customer’s own Website, or create a separate, lead-generating Website that feeds directly into the customer’s business. Leads by Web.com researches relevant keywords in the customer’s industry to create ads designed to bring traffic to the Website. When prospects search for a service, they are driven to a lead generation site to request a quote, and then leads are delivered to the subscriber’s computer or phone for follow up. It offers a premium lead generation service specific to contractors, homebuilders and remodeling professionals. Through a subscription based membership model and per-lead acquisitions, contractors purchase these leads, giving them an opportunity to bid on the homeowner’s project.
eCommerce
The Company provides a set of products and services that enable eCommerce merchants to sell more on the Internet. By coordinating and integrating eCommerce Website design and development, Internet marketing, customer service and back-end order management, the Company can enable eCommerce merchants to have an online store solution by providing support and development on multiple eCommerce platforms. Customers work directly with its store development project managers, designers and programmers to build custom eCommerce stores. The Company provides business and customer security, and all Web.com eCommerce sites meet Visa International’s Payment Card Industry (PCI) data standards. It provides a professional eCommerce tool that can help businesses begin to sell from their Website. The shopping cart system supplies all of the tools to create and operate an online store, including built-in email marketing tools, a marketing module, customizable templates and design capabilities, all compliant with the Visa Card Information Security Program (CISP) and PCI security standards. Basic packages include Site Builder, unlimited email addresses, and a minimum, Secure Socket Layer (SSL) for security.
The Company can build eCommerce onto its eWorks! XL bundled Website design solution. The Company can add an online storefront, create an online store catalog and secure shopping cart, help with inventory tracking and management, provide automatic shipping rates and process credit cards. The Company offers a suite of merchant processing solutions to our customers that help customers save money on processing credit and debit card transactions.
The Company competes with Endurance International Group; 1&1 Internet; GoDaddy; and ReachLocal, Inc.
Company Address
Web.com Group Inc
12808 Gran Bay Pkwy, West
JACKSONVILLE FL 32258
P: +1904.6806600
F: +1904.8800350
Company Web Links
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David Brown |
3,344,430 |
Kevin Carney |
1,271,960 |
Jason Teichman |
972,289 |
Roseann Duran |
635,591 |
Timothy Maudlin |
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