he yellow pages were great for business advertising up until the turn of the century, but like many things we were used to back then, phone books are all but obsolete now. These days more and more customers are looking online for what they need and want rather than reaching for a printed phone book. If your business doesn't have an online presence you are losing thousands of dollars of potential revenue.

During the early days of the internet, small local businesses didn't benefit a whole lot from an online presence because search engines mainly returned worldwide and nationwide results. That has all changed in recent years, and now with local search features it's easy for customers to find businesses they are interested in right in their own communities. Add to that a social media online presence and you have a powerful tool to increase business in a virtually unlimited manner.

Your business needs to be online, but figuring it all out can be overwhelming if you're not internet savvy. You can hire someone to take care of it all but you may think that will cost quite a bit of money. The truth is, an online presence is a fraction of the cost of a yellow pages ad AND it allows you to market your business 24/7, all the time while interacting with your customers in ways never dreamed of in the past.

Contrary to many web designers beliefs, customers aren't looking to be entertained by fancy websites. What they want is to know who you are, where you are and what you do. It doesn't take very much money to get that information online where people can easily find it.

I built a website for my own business 14 years ago and have since added several Facebook and Twitter pages which I maintain regularly. Through this basic online presence I have made hundreds of thousands of dollars from customers all over Colorado and the US, and even several overseas.

Now I help other small businesses to establish an online presence for very little cost. It's my way of helping small local businesses to get online while at the same time destroying the myth that online advertising is expensive and mysterious.



For $59 I will:

• Build a Facebook page for your business complete with photos, graphics, and a well written business description complete with contact information so customers can easily find you and you can easily find and interact with them. You will be able to post unlimited information to your Facebook page to continuously keep your customers and potential customers aware of who you are and what you have to offer.



• Establish a Twitter page with which you can keep in contact with your customers on a daily basis to let them know about specials, policies, and keep your business fresh in their minds every day. And I'll show you how to use Twitter to make potential customers in your local community aware of your business and what you can do for them.



• Provide telephone and email support to answer questions and help you get started using social media to grow your business.



• You will also get my online social media guide complete with illustrations which explains in simple terms how to use Facebook and Twitter to market your business and to keep in touch with your customers. It contains many tips for a successful social media presence that will make it easy and a lot of fun to promote your business to the community.

Twitter has 65 million users in the US and Facebook has 1.86 billion. It's not difficult to understand how powerful these two mediums are.

Also I offer the optional service of updating your Twitter and Facebook accounts on a daily basis so that you can concentrate on your business rather than the internet.

For an additional $79 I'll build a basic website for your business complete with photos, a professionally written description of your business, what you do and what makes you different, along with contact and location information. You can display pricing, special offers, printable coupons, and anything else you like.

You will also get email addresses for yourself and your employees using "@" your business name. This in itself immediately makes your business appear more professional to customers.

And I'll set you up with a web hosting account (which will cost about $10 per month) to keep your website online. Further, I'll submit your website to Google Local and Bing so customers in your community can easily find you with a search, and I'll establish an online sitemap so the search engines can always find updates to your site.

You'll be pleasantly surprised at how fast, easy and inexpensive it is to get your business online. Get started today and watch your business grow. For more information, call Neil at 303-519-8968 or email me at info@nshannon.com - Get your business online today!

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