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What
is a Portal?
A
Portal is a Web Site that brings together an
organized directory of all aspects of a Community
with direct Links to specific information
contained in hundreds of various Web Sites
maintained by Agencies, Organizations, and
Businesses in that community's area.
This site contains hundreds of direct links
to Area services and organizations. With web pages
providing information that bring regular daily
visitors. Featuring important items such as local
weather, news, school closings, special events,
financial new, sports, Memoriams and even local
gas price samplings.
Why a Portal for Danville?
If
the local business community is to prosper we must
do all that is possible to keep consumer spending
in Danville, and attract consumers to Danville. A portal contributes a great deal to
this effort
How does
it work?
The purpose of this
undertaking is to gather into one place all
Services and Danville Area BUSINESSES that have
web sites and feature these local businesses as
the consumer’s FIRST place to LOOK for services
and products, To see what’s in Danville FIRST.
And the consumer can do this before leaving home
or office.
Do you want your business to be
on the Danville Portal?
We
will build you a Web Site and list your business
in the appropriate section of our businesses
directory for a very low onetime cost.
What
is the cost?
We build custom full color
web sites for a one time low charge, and they can
work for you indefinitely. A full color web page
can be built for you for as little as $175. The
only addition expense is a small monthly or annual
hosting fee.
(See
Hosting)
What
should I do to get started?
Just
go to
allarounddanville.com's
Business Directory
and look at what your competitors are
doing. If there is no category for your business,
we will make the category, and you will be the
first to list under your type of business. Then
email us using our form or call us at 442 0823. We
can have your Web Site Business up and running, in
usually a week or less.
HOW
CAN MY SITE BE FOUND OUT OF A MILLION WORLD WIDE
WEB SITES?
THE PROBLEM:
Creating an Internet Web Site indicates your
understanding of the value of an Internet Web
presence. However, as you likely know, a site does
not guaranty visits. The major reason for lack of
visits is: (1.) The typical consumer does not know
you have a site or know the addresses of your Web
Site, they often do not even know the name of your
business; and (2.), the hundreds of other
competing pages that come up in a search under
your key words.
THE SOLUTION
TO BEING FOUND ON THE WEB IF MY NAME OR WEB
ADDRESS IS UNKNOWN TO SOMEONE?
THE
PORTAL:
The
Portal advantage is an obviously simple way for
the consumer to find and view your site WITHOUT
knowing your business name or web address. It
works equally well anywhere in the World of
course, because a typical searcher wanting local
business information would utilize a
Search Engine and search for “danville
illinois” first, or ‘danville illinois
businesses,' or “Danville and Vermilion”
County, etc”. We have submitted our site to
hundreds of search engines which can show up on
any search using these logical key words. This is
the only proper method of searching because you
will find for an example, if you search for just
“auto dealers” on google.com alone, you will
get 114,000 site pages from all over the World.
What are the odds that they ever open your site?
On a local Portal business Category Page it is
nearly a one-hundred percent likelihood that a
searcher would open your Web Site! This website
had more than 29,000 page links at the start of
2005. Portals receive very high positions in
search engine results, often your business will
come up on or near the top of a search page.
Try a search right now!
Remember,
if you put quotes “ ” around key words you
narrow your search. IE Danville Businesses will
get you every site in the World with the Word
Danville – or Businesses. But “danville
businesses” brings you right to town. TRY IT-
type in “danville businesses” or
"danville illinois portal" in the
search engine box below, or even danville
illinois directory without quotes and All Around Danville
usually comes up on the first page or two, out of
hundreds of pages, often at or near the top the
first page. But Search Engine page orders change
constantly.
Where
and how is my business listed?
In
a kind of “electronic Yellow Pages,” all
businesses are listed in categories such as
Restaurants or Automobile Dealers New or Used,
etc. We also have all businesses listed in
ALPHAbetical order, should an inquirer know your
name but not your URL (web address). When the consumer goes to these pages for
information your Business Name and a link to your
Web site appears and is only a click away to your
site. At this time all Danville area businesses
with Web Sites are listed in the Business pages
FREE of Charge, including the link to Your Web
Site.
How
will customers know where to find me on the Web
Without going through the Portal?
Businesses
put their web address on all advertisements and in
the Yellow Pages. You will have your own website
address and be hosted by
BEAMSCO for a
modest monthly fee, discounted if paid annually..
Why
the Internet?
Sales
and Services marketing methods are changing
rapidly, people like to shop from home and 72% of
Danville area adults are Online. It makes sense to
have an Internet presence and have your web site
listed on a compiled listing of all Danville Area Businesses Online
HOSTING
What
is a Host or meant by Hosting.
All
Web Sites on the World Wide Web (www.) require a
Hosting Service (server - space).
Like
a large apartment building, the Web Site's (page(s) on
the internet) owner "rents an apartment with
an address" for the site to locate.
The computers that host websites
are called "servers"
We
host Web Sites for a monthly fee. Fees vary by
space used, just like a one bedroom apartment
leases for less than a three bedroom, Host fees on
the internet vary from "free" to
hundreds of dollars a month.
Free
site hosting has many pitfalls, not the least of
which one may find that his host "kicks you
out of your apartment' (that is, you find your
site is gone from the free host, usually
permanently).
Since
a free site cost you nothing, you are subject to
removal, extensive "down time" (the
whole host is off the internet for various
reasons), and you have no recourse. ("You
can't look a gift horse in the mouth").
Worst of all. it can be very
difficult to get help if the server fails.
HOW YOU EARN THROUGH OUR WEB SERVICES:
BEAMSCO.com
will reward individuals helping to build this site
through their efforts in bringing new website
development and/or web service clients to
BEAMSCO.com. A part of our reasonable website
production fees and other service fees are
credited to an account established for you, checks
will be mailed each month. This revenue sharing
(called "re-selling") is common on the Web and is
a proven means to accelerate the growth of web
sites and the subsequent reaching of economic
goals for you and our community.Return
to FAQ questions
THERE'S MORE
WAYS TO EARN:
We also give direct
Commissions Credits on any Web Site we build that
had the inquiry come through your site, or brought
to us personally by you. Return
to FAQ questions
ADDITIONALLY
you can receive commission credits
for Advertising BANNERS, and other WEB SERVICES
provided by us that were generated by and thru
your Web Site, or by Direct Effort on your part. Return
to FAQ questions
In fact you do not
need your own WEB SITE or a computer to even
collect web service credits, since you could bring
us a customer directly through your efforts and
receive the same commissions. Call
us at 217 442 0823 and tell us of the customer you
have directed to us.
Have more questions?
See
Goals and Objectives
Want to get your own Web Site or Host your
existing site with us and get started? Call us or
send us your inquiry to
info@beamsco.com
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