7 Reasons You Should Be Using The World Wide Web To Leverage Your Local Business

More and more, potential customers are not letting their "fingers do the walking." To find what they need, they are using their fingers to click at Google, Yahoo! or MSN . If you do not have a website – you are loosing them before you even have a change to tell them about your product or service. Think of a Web site as multiple, full-page Yellow Page ads that gets 100 times more results for your local business. Cover every business category and geographic region for a fraction of the cost of a single Yellow Pages ad. A Web site that works is the most cost-and-time efficient way to:

1. Build loyal lifetime customers

2. Grow Your Client Base

3. Build Trust With Potential Customers

4. Get the Jump on Competitors

5. Develop and Stay "Top of Mind"

6. Extend Your Reach - Attract new local (and global!) customers

7. Diversify: Open up new revenue streams. But where do you start? Well, you need to register a domain name, host your new site, build the site pages, submit your site to the directories and them promote it.

You’ll need other people to link to your site and you’d want to send your customers emails. Perhaps most important of all you’d need to know how many people are visiting your site and how many of those are buying from you. It might seem like a lot at first glance and it can be, but not if you choose a company that gives you all the tools, in one place, with a straightforward, integrated, step-by-step process to support you every step of the way. Site Build It! (SBI!) is the only product in the world that combines site-building, site-hosting, and site-marketing and that makes it easy for you to build a professional, popular, and profitable business. You don’t need any technical experience (html, ftp, etc.) either, they handle all that for you.

Sites built using SBI! consistently get high traffic, as a recent Alexa.com survey shows. - 62% of SBI! sites fall within the top 3% most popular sites on the Internet - 53% fall within the 2% most popular - 35% fall within the 1% most popular. If you can use e-mail and surf the Web, you can create a professional-looking, traffic-generating, sales-producing site. Real estate agent, landscaper, restaurant owner, health practitioner, artist, alarm system distributor, boutique owner...whoever you are and whatever you do... Site Build It! (SBI!) is the affordable, all-tools-in-one-place solution you need to build and host a Web site that WORKS. There is no better time than now to get your business on the World Wide Web... before you competition does. by: Anita van Wyk

A Real Estate Formula

It was a simple Real Estate formula. The ads ran in our small-town newspaper for years before I realized exactly what was going on. They were always the same: A house for sale with 5% down and payments of 1% of the purchase price. Maybe a three bedroom home for $90,000, for example, with $4,500 down and $900 per month payments.

When a friend started doing the same thing he explained the process to me. It was a way to get a great return on capital, and it was the opposite of buying with no money down. There is no down payment at all when you buy, because you buy for cash.

The Simple Real Estate Formula
You probably know that when you buy for cash, you can often get a much better price. With no financing contingencies in the offer, and the promise of a faster closing, sellers are willing to sell for less. You can offer $95,000, for example, on a house that might be worth $108,000. If you can't get it for less than, say, $99,000, you walk away - there are always other opportunities.
Once you buy the house, you put few thousand into high-return repairs and improvements.

These might include paint, carpet, and maybe asphalt for a dirt driveway. For our example, we'll say you spend $5,000. Let's suppose the house is worth $116,000 now. You're ready for the next important step in this Real Estate formula.

You put it up for sale, targeting buyers who can't get financing easily. You provide the financing. Because you are making it easy for the buyer, you can get more than the $116,000 value for the home - and do it without paying a realtor's commission. Let's say you sell it for 123,000. The buyer needs a down payment of just 5%, or $6,150, and makes monthly payments of $1230 per month. You charge higher interest than the going rates at the banks, of course.

This is a win-win situation. Your buyer is able to buy a home instead of renting, and you get a capital gain of perhaps $16,000 after expenses, plus good interest. Your total rate of return will often be over 20%!

In our town, the first to do this consistently were a father and son team of lawyers. They saved money by doing their own foreclosures when necessary. Once they foreclosed, they raised the price and sold the home all over again.

They made millions. Did you know that if you can get an average return of 18% on your money, you'll turn $75,000 into more than one million dollars in about fifteen years? That's the power of a good Real Estate formula. by: Steve Gillman