How Your Local Business, Service or Shop Can
Increase Profits 100% By Simply Getting Online

Do you have a local business or service, that operates offline? Are your clients mostly local or regional? If so, let me ask you a blunt question:

Then why aren’t you online?

1. They have replaced their Yellow Pages by Internet search options. And if they can't find a business locally, they'll search regionally. It's easy and fast and they can narrow or widen their searches if they want to. Can you do that with Yellow Pages?
   
   
2. They use the local search features at the search engines and directories!
   
   
3. They go online to see your website, your frequently asked questions and they send you an email if necessary.
   
   
4. They select their favorite dinner from your website specials. They browse looking for special utensils, superb dry cleaners, the best organised plumbers, the greatest theatre shows, low cost insurances, the best customer service, very specific know how, general information etc. etc.
   
   
5. They know where to find your brick-and-mortar business because you have directions to it on every page of your site.
   
   
6. They will browse your site to find what they’re looking for and have that send to them, because….. people are just lazy.
   
   
7. That’s why they use the Internet! They don’t have to leave their comfortable chair to get what they want! AND… they can browse anonymously, no threads, no sales talks.
   
   

• You may think that for local businesses with local or regional clients there are no opportunities on the Internet. More specifically, you might think you don't need a website as a local business owner. Because after all, the "world wide web" isn't exactly local, it's eh…. well, world wide!
• Most of the local business websites that I have seen have their site because… well, everyone has a website. They tell their visitor to ‘check out our summer sales’ or just ‘click here to order’. That’s NOT a good reason to go online.
• And lots of local businesses have tried to set up a site and were disappointed. Many of them were ripped of by these so called professional webdesigners who only made a few pages and then took their money. No traffic, no interaction, no community, no email addresses, no follow-up. As an online entrepreneur myself I find this embarrasing, but you have to get over it and at least read this guide.