Austin Living Online

AustinLivingOnline.com is being developed to support Austin and the Hill Country's small and medium size businesses advertise more affectively on the internet by categorizing your business into its proper business segment, type and location. We are using the power of many small and medium businesses and the revenues to drive advertising to the AustinLivingOnline.com site to help your customers find your business on the Internet. At the same time you have the ability to utilize the site and find a business or services you are looking for. If you work with a group, business or services this site can easily reference each other. This way you can point your customers or employees to the site to go find other recommended vendors. Case in point: say a mortgage company's ad has links to inspectors, handymen, title companies and other vendors that they're likely to refer to their customers. By simply having your customer go to your portal page they can then find your recommended service providers. No business cards no phone numbers need to be exchanged. You basically build a small networking group inside AustinLivingOnline.com.

How can my company benefit from AustinLivingOnline.com?

1. Are you a sales agent for a larger company that is authorized to advertise in their own name?
2. First you need to separate yourself from your company's other area sales representatives. Your portal page is branded to you driving the leads to you directly via email, phone or a web site of your choosing, all this for a fixed reasonable yearly cost.
3. Does your business lack internet presence?
4. AustinLivingOnline.com allows you to get exposure on the internet allowing more potential customers to find you at a reasonable yearly cost. Your name and business name becomes searchable on a category driven site. You can use your own words to describe your company services and history.
5. Does your business already have an internet presence?
6. Your current site is likely difficult to find amongst all the other like named or type business yet alone area. On AustinLivingOnline.com our site rankings help bring your business site rankings up for a fixed reasonable yearly price. The link to your site will help your web site also get ranked better improving its traffic. Customers finding you will know your local location against other like company's and services.
7. Does your business have multiple local locations?
8. For a set yearly rate we can do a portal page ad for the primary location with all addresses and then in each area we can ad a link to that main ad or you can have separate ads for each location. Ask your sales rep for more information

AustinLivingOnline.com brings value to your business by doing the following:

1. Driving customers to your business with a complete page of information about you and your business without a bunch of unrelated information surrounding it.
2. Allow your customers access via your email address with an email link.
3. Place a URL web page link to your website.
4. Improve your website ranking from this web page link.
5. Place your company on the internet if your company doesn't have a website allowing new customers to find you whether they are local or around the world.
6. Do you belong to a networking group or have vendors? The more members that have a page the easer it is to find them and reference people to them by creating links on your page to their pages.
7. Weekly Newsletter's containing information about new business pages from the week plus a mix of existing business.
8. The opportunity to write articles about your industry for the newsletter to drive people to your portal page.
9. Allow your customer to add ‘Comments' to your portal page, this will improve its page ranking. Also, this will get the business listed on the new comments section of the front page.
10. Define your business or service in your words.
11. Text driven for search engines.
12. Site works great on Blackberry's and other small screen devices.
13. The page URL is static across time to improve its ranking so the longer it is there the higher it will rank.

AustinLivingOnline.com was developed after doing research to look for a city to base a startup company; a majority of that search was done for the Austin area. This research for the company was looking for information such as the tax base information, local business information, airports, hotels, restaurants and other types of businesses friendly to the air cargo industry along with business for our daily living needs. In attempting to do this research we found it very difficult to find business data needed and information to make a informed decision to move the company to the area. In doing this the initial concept for AustinLivingOnline.com was born. The concept was to bring the small and medium business information of the area to the forefront so the portals visitors' could find the information they needed to make informed decisions.

AustinLivingOnline.com allows our viewers to:

1. Find a group of like businesses quickly.
2. See which business has the products or services you need.
3. Find specific in-depth information about the business.
4. To search a keyword to find different business types.
5. To find a local business location around Austin and the Texas Hill Country.
6. Find links to government offices and schools.
7. Tips and tricks for various business segments.

David Crane, CEO of AustinLivingOnline.com has been an owner of several small companies' over time and found that advertising and specifically advertising on the internet was always an expensive and time consuming process. The budgets are tight and ROI difficult to interpret. Having developed many small company websites it always came to the same problem ‘how do you drive traffic to the site?'. For years David has been looking for a solution to make a single site the parent of many small companies' pages to combine their advertising weight. The concept was; how to effectively build websites in a web site to make the internet affordable to all business. To not have expensive hard to construct pages. In the last several years new open source solutions have been developed. Now we have the AustinLivingOnline.com site to build the branding on and direct advertising for our partners at low yearly costs. Our content is our partner's portal pages and what drives people to the site. We encourage trips and tricks for your specialty. The site allows customer to post comments on your business portal page. As we grow we are developing an email list to send a newsletter with new and old business's information and allow out partners to write up tips and tricks. We also will use our partner's business names and information to drive our own advertising.