CitiLimits Network

Research has proven that every brick and mortar business needs a productive presence on the world wide web in order to compete in today's world. Because many smaller shops do not have the resources to maintain an effective web presence, we have prepared a variety of packages that require only a one time setup, design, and deployment fee, which offers a complete and productive web presence, with banner hosting provided by Fortune City, Homestead and other hosting options. A variety of other features are also included in our packages such as setup of your own OneBox email address and your own phone number for voicemail and faxes.

During the time that a CitiLimits Team is in your area, the special offer is available to you. Currently, all teams are in the San Francisco and New York City areas, so if you are in either of these cities, the $250 offer is valid until 11/1/00.

An optional add-on to your web site is a web store with a fully functional shopping cart and check out. CitiLimits Web Shops are populated with items for sale which are commissionable from 3% to 25%. These items are warehoused by independent third parties and all business transactions are handled by those parties including charge card, order fulfillment, customer support, and commission checks to you. Your further responsibility lies only in publicizing the existence of your web site in your normal advertising, business cards, store signs, fliers, etc. Remember, people won't be able to buy from your web site if they don't know that it exists. We will help you in this regard, as well. We will make sure that your site is linked in the CitiLimits community for your area, and we can help you to submit your site to search engines so that people can find your site easier. Our experience has been, however, that most of your business is going to most likely come from your own customers who want the added advantage of being able to shop online.

Many companies would prefer to have their own domain name, such as http://www.yourstorename.com/. This is offered as a premium service as well, and the premium services are scalable . . . As your

If you have a computer available to you at your business, we can even add a live chat room to your web site. Chat rooms add a bit of stickiness to your web site . . . Meaning that people tend to stay in your site longer if there is the opportunity for live interaction with other visitors or shoppers on your site, as well as the ability to discuss your business with you online. News headlines and a buddy list can also be embedded into your web site, creating more of a web portal than a storefront, adding to the stickiness of your site.

A full portal can be built with a large variety of options. As many people are confused and frightened by the internet, often finding it difficult to find information, a reader of a portal site with news, weather, sports, and email could create a 'stickiness' that will keep the reader on your site longer and keep them coming back day after day. The obvious result is that those readers who stick to your site will remember your company name and will probably gain recognition and trust in your company.