We have all heard about the power of the web, but what does it mean to somebody with a small business to promote? Somebody who does not want to buy their way to the top of the search engine rankings like the big companies do? Here is an interesting story about the power of the web.

My elderly father in-law lives alone with his dog for company. During a visit to his doctor he complained of chest pains whenever he lifted his dog up for a bath in the laundry sink. The doctor’s answer was simple. Stop lifting the dog into the laundry sink. It was a neat solution but it did create a problem. One small and very smelly dog.  

Not wanting to bother my wife and I with washing his dog, my elderly father in-law asked if we could organise a dog washer. It was 7 p.m. and we were on the other side of town. Knowing he would be up all night worrying if his problem was not solved quickly we tried to remember the name of the dog grooming business a few streets from where he lived. They were not in the Yellow pages, but another local dog grooming business was, and they had a web site.

Their web-site was one of the simplest I have ever seen with five pages outlining who ran the business and their services. It also had pictures, great ones, which showed their clean premises, their staff at work and the happy dogs they dealt with. A quick trip to the location page, which was a map with an arrow, showed their shop was only four streets from my father in-law’s house. Plus they offered a full taxi service! We were sold. Their contact page offered us an e-mail link and that was that. Knowing things had been taken care of so quickly my father in-law was able to stop worrying and get a good nights sleep.

Only later did I realise I had just witnessed the power of the web.

If you are in business you should get a web-site today. Showing people what they are looking for, when they are looking for it, makes a web-site one of the most powerful tools you can have. Web-sites help people make decisions about the goods and services they are actively seeking twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, three hundred and sixty five days a year. Web-sites are not going away and that is precisely why you should have one.

Fortunately getting on the web is easy. If you know what you want to say and have some pictures of what you want to show, Littlebigtime can do the rest. Imagine being able to say yes the next time somebody asks, "Do you have a web-site?"

Think about your new Littlebigtime web-site like a book. Consider what you might want to say and show on its pages. You will want a front page that tells people about yourself and what you do. You will want a contact page so people can get in touch. You will also need some pages that show what you have or what you want to say. When you have gathered this material together Littlebigtime will use it to construct a prototype of your web-site. This stage requires a one hundred and fifty dollar deposit, deductable from your final balance. Your web-site prototype can be seen on the internet and is how the work done on your web-site is reviewed. During this process changes can be made. When you are happy with the job you sign off on the deal, pay, and Littlebigtime posts the finalised version of your new web-site to the web. It really is that simple!

The standard Littlebigtime web-site deal costs $850.00. For this price you get:

Up to five static web-pages with five pictures on each page.
Up to five A4 pages of text on each web-page.
A free Flash banner.
1 year of web space rental. 50 MB with 99.9% uptime.
1 .com domain name of your choosing, subject to name availability.

(Please note:Any unused features of this deal cannot be 'saved for later'. Long lists, while welcome, are excluded from this deal. Please contact Littlebigtime for a quote on these.)

Want more? Grab some serious interactive attention with Littlebigtime's Flash web-site deal. For $1150.00 you get:

Up to five web-pages with five pictures on each page.
An animated Flash introduction page featuring your logo, images or message statement.
Two interactive Flash galleries with up to 20 pictures in each.
Five images or messages which fade in and out.
Up to five A4 pages of text on each web-page.
A free Flash banner.
1 year of web space rental. 50 MB with 99.9% uptime.
1 .com domain name of your choosing, subject to name availability.

(Please note:Any unused features of this deal cannot be 'saved for later'. Long lists, while welcome, are excluded from this deal. Please contact Littlebigtime for a quote on these.)

And those are the deals. You, on the web, for either $850.00 or $1150.00. Contact Littlebigtime today.