Main Street Marketing Machines for Plug and Plan Offline Marketing

You'd probably wouldn't be surprised to hear that people use Xsitepro for many different reasons. I spend much of my time in the internet marketing niche, graphics niche and offline marketing niche and I'm always surprised to see innovative uses of Xsitepro.

The key to this diversity is the use of templates and I'm in the process of creating an advanced template that can be used for any niche with just a few tweaks... I'm making the videos now and will be sending an email out to my list as soon as its available.

Here's a sample of one of the template configurations.

Still testing but click here to see the basic template

Let me change gears and talk about making money online using your website....whether for an offline business or online business.

It's a difficult task to make a living online, it's even more difficult to have a brick and mortar store and create a website that brings you leads and sales. I don't think it ever was easy, however, today's economy makes the task even more difficult.

Your inbox is probably filled on a daily basis with offers for one money making product after another. All promising to make money. They might work to some degree....but never as easy as it might portray.

We live in a unique period of internet history. Today, April 2010, offers you an opportunity that won't last forever. I'm trying not to sound too hypey....I hate that tactic, but what I'm about to show you will make a difference in your life and those you do business with.

I love this saying:

"Help enough other people get what they want from life and you'll get everything you want and more" Zig Ziglar.....a very true saying.

Offline Marketing provides an opportunity for you to help others. A number of systems have been developed but none can compare to what I'm about to show you.

First...very very few people can go out and make money on their own. If you have a system to follow, building a successful business becomes much easier. Think of things like franchises.

Well...the folks at Traffic Geyser have been experimenting with their system of video, article, podcast ..ect. submissions and combining them with keywords for local businesses. Their desire was to create a system that would get local businesses top position on Google and the other search engines. For instance a painter in Chicago would want love to have "Chicago House Painter" turn with his website on position 1 of Google.

That's exactly what they've been able to achieve. A system for ranking local businesses for their keywords to bring them leads and sales.

How can this benefit you? Actually...a couple of ways.

This system is called Main Street Marketing Machines

If you own your own brick and mortar business you can use it simply for yourself and get your business ranked for a variety of keywords that will bring you either leads or sales or both. Unlike purchasing a yellow page ad, this is an investment in a system that costs less than yellow page advertising and will last the lifetime of your business.

The other option

This system really will shine if you've been part of the internet marketing community and trying to make money online. This system takes what you've learned and you can apply it to any local business with excellent results. Meaning, they will be ranked on the first page of Google.

This system of offline marketing to local businesses can become your business. Their method of promotion and development will bring clients running to you and your business can be as large as you are able to imagine.

The key to the success of Main Street Marketing Machines is that it works!

Go to this page:

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Fill in the form and watch the videos, you'll get everything you need to make an intelligent decision about this.

By the way, even if you are a complete newbie....this system will allow you to set up your own offline marketing business. With so many people looking either for a new job, replace their job or just looking for some extra income....this is a business opportunity you will want to at least look at.

Wishing you much success!

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What happens if I told you there is a way it is easy to use what you know concerning making money online and also TEAM UP with the Most reliable firms in your town to generate Much more cash…

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Wishing You Much Success....
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Offline Marketing Directory Works

The OP talks about using one aspect of internet marketing to market to one aspect of the offline or brick and mortar world. In my eyes, an excellent post with great ideas. A business model anyone could follow and a niche most anyone could target. Yet I see questions on the reality of the idea....does it work...will it work for me....my dentist's are poor....my dentist's have too much money....my dentists won't talk to me, my dentists won't pay that much.....and on and on.

Offline marketing works only if you make an effort to apply it. If dentists don't work for you, try chiropractors or.....just keep trying till something clicks. I said it works but it isn't necessarily easy. If you're looking to have your paypal account magically filled over night.....it ain't gonna happen

The biggest joke was the so called "mentor" who said it the idea stunk....yep, and Al Gore invented the internet!

Here's what you have to remember. Chances are, if you're here, you know buckets more than any brick and mortar store, service or professional about marketing online. These guys are clueless...period! You have one of the most sought after assets in the whole world...that is, KNOWLEDGE!!!

For one minute forget about your pockets and concentrate on the pockets of your customer or client. If you approach this market from the genuine standpoint of providing value, help and profit for your customers.....you'll win. You see, this philosophy is counter intuitive to most. In fact, most people on this forum are interested in one thing....that is, making money for themselves.

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Get this concept right and the mechanics of developing websites, directories or whatever for offline clients will work. You provide the best solution for their business to start making money or start making more money. Its all in the mindset and people can sense that....even through email or just phone calls.

There are so many different angles you can approach the offline world with that it really is mind bending. The OP's concept will work if you only try it. I'll give you a simpler model to follow.
Mchenry Business Directory

Pick a business in your town....could almost be any business, and find their webpage. Lets look at restaurants. So we go to Google, and search for "restaurants in XXXXXX" go through the first 10 results. How do their websites look? Could you improve them? What could you do to help them make more money?

Here's where you'll look like a star. How many of the restaurant websites have an autoresponder form on the first page...at the top, or above the fold? Find the one's that don't. Now make contact with the owner and ask what their slowest day is...they say Tuesday. Ask them if they'd like to make it one of their busiest. Ask them, "What if you had a way to contact all your best customers and tell them you had a special gift for them on Tuesday....a free meal...2 for 1, free sandwich....you get the idea. Explain further ways could build a list of customers from their website and how they could market to that list to make more money.

If they aren't interested....just walk away. You might want to tell them you are going to their competitor next

Next you need to figure out what you want to charge for simply putting up an autoresponder form. Maybe $100 or how about $400 one time charge....sign them up for an Aweber account with your affiliate link.....or put them on your own account. I've seen some marketers charge $1000 or more for setting up an autoresponder....it really depends on the business, the business volume and the business profit.....similar to the same money issues with Dentists, they have more money so your improvements will be worth more money. You might even want to load the autoresponder with a set of messages....again, something you should charge for. Up to you how you want to configure your business model.

I guarantee you get more business from them regarding their website because you are now the local internet marketing expert. Of course, you could set this up any way you want and live on the east coast and market to businesses on the West coast.

I could go on with this but let me tell you about another offline project that works.

Set up a Local Business Directory. Do some SEO and get your site on page 1 for "YourCity Businesses" Getting traffic to the site is easy, you can focus on various aspects of the town or local area. For instance, I installed a script the shows the Cheapest Gas Prices in Mchenry and visitors love it! They keep coming back to the site to check on gas prices!!!

You can put up free listings of local businesses. Send an email and tell them of the business when you get their listing on page 1....tell them its free, tell them it will stay there for 10, 50 or 100 bucks a month. Whether you charge for the listing or give it to them free, offer a complete web package...with autoresponder.

I can tell you from first hand experience that the "Mentor" doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground and I certainly hope he didn't charge you for his advice because this works. Wordpress brings excellent results, and Xsitepro sites are just as good if not better when developing directories....but you really need to know how to use Xsitepro and all it features.

The bottom line is, any method or platform you use when contacting an offline customer can be used to build and expand your business model. Whether you start pounding on doors selling autoresponders or start by developing some sort of local directory...use them as a funnel to bring your prospect and customer into more development, adding monthly or yearly charges. Provide outstanding value and you will have customers and friends for life!!

Hope this helps

Xsitepro Business Directory Template Indexed Overnight

Here's a followup on the new site The Best of Mchenry I set up on July 18th, 2009.

I'm working on an Xsitepro Business Directory Template and set up an example on a new domain at www.BestofMchenry.com, unfortunatly I had one of my attacks and ended up in the hospital on the 19th, 20th and 21st so today July 22, 2009 is the first time I had a chance to check out the whether or not the site was indexed.

As you can see from the screen shot Google indexed 10 of the new sites pages in 3 days. I wish I could have checked on the second day because I've been able to get new sites indexed in google within 24 hours and I suspect this has been indexed under 24 hours according to my web logs. That's pretty exciting!

I constantly read about people not getting any traffic or not being able to index their sites....Xsitepro owners included. Xsitepro has some pretty awesome tools that allow you to get your sites in the search engines quickly and I'll give you a quick run down of what I did.

First I created the site from the Xsitepro Business Directory Template and added a couple of business listings by creating some pages. Then I created an XML file for the site from within Xsitepro, this is bestofmchenry rss feed. Next I created a Google Sitemap from within Xsitepro.

I submitted the google sitemap to Google and I submitted the RSS feed to some rss directories.

The only other thing I did was to link back to www.BestOfMchenry.com from this site and from new blogger blog. That's all I did and at least 10 pages have been indexed....pretty cool huh!

Now, the next thing to do is to start submitting some articles and press releases for keywords I want my clients pages to rank for. I'll try to document my progress, I'm limited because of health reasons but hopefully I'll get a few more clients and get this local business directory ramped up!

Here's the screen shot of the pages indexed by Google.

Local Business Directory with Xsitepro

Xsitepro is the perfect website development software to use when developing a Local Business Directory. Portal sites for local businesses are rapidly becoming popular but they either look like a first grader put it together or it's a very complicated wordpress or joomla template.


Xsitepro with it's template driven websites makes it really easy to build and maintain a local business directory like this one: Mchenry Local Business Directory.

I've been working on this xsitepro local business template for offline marketing and it's almost done, you can find further information and sign up for a notification list with discount at Xsitepro Local Business Directory.

've been working on a Xsitepro Offline Marketing Template that is a little more complex than the standard Xsitepro Template.

This template is designed to be used by the offline marketer to go from city to city or town to town with the intent of advertising and marketing local business operations....driving traffic to their websites, advertising their business through appropiate keywords and marketing their businesses by offering list building through optin forms.

The Xsitepro Offline Marketing Template is designed to provide a multitude of monetization models. Across the top are 3 ads with images. These appear on each page and can be sold for $100 plus per month. The ads can be stationary or rotating.

Below the 3 ads across the top is a xsitepro's dynamic menu. I'm working out a few kinks but it should serve perfectly as an easy method of navigation.

The main panel is configured with a premium advertising space. The premium ad could start at $200 plus a month, of course it depends on the traffic you're getting. The space would feature an image along with an advertising message which would contain a link back to the advertiser's site.

I haven't really developed the left navigation colum yet. I'm not sure I like the scrap paper look....but we'll have to see how it works out. The nav colum could feature more ads or banner space to advertise along with providing some standard nav links. A rotating banner space could work out well....something like special of the day or week. Again, this feature would be sold as an add on.

I think one of the most interesting features is the premium advertising page here's an example xxxxxxxxxx. Many small businesses don't have a web presence, they do not have any type of web page and the thought of getting online scares the crap out of them. The Premium Advertising Page is basically a single one page website they can have. It includes their basica information along with an advertising message and a few images. Most importantly this page can be used to get them on Google Local. I have a few things to do on this page yet, but take a look and see how you might use this page.

There's more but this will give you an idea of what Xsitepro Offline Marketing Template will offer. All pages will come with basic templates that you simply copy and paste. Of course Xsitepro's full compliment of features will be able to be used on the entire site. This will give you, the offline marketer, tremendous flexibility and power.

I have to say the income potential with this type of template is unlimited. You are limited only to your imagination and ambition. You won't get rich over night sending out a few emails....but if you approach this as a real business, get on the phone, knock on doors and figure out how to set up a local business directory in your own neighborhood, town or city.....you can then take this worldwide.

Secure The Services of An Offline Internet Consultant For Your Small Business Expansion

Amazingly people have given up using the yellow pages to find your business, instead people use a variety of search engines when looking for a product or service but did you realize that 85% of any given market will first check out the internet? This is a staggering statistic regarding your market and should weigh heavily when considering how to market and advertise your business. As a small or even large business owner you need to get a handle on how important it is to have your business on the internet, otherwise known as a web presence because in the near future almost all businesses will be located by internet searches. Today just about everybody is jumping on the internet, from their i-phones, laptop computers, personal computer, etc. and if you are not there for people to see... Your competition surely will be!

A person with a cell phone can easily get on the internet and search for your website, that's why it is so important to have your site optimized properly. While Google is the search engine of choice, you must be in one of the first 3 search results if you want good traffic. Best case scenario would be to have your website show up for the number 1 spot on Google!

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As a business owner, you most likely do not have the time to learn how to create websites, write and understand computer code, optimize your website for the search engines, get involved in social networking (MySpace, Facebook, etc.), utilize article marketing, set up a Pay Per Click campaign or do anything related to internet marketing! All these things probably make no sense to you but take my word for it, you really need to put them in place. If you ignore proper internet marketing methods, you do it at your own peril.

Like it or not, your business success will in some degree depend on your website, consequently you will need to find an internet marketer who specializes in Offline Marketing or you might look into an Offline Consultant so you can get your website tuned up and ready for all the people looking for you. Optimize your website properly and watch your profits take off along with knowing you've taken a giant step into the future for your business!

Since you're not an offline marketing expert it's really easy to get this wrong. You want a web presence so you hire a web design firm and then think you're all done. You want a web presence so you hire a web design firm and then think you're all done. Unfortunately, most web design firms are clueless when it comes to search engine strategies and other offline marketing strategies, so they fall short of getting you listed on Google.

Your only alternative is to find an offline consultant. This person and their team know exactly what is needed to make a business appear in top of the search results. They will consider your business as unique and find out what is needed to get your business to come up in a favorable position when somebody searches for your keywords. This holistic approach to offline marketing is the only one you should consider for your small business, anything else will not yield the results you're looking for!

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You Can Make Money As An Offline Consultant

If you are considering working as an Offline Consultant you should have some kind of knowledge of basic internet marketing skills such as: -working with pay per click campaigns such as Google Adwords -setting up and autoresponder account like Aweber -writing a press release and submitting press releases -writing and submitting articles -creating a website or blog and using a program like Xsitepro -optimizing a website for the search engines

At first glance, all the above skills might make it look like you aren't qualified to do offline consulting, however, there is an easy solution. Many who promote offline marketing also suggest that you subcontract the above costs by outsourcing at least some of these projects. This would require that you learn about outsourcing and freelancing while making any necessary adjustments in your project selling price for the added project costs.

The services that offline businesses are looking for (and need) the most, are:- Optimize for Search Spiders (SEO)- Long Tail Keyword Research- PPC like Google Adwords- Writing & Submitting Articles- Creation of Press Releases- Having An Autoresponder Setup

Of course you aren't limited to just the above services. You'll make more money if you know how to perform these services yourself and you can easily find pages of tutorials by searching on Google. You might also consider searching online to see what your competition is charging for the same services, we call this Market Research!

Next you need to get out there and promote your offline consulting business to those who need it by using every marketing and promoting trick you can think of, such as posting ads on craigslist, printing up fliers, dropping off business cards, knocking on business doors, sending out mailers and putting ads in the paper to name a few. You will be surprised how easy it really is because there is a great need for local businesses to have an online presence and you, my friend, can be the answer.

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You can also cash in on your experience and knowledge by writing a small report, ebook or even creating a screen capture video series on some aspect of offline marketing. If you know a lot about setting up an Aweber Autoresponder you could explain all the steps involved in setting up an autoresponder for offline business clients and even further explain what options the local business owner has when setting up an autoresponder. You can write a short, easy-to-understand report or a longer eBook on the subject and sell it to other internet marketers and/or offline business owners who want to learn how to perform these tasks themselves.

The local business man or woman really needs what you have to offer which makes the offline niche very profitable for those who go out and work it. Offline Marketing could be one of the most real and attainable business ventures you've looked at since you've been online.

This book will help you explain some of the facts of Offline Marketing and it has facts and figures you can actually show the customer....a very good resource! Copy the next series of article posts and create a pdf, show them to your client along with this book, Offline Marketing Guide For Selling Online Services to Offline Businesses

The Advantages Offline Marketing

As an internet marketing you can transform yourself into an offline marketer bringing your skills to the brick and mortar businesses in your local area....in fact they are begging to find someone like you who knows how to take their business online and get results. The only problem is they might not know it yet and its up to you to convince them. You have to understand these local businesses are really clueless and have no idea where to start, while you already know exactly what needs to be done when trying to market, promote or optimize a website. Things that us internet marketers do on a daily basis, like keyword research, article writing, SEO, press release writing, setting up a PPC campaign, etc. have a unfathomable value to the local business owners that they will pay big bucks.....you loose almost all competition.

Something like 85% of local businesses will began looking online in place of looking for their Yellow Page Book or the phone directory for anything that's needed on a daily basis. Once understood, the local business guy has no recourse except to get online immediately, and you, the Offline Consultant should be there to help! Some offline businesses will have a website and need optimization, articles, press releases, social networking and the normal internet marketing type services. While some offline businesses won't even have a website! Anyway, now is the time for an Offline Consultant to start offering his help for the local business.

Let me show you what I'm talking about, if you look for web designers online, you will easily find someone to do it for $400 to $500. If you're cheap enough, you can find someone to build you a website for 100 bucks! Offline Marketers are in a different game though, they can charge $1,000 or more for a simple website built around the local business owner. And you can even have an online freelancer build it for you for $67 and make an enormous profit! The possibilities are endless and that is only the beginning.

The same can be done with SEO (Search Engine Optimization) , you might start your business by doing all phases yourself but you might want to consider outsourcing or look at places like freelance.com and hire out all of your work, even the SEO portion.

Consider Some of the Crucial Facts:

Let's take a look at the enormous benefits of taking your internet marketing offline -- You will use everything you know now are do now to make much more money by working with local businesses. You can leverage yourself by outsourcing all the steps needed to get the offline client up and running online and your income will increase because you will have many clients...all outsourced! You can make a residual, recurring income by collecting monthly fees from offline businesses for ongoing SEO services, keyword research, article marketing, maintenance, etc. Once you get a couple of local businesses sites up and running you will be known as the local authority when it comes to anything internet, customers will be chasing you down wanting to give you money!

The list of benefits could go on and on, but hopefully you see how going offline can help you expand your income and build your business. I truly hope you take advantage of this opportunity and I hope it takes you places you never thought possible.....wishing you much success!


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If you are interested in becoming an Offline Consultant then you should consider this package of information, handouts which consists of the following:

• Consultant's Quick Start Guide


• The "5 Mistakes" Report (PLR)


• A series of 3 Follow-Up Messages


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By now you must realize that I'm very passionate about Offline Marketing. Review the 2 resources you see, these are 2 terrific sources of information that will help you get started with an offline consulting business. You'll be exposed to a variety of business models which will help you determine which direction you would like to develop your business.

I'm anxious to know how you get along with offline marketing...please post a comment!

I'm excited for your future, jump in with both feet into Offline Marketing and success will find you!

Wp Advanced Newspaper Theme Used in a Local Business Directory

I'm interested in starting an offline business portal in my area. Actually I live in the suburbs of a large city in the U.S. and I could probably create 20 portals that would have 100 businesses or more.

I was looking for a template to use for a local business portal or local business directory.

There are many options available from customs static pages to custom directory type scripts. None seemed to do the trick for me until I stumbled on some newspaper themes for Wordpress blogs. I found a theme that looked just like a newspaper called "Wp Advanced Newspaper Theme" from Gabfire Themes.

Newspaper Themes are an evolution or offspring of the Magazine Style Themes. Magazine Themes at one point were all the rage and were considered the top end of wordpress theme customization. Newspaper Themes, in particular Wp Advanced Newspaper Theme takes wordpress themes into a whole new realm of wordpress blog theme design.

I like the Wp Advanced Newspaper Theme for a local business portal because of its ability to be customized. There are featured sections, plenty of graphics and plenty of categories.

Looking at the image of a Wp Advanced Newspaper Theme you'll see how you might be able to monetize this theme with local business people. Imagine how much you might be able to sell the large primary featured section! You could giveaway a simple blog post in a general category to get some of the local businesses interested, then you could sell them space in a more specific category with a detailed blog post or page.

Check out the Wp Advanced Newspaper Theme if you're thinking of working with local businesses, it will help you and the local business people.....and we know they could really use the help in today's economic climate.

For Successful Marketing Understand Your Target Market

Before you can do any good advertising your product and service or undergo any decent marketing campaign you have to know your target market. In the world of internet marketing you need to be able to know as precisely as possible all the information you can gather so you can custom tailor your marketing mix to be more effective.

You will need to know about their demographics. On any online marketing campaign you need to know who it is that you are reaching out to. What does your ideal customer look like? How old are they? What income bracket are they in? Where do they work? Where do they socialize? What are their buying habits? The marketing strategies that you incorporate are going to use all this information. Fortunately it doesn't take much to find out much of this. If you are targeting a certain geographic area, use the internet to find out as much demographic information as possible. In the US use the chamber of commerce for that area.

For your market targeting you will also need to know about their geographic location. What is the culture there like. Get familiar with ti and find out what things are typical for that region. Make sure you find out not only what marketing strategies are popular but find out also what things are taboo. What may seem harmless to one region may be a death sentence to your marketing strategy if your marketing research doesn't find this information out.

You also need to see what other factors might affect the buying decision and behavior of your target market. What styles are in fashion for your target markets? What type of climate is it? Are they freewith their money? It may seem like a lot of work but if you want your marketing plan to work, all of this research is going to pay off.

The most important part of your marketing research will be understanding your customers needs. The more you understand this, the better able you will be to create an ad campaign. This will help bring about some effective branding of your product and services as a viable part of their buying pattern.

Your best way to find out about your target market, though, is to spend time where they are. If your hope is to have a coffee shop, you are going to want to see first hand what works and doesn't work You will want to know what the atmosphere is like in a successful coffee shop and spend time talking to customers to find out what they like and don't like about it. The same thing is going to be important for any online marketing plan.

Wherever it is that your potential customers go to find out more about what you are trying to offer them, go and spend time there. If there is a forum that is used by those who typically are interested in your product or service, be a member of it or spend time reading what is going on. Get in the shoes of your target market and find out what it is like to be them. The more you can understand them, the more effective you will be a marketing to your target market.

Learn the basics of internet marketing and then take it offline to show brick and mortar stores how to market effectively using internet marketing.

Computer Support Business and Interent Marketing

Have you thought about Starting Your Own Computer Support Business? It's one of the easiest ways to develop extra income provided you have some of the basic knowledge and understanding when it comes to computers.

Some computer owners don't know how to set up an email account in outlook express? Could you start a business that provides computer support for setting up email accounts?

It won't be long before everyone is using a computer and if you only know how to fix a few things on a computer, you have the skills to start a computer support business. I've got some more thoughts on a compputer support business below.

Anyone with some a little training and experience can find themselves among the most valuable assets in the world of computers and small business as a computer support person. Many computer users will find themselves in predicaments that have them on the verge of panic and will think the sky is falling on them. They will have a small computer glitch or problem that can be pretty easily remedied and find themselves wanting to go out and buy another computer. That may not be necessary and you can be instrumental in not only saving their day but creating a loyal customer for years to come. Even the smallest computer repair can seem like a big deal to those without the proper knowledge that you have.

For those who rely on computers to run their own at home business, their computer is their lifeline. Most do not know much about how a computer works. Their greatest fear is having the computer freeze up and lose everything that they need. Most do not do what they need to make sure that everything is backed up on removable hard drives or online storage system. There are so many things that you can do to make their lives easier they will look to you for help first when they do have major computer problems.

I know 2 teenagers that have minimal knowledge of how computers work, they fix things like virus infections, spyware, malware and other parasites. They have a routine and if they can fix the problems, they get paid. They then offer to install the needed antispyware and malware programs that are purchased through their affiliate links.......these dudes make some nice extra cash and can't keep up with the demand.

People don't want to throw their computers away....they would like to fix them, but they don;t know who to take them to. This is one Business Model that will prove very profitable for any ambitious person!

You will most likely want to get started locally so that you can either be called out to take care of on site repairs or so that they can bring their computer in to you to take care of. After you have found a good workspace that is clean and organized you will need to get a business license which will bring about credibility and also seek to get insurance for your business to help cover you in case unforeseen things happen that could cost you your business.

If you need help with a website, call me. Contact me at www.spgraphic.com or www.thexsiteproguide.com and I'd be glad to put a quick website together that will help you sell your services.

Make sure that you have the latest software to help you diagnose problems and make sure they are up to date. Also make sure that you have all the most up to date virus knowledge and scanners available to help keep your computers from being infected but also those you are working on.

Build a website. There is no doubt that having a web presence can help make you known, even in your area. For getting a good start to your computer business look for ways to have your website optimized for local searches on all the major search engines. As someone working with computers this is something that should be an essential par of your business plan.

The most of what it takes to be successful starting and running a computer support business you may already have. What may be the hardest part of it is marketing but if you take care of your customers they will spread the word and bring more business opportunities. People love to have the dilemmas solved and will gladly tell others about their hero that saved their say. It may not seem like that big of a fix or problem to you but in as you start your computer support business you will find it is a big deal for others and your bank account.

Here's a book, Computer Secrets Unleashed ,that will teach you to do some simple repairs. They are the type of computer repairs everyone needs and most common computer users don't know how to do. Read Computer Secrets Unleashed and you'll learn some of the skills needed to start your own computer support business!