Yahoo Offers Free Sites for Small Businesses
Local Listings: "Now get a FREE web site when you list your business on Yahoo! Local."Details: "Yahoo's offer of free Web sites for small businesses aims to expand those businesses' presence across the search engine's properties. With today's announcement, Yahoo also wants to expand Internet capabilities to the more than 50 percent of the 20 million U.S. small businesses without a Web site.
Promote your business to highly qualified prospects in your area by listing your business on Yahoo! Local. Each listing features detailed information that sets your business apart. Plus, now every business in the U.S. can get a FREE web site.
A Yahoo! Local Basic Listing includes:
FREE web site NEW! A FREE 5-page web site that you can easily customize with your logo, text and links to other sites
Business name
Contact information, including address, phone and fax, web site, email
Service information such as hours of operation, accepted payment methods, services offered, and brands or products available for sale
You can add or update, for no charge, your business' name, contact information and the categories under which your business is listed."
Quotes:
"We are not only helping them leverage the Internet, but also adding depth and comprehensiveness to our local product for consumers," said Paul Levine, general manager of Yahoo Local...
The second objective is to improve Yahoo's Web site, said Rich Riley, vice president and general manager of Yahoo Small Business. Yahoo adds the service to its Yahoo Local and Yahoo Small Business sites. Small businesses get five Web pages for free, choose from different templates, then use a Site Wizard to guide them through creating a site. The site then is automatically integrated into the company's Yahoo Local listing."
Yahoo! Media Relations - Press Release Yahoo! Inc., a leading global Internet company, today announced the launch of the Yahoo! Small Business Resource Center (http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources), a new comprehensive online resource center designed to help entrepreneurs succeed by offering approximately 1,000 articles on key business issues around topics such as marketing, legal and human resources."
posted by Jen @ 9:41 am
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