Have you heard any of the following statements come out of your mouth in the last few months?

 “I should probably get a web site for my business, but I don’t know where to start.”

 “Why do I need a presence on the World Wide Web – my customers are only in Warren?”

“I keep getting these mailings offering web sites for $50, but when I investigate I find lots of extra hidden monthly costs.”

“I already have a web site, but as far as I can tell, not very many people look at it.”

If you answered yes to any of these, please read on.  If you would simply like to skip to our price list, click here.

Why have we created this web site?  To make it easy for Warren area businesses to reach their customers.  Without spending a lot of time or money.

Do you think you need a web site but don’t know where to start? 

Unless you have a very complex business with many products, you should think of a web page as merely an ad, or a brochure. 

 Normally, there are 4 steps to having a web site:

 1. Registering your “name” for the Internet (www.YOURNAME.com).  The cost for this is generally $70 for two years.

2. Finding a web host – basically a place to park your web site on a computer that has access to the World Wide Web.  Prices range anywhere from $9.95 per month to $800 per month, depending on how much space you need.

3. Designing the page - writing the advertising copy and doing the layout.  Prices range between $50 - $20,000 depending on how elaborate you want to be.

4. Submitting your site to all the search engines, so people can find you.  There are services out there that will do this from $30 to $5,000 a year. 

With Warrenpages.com, we have eliminated most of those steps and fees.  We wanted to make it easier – and cheaper – to get your business on the web.  Compare for yourself:

1. Register your name – FREE.  Your name would be:

WWW.Warrenpages.com/YOURNAME.

2. Finding a web host – FREE.  Your web site would be “hosted” on our web site.  No monthly fees whatsoever.

3. Designing your page - $400.  This is the complete cost to design a simple one or two page web site.  We can include photos, your logo, and location information – really anything that you would normally include in an ad or brochure.  The $400 also includes a link from our business directory to your page.  And finally, you will be featured on the front page of Warrenpages.com for two weeks in the next year – you pick the dates.  

4. Submitting your site to search engines – FREE.  Not only do we submit your individual page to the top search engines, you are linked to a web site in Warren that has a targeted audience of YOUR customers.  People who live and work in the Warren area.

“Why do I need a presence on the World Wide Web – my customers are only in Warren?”

 We agree.  How can you be sure that once your company is on the web – along with the other billions of companies, individuals, organizations, governments, etc. – how can you be sure that anyone from the Warren area will actually find your page?

 They can if you are on Warrenpages.com.  We have, and will continue to spend a lot of time and money promoting Warrenpages.com to the people that live in Warren.  We will advertise in the Tribune, in the Vindicator, on the radio, we will send out direct mail, we will make sales calls, we will participate in community events – all to make sure that the people of Warren know we exist.

Once someone visits our site once, we have an 85% return rate.  15% of our readers come back almost every day.  Others come once or twice a week.  We are becoming a habit for many Warren area residents.  We keep our site interesting and fresh.  We give away trips and t-shirts.  We provide information they need and want.  And the businesses that are linked to our site benefit from our efforts – and you can too.

But the other key to “being found” on the WWW is being listed on search engines – like Yahoo!, Excite, Lycos and iWon.  In addition to being linked to Warrenpages.com, we will make sure that your individual web site is submitted to all the top search engines – 8 of them in all. 

“I keep getting these mailings offering web sites for $50, but when I investigate I find lots of extra hidden monthly costs.”

As we mentioned earlier, if you want a simple one or two page web site, it will cost you $400 for one year.  No hidden costs, no monthly fees.  If you want a larger, more expansive web site, we will give you a detailed quote, with every cost included.

The $400 includes:

• The design of your one or two page web site – including one or two photos, your logo, text that we can write but you will approve.
• A web site address – www.warrenpages.com/YOURNAME - that you can print on your business cards or brochures.  People can go to your page directly without going through our site if they have your address.
• A link for one year in our business directory.  Your business will be listed above the other businesses in your section.  There will be a button next to your name that says LINK.  When that link is clicked, your page will appear.
• You will be featured on the front page for two weeks over the next year – and you choose the weeks.

 “What if I need a larger, more extensive web site?”

 We can do that too.  We can register an independent domain name (www.yourname.com), set up a web host for you and design a web page that sells.  We can also suggest other advertising opportunities for your site (outside of Warrenpages.com) and we can submit your site to over 400 search engines.  Call us at 373-1500 for a quote.

Here are some samples of our work:

www.dilucias.com - a restaurant and banquet facility in Warren, Ohio.

www.startrecycling.com - a web site for the Geauga Trumbull Solid Waste Management Division.

www.carouselhotel.com - a web site for a hotel in Ocean City, MD

www.etraveldc.com - a travel guide for Washington, DC

www.hospart.com - a web site for a hotel management company

 “I already have a web site, but as far as I can tell, not very many people look at it.”

If you already have a web site, you can still link to Warrenpages.com.  The annual fee is $150.  Your name and address will be listed at the top of our business directory for your section with a link button next to it that will take people to your page.  The $150 also entitles you to be on our front page for two weeks in the next 12 months – you choose the dates.

Are there other advertising opportunities on Warrenpages.com?

Of course.  You can have a banner advertisement (that links to your web page) on our front page for $50 for two weeks.  If we designed your web page, or you have already linked your web page to us, you would only pay $50 per month.

You can have a banner advertisement on one of our content pages (Real Estate, Schools, Food, etc.) for $50 for one month.  If we designed your web page, or you have already linked your web page to us, you would only pay $25 for the month.

Occasionally we will have topical pages.  For example, our weddings page and an Election 2000 page.  To advertise on these pages is $25 per month .  If we designed your web page, or you have already linked your web page to us, you would only pay $25 for two months.

However, please note – all the prices quoted are special introductory rates and will likely increase..

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How much of my time will this take?

Not much.  We have a web site worksheet.  You take a few minutes to look through it and think about your business.  We will meet with you once to talk about what it is you want to communicate.  We will create a draft of your web page for you to review.  We will make any changes that you want and when you sign off on it, we will publish it.  It’s as simple as that.

How do I sign up?

Call us at 373-1500 or send an email to Advertise@warrenpages.com. We look forward to working with you.