Free Website for Startups

Attn: Entrepreneurs

It is challenging to start a business in any economy,  let alone an economy as uncertain as this one.

We believe that small business is the heart of the American way of life.  It is the engine of our economy.  As a service to innovative and enterprising entrepreneurs, we are offering free websites for qualifying businesses.

Here’s how it works:

• Register for the forums [SUPPORT FORUMS]
• Visit the “Welcome (General Stuff)” Section
• Read the “Free Website for Entrepreneurs” post
• Post a brief reply, explaining why you should be chosen to receive a free website for your business

The free custom site will consist of  5 pages of static content, featuring the products and services, a BLOG and other unique resources related to the business.  The complete hosted web solution will consist of WordPress Content Management Software  (open source) with custom modifications and templates.  All modifications are made online, by you (the owner)…and you won’t need a web developer to maintain your website.

QUALIFYING WEBSITES:

• At least one market ready, featured, product or service
• Paypal or Google Shopping Cart account
• Engaged Business Owner (with a blog and frequent entries)
• Highest consideration given to:
  • national products & services potential
  • “made in usa”
  • clear business plan
  • art & innovation
  • maintainable by owner
  • active blogger

Candidate will work with me and my team to arrive at the best presentation/branding.  We can retool your existing site or create an entirely new one.

The last recipient of our free website launch was VictorianTailor.com
The Victorian Tailor already had a website.  The problem she had in her business was a constantly changing inventory (constant web support for a small company).  I don’t like seeing small business owners handcuffed so I imported her existing design into WordPress, added custom templates and functionality, which turned it into a blog site with more “search engine friendlly” content and keywords.  I then trained the owner, Celeste,  on how to manage all the web content herself.   She never has to hire a web person to change her products again.  All the content you see on that site was put there by Celeste – if she can do it, you can do it!

Every 90 days, we will select one business to receive a website (it gets launched before the next site  is selected).

If no qualifying candidate site is found among the applicants, we reserve the right not to select any applicant.

We are running this promotion to give “business ready” entrepreneurs a leg up on achieving a professional web presence that they can maintain themselves.  We want our visitors to use our forums and we hope to have more of a relationship with our internet audience in general (while introducing them to great new companies).  We decide, at our sole discretion, if the website you need is within our skill-set (and if your business is ready for it).

Our decision to support your business with a free website revolves around one internal question: “Are we interested enough in being associated with your success that we will invest the cost of launching your website?” (the more creative, grassroots, self-sufficient and prepared your business is, the more likely you’ll be one of the businesses we pick to support).

You must have a domain name and hosting (about $120/year) and we take care of the rest.

Domain name and hosting can be bought through www.HighwayMerge.com

We HIGHLY recommend that you at least own the domain name PRIOR to discussing it on our public forums.  Don’t make a post that says “I want a website for mybusiness.com” if you don’t own “mybusiness.com”.

One business is scheduled to be selected on the following dates:

August 15th, 2011

November 15th, 2011

February 15th, 2012

May 15th, 2012

August 15th, 2012

We look forward to helping you succeed on the internet.

Visit the forums now.

(If you’re a web designer or developer interested in helping us make a positive impact with entrepreneurs through this free service, please contact us @ info@maharenterprises.com)