Update on my Offline Business here in Ammanford, South Wales

Back in June I decided to start targeting offline bricks and mortar businesses in my local area of Ammanford, South Wales. I decided it was about time I put an update on how it is all going and I can’t believe it was in June that I made this decision and last posted here, boy have I been busy!

I have not been able to post for a couple of other reasons as well, holiday, moving house (so without internet connection for a few weeks) but apart from that I have been busily putting together the framework for my new business.

It has been a huge amount of work which is still not all done but I am getting there. I decided I wanted to offer my local Amman Valley businesses a full Internet Service if you like with 3 different elements:

Marketing (including making them a website)
Hosting
Advertising on my marketing site and my Directory

Further explanation of that is that I can offer them hosting if they already have a website (or free as part of a web design package). I can offer marketing and a website tailored to their business and ranked well locally in google. And I can offer advertising as well in my local business and community directory (portal as they are more often know online).

Not all of those three elements are complete yet, still work to do but it has been fun (and hard work) – in recent weeks I have been concentrating my efforts solely on the Business and Community Directory, by adding listings to it and trying also to make it a fun and informative place for local people because you need to get repeat visitors locally to make it attractive for local businesses to advertise on.

For a sneak peek at some of what has been going on you can visit the directory here if you have a mind to:

Amman Valley Business and Community Directory

But please remember this is still a work in progress. I mentioned in my previous post about outsourcing some work that you may not be so good at and more to save me some time I am outsourcing my logo work for the header of the directory and at the moment, still waiting on that.

The other thing I wanted to mention for anyone who is interested in tackling their local area is that I have got pretty much most of my help and advise from a great bunch of people who are members of “Local Biz Builders” and in particular the “special forces” section of that forum. I also mentioned Andrew Cavanagh, in my last post, here is a member there and regularly answers lots of questions – it is a great place to get help and learn your trade, also to give help as well.

If you want to check that out, then please click the button size banner in the right hand sidebar, the button at the top.

Right back to work for me and I will try and report back a little bit sooner next time.

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