You've got a website. It's got some cool graphics and information about your company and maybe even a shopping cart for selling stuff. You've tweaked your copy and checked your tags, yet your visitors can't seem to find you!

It's time to take a step back and think about why you built a website in the first place.

What's the goal of your website?

• To inform?
• To gain valuable market research?
• To reach a broader audience?
• To find sales leads?
• To conduct e-commerce?

Well first consumers have to find you, then they have to be able to find you again and again. With top search results for "Cranbrook, Cranbrook BC, Cranbrook Business Directory, Cranbrook Businesses" CBKWeb.com acts as a portal to provide an inexpensive but effective marketing tool that any local business can use to help promote their Web Site, a visitor to your Web Site is a potential customer for your business, and with a permanent home CBKWeb.com helps consumers find you 24 hours a day/7 days a week! This is smart business.

For your convience we offer 3 levels of advertising:

If you don't have a website and 50 words or less can describe your business then get listed in our Business Directory for just $50/yr.

Simply supply us with:

• A description (50 words).
• Title (usually the name of your business).
• Digital Photo - We can take pictures - No Charge (within Cranbrook City Limits).
• Phone, Fax, Email.

To get started just fill out our form, and your Directory Listing will be posted and emailed for your approval. An invoice by email or mail will be sent after completion.

Email or Call 426-0220 for more info.

Already have a website? For just $119.99/yr, Our Level 2 provides you with a listing in the Business Directory, with a link to your existing website. That's just $9.99 a month!

Simply supply us with:

• A description (50 words).
• Title (usually the name of your business).
• Digital Photo - We can take pictures - No Charge (within Cranbrook City Limits).
• Phone, Fax, Email, and the address of your website. It's that easy!

To get started just fill out our form and your Directory Listing will be posted and emailed for your approval. An invoice by email or mail will be sent after completion.

Email or Call 426-0220 for more info.

Simply supply us with: (For Directory Link)

• A description (50 words).
• Title (usually the name of your business).
• Digital Photo - We can take pictures - No Charge (within Cranbrook City Limits).
• Address, Phone, Fax, Email.

We will design you a basic webpage with 500 words of detailed text describing your product or service. Includes

• Contact information- Email link- Website link - Address - Phone Number.
• Any Photos, Clipart, Logos, Diagrams, Pricing tables, Graphic banners,
  Map to location that you supply, custom work is an additional cost.
• Pictures can be placed in a table, collage, or slideshow.
• Editable areas can be added for updates or specials, changes can be made through your cpanel or with a html editor.
• Links to other URLs.
• 10 mg hosting plan with cpanel and statistics.

Additional Pages: Purchase additional pages for your Quickweb page for $50.

*Domain name is not included but we will help you set one up.

To get started just fill out our form and your Directory Listing will be posted and emailed for your approval. A CBKWeb representive will contact you for a consultation on the design of your quickweb page.

Email or Call 426-0220 for more info.

Simply supply us with:

• Title (usually the name of your business).
• Address, Phone, Fax, Email.

To get started just email us your information and we will add it to our Directory Listing.

Why Have a Web Site?

The World-Wide Web Offers Many Reasons Here Are 9 Good Ones

1. To Establish A Presence

More then 80% of homes now have Internet access, Google estimates that 25% of all searches are for local information, and consumers now expect you to have website.

2. To Network

A lot of what passes for business is simply nothing more than making connections with other people. Every smart business person knows, it's not what you know, it's who you know. Passing out your business card is part of every good meeting and every business person can tell more than one story how a chance meeting turned into the big deal. Well, what if you could pass out your business card to thousands, maybe millions of potential clients and partners, saying this is what I do and if you are ever in need of my services, this is how you can reach me. You can, 24 hours a day, inexpensively and simply, on the WWW.

3. To Make Business Information Available

What is basic business information? Think of a Yellow Pages ad. What are your hours? What do you do? How can someone contact you? What methods of payment do you take? Where are you located at? Now think of a Yellow Pages ad where you have instant communication. What is today's special? Today's interest rate? Next week's parking lot sale information? If you could keep your customer informed of every reason why they should do business with you, don't you think you could do more business? You can on the WWW.

4. To Serve Your Customers

Making business information available is one of the most important ways to serve your customers. But if you look at serving the customer, you'll find even more ways to use WWW technology. How about making forms available for inquires, or have your staff do a search for that classic jazz record your customer is looking for, without tying up your staff on the phone to take down the information? Allow your customers to sign up to receive the latest specials, sales, promos right to their email box.

5. To Sell Things

Before people decide to become customers, they want to know about you, what you do and what you can do for them. Most people think that you have to have a shopping cart to sell online, but more consumers actually research online but still buy in person so give them a reason to come on in!

6. To make pictures, sound and film files available

What if your widget is great, but people would really love it if they could see it in action? The album is great but with no airplay, nobody knows that it sounds great? A picture is worth a thousand words, but you don't have the space for a thousand words? The WWW allows you to add sound, pictures and short movie files to your company's info if that will serve your potential customers. No brochure will do that.

7. To Answer Frequently Asked questions

Whoever answers the phones in your organization can tell you, their time is usually spent answering the same questions over and over again. These are the questions customers and potential customers want to know the answer to before they deal with you. Post a FAQ on a WWW page and you will have removed another barrier to doing business with you and free up some time for that harried phone operator.

8. To Allow Feedback From Customers

You pass out the brochure, the catalog, the booklet. But it doesn't work. No sales, no calls, no leads. What went wrong? Wrong color, wrong price, wrong market? Keep testing, the marketing books say, and you'll eventually find out went wrong. That's great for the big boys with deep pockets, but who is paying the bills? You are and you don't have the time nor the money to wait for the answer. With a Web page, you can ask for feedback and get it instantaneously with no extra cost. An instant e-mail response can be built into Web pages and can get the answer while its fresh in your customers mind, without the cost and lack of response of business reply mail.

9. To Serve Your Local Market

We've talked about the power to serve the world with a Web page. How about your neighborhood? Google estimates that 25% of all searches are for local information. Today’s consumers are busy, they don’t want to show up at your door 5 minutes after closing, or drive around looking for your business, or guess at what your business offers, they’re online and your business should be too!

Fill out our form to get started today!