Customer Benefits
Here are how many views and search engine requests
the system received just since the first of this month:
Participating Business Benefits and Information
If you are a participating business in our Student's Business program and received a link to this location you are at the right place. The online technology and support services you receive for being a participant are 100% included in your membership.
All listed services below are INCLUDED with your class participation and membership:
- Domain Name (www. yourname .com) with this address people can go directly to your business advertisement on the web
- Matching Email with Domain Name so you can advertise a professional email address in ad and on your business card
- Advanced Member Directory Listing that will be accessed through the organization's website and via search engines
- Traffic Catcher Website System that will become your "Internet Advertisement" with organization branding that they will promote
- Business Services / or Products Ad Display System that the organization will promote as a marketplace to find local goods and services
- Video Commercial Production and Distribution through the traffic catcher system and via the organization's community directory
- Internet Coupon Presentation and Delivery through the organization's marketplace and community system
- Online and Toll Free Telephone Help Desk (based in the USA) to help you update and manage your online advertising system
- Web Traffic through the organization and its popularity on the web
- Selling Opportunity to be part of a robust community-wide selling block that is powered by a co-op model through the grouping of all members online advertising
- Automated Search Engine Submittal via Google site-map technology so your business can be found online
- Monthly Ad Display Reporting so now you'll know how well your advertising program is working
- Online Appointment Request System so people who look you up can quickly request an appointment with your business (or override with link to your existing system)
- Online Make Offer System so you can put up closed out merchandise or offer services at a variable rate that people can submit to you
- Community Inventory and Search Network aka. community on display that is advertised nationally through search engines
- Restaurant Reservation / Order Link shown on directory and goes to your website or item(s) created in the community on display ad display system
- Simple Business Tour that allows you to upload photos for a visitor tour
The school you belong to will typically rank very high on search engines which bring a lot of visitors to the LOCAL directory.
In order to take advantage of this online visitor traffic it's very important that you "Optimize / Setup" your online advertising system. When completed your business will show for more search results and become easier for people to find you.
If you already have a website then count on this to will help guide more people your way by catching traffic from the membership directory. When you setup your system it's then indexed on the directory. Once this is done people can search by key word(s) for the services they need and find you... once there, they can easily navigate to your main website. For members without a website - you will be provided with one.
Through a category, word, or text phrase search... visitors using the directory are prompted to view member information. When they select your business this is what they may see depending on how you setup the online advertisement.
>> Notice the links to the left of the page (below) as they go to additional modules you can activate once you login from your association's website:
(most systems include a FREE custom domain that will go to this page)
Each High School will have a link on the membership directory for the public to use so they can locate a business by map location vs. address. It's designed for people looking for a dentist in their area of the city (for instance). Once you're optimized your business will appear here as well:
National advertising is different from local advertising as the relies more on general search engines and not on the organization's membership directory (although this still helps).
To help you gain traction on a national basis we provide each member with room for 100 AD Displays. These displays presented through our Community on Display system are also indexed by various search engines.
With this system you can present professional services, general services, special offers, employment listings, products and a photo for each display. Contractors use this for showcasing their completed projects that are then used for references. Others use to display both products and services and often times engage a prospective customer on the phone to go through their services online to discuss.
This is a highly active advertising system proven by viewing the following real-time network numbers shown below (view activity live now):
Below is a small sampling of the many ad display networks setup throughout the USA. Although the networks are in various states, they are inter-connected together to help members improve their search results and for a better search engine optimization strategy.
The Community on Display system is designed around the concept of an old fashioned bulletin board. People can use it to sell, display, "make offers" on items and services, post information only, post employment advertisements that people can apply for online, accept reservation requests and more.
Here is an example of the control screen:
Your participation also includes tools that are easy to use to create commercials and add them to both the local and national advertising systems.
In many cases we will be creating the videos for you, however we still provide a way for you to easily add your own video to your online advertising program that's becoming a very important part to a successful online advertising program.
We have partnered with a major video system developer to offer an integrated service and with EcTownUSA to provide you with unlimited telephone support at no charge.
And best of all... Members get FREE U.S.A. BASED support services through a toll free telephone number or online service request website even when school is closed.
Included Member Support Services:
- Assistance in creating a single (but nice) logo for advertising system.
- Provide a single "licensed" photo for insert into main TCS page when no business photography is available.
- Walk through your advertising system over phone and assist if necessary to complete TCS site.
- Answer questions about wording and other issues to improve directory search optimization.
- Provide guidance on managing the member advertising system.
- Make quick updates to member site over the phone while you drive.
- Support calls relating to the integrated video system and buying a webcam.
- Support service to determine best method to present your products and services online through the Student's Business program.