Promote Your Business In Massachusetts!
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The MassOnline Business Directory is an effective and
affordable way to promote your business within Massachusetts.
We offer various options and price tiers to fit any budget.
Free: A Free listing is a great way to get some exposure with no
bells and whistles. You can't beat the price!
Basic: A Basic listing is an affordable way to get some decent
features including listing priority, an online coupon and a basic website.
Premium: A Premium listing offers outstanding functionality at a
reasonable price. Besides a highest-priority listing and multiple
coupons, the premium listing comes with a powerful website tool that can be
used to build an effective, ad-free website and changed by you whenever
you wish.
Ultimate: An Ultimate listing extends the features of a premium
listing and is for those businesses that wish to push the limits and add more
to their account and website.
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If you would like personal training or help configuring your website, we can do
that!
Services include teaching how to manage and update your account and/or website,
scanning and editing images, creating custom animated flash content, graphic
design and more.
Our rate is just $30/hour. A minimum of 2 hours is required if travel is
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Directory Listing: All business accounts come
with a directory listing. The listing allows visitors to search for and
find your business. All listings come with a one-page detail page that
lists various information about your company. For an example,
click here.
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Listing Specialties: Visitors may search
for businesses by defining the specialty that they are searching for.
Your listing may be associated with one or more specialties. Each
specialty is categorized into one or more categories. For a list of
available specialties, select a
category.
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Listing Town: Each listing is associated with a
single city or town. It is usually where your store or office is
located. When visitors search for a business, they select their
town. Listings automatically appear in neighboring towns through an
advanced algorithm based on location matching and priority. You may also
choose to broadcast any listing for an additional $299 per year.
Broadcasted listings appear as if they are based in all towns within
Massachusetts.
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Listing Priority: Businesses are shown
ordered randomly with Premium and Ultimate getting highest preference, then
basic and then free. Listings will automatically propagate out to
surrounding towns in a concentric fashion. Higher priority listings are
shown before lower priority listings.
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Shown in Communities: MassOnline publishes
351 community websites, one for each city and town in Massachusetts.
Ultimate, Premium and Basic listings are shown as menu items on various
pages. Free listings only appear if the directory itself. Ultimate
and Premium listings are shown in the community page of the listing's town and
all surrounding towns. Basic listing are only shown in the community
page of the listing's town. See
Lowell's community page for an example.
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Free Listings Require a Return Link:
We are happy to provide free listings to any organization. However, if you wish
to add a business with a free link we ask that you return the favor and link
back to www.massonline.com. Please select the HTML in the field below and
paste it onto your website. Thank-you.
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Online Coupons: Coupons are a great way to
promote a product or service and measure advertisement effectiveness.
Besides the offer text, you may also define limitation text and, optionally,
give an expiration date. If an expiration date is given, the MassOnline
business directory will automatically cease displaying the coupon when it
expires. We show coupons in a nice clean, printable format. For an
example, click here.
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Coupon Books: Occasionally, we print free
coupon books to be given to residents in a particular area. Often, this
is done to coincide with a large event such as a town fair, a folk festival,
etc. When we print coupon books, we include coupons from the Business
Directory. This service is done at no additional charge to you. All
you need to do is maintain at least one active coupon. We make every
effort to include at least one coupon from Premium and Ultimate listings for
the area. If there is extra space, we may also include Basic listings
coupons.
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Website: With our powerful and easy to use
website editor, you can create and maintain a complete,
feature-packed website without any technical skills. Among many
advanced features, we support animated and static images, custom fonts,
flexible coloring and layout, animated flash and a great deal more.
Furthermore, you can log in and change your website content whenever you
wish! Notice: The website for basic listings includes
advertisements. If you wish to not have advertisements on your website,
you must upgrade your account to premium or ultimate.
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Town Domain Name: The domain name is the
address people use to get to your website. With your basic, premium or
ultimate listing, we will set up a third-tier domain name based off of one of
our hundreds of city and town domain names at no additional charge.
Simply choose the town domain (such as lowell.ma), choose the third level (such
as pizza) and let us know. Example: http://pizza.lowell.ma
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Custom Domain: If your wish to have your
own domain name such as yourname.com, no problem. After you purchase
the name from a domain name registrar, let us know. We will instruct you
how to point it to your website. There is no additional charge for this
service!
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Text Pages: Text pages are where you include
the text content for your website. You may enter multiple blocks of text,
define fonts, colors and images.
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Price Lists: Price lists are where you can
list your products and prices. This is a great tool for showing visitors
what you sell such as product pages and menus. Items are grouped into
categories (price groups). Each group may have unlimited items. Each item
may display up to 3 prices such as small, medium and large. For an
example, click here. |
Online Store Pages: Store pages
allow you to list and sell your products and services online. Your
MassOnline website can easily be integrated with your very own
PayPal Business Account. When visitors decide to purchase
from you, they add items to your PayPal shopping cart and buy from the trusted
source.
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Printable Menus: Coming
Soon! Soon, we will display your price lists
and menus using printer-friendly PDF format. Besides the benefit to your
visitors, you may also use this as a tool to make printed menus yourself.
After changing your items, you can view and save your pdf document. Give
one of these PDFs to your printer and they can print it. No longer will
you need to pay for custom menus other than the printing itself. Existing
customers will automatically receive this functionality when it becomes
available at no additional charge.
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Image Galleries: Coming
Soon! You will be able to display images
and descriptions. Existing customers will automatically receive this
functionality when it becomes available at no additional charge. |
Mailing Lists: Coming
Soon! Mailing lists will allow you to
receive e-mail addresses from your visitors and then send mass e-mails such as
product announcements, newsletters, etc. Existing customers will
automatically receive this functionality when it becomes available at no
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