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One of the best things about being a Gold level member and above is the ability to have your own mini-site called a Biz Site. Imagine being able to have your own site, online practically instantly. You would have your own logo uploaded and displayed. You would have your own menu system. And, you would have the following types of pages: Information Pages - Text, pictures, videos, links, or almost anything else you can think of. Creation of mini-site pages is done using a simple editor tool that is the same as we use to build the entire Orthodoxbiz site. Or, you can just type up your documents and paste the text into the window. Your do all your work right inside your browser. ‡ News Pages - Pull in RSS newsfeeds from your own site, from other sites such as key customers/allied companies, and display them for yourself and others to read. ‡ Contact Pages - Fill out simple online forms to build robust pages for displaying your company's contact information. ‡ Gallery Pages - You can have photo albums on Orthodoxbiz, but having a mini-site lets you really bring things together. Gallery pages let you easily upload images and display them online as part of your own Web presence. The gallery even displays pictures using the ultra-cool lightbox effect. That is the same effect that you have seen used for pop-up windows on Orthodoxbiz. The screen goes dark, and the image seems to float above the page. It gets noticed. ‡ Music/Audio File Pages - Have mp3 files for your band? Clips of you giving training classes to your customers? Introductions to your company? Easily and quickly upload all of those files to your own pages that are part of your own mini-site! ‡ Repository Pages - You can store files on the Orthodoxbiz site in a variety of ways, many of whom allow you to keep those files private. Your mini-site comes complete with the ability to create file repository pages for you to use for file downloads. Put brochures, PDFs, PowerPoints, sample agreements, schematics, or anything else you can think of as part of your mini-site for your customers and prospects to download and use. To make it even better, you can request any custom URL you want to identify for your site. The URL will be an extension of Orthodoxbiz as in this example: www.orthodoxbiz.com/yourcompany.html Just tell us what you want to use, and we'll be happy to set it up for you. The specific and easy to remember URL lets you effortlessly direct people to your mini-site. Mini-sites are quick and easy to build. Online tools make the process painless, and let you keep your mini-site freshly updated. But, if you need help, then we'll there to provide it. What can your mini-site do for you? If you don't have a Web site already, the mini-site can be your official Web presence. For a small monthly fee, you can have a Web site and all of the other capabilities that go with a Gold level membership or higher in Orthodoxbiz. If you already have an online presence, your mini-site can be an additional marketing channel. Greater presence on the Internet means better placement in search engine results. It also means that you can divide the load, the mini-site can focus on some aspects of your business, while your primary site might go in a different direction. The mini-site also appeals directly to an Orthodox Christian audience, which can be a great way of networking and building commercial contacts in our faith community. Mini-sites make the perfect complement to entries in the Orthodox Business Directory. Further, if your Website is static HTML, then your mini-site gives you the opportunity to do some dynamic and impressive things. Many businesses find themselves with sites they have trouble updating. Don't sit around wishing you could get new information online! Sign up for Gold level membership or above and be your own Webmaster today. Finally, using a mini-site is a training class for eventually working with a Content Management System like Joomla (the CMS Orthodoxbiz is built with). The same technology that powers this community, will also be running your mini-site. By signing up and getting some hands-on experience, you prepare yourself for eventually making the jump into 21st century Web technology. Think of this an inexpensive training course that also doubles as a really good advertising and networking venue.            
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