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The Best Business to Business Sales Opportunity

The Best Business to Business Sales Opportunity

City Portal Director Business Opportunity

by Phil Staudt
February 7, 2010

The truth is, the city portal director business opportunity really is the best business opportunity around today, IF you know how to make sales to businesses, and IF you are willing and able to go out and call on business owners in your town. It is not for everyone, and it involves actually going out and interacting with people and building up good long-term business relationships with small business owners in your community. You start out by getting them involved using the free stuff you have available for them on your portal. How hard is that?

It only costs $497 for the first 60 days, which includes over 20 training videos, and the set-up of your own unique city portal, with it's own unique domain name. The $497 includes everything you need to get started. Your unique city portal will be connected to city portals from around the world, which will bring traffic to your portal. The minimum you have to pay is $197 per month to maintain the rights to a portal. That is based on the sales quota for any town with a population under 100,000. It means that you should sell two premium ads per month, for which you pay $100 per ad, to have the premium ad posted on your portal for one year. If you do not sell any premium ads in a month, you are credited with $197 for future payment of premium ads, to cover when you sell more than two in a month. Therefore, over any 12 month period, your total payments would add up to $2,364.00, for a town with a population of less than 100K people, unless you sold more than 24 premium ads during those 12 months, which would be a good thing, because that would mean that you made more money.

The idea is not that you are SPENDING $197 per month, but that you have the possibility to be able to MAKE over $10,000 per year. Of course, that is entirely up to you to do. If you have done any selling in the past, then you understand that in order for you to make any money, you have to go out and make sales calls.

Portal directors were selling premium ads consistently for $1200+ per year, up until the big crash of Oct 2008. Now most of the portal directors are giving discounts to their customers. But that is why the price of the premium ads have been lowered to only $25 per ad up until April 1, 2010. That allows portal directors to make first time offers or special deals to their customers during this recession, and use this time as an opportunity to get new customers.

If you decided that you were only able to sell premium ads to businesses in your town for the low cost of $500 per year, and you sold two premium ads per month, you would collect $12,000 for 12 months, and that goes right into your bank account. And that is just for premium ads. (Do you know what yellow page ads cost???) There are smaller ads you can sell on your portal for shorter terms and for less than that, and whatever you collect for those is yours to keep.

So in a 12 month time period you should reasonably be able to make $10,000+ profit. If you keep in touch with your customers, and make sure that they are benefiting from their ad on your portal, which they will be doing because you will be contacting every other business in town, and when the other businesses look at your portal, it will create a buzz about your portal, and your customers will become repeat customers.

Of course, we do NOT guarantee that you will make anything, and this is just based on what some other portal directors have made. The question to you is, just like any other sales position, can you make sales?

More than ever, small businesses realize they need to advertise online to stay viable. When this business was started in 2005, many businesses were dead set against advertising on the Internet. Today, advertising online is not an option for most small businesses in America. If they don't get some of their business by advertising on the Internet, their competition will. The problem for the small business owner, is deciding where to spend their online advertising dollars. That is where the portal director comes in. Small business owners want to be able to deal with a real live person who actually cares about their business, and wants their advertising to be effective. Small business owners want to have somebody on their side, who is going to go to bat for them to help them to get exposure, and traffic, and new customers.

We could just set up websites for thousands of towns and just take money for advertising, like many others have done. But the city portal director business was created and designed by an entrepreneur who has done real business-to-business sales himself, and the city portal director is a small business owner who is also working in the same town as the advertisers. And that keeps the personal touch and human element involved between the small businesses and their advertising. The city portal director understands the unique circumstances and situations that are faced by small business owners in that particular town.

Why will small businesses want to advertise on your portal? They can spend money advertising on many websites. Most towns have websites that have been put up with the name of the town on them, and they will gladly let somebody place an ad on there for a fee. That is not what makes the city portal business a good business opportunity. When a small business owner is able to meet a real person who is the portal director in their town, then the value of that portal is priceless. The business owner realizes that this person is also going to go to all the other small businesses in that town, and those business owners will be looking at the city portal. And if they are advertising on the portal, then all the other business owners will see their ad on the portal. Plus, each business that advertises on the portal, or even has a free listing, or uses the event calendar for free to announce their upcoming events, will be telling their customers and associates about the city portal. However, without the real live human portal director, the city portal is just another website. The city portals that have active city portal directors, that run their city portal like a small business, are the ones that are successful and have happy satisfied repeat customers.

You can sell ads on your city portal to businesses anywhere in the world. As a city portal director, you can also put your own ad on your portal for other business opportunities and marketing programs that you are involved with. As a portal director, you are also automatically a member of the VIP Wealth Club, and you can advertise that on your city portal, and be earning residual income from the VIP Wealth Club.

What will make businesses in your city want to advertise on your portal is YOU. My boss in Denver 25 years ago, Doug Mays, when I was selling plumbing supplies to wholesalers, always told me that purchasing agents don't buy plumbing supplies, they buy YOU. If they like you, they will order something from you. The Internet has not changed that, even though there are a lot of people that wish they could just sell everything online and not care about the people they are selling to.

Selling is a transference of feeling. Dale Carnegie says that what people want is a feeling of importance, and if you can make them understand that they are important to you, then you can open the door to the possibility of making a sale. If you haven't listened to Zig Ziglar's "Secrets To Closing The Sale" I highly recommend it. It is over 25 years old, but people are still people, and the basic fundamentals of selling is still the same. The first book I read about selling, over 30 years ago, was “How I Went From Failure To Success In Sales” by Frank Betger. You probably already know all of this, but don't forget that technology and e-commerce has not made the personal touch, or the psychology of selling, out of date.

This city portal business is very old school. We believe in actually taking care of people, whether they are portal directors trying to get started in business, or whether they are seasoned entrepreneurs who want to become more successful, or whether they are small businesses that need to get more business by advertising on the Internet. This is a win-win business. Nobody has to lose in order for somebody to succeed.

There is a meeting room set up specifically for the city portal directors, which is basically a public chat, for the city portal directors to ask questions and help each other out. Once a city portal director is making lots of sales, and their city portal is looking the way they want it to, then they are able to help out the new portal directors. The more everybody helps each other out, the better it is for everyone. This business is a people business.

The city portal director business is not successful and popular because it is high tech or backed by a huge corporation, or because it is a get-rich quick scheme; the city portal director business is successful, and will become more successful, because it is unlike any other home business opportunity, because the founder and creator of the business opportunity, genuinely cares about people, and wants everybody who works for him, and with him, to do the same. That is the key to the success of your city portal, and the entire network of city portals, and portal directors.

Since I am the Portal Development Adviser for this company, I find myself in a similar situation that I was in 25 years ago. I was working for a manufacturer's rep firm in Denver, and we were selling supplies to the plumbing wholesalers in Denver. As manufacturer's reps we only sold to wholesalers, who then sold to the plumbing contractors. At that time, Denver had been the fastest growing metropolitan area in the country for many years, and Aurora, Colorado was the fastest growing suburb in th country. For that reason, many of the big plumbing contractors only were doing new constuction plumbing. Therefore, half of the wholesalers had all of their eggs in the new contruction basket.

Obviously, Denver did not continue being the fastest growing area in the country, and there are not 10 million people living in Denver in 2010, as it was being projected by the real estate experts during that housing boom. In other words, the new construction slowed way down, and Denver found itself with an over-built new home market, and nobody had any need for quite some time for a plumbing wholesaler or a plumbing contractor that ONLY did NEW residential construction. Consequently, many wholesalers and contractors went out of business in Colorado in the late 90's.

But in the early 80's, during the housing boom in Denver, the manufacturer's rep company I worked for, was representing several lines of plumbing supplies and equipment that was primarily used by plumbing contractors that were doing repair work. My job was to go around and tell the wholesalers that they should be stocking these supplies. But the wholesalers who were busy making a fortune by just selling supplies for new construction, had no interest whatsoever in buying or stocking or selling plumbing supplies for anything but new construction. The few of them that understood the value of diversifying their business, were also selling plumbing supplies to the plumbing contractors who did repair work, even though the repair part of the plumbing business in Colorado was not where the gravy money was in the early 80's. So, the plumbing wholesalers and plumbing contractors who stayed in business in the late 80's, were the ones that diversified, and had some established some business in the repair market, which got them through the residential down-turn in the late 80's.

And what in the world, you may ask, does plumbing supplies in the 80's have to with the city portal director business opportunity in 2010??? Folks, I know that in the world of business opportunities, the name of the game right now is to just sit at home in your boxer shorts, and work on your computer about two hours a day, and then check your bank account and see all the money just flowing in. I have seen those brochures, and right now that is what everybody is pushing on the Internet for people who are looking to make money online with their own home-based business. People see the guy or gal standing in front of the Rolls Royce and fancy home, and on a yacht, or sitting on the beach in the Bahamas with their laptop, and they say to themselves, "THAT is what I want to do". If that is what you are chasing after, I hope it works out well for you.

The city portal director business opportunity is just an old-fashioned good common sense business opportunity. You actually have to go out and be a real person and actually make some real sales calls to real people who own real small businesses. And when google changes their policies and criteria for the way their pages get ranked, and when there are 100 times as many websites online as there are today, and when facebook and twitter and blogging are not the way to make money online any more, then the city portal directors who have gone around their town and built up a good solid working relationship with the business owners in their community, will be doing just fine.

I hope you keep the city portal director business opportunity in mind in your quest for the right business opportunity for you.

Good luck and successful selling to you.

by Phil Staudt
February 7, 2010