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May 31, 2005

Dallas, Texas Mortgage website for CTX Loan Officer Tommy Uhr represents the skills and services that Dallas, Texas mortgage expert Tommy Uhr offers residents of Dallas and Fort Worth Texas as a loan officer at CTX Mortgage.

Tommy Uhr has years of experience helping hundreds of home buyers in the Dallas and Fort Worth area and finding them the perfect loan product that fits their unique needs. He wanted to differentiate himself from the hundreds and thousands of loan officers in the Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas. So he decided to use online tools to achieve this.

The website achieves the primary objective of establishing Tommy Uhr as THE Mortgage Expert. Read the article on how ...

January 26, 2005

Our latest launch in January 2005 is FieldTurfIndia.com! This website serves as an online brochure for the products and services of this exclusive licensee of FieldTurf (North America) products in 7 Asian countries!

Check out the fully custom design we created for FieldTurfIndia.com. As the needs of this new licensee grow, you will see this website change and grow accordingly and we will be the technology outsourcer of choice for them the whole way from startup to a big success!

December 15, 2004

Our best launch of 2005 - LoanBongo.com is on August 1, 2005! This Intelligent Loan Comparison software will help Mortgage professionals around the nation reduce the amount of time it takes to select the right loan program for their customers by comparing thousands of loan programs!

Check out this amazing website that is scheduled to be released early next year. The idea behind this powerful software is simple yet it is predicted to save mortgage professionals hundreds of hours a year and effectively increase their business. The technology behind the software is extremely complex.

December 1, 2004

Our next launch - Numbers2Go.com is on July 4, 2005! The Random Cruncher will help you increase your chances of picking winning lottery numbers!

Check out this interesting website that is scheduled to be released on the first of the year. The Random Cruncher has some fairly sophisticated mathematics combined with common sense. The technology behind the software is very advanced so don't be fooled by the simple premise behind the Random Cruncher.

August 13, 2004

Our latest launch - AngelaDownes.com. Angela Downes is the ONLY Ebby Halliday realtor offering an interactive 800 number

Angela Downes is a member of the exclusive Who's Who in Luxury Real Estate. Her website is the ONLY realtor website in the Dallas area that has an interactive vendor rating engine where her customers can refer and rate various vendors to her other customers and anyone who visits the website.

April 19, 2004

Basic Website Solution for only $450!

 

Did you ever think you could have a website up and running in 5 business days and only pay $450 for it?

Well, you were right. It is possible. You can now get an online web presence in less than a week and for $450. We now have a 1 page Basic Website Solution that will get you up and running really fast. You just pick your favorite template from our list of available templates, tell us the names of the pages for your website, give us the images plus content, and we will bring your website to life in less than a week! We can register a domain name for your website, we can maintain it for a minimal fee, and we can even host your website on the Internet for you! Don't wait, click the link below for all our services!

Resources

Most websites that have a Resources link don't really provide resources that are useful to the website user.

We have made sure that the articles you find here are very valuable and are not 'sales copy'. Our aim is to help you with valuable information and provide a service ONLY if you really need or want the service.

The websites we link to are the BEST resources we have found for small businesses and we are NOT affiliates or in any way associated with them. We just want to share these 'gems' with our users.

Small Business Administration: The best place for small business help in the United States. This should be the first stop in forming and succeeding in a small business. They have a wealth of FREE information on how to make your business successful. This information has been put together by top-notch industry experts and made available to the American public. The SBA is also very useful for business leads on federal contracts. There are laws in place to help the U.S. small businesses succeed and most of us may not be familiar with them. Check out this site and take advantage of this FREE help.

Nolo's Legal and other Small Biz Books: We believe that their books provide very high value. We have been avid readers of a lot of their publications for several years and thoroughly enjoy reading them. We recommend that you research their website to see how you can benefit from their books.

Smart Computing in Plain English: We found this site which publishes the monthly Smart Computing magazine to be an excellent when it comes to explaining complex computing concepts in plain English. There are very few ads and most of them are not thrown in the middle of the articles which makes reading the articles a pleasant experience. We highly recommend this magazine for anyone who likes understanding how different technologies work.


Additional Links: These are websites we ran into that offer a unique product or service that you may be interested in. Do give us feedback on your experience with them so we can update this page. If you know any links that you want us to share with our customers and users, please e-mail them to info@SmallbizNiche.com.

Helpful links will be posted here in the near future.


Articles: Here are some helpful articles -

How to select a vendor when you are a small business:

If you are a small business, you may be at a disadvantage in a few areas where big businesses spend a lot of money to gain the competence. One of them is vendor selection and vendor management, the other is negotiation. We want to take this opportunity to share with you some valuable information on vendor selection and management. We will update this site for advice on negotiation sometime soon.

Business Needs/Processes: Spend a little time understanding in plain English what it is that you need and the processes you are currently utililizing to accomplish the right results.

Create potential vendor list: There are several ways to come up with a potential vendor list. One common way is to ask around and see what names come up. This isn't always the best way though. You will find some amazing companies and great deals if you are open to non-traditional ways of finding vendors. One approach is to contact your local Better Business Bureau to see who's listed with them. Another approach is to seek out some names from your local Chamber of Commerce. Both these approaches will reveal vendors that may be new and haven't established a great reputation yet. Hence you can get fantastic deals if you are able to assess their competence level. We will get to that in the next section.

Vendor short list: From the initial list of vendors you created, you need to do some initial screening to come up with a short list. There are several ways to do this. You could use your budget to reduce the list but is generally not a good idea. This is because in most cases, you can't afford to sacrifice quality with price. A popular way is to look at their qualifications whethere it is their client list or technical certifications. Another popular way is to test their customer service by contacting them via phone or e-mail and see how quick they are to answer your questions or even return your phone calls/e-mails. Also look to see if they have a process in place to provide you the service. Has somebody at the vendor thought through what is involved in providing you the service that you are paying for? If they have really thought the process through, they should be better able to meet your needs.

Final selection and Backup plan: No matter how much research you have done, it is a good idea to select a first choice and a second choice lender. This is for two reasons - negotiation and to have a backup plan.

We will continue this article next week ...