Have you ever hired someone for their services and wished you could meet with them face to face? You call them, and call them, but you end up playing phone-tag, and email-tag, and yes, even that old Fax-tag? You'd like to set up an appointment to cover some things about your new ideas, but they are located in some firm out in Houston, Texas while you're stuck in Rhinoville, Connecticut? This situation is happening to more, and more, businesses. The power of
Internet is showing it's metal. Many businesses, and consumers are learning that
Internet can be downright convenient. Oh yeah, it makes
world a much smaller place. Now you can get your boat's motor delivered from Virginia Beach to Spokane Washington. You'd probably rest assured you got
best price as well. Having
whole world to price shop is great. Until there's a problem...
When you have a problem, then
distance is real, and
options are limited.
I have had clients of mine call and leave messages on voice mail to their previous "Discount Webmaster" and never get a reply, or wait for days, and actually suffer some rather unpleasant experiences in solving issues, especially when
distance is great.
In most cases it would cost a pretty penny, in time alone, to deal with all
headaches of getting your fair share of whatever arrangements went sour.
Above is a brief description of a problem that encompasses
Internet World. The solution is simple, really. When a consumer or business man gets
reality of
long distance problems, they go back to their comfort zone, back to dealing locally.
Locally is definitely
easiest way to do business. Search engines can help us do this.
There are several business types that are limited to region and need to be indexed in
search engines as local businesses. For instance
Car Insurance Industry, Attorneys or Real Estate Agents. I would personally rather have my custom printer be local or even my webmaster or marketer.