Sedona Resident Launches Sedona News Site at WWW.SEDONA.BIZ

Sedona resident launches www.sedona.biz, a news and information website for the greater Sedona area. The site offers local, state, and national news items; humor, classifieds, job listings, shopping, and an events calendar. Sedona.biz is a member of the Sedona Chamber of Commerce.

Sedona, AZ (PRWEB) September 28, 2006 -- Sedona.biz is owned and operated by Carl Jackson. Born in 1961, Mr. Jackson grew up in Southern Connecticut and attended New York University where he earned a B.F.A. in liberal arts in 1983 and an M.B.A. in finance in 1986.

He spent the next 20 years as a banker in New York City at various financial institutions such as Credit Suisse, the last being Deutsche Bank where he was a Director in the Structured Finance division.

In 2002, Mr. Jackson became interested in the internet and its potential. He made a number of investments in internet companies such as Rediff: an Indian web portal, Nutrisystem: an online diet company and Communicate.com: the owner of perfume.com and importers.com.

Said Mr. Jackson, "After investigating these companies, I became convinced that the internet is the single biggest growth industry to emerge over the last twenty years."

In 2006, Mr. Jackson left banking to start an internet business, and he and his wife Jodi purchased a home in Sedona. Said Mr. Jackson, "Sedona is a unique place. Although its population is only around twelve thousand people, the visitors to Sedona are in the millions. For many tourists, residents, and people planning to move here, the internet, and in particular a Sedona branded website, is the way they will learn about what's happening in Sedona and the rest of the Verde Valley."

Of course, there are already some very good tourist websites focused on Sedona, the best of which, in Mr. Jackson's opinion, is the Sedona Chamber of Commerce website at visitsedona.com.

Said Mr. Jackson, "Unfortunately, I didn't find a single Sedona website that offered daily local, state, and national news for Sedona residents." He was then lucky enough to secure the one word domain name www.Sedona.biz and started a news website for the greater Sedona area.

While the .biz extension is unusual, the fact that Sedona.net is a popular website here convinced him that Sedona residents would catch on to the name quickly. Said Mr. Jackson, "I also think the .biz extension allows me to expand Sedona.biz beyond news to ecommerce. That's why we have an online shopping area, coupons, classifieds, job listings, forums, and an events calendar, but it's going to take time to develop all of these areas. Eventually, I'd like Sedona.biz to be the place for everything Sedona."

Mr. Jackson also sees an extremely bright future for the Verde Valley as a whole. "If you look at real estate prices, you'll see they've more than doubled in some areas since 2000. People are moving here in large numbers, and estimates are that the population of the Verde Valley will more than double by 2050."

For that reason, Mr. Jackson also owns other, as of yet undeveloped, domain names focused on the Verde Valley such as iVerdeValley.com, iJerome.com, iCottonwood.com, iCampVerde.com, among others. Said Mr. Jackson, "I also own vvconnect.com and other similar names that I think could become a hub site for the Verde Valley in the same way that azcentral.com is for Arizona. I would love to put together a consortium of local newspaper, travel, real estate, television and radio companies to jointly own and promote vvconnect.com to make it a success while promoting their own websites."

Ultimately, Mr. Jackson sees Sedona.biz and his other websites being folded into a larger newspaper organization that is either looking to enter the Verde Valley, or is already in the Verde Valley and wants to continue to grow. Said Mr. Jackson, "For any newspaper organization that wants to enter the Verde Valley or drive traffic to its existing newspapers, Sedona.biz and vvconnect.com and my other sites are by far, in my opinion, the best internet brands currently available for this area."

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