New Web Site Offers Free, Searchable Profiles for Kansas City Small Businesses

Peak Web Development of Kansas City has launched a new community web site called "The Kansas City Small Business Network," offering free profiles to small businesses in the community.

(PRWEB) November 8, 2004 -- Peak Web Development of Kansas City (http://peakwebdevelopment.com) has announced the launch of a new community web site, the Kansas City Small Business Network (http://kcsmallbusiness.com). The new web site will provide a searchable directory of small business profiles in the greater Kansas City area. Profiles are free to businesses in the area, and can be created using a simple on-line interface, which includes a feature to upload an optional 180 x 150 graphic. Businesses may enter contact information and a short description, as well as key words to match visitors' search criteria.

Increasingly, free services such as community web sites--where business can have what is essentially free advertising--are becoming increasingly popular as a means of networking with other small businesses.

More people are working at home now in independent home-based businesses, many serving small business services niches, says Barry Diederich, co-owner of Peak Web Development in Kansas City. Print and even web advertising is expensive and too broad for a lot of small and specialty service businesses, especially those offering niche business services. For a lot of them, networking can be the answer. It can be good for more established businesses as well.

Diederich also notes that kcsmallbusiness.com is a true community based site, and does not accept profiles from outside the Kansas City metro area.

Thats a real difference from corporate web sites that just divide their database by city and pose as a local site with a URL and a header," says Diederich. Anybody can put a listing in those, and visitors to the site quickly discover that its not really local businesses that theyre looking at. But a true community site can be very appealing."

Peak Web Development is a full-service developer of custom-tailored business web sites, specializing in original graphical designs, illustrations and animations, specialized content management systems and database applications.

For more information about joining kcsmallbusiness.com, contact Barry Diederich, 816-803-2824, or email barry@peakwebdevelopment.com.

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