Small Business Helps Small Business Look Big

September 14, 2006; 04:05 AM
Mile High Business Guide is a targeted directory that focuses on the best small businesses in the Denver metro area, and throughout Colorado. "It's a niche directory", said Barbara Bailey, owner; "We're not trying to reach everyone, or list every website. We just want our visitors to know they can shop the businesses in our directory with confidence that they will get good value and be treated well.” Bailey said she believes Mile High Business Guide will also prove to be a valuable asset for local small businesses. “Since the people who come to the directory are looking for something specific, we expect a high click-thru rate for our advertisers," she said.

The directory has a two-fold purpose. First, it provides a valuable, free resource for Denver area consumers. Bailey noted, “We’re thrilled to have the opportunity to introduce consumers to some of the best small businesses, nonprofit and service organizations in the Denver Metro area.” Mile High Business Guide also links consumers to a myriad of free and low cost community events, educational programs and fundraisers on one of Denver’s best Community Calendars.

For quality small businesses, Mile High Business Guide offers a huge opportunity to get noticed by potential customers. According to Bailey, “Many of our prospects complained that they had websites that weren’t generating either traffic or revenue. We found that most were working with slow, ineffective sites.” For those clients, Mile High Business Guide offers professional web design, development and hosting packages. As Bailey puts it, “not cheap websites, they’re quality, professional sites at affordable prices.”

Once the websites are built, Mile High Business Guide offers great ongoing services, including marketing, marketing support and education, with website listings, a monthly tips and tricks newsletter, and other bonus items to help even the smallest business look BIG, both on and off the web.

MileHighBusinessGuide.com lists itself as a place to "do good business with good businesses". The Guide already includes business categories ranging from Accounting, with B. Sharpe Services, and Tax Only, LLC, to Web Design, and Babbs' Web Shop. With 56 listings at launch, and new listings added daily, this directory is certain to grow quickly.

Bailey Internet Group launched its first website, http://BabbsWebShop.com a web design and development site, back in May of 2000. Since then, the Group has grown to include http://GarageSaleShow.com a high-traffic consumer oriented website dedicated to those who love Garage Sales and http://MileHighCardFile.com a website which has helped to promote Denver area business and nonprofit interests through a unique Cause Related Marketing program. Bailey said, “Mile High Business Guide is a wonderful complement to the successful websites we’ve previously launched. It provides us with yet another way to help promote some of the best small businesses here in Metro Denver.”