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Administration
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You will have complete administration access to your Find a Friend website!
Change the content, pricing, themes, images and special offers anytime you like!
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Available
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USACityPlace has 1000's of potential locations available!
Contact us now to see if
your city is one!
Canadian, Australian and British Cities Welcome!
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Reserve Your City!
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When you decide that you want to run the Find a Friend website for your city, no other USACityPlace website will be built for your city. It will be EXCLUSIVELY yours for as long as your site is active!
Your city will be Click here to see if your your area is available today!
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Domain Name
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Who will own the domain name of my city directory?
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Can I choose my own domain?
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How much does it cost for me to own the domain name?
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Site Administration
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I do not know any HTML and am quite new to the Internet. Can I do this?
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Can I add more web pages so I can offer more content?
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Will I be able to work off line?
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Can I put information about other cities on my USACityPlacesite?
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How much space will the program take up on my computer?
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Can I copy content and images from other USACityPlacesites?
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Would I be able to provide our own content as well as provide news and information from other sources through RSS feeds?
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How many different web site themes do I have to choose from?
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General Questions
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Am I limited to a certain number of advertiser's for my directory?
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If businesses can list their own company, will I have control over who lists their business in my directory?
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How long does it take to build my site after ordering?
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Will my directory be branded anywhere with your name?
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Can I own more than one city directory?
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Can I own a directory if my city is in Canada, England or Australia?
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How do I market this business? Do I contact businesses in person? Do you suggest thru e-mail? Do you suggest auto responders?
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How much do I charge for ad space?
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Do you have contracts that I can use with my customers, or do I have to come up with my own?
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What if my city is taken?
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How do I find out if my city is taken?
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Can I see some of your other clients sites?
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Can you share with me some of the ways I can market my local site?
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I am really interested, but want to think about it first. Can you hold my city for me?
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Do I need a business license?
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How many man hours can I expect to put into this business?
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Can I work this business off more than one computer?
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Hosting
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What does my hosting plan include?
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What if I need more space or data transfer? Can I upgrade?
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Can I host the site on my own server?
Answers:
Q: Who will own the domain name of my city directory?
A: USACityPlacewill purchase and retain ownership of the domain name, unless you prefer to purchase this yourself. We will also take care of basic hosting costs for you!
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Q: Can I choose my own domain?
A: Yes! You can choose from any available domain name. Effective 4-1-2007 you may no longer register or use a domain name that has the name of a "county" in it or the word "county" (unless your city's name is the same as the name of your county). You are grandfathered in and will not be required to change your domain name if you registered it prior to 4-1-2007 and it includes your county name.
You can not chose a domain name that has the name of another city that you do not lease. Example: Your city is Rancho Bernardo California. You many not choose a domain name that has SanDiego in it.
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Q: How much does it cost for me to own the domain name?
A: Your domain name is included in your package at no additional charge. However, you are welcome to register it yourself. You can choose any domain name registrar you like (we recommend www.zazoos.com) and we will provide you the DNS settings to apply to your chosen domain name if you choose to purchase this yourself.
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Q: I do not know any HTML and am quite new to the Internet. Can I do this?
A: With a little instruction any one can do this! With the NEW USACityPlace2.0 WYSIWYG editor, you do not need to know any HTML to run these sites. It can be as easy as creating an email or using a word processing program on your computer.
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Q: Can I add more web pages so I can offer more content?
A: Absolutely! The website will be in your total control, you may feel free to add as many pages as you need* and place additional links to those pages any place you wish. With CityAmerica, you can add pages "on the fly". Add as many as you want and the navigation links are generated for you...Automatically!
*An internal limit of 3000 pages may apply.
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Q: Will I be able to work off line?
A: You will need to be online to do updates to your site. Everything is based on the server.
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Q: Can I put information about other cities on my USACityPlacesite?
A: Yes! You may add pages and links to local attractions for informational purposes. You may NOT make your site to "appear" as though it were a site serving a city that you do not lease. Example: if you leased Rancho Bernardo, California, you could NOT call your site the SanDiegoCityGuide.com nor could you put on your site words like "San Diego's best directory". You could however put information on your Rancho Bernardo site about the San Diego Zoo etc.
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Q: How much space will the program take up on my computer?
A: This will not take any space on your computer. Nothing is loaded on your computer... It's all server based.
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Q: Can I copy content and images from other USACityPlacesites?
A: No, sorry. This would be a violation of copyright law. There are many free and low cost sources for images. We offer a marketing aids site with links to many of them.
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Q: Would I be able to provide our own content as well as provide news and information from other sources through RSS feeds?
A: Yes, you can create new pages and add whatever information on them you wish! Our
site does offer an RSS plugin which allows you to configure RSS feed from other
sources as well.
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Q: How many different web site themes do I have to choose from?
A: We have over 250 themes to select for your own look.
You can view a sample of our preset themes here:
http://www.cityamerica.com/pages/Theme
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Q: What does my hosting plan include?
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- 300 megs of disc space
- 6000 megs of data transfer
- Email forwarding
- Create up to 150 POP Email Accounts
- Cpanel
- Webalizer / Awstats (Visitor statistics software)
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Q: What if I need more space or data transfer? Can I upgrade?
A: Yes, additional disc storage and bandwidth can be purchased easily and affordably if needed. You can learn more information about the cost of upgrades here:
http://cityamerica.com/pages/upgrades
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Q: Can I host the site on my own server?
A: The website must stay on our server. We use a quality, dedicated server designed specifically for our scripts. This ensures smooth performance and stability, and the website may not be moved, duplicated or reproduced in any way to any other server without our permission.
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Q: Am I limited to a certain number of advertiser's for my directory?
A: Your directory, coupons and classifieds sections will hold 1000's of listings! No need to worry about being limited!
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Q: If businesses can list their own company, will I have control over who lists their business in my directory?
A: Yes! Even though businesses can input their own company information, it will not be published to the website directory until after the administrator of the site (you) has approved it. This is the same for classified ads and just about any other visitor submitted content. You will maintain total control over submissions.
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Q: How long does it take to build my site after ordering?
A: Your site will be completed and released into your care 5 business days after we receive your order. Most of this waiting period is due to the typical 72 hour time from it will take for the nameservers on your new domain name to fully propagate. In most cases, you may have your site in less than 3 days.
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Q: Will my directory be branded anywhere with your name?
A: No, not at all.
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Q: Can I own more than one city directory?
A: Yes! You can operate as many sites as you like. You only pay the $130 setup fee for your 1st site. Additional sites - you will just pay the monthly payment per site. Contact us if you wish to add extra sites.
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Q: Can I own a directory if my city is in Canada, England or Australia?
A: Yes! We welcome any cities that use primarily English as their spoken language. However, our software is written for the US cities, so some features may not be available or compatible with your country. Please contact us for details.
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Q: How do I market this business? Do I contact businesses in person? Do you suggest thru e-mail? Do you suggest auto responders?
A: We offer a large variety of suggestions, marketing tools, etc on promoting your site in our Member's Area. You can also network with other USACityPlacemembers to learn from their success.
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Q: How much do I charge for ad space?
A: Ad space pricing can be anything you want. You are in full control over all prices and packages offered.
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Q: Do you have contracts that I can use with my customers, or do I have to come up with my own?
A: Since every site is individually owned and operated... Everyone has their own prices, terms etc. and they all make up their own forms. We do however have lots of samples on our Marketing Aids site that you are free to use.
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Q: What if my city is taken?
A: We only allow one site per city. If you really want to have a certain city, you can fill out our Waiting List form and we will contact you if it becomes available again:
http://cityamerica.com/pages/Waiting_List
This is for an inquiry only and in no way obligates you to purchase your requested city.
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Q: How do I find out if my city is taken?
A: Please visit http://cityamerica.com/pages/GetStarted to see if your area is available. Complete the short form and you will get an instant answer. There is no obligation to check your city.
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Q: Can I see some of your other clients sites?
A: It is our policy to not use our clients sites as a tool to promote our own
business. Our clients appreciate this and if you become a client you will also appreciate it. However, we do have permission from the sites seen on our testimonials
page to share their URL if you would like to see what our software is capable
of:
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Q: Can you share with me some of the ways I can market my local site?
A: The marketing strategies are covered in depth on our Sales and Marketing Manual
and in our Member's Area, which is exclusive to our members but full of great
ideas on how to market your site.
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Q: I am really interested, but want to think about it first. Can you hold my city for me?
A: Sorry, cities are offered on a first come, first serve basis.
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Q: Do I need a business license?
A: You may wish to check with the local authority about whether or not they require a business license, however many areas do not require a license for this type of business.
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Q: How many man hours can I expect to put into this business?
A: This is really up to you, but we believe if you can devote a minimum on 10 hours a week to updating and promoting your site you can be successful.
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Q: Can I work this business off more than one computer?
A: Everything that powers your site is online so you can work from any computer, anywhere, anytime. No software is installed to your computer - everything is 100% web-based.
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