Web Services

The Preparedness Mall in conjunction with ici MEDIA has set up a full suite of reasonably priced web services including the FREE classifieds. Whether or not you've used the web before, whether or not you have a personal or company web pages we have a solution for you.

Services can be purchased through a special online purchase process that allows you to select the items your want whether or not you plan to pay a credit card online. Blank order forms are also provided if you just want to print them and fill them out mannual. As you select items to purchase, they will be put in a "shopping cart" which automatically builds a order form which give you the grand total. After the shopping is complete you can choose to print and fax or mail the order, call in your order, or move on to automatic secure credit card processing. Its your choice. The secure credit card processing will automatically send you passwords and instructions for adding a listing or creating web pages.

The below listing of our web services are presented in order of their increasing value. Please read browse these descriptions and the associated information, then decide where you want to start.

Free Classifed Ads
Got something you want to sell? Looking to buy? This is the place! And you can place your classified ad for FREE! for four weeks. This service is for Private Party listings only. All you need is a web browser to type in the information concerning what you want to buy or what you would like to sale. Likewise, you'll be able to go to a screen to remove your ad as soon as you got what you wanted or sold what you're advertising.

Listings - Add to the Mall
The Preparedness Mall is Open 24 Hours a day, 365 Days a Year in order to showcase you company and products. The Preparedness Mall is simultaneously being marketed with the Preparedness Expos and the Preparedness Journal. Thousands and thousands of dollars are being effectively spent for online adverstising, direct mail, newspapers and radio broadcast in the major U.S. cities. All to drive traffic to the shows and the mall. The Preparedness Mall is quickly becoming the most popular online resource for preparedness products and information.

Your company can merchandise its products in the mall by creating effective Ads with graphics and text. All ads will be accessible by a categorical and an alphabetical listing. The categorical listing displays ads on a first come first serve bases. (ie. the oldest paid ad shows up first in the listing). If you want to have your ad displayed in more than one category, this can easily be set up for a small annual fee.

A Short Listing can include: CATEGORY, ORGANIZATION, CONTACT PERSON, PHONE, FAX, EMAIL, and complete ADDRESS. The EMAIL will be active so shoppers can send you mail directly from the Preparedness Mall.

The Long Listing is where a company can really show its colors. This includes all of the information as the Short Listing with the added feature to include an eye-catching AD BANNER, a DETAILED DESCRIPTON of products and services, and the ability to LINK DIRECTLY to your website. If you don't have a website, we can help you there too.

Web Page - Build a Store
Don't worry about monthly fees or learning about FTP or HTML. A small annual fee will make it possible for you to easily create and maintain you own web page online. After selecting a background, text and link colors, email graphics, and typing in unlimited information about your company, its products and services, a web page will be automatical created that you can change as often as needed! Your world-wide-web address will be:

http://www.preparednessmall.com/see/YourWebPage.html

This page will be directly accessible over the web by anybody in the world. And you easily change the look and information on the page whenever you want . . . monthly, weekly, daily, and even hourly. Also if you like, your Long Listing can be linked to this custom web page so people browsing the Preparedness Mall can get fast access to this dynamic page. If you already have a website, its doubtful that you can easily change it. No problem, this custom webpage provides for three links so the Mall Listing can link to this dynamic custom page and then this page in turn can link to your website that changes less frequently.

Web Sites
The same organization that built the Preparedness Mall and many, many other large successful websites can be employed to create an award-winning website for your company. Interesting, exclusive, entertaining and dynamic (ie. always changing) websites are what become the most popular and gives the company the opportunity to merchandise themselves because people will be coming in the doors to see what you got. Multi-page websites with original page design, custom graphics, buttons, animations and product listings can all be created specifically for you company. This service not only includes the the design and development but the actual hosting of the entire website with its own direct address on a high-bandwidth, high-speed server.

Electronic Commerce
In additional to having websites that list and describe their products or services, a secure credit card process could be set up so that products could be purchased online. Depending upon the number of products and the volume of business, the process could be handled the following ways: