PawtuxetVillage: Why Advertise with Pawtuxet.com

• All proceeds support the Gaspee Days Committee which further supports Pawtuxet Village and its merchants:
• This web site is a project of the Gaspee Days Committee, which is a civic-minded nonprofit organization that runs a list of many varied community events, including the famous Gaspee Days Parade each June.  These events are all designed to commemorate the burning of the hated British revenue schooner, HMS Gaspee, by Rhode Island patriots in 1772 as a proximate cause of the American Revolution. This historic event occurred here in Pawtuxet Village and on nearby Gaspee Point
• This project will help defray part of the $35,000 per year cost of operating the Gaspee Days Parade.
• The Gaspee Days Parade, Arts & Crafts Festival and other Gaspee Days Events attract thousands of customers to Pawtuxet Village businesses.
• Pawtuxet.com promotes a unique Pawtuxet Village identity to increase commerce
• Pawtuxet.com provides a great web presence at bargain costs
• Pawtuxet.com/yourbusiness.htm avoids long, arcane web addresses that are useless to promote, for example:  http://users.ids.net/~moon/index.html
• Pawtuxet.com makes customers able to find your business easily with a common web directory for all Pawtuxet Village merchants
• Pawtuxet.com Directory and Pawtuxet.com Business Guide link either to your pre-existing website...or to a web site we create for you!
• Pawtuxet.com gets you to know your neighboring business owners and ... network

Projected Rates for Pawtuxet.com Participation:

• Pawtuxet.com Business Directory with no additional links or services..... FREE
• Basic Service, includes Business Guide listing and link to pre-established business web site from Business Guide and Business Directory ............... $50

(but this fee waived if your business already contributes to a Gaspee Days event for more than $50 in goods or services...1st year only)
• Premium Service for single screen business description/photo web page with link from Business Guide & Business Directory.  You provide text, logo, and photos............................................................................................................. $75
• Premium Service Plus for single screen business description/photo web page with link from Business Guide & Business Directory.  We provide suggested text, photos, and layout............................................................................... $100
• Simple change in web page after one month on-line.................................... $10
• Additional pages, services, or features can be negotiated


Comparison Rates:

• $70 per 2 year period for domain name (www.yourbusiness.com) registration
• $100 per year premium service web hosting without their banner advertising and annoyances
• $500 for development of simple web page site
• Computer & Internet Costs:
• $1000 computer and software
• $250 per year internet service provider dial-in rates
• $250 per year dedicated phone line to avoid busy signals while on-line
• Or $500 per year cable internet service + $250 cable modem


What Pawtuxet.com will do:

• Provide initial advertising of Pawtuxet.com site in Warwick Beacon, Cranston Herald, and The Bridge
• Provide Gaspee logo signs with: We're on the Web @ www.Pawtuxet.com
• Allow each business to use Pawtuxet.com in their advertising
• Provide links to Pawtuxet.com from Gaspee.com and Gaspee.org web sites
• Provide ongoing maintenance for these web services
• Register each web page with at least 2 search engines


What Pawtuxet.com can't do:

• Provide complex web hosting services such as credit card acceptance on-line or HIPAA-compliant medically secure web sites
• Provide you your own internet service or e-mail accounts
• Manage your e-mail business
• Provide you your own distinct domain name (www.yourbusiness.com)
• Provide any guarantees of service whatsoever, or assume any liability other than to refund paid amounts.


Questions?

• E-mail us at: webmaster@gaspee.org
• Phone inquiries to voice mail at: 781-1772
• Pawtuxet.com participation form is also available to download here
• Check out the Pawtuxet.com PowerPoint show