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The newsletter will remain on www.megaplex.co.za for at least a year, with your advert generating ongoing business for you.

To see previous issues of the newsletter, click here (new pages): Previous Newsletters 2009-2011, June 2011, July 2011, August 2011, September 2011, October 2011, November 2011, December 2011, January 2012.

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What is megaplex.co.za and How do I Get Listed?

www.megaplex.co.za is the world's largest and most detailed web site of useful information about shops, restaurants and other businesses in Northern Sandton.  Sounds silly, doesn't it?  It's not: It's the niche market for your neighbourhood, where you get seen by potential customers searching the web.

We cover Woodmead, Wendywood, Morningside, Morningside Manor, Gallo Manor, Rivonia, Petervale, Benmore Gardens and some of Bryanston.  Our July 2010 Alexa website rank was in the top 3.61%, above Sandton City, Woodmead Retail Park, and Benmore Gardens Shopping Centre.  Pages on the Megaplex site do very well on searches for shopping in Sandton.

A Web Page for R200? Are we Insane?

How many of your problems could be solved if you had more money?  If you had more customers in your business, would that bring in more money?  So how can you get more customers?

The fastest-growing advertising medium today is the Internet.  Right now, people are searching on-line for the products and services that you offer.  Will they find you –or your competitors?

YOUR SHOP can now have an effective web presence for just R200 + VAT a month.

A web site could easily cost you R10,000.  So what are we doing?

We're offering a basic web page.  Just a page, not a site (many pages).  It has no fancy moving pictures.  It does not use Flash, PHP or Python.  It does not play a tune when you open it, or have a sexy voice announcing your products to the viewer's whole office.  That would be complicated.  It would take time.  It could also cost you a truckload of money.  And here's the rub: It would be useless!

Pretty pictures, things that pop up when you mouse over them, animation, audio, video, all mean nothing  to Google.  Google is the search engine used by 90% of internet users.  Google is interested only in words.

We keep it simple.  We put in a few pictures for interest's sake, but what we craft is text.  Words.  The right words.  Key words that are relevant to your business, so Google will love your page and show it near the top.  That means: More people will see it, more people will click on it, more people will go to your page.  Result?  More business for you!

We will build you a web page on the megaplex site, equivalent in content to an A4 sheet, for only R200 + VAT per month or R2000 + VAT per year paid in advance.  You can have up to four pictures on it and change it once a month when it is up and running.

With this comes a link from a shopping centre or area page on the site.  Pages on the Megaplex site rank very well on searches for shopping in Sandton, so we believe that other pages on the site will also get a boost as a result.

e-mail us now and have your business on the internet within a week!

Case Study I

Visit Google South Africa and search for "Sandton Vet".  Our page for Rivonia Village Veterinary Clinic comes up in second place, after the Business Listing of the Vets in Sandton.  How many Vets are there in Sandton?  Lots!  We can't promise the same results for you overnight (this page has been up since October 2008) but one thing's for sure: It can only improve your business!

How many new customers would you need to cover R200 a month?  If you're an accountant like Steve, one a month is plenty.  If, like Raffaele, you do pizzas, it might be several but, if you satisfy them, you have a customer for life –and how many pizzas does one family buy in a lifetime?  (I have a soft spot for Steve: He replied to my first marketing e-mail saying "Are You Insane?", which I've used as my title above)

The trick is to get started.  Start getting a ranking on Google.  It takes time.  The next vet to put up a web site (or page) is going to have to fight his way up past Rivonia Village Vet in the rankings, which means he will have to try harder.  So reply to this proposal now and let's get going!

As a matter of interest, Rivonia Village Veterinary Clinic is so happy with their results that they postponed getting a separate site of their own.

Case Study II

At the end of May 2010, Jan of Perfect10 Woodmead contacted us about a paid-for web page for his nail and body studio. We gave him a first cut of the page to look at on 6 June and went live on 23 June. We expected it to take months to make the front page of Google.  To our delight, only three weeks later on 16 July when we did some test searches, it got top spot on Google for "Woodmead manicure" and "Woodmead pedicure".  The page also hit 2nd place for "Nails Woodmead" (just under the list of Perfect 10 franchises) and "beauty Woodmead".  Jan has already started getting custom from the page and says we can use him as a reference.  May we do a similar page for your business?

e-mail us now and have your business on the internet within a fortnight!

Can I Advertise on megaplex.co.za?

You may advertise on any pages, at our discretion, on a first-come, first-served basis.  You might prefer to advertise on your own centre's page, or even on pages of other centres where there are competing shops and you do not have a "smalls" listing.

Advertising Policy, Terms and Conditions

Prices exclude VAT.  VAT Invoices will be supplied by e-mail, and must be paid in full before advertising goes "live".  Mock-ups can be put on the web for private viewing and approval beforehand.

While we list all legal businesses on this site to make the database as complete as possible, we accept advertising from wholesome and ethical businesses only.  No strip joints, brothels, pornographers, drug dens, con artists, pyramid schemes or superstition-mongers, please!

Where space allows, we give free publicity to secular charities such as SPCA and SA Guide Dogs for the Blind, and worthy NGOs such as Earthlife Africa and WET-Africa.  Contact us if your charity or NGO serves the Sandton area and you believe you qualify.

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