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You pressed the ATM Button, you must want to make some money

The view from the Mall virtual window overlooking downtown Kansas City, USAHello, I am Graeme Gibson. It is nice to meet you. USA Stores™ is designed to offer our customers and client a way to showcase their US owned business or made in the USA products. We ask that all companies displayed here are at least 51% US owned, and that all products that are show as Made in the USA in fact are.

But since you pressed that ATM button it is clear that you want to make some money. Here is a real example for you, a little guy who has a non-ecommerce website that does really well. Of course he has a good product, a great website will not help you sell junk, but here is his story.

Leonard Milholland designer of the Double Eagle Airplane and Better Half VW engine.Leonard Milholland is in his eighties, retired and with a hobby that he wanted to make some money at. He sells plans for ultralight airplanes. His site is simple, with no bells and whistles, no ecommerce, no security certificates, and for the first 4 years he didn't even have a domain name, he was just an "office" site here at USA Stores. We registered BetterHalfVW.com for him because that is what he calls his engine. Leonard is way out in the country living on an airport called SportsFlyers. Because he has dial-up (from our Homeisp.com division) $12.50 a month he can't do always on broadband so his site is fairly static. Even so he has had more than a half million hits on the website, with almost no promotion.

Leonard sells plans and how to DVD's for prices between $20 and $200. He grosses over $50K a year, he works about an hour a day at the business. The rest of the time he files, travels or fixes airplanes for his friends. He has been an EAA member for years. In 2007 he became so well known for his Legal Eagle Ultralight that he was invited to the EAA Airventure show at Oshkosh to display it. In fact this year one of his builders won grand champion. The EAA wanted him to show his newest airplane the Double Eagle, which brought about a new website: DoubleEagleAirplane.com Naturally both prototype planes, the DVD's and the plans are made in the USA.

More than 1/3rd of Leonard's sales come from the two websites, the rest come from trade magazine ads and fly ins. His sites cost $50 a month. It used to be $20 but he moved this year to the second floor and added a second site. He needed more webspace for the YouTube videos and pictures. We do all the promotion for it, he doesn't pay per click or pay for search engine ranking. He has a webmaster (me) who gets around to doing updates only about 2 times a year. Googling "Double Eagle Airplane" brings up 7 listings in the top ten in fact 1-7. At Yahoo he is 2,3,and 4. At Altavista 4 in the top ten, including the paid rankings. Not bad for a basic little website, but it helps show how promotions at the mall "pay off" for small operators.

Here is how the money works out: Income from website: $16,500.00, annual cost $600.00 that is a 2750 per cent return. Leonard's website includes his phone number, feel free to call him for references or to verify these figures. Lets see a 2750% return on investment, If that works for you check out our pricing and options.

Here are some Other ways our clients benefit by having a store, office or sign at USA Stores...

Key Advantages:

  1. USA Stores is very well indexed. Your rankings will go up by having a sign or store in our listings. Just like a real world mall it is all about traffic. Your site benefits by the promotional efforts of the other tenants and the mall.
  2. The name USA Stores™ is very easy to remember. If your name is long or complex we can give you a sign that makes it very easy for your clients to find your front door. This is really important when running radio or TV ads. USA Stores is so easy to remember and say that your name attached to ours is equally easy. For Example: I am at: www.usastores.com/mystore.
  3. If your email is hard to remember, spell or say we can give you an easy one: Write me at: myname@usastores.com And due to our small focused customer base common names like Joe or sue are often still available, never true with the giants like AOL, yahoo, or gmail.
  4. Our patriotic theme reflects on you. You are saying that your business supports and works with USA companies. And with all the concern in the news about shoddy or dangerous oversees products - this reflects well on your support of your customers.
  5. USA Stores has been on the web since May 6th 1996. In Internet years this is forever. In fact it is hard to find any company that has been online for more than a decade as we have. We plan to be here for many years more. You can trust your site with us, we are a stable well managed company and can provide detailed references.
  6. Our servers and Internet connections are at 1102 Grand, the carrier hotel in Kansas City. Our offices are at one of the best connected and most central points in the US. We are directly hooked to the KC NAP (Kansas City Network Access Point), giving us superior routing and latency, and our office have some of the most advanced redundancy in Internet, power and cooling that human beings can make.
  7. Our services are very cost effective. You can have a sign (pointing to your site) or email with us for as little as $10 a month. In fact having a store or office at USA Stores also saves you the annual domain fee for your own domain. And because our services are completely managed you have nothing to do but concentrate on your business.
  8. Email Services are provided by our MailCountry.net division. That $10 gets you up to 50 boxes, not just one! Email is full featured, virus and spam scanned, and supports vacation messages, forwarding and white list management for those emails that have to get through.
  9. Hosting packages where we do everything start at just $15 a month. Web design is equally cost effective. How do we do this? Well we live in a place where you can buy a nice 3 bedroom 2,000 Square foot house for less than $200K. When you pay less for everything you can charge less as well.
  10. We answer our daytime phones with human beings (really). Even after hours a human being will answer after a short que. Oh, and our tech support operators are all in the USA, you can understand them.

Rent a Store:

A Store is defined as a fully functional ecomerce site with a mall supplied security certificate. You should rent a store if you will be selling out of your Website. The floor you select should be based on the visibility you need the disk space required and the quantity of items to be sold. Stores are listed on the home page, with the first floor getting the most visibility. Stores include banners in rotation on other CTC Websites. Each store address is seen by typing the address as: www.usastores.com/mystorename

Location Price per month* Setup Charge Web Space Items in store
First Floor $500.00 $25 per item Unlimited More than 100
Second Floor $250.00 $500.00 500 Mb 26 to 100
Third Floor $150.00 $250.00 100 Mb Less than 25

Rent a Office:

An office in the mall is defined as a non ecomerce Website. (No inventory or security certificates) these are suitable for professional offices like law, real estate or accounting. They are also ideal for artists, writers, and teachers. They can also serve as mirror or temporary sites for hot standby services to protect an existing basic or ecomerce Website. Offices are listed in the offices subpage, with the first floor getting the most visibility. Each office address is seen by typing the address as: www.usastores.com/myofficename

Location Price per month* Setup Charge Web Space Transfer per month
First Floor $100.00 $250.00 2.5 Gb 120 Gb (9 Mb cont.)
Second Floor $50.00 $150.00 500 Mb 40 Gb (3.0 Mb cont.)
Third Floor $20.00 $100.00 50 Mb 20 Gb (1.5 Mb cont.)

Rent a Sign:

Signs are an inexpensive way to increase your existing website's visibility. Signs are displayed like Stores or Offices but redirect to websites that are hosted elsewhere. A sign can really help if you have webspace with AOL, MSN, Yahoo, or your ISP, etc. Often these websites are included in your connectivity fee but don't have easy to remember names. Signs include a redirector addressed as: www.usastores.com/youralias that will redirect to your hosted site like www.my-hard-to-say-isp.com/~somebizzarehardtotypestring/mywhatevertheytoldme.htm

Location Price per month* Setup Charge Web Space Banners
First Floor $20 home, $15 subpage $150 50 Mb YES (mainpage rotation)
Second Floor $15 home, $10 subpage $100.00 20 Mb YES (subpage rotation)
Third Floor $10 home, $5 subpage $50.00 10 Mb NO

Rent a Name:

Names are used it improve links in and out. Names only link to your Website. There is no space provided on our servers, this is an advertising only option and works like signs without the redirectors. You get seen on our pages and we link out to your specified Website. Names require you place a link on your Website. back to us. Here is an example: Find us at USA Stores™ or Buy American, we support USA Stores™ First floor locations require a supplied banner like the one at the top of this page be used. Failure to include a return link or banner as required will double the annual charge. There is no setup fee for this service. Billing is by Email only.

Location Price annually for homepage Price annually for subpage Web Space Return Banner
First Floor $120 $100 None YES
Second Floor $80 $35 None NO
Third Floor $60 $25 None NO

Email Only:

The Email option provides up to 50 email boxes with the form yourname@usastores.com. Alternatively we can provide email in the form of yourname@yourdomain.com if you have no email server of your own. All email boxes are scanned aggressively for virus signatures and spam content. All boxes can be pop'ed out or you can use our web interface. All administrators can control email settings add, delete, and change passwords at our web interface. All users can modify their white lists, black lists, forwarding, and vacation messages from the web interface. Email can be forwarded to any other email box, so you don't have to change your email address. This is great if you already have an MSN, Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail or corporate server address.

Number of Boxes Price per month Setup Charge** Web Space Transfer per month
0-50 $10 $50 20 Mb per user 20 Gb
51 or more $10 additional per 50 $50 20 Mb per user 50 Gb
Secure Email $20 per 50 accounts $250 100 Mb per user 100 Gb

Secure Email uses a security certificate (SSL) to encrypt your messages so that they can not be read by spying eyes.

Options:

  1. All sites have a weekly onsite backup. A daily offsite backup option is $10 per 100 Mb extra per month.
  2. We can encrypt your storage for greater security or to meet PCI or Sarbanes Oxley requirements. There is an up charge of $500 annually for this service.
  3. Additional rotating banners can be purchased for $1 per subpage.
  4. Domain registration through our ISP Names division is $25 per year. Wholesale $15 per year requires at least 5 domains under management.
  5. Neverfail Group™ can provide dedicated fail over capability for any hosted site, call us for rates.
  6. Banners may be dedicated (non-rotationg) for subpages only at $50 per month. Banners will be placed on a subpage of the Midwest Portal, The Gibson Digital Library, Mail Country Network, Homeisp.com, ISPNames or USAStores.

Terms:

* Price is in US dollars. Minimum contract 1 year. Contract term discounts are as follows: 24 months 10% discount, 36 months 20% discount, 60 months 40% and 120 months 60% discount. Penalties apply for any contract not run to term. Accounts are billed on the first for any month or portion thereof and are due on the 10th of the month. Setup charges cover server, DNS and email provisioning, but do not include Website. creation or authorship. We have many reputable webmasters to support clients needing a Website. created. Overdue accounts charged interest at 1.5% per month on the past due balance. Contracts renew automatically unless we received written cancellation instructions no later than 10 days before contract termination. Auto renewal contracts are subject to inflation adjustment charges. Accounts past due more than 60 days risk losing their position, email and or Website. All clients will have specific contract terms that may modify information on this page, in case of conflict the contract will govern the transaction.

**Prices listed include a certificates on our server, However for mail on clients owned domains a $150 annual security certificate charge will be made.

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