Scott Blanchard's Biz Local

Thanks for the review Warren!

For anyone considering purchasing, I will be releasing BizLocal in general release soon. Its currently exclusive to my existing customers as an "early bird" release at a significant discount to the expected retail pricing.

Warren has pretty much summed it all up, so there's not much more to add. If you are in the business of creating sites for local businesses, or just considering augmenting your income with local business consulting, this product is tailor made for you.

I've created it in such a way as to make it as few clicks as possible to go from a brand new WordPress install to a full blown business class site, complete with three different designs built right into the software, in a couple of clicks.

Here's the process:

1) Install WordPress Site
2) Go to admin of site and click "Plugins > Add New"
3) Select "bizlocal.zip" and click "Upload".
4) Once uploaded, click "Activate"

That's it. Once you click Activate, the entire site is built, complete with flyout menus, default pages and posts, Newsletter/Optin forum with Aweber default hooks, Social Media Widgets, a automated Slider Widget, hours of operation and directions placeholders and much more.

All of this is done in a few seconds when you click "activate".

The plugin can then be deleted from the site. All it does it perform what would otherwise take you hundreds of hours of work to accomplish by hand. And it took me hundreds of hours to create it so I can personally attest to that fact.

Three sites in one. The client chooses which look they prefer and you can customize it with their custom logo and colors via point and click theme options already configured for you.

Hope to see you at the launch this Friday.

~ s

Hi:

How mobile friendly is the site?

I realize that you can use stuff like WP Touch, etc.

The problem with them is that once on the phone the sites are neither easy to navigate or read.

CT

Yes, this thing is awesome...

I've been building websites for clients, "renting" sites to local businesses, and selling ad space to local businesses for a while now.

Scott's new BizLocal offline theme package is great. I have finally found something that has filled the void I've had for years created by the need for a simple, functional, professional-looking, easy-to-work-with, impressive WP theme to use for offline business sites.

When I first checked out the preview a few months back, I knew I had to have it. I must have emailed Scott 10 times every few days asking when it was going to be released. I picked it up on the first day of the early bird special for current Clickbump members, and have loved it since.

For those of you who saw my thread here on finding a good local directory theme, here's what happened. I never did end up with a good local directory that fit my liking, after trying quite a few. I hired a programmer to mold and shape GeoPlaces as much as possible to fit my needs and wants but it just couldn't be done while maintaining the theme's functionality. Consequently, I ended up changing to a "rent-the-site" type business model where the client basically gets to put their contact info up on the homepage, and for that I'm using Scott Blanchard's new BizLocal theme package. It looks and works great. Check it out.

Also, for help with finding good localized keywords to rank for that the Google Adwords Keyword Tool is actually hiding from you, I'd highly recommend checking out Keyword Sniper Pro 2.0 from Jack Duncan. It has been invaluable for me. I wrote a personal review of it which you can find in my sig.

I can't praise these tools enough. Clickbump Engine, BizLocal, and KSP have literally changed my business, my income, and my life forever.

Er yeah, What Ron said.....

That is what I was trying to ask but not so eloquently.

CT

Any info on a mobile optimized version?

How wordpress newbie friendly is bizlocal? would it be good for someone who has never used wp before?