An opportunity to set up your own successful BusinessProfiles business/agency with a well developed turnkey operation/system in place. This brief document provides an outline of the major features of the product and the Master Agent opportunity.
Motive:
Why are we providing this opportunity? Simply because we have a vision and commitment to roll-out BusinessProfiles across Australia. This means we need to share the management with other suitable businesses/individuals. Our aim is to provide you with a range of an excellent income producing products and for us to simply cover costs and receive a royalty fee based on sales. You will receive far more revenue from this product than we will in your region!
Overview:
BusinessProfiles is a comprehensive feature rich keyword and category searchable online directory of all businesses within designated municipal boundaries.
It is a product like no other! Its strengths are:
- Purposefully developed from the ground up to meet the needs of both users and businesses when looking for comprehensive information about regional businesses.
- It is not just an online telephone directory. Rather it is an online ‘business information’ compendium.
- All businesses are included - not just those who pay for an entry.
- Each entry can be provided with its own ‘local’ unique web address.
- One database accommodates all entries allowing inter-regional searches.
- High acceptance with business - this has already been demonstrated.
- High acceptance with local government - this has already been demonstrated.
- Hugh marketing opportunity across Australia
BusinessProfiles-Auscity (BPA) has made a significant investment to develop this product and launch it into the marketplace. The success of the product has now been demonstrated through providing a solution for local government and sales to businesses.
The next stage of development is to roll the product out throughout Victoria and South East South Australia followed by other States. To do this, a number of regionally based Master Agents/Licensees will be appointed to operate their own ‘BusinessProfiles agency’.
The opportunity is an ideal companion product for established businesses already successfully operating within any of these areas:
- Web and ecommerce development
- Computer/Communications
- Office Equipment/Supplies
- Public Relations/Marketing
- Business to Business services
The product provides established businesses an ideal opportunity to develop new relationships with many, many businesses and expand into new geographic areas.
Likewise, this is an opportunity for an individual(s) to start their own BusinessProfiles business/agency using our products for their core business.
You will have a product most businesses agree is ‘needed’ and of ‘value’.
Background:
The directory is unique in that the information provided is comprehensive given all businesses receive a free standard entry with an accompanying (short & practical) web address.
Businesses also have the opportunity to upgrade their free standard entry. There are a number of fee based enhancments available.
The BusinessProfile product is virtually a mini web site - with its own web address and much scope to be very comprehensive. It is perfectly suited to most businesses.
The product has a demonstrated high appeal with businesses:
- that already have a stand-alone web site (generates more traffic to their web site)
- those businesses that do not have a web site but know the value of having a web presence
- those business that believe they don’t need an ‘expensive’ web site.
BusinessProfiles is your ‘complete local business guide’ including all businesses within defined municipal areas. The online database is seemlessly linked to a number of regional municipal web sites and community portals.
Master Agent:
Master Agents are appointed to geographic areas. The tender document asks the applicant if they wish to manage an entire ‘region’ or specific ‘municipalities’ within that region.
One Master Agent may be chosen to manage an entire region if they wish and given they have the demonstrated ability to do so. Alternatively, more than one ‘Regional’ Agent may be appointed to a region if required.
Master Agents are now being appointed to:
South West Victoria
Warrnambool Shire
Moyne Shire
Glenelg Shire
West Wimmera Shire
Horsham Shire
Southern Grampians
Ararat Shire
Corangamite Shire
Colac Otway Shire
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North West Victoria
Mildure Shire
Hindmarsh Shire
Yarriambiack Shire
Swan Hill Shire
Buloke Shire
Gannawarra Shire
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Central Victoria
Ballarat Shire
Greater Bendigo Shire
Campaspe Shire
Loddon Shire
Northern Grampians Shire
Pyrenees Shire
Central Goldfields Shire
Mount Alexander Shire
Hepburn Shire
Macedon Ranges Shire
Mitchell Shire
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North East Victoria
Greater Shepparton Shire
Moira Shire
Wangaratta Shire
Strathbogie Shire
Murrindindi Shire
Delatite Shire
Indigo Shire
Wondonga Shire
Alpine Shire
Towong Shire
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South East Victoria
Bass Coast Shire
South Gippsland Shire
Baw Baw Shire
La Trobe Shire
Wellington Shire
East Gippsland Shire
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Southern Victoria
Greater Geelong Shire
Surf Coast Shire
Golden Plains Shire
Moorabool Shire
Queenscliffe Shire
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Master Agents virtually run their own BusinessProfiles business/agency. This turnkey operation already has a well-developed system with full documentation in place. Follow the system and you will have success! Head Office then supports individual Master Agents (and Regional Agents) and continues to develop the infrastructure and network across Australia.
Roles: Master Agent (in brief):
- Initial contact with businesses to gain their free entry
- Presentations to targeted businesses with a view to sales of enhanced and premium products.
- Booking of copywriter.
- Managing regional promotional activities
- Banking, bookkeeping, administration and recording.
- Recording changes in business - new start-ups, cessations, changes in address, etc
- Managing annual updating procedures and renewals
Role: Head Office (in brief)
- Initial and ongoing training of Master Agents and their personnel directly involved.
- All data entry completed by Head Office
- All ‘building’ of enhanced and BusinessProfile entries including scanning, etc completed by Head office
- Maintaining and updating printed sales and support documents/forms for Master Agents
- Overseeing regional operations
- Client and Master Agent ‘help-desk’
- Ongoing development of the product - developing new accompanying products.
- Managing the roll-out across Australia.
What’s in it for a Master Agent:
- Attractive income from initial sales and annual renewals
- The ability to contact any/all businesses - to get inside their door.
- The ability to develop relationships with potential new clients for your existing business.
- The ability to have full use of the BusinessProfiles database for your own purposes (within our guidelines).
- Being regarded as a leading organisation/facilitator in ecommerce activities in your region - particularly through ‘BusinessProfilesPLUS’ and ‘eSHOPPER’.
- Expanding your our network of business/industry/local government contacts
Financial:
All invoicing is completed by Master Agents (eg: South West Business Profiles, etc).
All retail sales are deposited to your own bank account with a royalty fee from each sale being deposited into the BusinessProfiles-Auscity bank account.
Expressions of Interest:
To record your expression of interest, please provide BusinessProfiles-Auscity with the following information. Following receipt of this expression of interest, you may then be invited to lodge a formal tender. Before so, you will be invited to learn more about the product, plans and the opportunity for you.
- Your name
- All contact details
- Name of business(es) presently operating
- Description of your present business(es), years established, geographic market territory.
- Details of previous businesses owned, location, type, etc
- Provide a brief observation of how you view the present product
- Provide a brief observation of how you view the soon to be released BusinessProfiles PLUS product
- Provide a reason(s) for your interest in this opportunity
- Provide an assessment of how this opportunity will ‘fit’ with your business(es) and what benefits it may provide for your present business(es).
- What personal/professional skills and capabilities can you provide.
- You experience and track record in ‘sales’ and those of your employees.
Email to ma@businessprofiles.com.au. Information you provide will remain confidential to BusinessProfiles-Auscity management personnel. No referees are required at this stage.
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