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Benefits of a Membership to California Life!
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California Life provides you with a number of ways to discover and benefit from the
fun and exciting lifestyle of California and enjoy the activities of this beautiful
place. As a member of California Life, you can promote and advertise your local business in many
different ways. You can showcase your talents as a photographer or a writer and help shape the content
of the website. Most importantly,
you can interact with folks and be involved in the communities of California, making new
friends and establishing relationships that could be personally satisfying and even
profitable for you.
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Sign-Up NOW and enjoy these benefits immediately:
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Free Business Listings
-- Enter FREE
Business Listings in the categories most appropriate for your business. Your Free
Listings can include your company name, slogan, address, and phone numbers,
a paragraph of sales text, and your logo or a photo, plus a link to your
website. |
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Discounted Paid Advertising
-- Order, schedule, and track paid ads for your business
at discounted rates. Select large Display Ads and Banner Ads in several popular sizes.
Choose specific category pages or run your ads on all pages across the entire
site. Order NOW and you get a 50% discount off of all standard
monthly or pay-per-click advertising rates. |
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Business Promotion
-- Provide details on special
offers and new products or services you'd like California Life visitors to know about.
Update your business information and make changes
to your offers at anytime.
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Photo Gallery
-- Upload your photographs here and build your own Photo
Gallery. Have a main page with a picture of yourself, a description of your background
and personal lifestyle, and links to your personal or business websites. Group your
photographs by categories you specify, and your Category pages will show thumbnail images
of your pictures, each linked to
a Photo page that displays a larger sized image.
Then you can show off your Photo Gallery to all your friends
and family. |
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Any of your photos selected by our Director of Photography to appear on the content pages
of California Life will have your name on the credit line, and this will be linked to your choice
of either your main Photo Gallery page or directly to your own personal or business
website. When visitors to California Life see your pictures, they can
click on the credit line and go to your Photo Gallery, see your photos, and visit your
website. This is a great way to promote your work, and both amateur and professional photographers
are welcome to use this feature. |
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Articles & Reviews
-- You can write and post your articles and reviews about interesting places to go, fun things to
do, and individuals or companies who have products or services available in California.
Your stories should relate to travel and vacations in California, real estate, employment, and relocating
to California, or any of the other categories of information covered by California Life. Factual
feature articles, first-person stories about your experiences in California, and even commercial
news-releases, if written in a third-person, news-like style, may be acceptable.
This can be a great way to promote your business and your community. |
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When your articles are selected by our editors to appear on one or more of the relevant
category pages of California Life, your byline will link to your choice of either your
Personal Profile page or directly to your own personal or business website. |
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Similar to your Photo Gallery page, your Personal Profile page may
optionally contain a picture and a description of yourself and your background and lifestyle, your contact
information, and links to your personal or business websites. It will also have links to
each of your articles that appear on California Life. |
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Report the News
-- Whenever you find a news story on another site you think the visitors
to California Life ought to know about, you can provide us with a headline and short
introductory paragraph about it, along with the URL of the page where it appears on the
other site, and we will put a link to that story on California Life. |
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California Life email newsletter
-- Receive the latest news and hot tips on what's happening in California
and find out about fun things to do and new places to go for travel and recreation.
And you can opt-out of receiving
the email newsletter at anytime. |
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And Coming Soon . . .
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Send Email Postcards
-- Select a photograph from a list of pictures our member photographers
have made available to be used as email postcards and send it with your own personalized
message to your friends and relatives. |
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Track Your Results
-- View regular reports on the results of both your Free Listings and
your Paid Advertising. Find out just how many times your ads have been shown to
California Life visitors and see the total number of times they have clicked
through to your website. |
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Calendar of Events
-- You can enter a description of your group or organization's event,
when and where it will be held, and schedule when you want your announcement to start,
and have a listing of it appear on California Life's Calendar of Events. |
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Free Classified Ads
-- List real estate, cars, furniture, pets, and anything else of value
you might want to sell. Offer your services, find a roommate, look for an apartment, and
much more. All for Free! |
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Employment Ads
-- Enter a description of your qualifications and what type of position
you are wanting, with a link to your resume page, and view listings of jobs available
that are posted by employers. |
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Comments and Reviews
-- Give your opinions about articles and news stories you find on
California Life, and post your own reviews of the entertainment, restaurants, resorts, and
places for recreation you have experienced in California Life. |
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Social Networking
-- Make new friends and develop a relationship with someone special.
Post a photo or description of yourself, what you enjoy doing, and other information
about yourself and your lifestyle, and browse listings of others you might like to meet.
Use our online email system to communicate safely and anonymously. |
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Private Email
-- Send an email to other members or anyone else without revealing your
own email address to them. You simply use an email form on California Life to enter your message and
our email system sends it to them. They are provided a link to our email form to enter
their reply and our system forwards it on to you. |
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Personalized Pages
-- You can personalize your own pages with special
features like weather reports, RSS news links, an appointment
calendar, links to reference sites, and other custom modules. |
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Sign-Up NOW and be ready to take advantage
of each new feature as soon as it is available.
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