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			<title>Ready-to-Use Websites. New Affordable Pricing Structure</title>
			<link>http://www.rtuw2.readytousewebsites.biz/Blog/BlogRow.php?weblogID=13</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Ready-to-Use Websites are now even more affordable. See the [Features & Prices] Page and use the Price Calculator to see just how affordable our websites are.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 00:53:40 PST</pubDate>
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			<title>Ready-to-Use Websites are Recruiting Affiliates</title>
			<link>http://www.rtuw2.readytousewebsites.biz/Blog/BlogRow.php?weblogID=25</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Becoming a Ready-to-Use Websites Affiliate is quick and easy. No joining fees. Generous commission. Join today. Click the link to read all about it!]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 00:39:38 PST</pubDate>
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			<title>Ready-to-Use Websites Offer More for a Small Fraction of the Price of its Competitors</title>
			<link>http://www.rtuw2.readytousewebsites.biz/Blog/BlogRow.php?weblogID=2</link>
			<description><![CDATA[A search on the Internet for ready to use websites will find several sites offering web templates that require the buyers to code up their websites, find their own hosting, register their own domain name, etc.

Some sites, such as Ready-for-Use Websites, found at http://www.readytousewebsites.biz, sell ready to use websites that include hosting, domain name registration, and a website. On inspection of various such sites offering ready to use websites, it was discovered that some contain up to 5 pages with 10 images, that are designed by the seller. One such site offered a content-management module as an add-on.

Our Ready-to-Use Websites product includes a browser-based, content-management web-application as standard. The buyer manages the entire content herself from anywhere in the world.

Let us compare prices from one of our competitors (an Australian site):
Hosting, Domain Name Registration, Website with 5 pages and 10 photos designed by the seller: AUD$495 PLUS $29.95 per month. Content Management ADD-ON: AUD$395 PLUS $29.95 per month. The total for one year is AUD$1608.80 (approx US$1217.00). Annual renewal was not mentioned on their site.

Ready-for-Use Websites Price:
Hosting, Domain Name Registration, Website with 11 or more pages (described here: http://www.readytousewebsites.biz/Features/MVC/featuresHome.php), Browser-based, Content Management web-application: US$195 for the first year. Annual renewal is US$100.

This is a fraction of the price of a competitor offering a similar product.

Our Ready-to-Use Websites are fully functional, content-management, sites that enable you to establish an Internet presence for a very economical price.

Added: 01 August 2006. I noticed another site offering template-based websites. They offer prices starting from only $249* for a basic 5 page web site. The price includes six minor changes each year. These changes are made by the host, not by the site owner. Our sites (Ready-to-Use Websites) offer you unlimited online content management by you the site owner using your browser anywhere in the world.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 02:05:39 PST</pubDate>
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			<title>Rent a Ready-to-Use Website for a Short-Term</title>
			<link>http://www.rtuw2.readytousewebsites.biz/Blog/BlogRow.php?weblogID=16</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Surveys! You don't have to be a big company or hire a market research team. Rent a Ready-to-Use Website for the duration of your research and create an online form (survey, poll, or questionnaire) to understand what makes your customers tick.

Projects! Do you have a project that could benefit from a temporary website? Rent a Ready-to-Use Website for the duration of your project.

Road Show or upcoming Events! Rent a Ready-to-Use Website and use the Events Page to list your events, shows, or public appearances. Use the Google Maps feature to show details of the venues.

Invest in testing your idea. You have an idea that you believe in. You have received promising feedback from potential customers. One of the best things you can do is to trial your idea first. Why not set up a temporary website at a very low cost to begin testing your idea in order to see if customers are prepared to come and buy. This is no time to launch into a branding campaign that will cost you a fortune. Test your idea first without spending huge amounts.

Rent a Ready-to-Use Website for 1 week, 1 month, or any length of time for any purpose.

Visit our [Get Started] Page and use the Price Calculator to see how very affordable our annual and rent prices are.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 02:01:39 PST</pubDate>
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			<title>Sell Advertising Space on your Ready-to-Use Website</title>
			<link>http://www.rtuw2.readytousewebsites.biz/Blog/BlogRow.php?weblogID=17</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Our Ready-to-Use Websites now have the option to sell advertising space in the form of small Banner-Ads on each website page. As the site-owner you set up some prices for 'units' (Day, Week, Month, and Year) and the buyer will choose a 'unit', enter a quantity and pay the calculated cost.

The buyer will enter a website address and an image address (for the actual banner) and the banner-ads will start to display (after approval by you the site-owner) on your website.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 02:01:39 PST</pubDate>
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			<title>Ready-to-Use Websites has added several new styles</title>
			<link>http://www.rtuw2.readytousewebsites.biz/Blog/BlogRow.php?weblogID=12</link>
			<description><![CDATA[At Ready-to-Use Websites, new website styles (a.k.a. 'skins') are continually being added. Site-owners now have more style choices. Having said that, if you are thinking of purchasing a Ready-to-Use Website and do not see a style that suits your business or website theme, please contact us and we can develop a theme based on your suggestions. The image here is just one sample of some recently added styles.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 01:59:34 PST</pubDate>
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			<title>Ready-to-Use Websites now with an Online Forms Generator</title>
			<link>http://www.rtuw2.readytousewebsites.biz/Blog/BlogRow.php?weblogID=14</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Create your own Polls, Surveys, and Questionnaires with the Online Form Generator now added to Ready-to-Use Websites. Create as many Forms as you want and add the Form Elements (fieldsets, text fields, text areas, radio button groups, checkboxes, pick-lists, etc.), test the forms yourself and then publish them to your website's Questionnaire Page.

Are you doing research into any subject? Are you an author doing research for a book or a series of articles? Design your online forms to assist with your research and watch the responses roll in.

Get your Ready-to-Use Website today and be online almost instantly!]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 01:59:34 PST</pubDate>
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			<title>Announcing New Ready-to-Use Features</title>
			<link>http://www.rtuw2.readytousewebsites.biz/Blog/BlogRow.php?weblogID=11</link>
			<description><![CDATA[We have added four great new features to the Ready-to-Use Website package. Check out the [Features] menu option or follow the link beneath this entry to read about the new features. There is a new Member Area that enables you the site-owner of a Ready-to-Use Website to attract paid members who them get to buy your products and services at special member prices.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 01:56:55 PST</pubDate>
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			<title>New Feature: Digital Shop</title>
			<link>http://www.rtuw2.readytousewebsites.biz/Blog/BlogRow.php?weblogID=7</link>
			<description><![CDATA[We have introduced a brand new feature to our Ready-to-Use Websites. The Digital Shop is where you, the site-owner, upload your Digital Products (eBooks, Photo or Art Posters, Music, Videos, Articles, etc.) and optionally a cover photo or each Digital Product. Your customers purchase the products on-line and as soon as their payment is processed, they are presented with a webpage containing the download links for the products they have purchasd.

This is a great opportunity for you to sell your Digital Products and everything is automated. You do not need to post or deliver anything manually. Money can land in your PayPal account while you sleep - and your customer gets the product downloads instantly.

This new feature is available to current site-owners and of course to new site-owners who purchase a Ready-to-Use Website.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 01:55:57 PST</pubDate>
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			<title>Analyze Yourself</title>
			<link>http://www.rtuw2.readytousewebsites.biz/Blog/BlogRow.php?weblogID=8</link>
			<description><![CDATA[As a business owner, you are both the boss and the employee.  Some people can thrive in this type of situation and achieve more than they could in a traditional work environment.  For other people, this situation can spell disaster.  That is why it is important to analyze yourself several times a year to make sure you are staying on track.

Are you focused on your business? This alone can throw your business into high gear or create a standstill.  It can be easy to lose focus when you work at home, as there will always be other things competing for your attention.  It is okay to let the laundry wait for a few hours while you work on your business.  Your laundry can`t pay your bills, but those few hours you put into your business could reap you many financial rewards.

Not only is focusing on business tasks important, but it is important to be focused within your business.  It is easy to get sidetracked with new business ventures and other offers.  It can be hard to spread your time and energy over too many projects.  It is easier to manage a select few projects that are tightly woven within your target market.

Are you being productive?  At the end of the day, do you ever feel like you worked all day but accomplished nothing?  Take a look at the tasks you are working on, and whether they are actually important to your success.  If you find yourself getting sidetracked by surfing the web, chatting in forums, or reading blogs, try to schedule time for those activities after your "real work" is done.

On the other hand, if you feel your time is being sucked away by answering email, updating your website, or collecting research for an upcoming information product you are working on, try outsourcing those tasks to a virtual assistant.  This will help you free up some time to work on business tasks that need more attention.

Are you reaching your goals?  If you find that you are constantly missing your goal deadlines, you may want to take the time to revamp your goals.  Create an action plan that will be easy to follow and help you get to your end result.

Would I hire myself?  This is a tough question to ask yourself, but it is very important.  It may sound silly, but perhaps you could write out a job description and give yourself an interview.  Are you the type of employee you would want to hire?

If you answered "no" to the above question, take some time to write out the areas within yourself that you would like to improve.  This can be a hard exercise to complete, but once you have analyzed yourself, you`ll be on your way to becoming a better business owner and having a better business.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 01:55:57 PST</pubDate>
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			<title>Ready-to-Use Websites Blog is an Illustrated Blog</title>
			<link>http://www.rtuw2.readytousewebsites.biz/Blog/BlogRow.php?weblogID=4</link>
			<description><![CDATA[This Blog and the Blog included in each Ready-to-Use Website is an Illustrated Blog.  That is, each Blog entry does not have to be text only. As the owner of a Ready-to-Use Website, you can include an image (photo or illustration) in any Blog entry. To demonstrate, I have included a photo of some houses in Battery Point, Hobart, Tasmain. The link will take you to a photo page on Rodney Collins - Photographer website.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 01:52:51 PST</pubDate>
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			<title>What is a BLOG?</title>
			<link>http://www.rtuw2.readytousewebsites.biz/Blog/BlogRow.php?weblogID=9</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Blog is a shortened term for "weblog". Either term refers to a website where entries are made similar to a journal or diary. The entries are presented in reverse chronological order, with the newest entry on top. Although blogs were originally used like a personal journal on everyday events, they have evolved into a multipurpose tool. There are blogs on every topic imaginable, from food to politics to celebrity gossip. Generally, blogs combine the text entries with images, links to other blogs and other related media. 

A blog entry consists of five basic components:

The Title: The main headline of the blog post.

The Body: The main content of the blog post, which can consist of text and/or photos and video.

Permalink: This is the URL of the individual post.

Post Date: The date and time the post was published to the blog website.

A blog entry can also include comments from readers, categories (commonly called tags) that label the blog entry by subject, and trackback links, which are links to other sites that refer to the blog entry.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 01:52:51 PST</pubDate>
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			<title> News</title>
			<link>http://www.rtuw2.readytousewebsites.biz/Blog/BlogRow.php?weblogID=3</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Each Ready-to-Use Website includes a Blog just like the Blog you are currently viewing. As an owner of a Ready-to-Use Website, you will be able to post and edit Blog Entries and archive or re-list Blog entries at will. You will also be able to delete visitors' posts that are inappropriate.

Each Blog also includes syndication. This means that other people can easily 'rebroadcast' portions of your Blog content on their sites (with links back to your site). The RSS Feed is updated each time you add or edit a Blog entry. Each Ready-to-Use Website has been optimised to make it easy for news aggregators that crawl sites automatically to find your feed.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 01:50:11 PST</pubDate>
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			<title>New Website Enables Anyone to Establish an Internet Presence</title>
			<link>http://www.rtuw2.readytousewebsites.biz/Blog/BlogRow.php?weblogID=1</link>
			<description><![CDATA[A new site on the World Wide Web enables anyone who desires an Internet presence for themselves or their family, business, organisation, club, school, or ministry - to establish themselves on the Internet using a Ready-to-Use Website package. The package found at http://www.readytousewebsites.biz on the World Wide Web, provides an efficient, economical, fast way to establish your own Internet presence. 

The site, provides not only information about Ready-to-Use Websites, (including a full description, how it works, privacy policy, terms of service, and samples) but offers website buyers the opportunity to purchase their very own 'ready-to-use website' package that includes hosting, domain name registration, website, and browser-based content-management web application with which to manage their website. "Ready-to-Use Websites" offers one-stop shopping for website buyers and an almost instant set-up, saving them weeks of custom website development and saving them a lot of money" said the site's creator, Rodney Collins, a web application developer, Brisbane, (Queensland), Australia.

Collins explained that from the comfort of their own homes, office, or Internet Cafe, site owners can, for example, maintain a Home Page, a Photo Album, an Itinery, a list of Services provided, a Resume, Articles, favourite Links, Merchandise (with shopping cart) and read the emails send to them via their site's Contact Form.

The traditional personal web site of the past has been nothing more than an on-line business card with little or no customer interaction. A Ready-to-Use Website, however, provides an interactive platform to sell products, publish motivational content, and provide a meeting place where leads become customers.
 
As 'webmaster' of the site owners' websites, Collins ensures that the sites are submitted to the major search engines and are promoted to ensure that each site gets the publicity it deserves.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 01:47:19 PST</pubDate>
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			<title>Ready-to-Use Websites now have a YouTube Videos Page</title>
			<link>http://www.rtuw2.readytousewebsites.biz/Blog/BlogRow.php?weblogID=15</link>
			<description><![CDATA[List your YouTube videos on your Ready-to-Use Website. Visitors click an entry in the list and the video plays on the same page. Visitors do not leave your website to see the videos playing.

Please check out all the other great features offered by Ready-to-Use Websites on our [Features] Page.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 01:22:00 PST</pubDate>
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			<title>The story behind Ready-to-Use Websites</title>
			<link>http://www.rtuw2.readytousewebsites.biz/Blog/BlogRow.php?weblogID=26</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The story behind Ready-to-Use Websites is this: I needed a website. I got quotes to have a website designed and built. Those quotes ranged from $3,000 to $12,000. What small or start-up business can afford prices like that and who can wait for weeks or months to have a costly website built?

I decided to build my own website. Having a background as an application developer I was in a good position to do so and I swithched over to coding XHTML (and CSS, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, XML, AJAX, etc. if these names have any meaning to you). I built my own website and to my surprise (even though it may not have looked very professional), I started to get paid work selling stock photographs at that time.

Then I thought of helping others establish an Internet presence by providing them with domain name registration, hosting, and websites at an affordable price. To keep it affordable, I developed a concept whereby every website would be based on the same code-base or framework but with every website looking different because the site-owner selects a style, selects features, and of course uploads their own content (text, images, articles, links, etc.)

Right from the start when our product was as rough as sandpaper (not really, but it wasn't as good as it is now), we encouraged feedback and listened to our site-owner's suggestions and we have made big improvements to the product and have added many new features. We will continue to work toward providing an excellent product at an affordable price as well as providing excellent support and assistance to our site-owners so that their businesses and ventures succeed.

At R&N Collins, we can develop custom built websites and web applications if needed. We can provide hosting and domain name registration meaning that you don't need to shop around for those services if we build your website.

We have developed an awesome product, a Ready-to-Use Website that is easy, fast, affordable, and well, uhm.. ready-to-use. Read about it here or on our website.

Rodney Collins             ]]></description>
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			<title>The story behind Ready-to-Use Websites</title>
			<link>http://www.rtuw2.readytousewebsites.biz/Blog/BlogRow.php?weblogID=27</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The story behind Ready-to-Use Websites is this: I needed a website. I got quotes to have a website designed and built. Those quotes ranged from $3,000 to $12,000. What small or start-up business can afford prices like that and who can wait for weeks or months to have a costly website built?

I decided to build my own website. Having a background as an application developer I was in a good position to do so and I swithched over to coding XHTML (and CSS, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, XML, AJAX, etc. if these names have any meaning to you). I built my own website and to my surprise (even though it may not have looked very professional), I started to get paid work selling stock photographs at that time.

Then I thought of helping others establish an Internet presence by providing them with domain name registration, hosting, and websites at an affordable price. To keep it affordable, I developed a concept whereby every website would be based on the same code-base or framework but with every website looking different because the site-owner selects a style, selects features, and of course uploads their own content (text, images, articles, links, etc.)

Right from the start when our product was as rough as sandpaper (not really, but it wasn't as good as it is now), we encouraged feedback and listened to our site-owner's suggestions and we have made big improvements to the product and have added many new features. We will continue to work toward providing an excellent product at an affordable price as well as providing excellent support and assistance to our site-owners so that their businesses and ventures succeed.

At R&N Collins, we can develop custom built websites and web applications if needed. We can provide hosting and domain name registration meaning that you don't need to shop around for those services if we build your website.

We have developed an awesome product, a Ready-to-Use Website that is easy, fast, affordable, and well, uhm.. ready-to-use. Read about it here or on our website.

Rodney Collins             ]]></description>
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