Managing Your Profile

Business Registration/Profile Management Walk-Thru:

1. Fill out Business Info Form Note: All info on this page can easily be changed at any time except your e-mail address. Click send when complete. (Do not press your "enter" button on page)
1. Business Category: Choose the closest to your business. If your business could be in multiple categories select the category customers would recognize the most. If there is no category for your business, please e-mail us with any
2. Business Sub-Category: Choose the closest to your business style. If there is no sub-category that fits your business, leave blank. (E-mail us any suggestions)
3. Short Description: Type in a description of your business here. You may want to use one or two word descriptions separated with commas. When a consumer searches for a business using key words, the search engine will look for matching words in your "short description".
4. When complete, click SUBMIT.
2. Check your e-mail in box for a confirmation e-mail from BizReach.com that includes your log-in name and password. Click on the confirmation link above your User Name. The link in this e-mail will take you back to BizReach.com and automatically log you in. Enter a new password and confirm it. Then click SUBMIT button. (Depending on your e-mail security settings, you may have to look in your junk e-mail folder. If the confirmation e-mail is in your junk folder, right click on it and click "add to safe senders list" before clicking on the link.)
3. You are now logged in and are at your PROFILE MANAGEMENT page. Here, you can edit your BizReach site, manage your network, send messages, manage your comments and ratings, create upgraded ads, select additional advertizing plans and much more.
4. What can I do in my BUSINESS PROFILE? (The buttons at the top of my profile management page) While you are editing your profile, you can quickly check your progress at any time by clicking on the "View My Profile" tab below your statistics on the left of the page. Don't forget to submit your changes (Submit button at bottom of each page) before you click to go to another area!!
1. Password Tab:
• Change your password at any time.
2. Shortcut Tab:
• Having a shortcut allows people to go directly to your BizReach.com profile.
• Advertize your shortcut to your customers. Just tell them the address.
• If you didn't have a website for your business before, YOU HAVE ONE NOW!!!
• More than one business with your name? Consider using a location or street name after your business name. (ex. www.BizReach.com/go/McDonalds1st)
3. Contact InfoTab (Privacy Settings) :
• Ways for people to find your Business. Phone Number, Address, etc.
• Use a cell number or a landline number.
• Privacy Settings will allow you to control who can view your profile.
• You can also hide certain aspects of your profile at any time. (ex. All of My business is done online so I don't want to show my address. Click "Don't Show My Address or Google Map)
• I don't want anyone to see who is in my Business Network. Set your Network to Private.
4. Description Tab: To edit your Business and keep you consumers updated with new products, services, specials, and more. Notice the 4 editing tabs under the Description Tab.
• Business Category: With this tab you can select a main category and sub-categories that relate to your business. This determines how and where your business is located within BizReach.com and how consumers find you in a business search. You are able to change your Business Category and Sub-Category at any time so if your business changes. Your BizReach Profile can change with it.
• Short Description: A brief description of your company and its products and/or services. This information is not only displayed on you main Profile, it is also displayed with your company name on the search results page. (Remember to insert key words that describe you business, products and/or services here)
• Full Description: Use this area to explain your business in detail with photos, slide shows, videos, calendars, live chat, paypal links and much more. Show more products and/or services. Some possible suggestions: Price lists, menus, hours of operation, product descriptions, service descriptions, and more. There are many additional options in this area including adding photos/images, flash files, change font/color/size, background color, tables, etc. (Look through the options above the text area to find all of these options) If you need more explanation of all of these options. Click Here (Add a live link to the "Tool Bar Element s doc. attached)
• Specials: An area of your profile that consumes will look at for Daily and Weekly specials, sale items etc. Updating this area often keeps your customers up to date and consistently coming back to your BizReach.com site. (This area has the same editing capabilities as the Full Description)
5. Logo Tab: Insert your business logo here. Your logo will show up in many different places including your Main Profile, When you business comes up in a search results page, your consumers and business network areas. Watch your file type and size and Š we do have a limit here.
6. Ratings Tab: This is where you have the ability to manage your comments and ratings. In order for a comment or Rating to show up on your profile page you will have to Approve it. You also have the option to Deny any Rating or Comment as well. (Keep in mind that on your main profile page above your Comments and Ratings there is a counter that shows the difference between how many Comments and Ratings you have and how many you are actually showing.
7. Links Tab: This tab allows you to add different links to your profile. Ex. If you have a site with additional photos, you have a business website, a blog site, a video on youtube.com, you can add a link to that exterior site here.
• Current Links: Shows you what your current links are and allows you to remove them.
• Add a Link: The area to add new links. When adding a link, be sure to copy and paste the complete URL into the box. (ex. http//www.yourlink.com) We have a link option to add a paypal link here as well allowing you to take credit card payments online. Now you don't need a credit card machine at you business to take a credit card payment. All you have to do is set up a paypal account. You can also imbed the link into your site in either the "Full Description" area or the "Specials" area.
8. Network Tab: This area allows you to build and manage a network for your business. Send e-mails to your favorite consumers and businesses all at the click of a button (Free advertizing). Stay in contact with the business you use and would recommend. Show your network to the people that you trust and trust you. The management tabs in this area are better explained below:
• Current Network: View and Manage your network here. Contact any consumer or business in your network here by simply checking the box next to their name/logo and then click the Contact Selected Tab. This will open up an e-mail option for you to send them a message. Send a message to one person or everyone in your network. You can view your Consumer or Business network separately by clicking one of the 3 tabs directly above your network. [Show Consumers] [Show Businesses] [Show All]
• Invite Consumer: Allows you to invite your customers and friends on BizReach.com to be a part of your business network.
1. Click on the Invite Consumer tab
2. Search for a consumer
3. Once you have located them, check the box to the right of their name and then click the "Add Selected" box
4. BizReach.com will send an invite to that consumer on your behalf
5. Once someone accepts your invitation, they will show up as "Active" on your profile

Build your consumer network faster by letting your customers know that you are onBizReach.com. Consumers, that want to refer your business to their friends, can invite you to be a part of their network as well

• Invite Business: Allows you to invite other businesses to join your BizReach.com network. (Works exactly like the Invite Consumer Tab)
1. Click on the Invite Business Tab
2. Search for a consumer
3. Once you have located them, check the box to the right of their name and then click the "Add Selected" box
4. BizReach.com will send an invite to that consumer on your behalf
5. Once someone accepts your invitation, they will show up as "Active" on your profile

Network with the business you use and refer. (Ex. suppliers, banks, other businesses that use your products and/or services)

Pending Invitations: Manage new and unaccepted invitations from businesses and consumers requesting your business to be a part of their network
9. Ads Tab: If you would like to increase your presence on BizReach.com, create an ad here. In order for us to display your ad on search results pages you also have to select a Plan.
• Build your ad. Change font size/style/color; add a picture/logo (with premium ad package) and more. (You may have to downsize your photo/logo so it fits correctly in the editing box)
• Select the area or multiple areas you want to advertize to. Possibly select an area different from your current "Service Area". This way you will be able to advertise your company in multiple locations.
10. Service Area Tab: Allows you to select what area or areas your business will show up in a search.
• Service Area: Shows you the areas you selected to have your business show up in when anyone does a search for your business type, product, or service.
• Add to Service Area: click the box to choose the area you do business. Select an option from zip code radius, city, or state. You may select any number of locations including multiple cities and States by adding one location submit it, select another location submit it etc.
11. Plan Tab: If you wish to increase your Advertizing and your Businesses Exposure within BizReach.com, create and Ad in the Ads Tab, then select and purchase a BizReach.com plan.
• Your Current Plan: Shows you the payment plan you've purchased
• Select Payment Plan: Select and Purchase an upgraded advertising package that best suits your business. You are able to have a picture/logo in your advertisement if you purchase the "Premium Plan". (Don't forget: If you downgrade your plan from a Premium Plan, delete your ad's photo/logo.)

Thank you for being a part of BizReach.com

Creating Your Profile Page

Links, Anchors and E-mails

To insert a link to an URL address, anchor or an e.mail press button on the toolbar. A popup window called "Link" will appear.

• Link Type: specifies the type of link you want to put in the document. You can choose from "URL", "Link to anchor in the text" or "E-mail". Depending on which option you will choose different options and bookmarks will appear in the window. We will start from the Link Type: URL.

Link Info

If you chose Link Type: URL the same option as in the above picture will appear.

• Protocol: specifies the type of protocol you want to use for your link. You can choose from "http://", "https://","ftp://", "news://" or "< other >".
• URL: specifies the address you want your link to refer to.

Press "OK" and the link will appear in your document.

Target

The second bookmark of the window refers to "Target".

• Target: set's the target of your link. Specifies in what kind of a window a link will appear. You may choose from "<frame>", "New Window" ( _blank ), "Topmost Window" ( _top ), Same Window ( _self ), Parent Window ( _parent).
• Target Frame Name: in this window you will find the name of the option you have selected in "Target"

In "Target" you may also choose the <popup window> option. After clicking it you will find that the options in the bookmark have changed:

• Popup Window Name: specifies the name of your popup window.
• Popup Window Features: you can check or uncheck several option regarding to the appearance of the popup window. Some of the options are depending on which browser you're using.
• Width: specifies the width of the window the linked address will appear in.
• Height: specifies the width of the window the linked address will appear in.
• Left Position: sets the horizontal position of the window the linked address will appear in, starting from the left side of your screen.
• Top Position: sets the vertical position of the window the linked address will appear in, starting from the top of your screen.

Pressing "OK" will insert the link in your document.

Upload

The third bookmark refers to "Upload":

• Upload: specifies the location of the file you want to upload. If you don't want to type it manually press "Browse...".
• Send it to Server: sends the file you specified in "Upload" to the server.

Link to anchor in the text

If you chose Link Type: Link to anchor in the text new options will appear in the Link Info bookmark.

You may select the link to the anchor in two ways.

• By Anchor Name: selects the anchor by name you have previously specified in anchor properties.
• By Element Id: selects the anchor by Id.

Pressing "OK" will insert the link in your document.

E-mail

If you chose Link Type: E-mail new options will appear in the Link Info bookmark:

• E-mail Address: specifies the e-mail address to which you want the link to refer to.
• Message Subject: specifies the subject of the message which will be sent to the e-mail address.
• Message Body: specifies the text of the message which will be sent to the e-mail address.

Press "OK" to insert the link in your document.

Advanced options

Whatever Link Type you will choose one bookmark will remain the same. It is the last bookmark called "Advanced":

• Id: specifies the ID of the link.
• Language Direction: sets the language direction from left to right ( LTR ) or from right to left ( RTL ).
• Access Key: sets up an access key to the link.
• Name: specifies the link name.
• Language Code: defines the code of the language e.g. en, pt, pt
• Tab Index: defines the tab index.
• Advisory Title: specifies the description of the target object.
• Advisory Content Type: specifies the MIME type of the target object.
• Stylesheet Classes: specifies the name of the CSS class.
• Linked Resource Charset: specifies the charset of the target object.
• Style: defines the style

Press "OK" to insert the link.

Anchor Properties

To insert an anchor in the text place your cursor before the text or section you want to the anchor to refer and press button on the toolbar. A popup window called "Anchor Properties" will appear:

• Anchor Name: specifies the anchor name. You will be referring to this name while linking to the anchor.

Press "OK" and the anchor will appear in your document.

Image Properties

Image Info

The first bookmark refers to the "Image Info"

• URL: defines the URL address of the image. You may also use the "Browse Sever" in order to browse the files.
• Alternative Text: puts the descriptions of the image if you want it to be different than the image name.
• Width: specifies image width.
• Height: specifies image height.

You may lock the image proportions by pressing or you can return to the original image size by pressing .

• Border: specifies the size of the border you want to place around the image.
• HSpace: defines the size of the  horizontal gap.
• VSpace: defines the size of the vertical gap.
• Align: specifies the alignment of the image. You can choose from: Left, Abs Bottom, Abs Middle, Baseline, Bottom, Middle, Right, Text Top or Top.

Pressing "OK" inserts the image with the specified properties.

Link

The second bookmark refers to "Link":

• URL: defines the URL address of the image. You may also use the "Browse Sever" in order to browse the files.
• Target: defines the target of the image (for advanced users). You can choose from New Window ( _blank ), Topmost Window ( _top ), Same Window ( _self ) or Parent Window ( _parent ).

Upload

The third bookmark is the "Upload" section:

• Upload: specifies the location of the image file on your local hard drive. You may also use "browse" if you don't want to type the location manually.

Pressing "Send it to the Server" sends the image to the server.

Advanced

This bookmark is only for advanced users:

• Id: specifies the ID of the image.
• Language Direction: sets the language direction from left to right ( LTR ) or from right to left ( RTL ).
• Language Code: specifies the language code e.g. en, pt, pl.
• Long Description URL: specifies the description of the page.
• Stylesheet Classes: specifies the name of the CSS class.
• Advisory Title: specifies the description of the target object.
• Style: specifies the style.

Creating a table

If you want to create a table you must press the "Insert/Edit Table" button on the toolbar.

After that a popup window called "Table Properties" will appear.

• Rows: in this field you specify how many rows do you want to have in your table .
• Columns: in this field you specify how many columns do you want your table to have.
• Border size: sets the thickness of the tables border.
• Alignment: specifies the alignment of your table. You can set it to left, center or right.
• Width: sets the width of you table in pixels or percentage. E.g. if you choose 40 percent the table will take 40% of the editing area width.
• Cell spacing: specifies how thick will the cells border will be.
• Cell padding: sets the amount of space between the contents of the cell and the cell wall.
• Caption: specifies the title of your table. The title will appear in the top of the table.
• Summary: sets a comment on the table. The comment will not appear in the table. It is only for usage.

Not all of the options are required to build a table. You have to fill only Rows and Columns. The rest of the fields are optional and you may use them depending on your needs.

Working with the table

If you created your table you may change its properties. Point your mouse on the table press the right button and a context menu will appear.

In order to change the tables properties press "Table Properties" and a popup window will appear. It's the same windows that you used for creating the table.

If you want to delete you table simply press "Delete Table".

The other three options are Cell, Row and Column. If you point your mouse cursor on one of them a new context menu will appear.

Cell

• Insert Cell Before: inserts a new cell before the cell your cursor is currently in.
• Insert Cell After: inserts a new cell after the cell your cursor is currently in.
• Delete Cells: deletes the cell your cursor is in. You may also highlight more cells and than delete them.
• Merge Cells: merges cells you have highlighted into a one cell.
• Split Cell Horizontally: splits a cell in two.One cell is split in two colums.
• Split Cell Vertically: splits a cell in two.One cells is split in two rows.
• Cell properties: if you click the cell properties a new popup window called "Cell Properties" will appear:

• Width: sets the cell width in pixels or in percentage of the table width.
• Height: sets the height of the cell.
• Word Wrap: turns on/off word wrapping.
• Horizontal Alignment: determines the horizontal alignment of the text in your cell. It can be set to Left, Center or Right.
• Vertical Alignment: determines the vertical alignment of the text in your cell. It can be set to Top, Middle, Bottom or Baseline.
• Rows span: extends vertical rows.
• Columns span: extends cells on a horizontal row (left and right).
• Background color: sets the background color of your cell. You can either select a color or type it manually.
• Border Color: sets the color of your cells border. You can either select a color or type it manually.

Row

• Insert Row Before: inserts a new row before the row your cursor is currently in.
• Insert Row After: inserts a new row after the row your cursor is currently in.
• Delete Rows: deletes highlighted rows or the row your cursor is currently in.

Column

• Insert Column Before: inserts a column before the column your cursor is currently in.
• Insert Column After: inserts a column after the column your cursor is currently in.
• Delete Columns: deletes highlighted columns or the column your cursor is currently in.

Toolbar Elements

Explanations of all the Tools/Icons in the Full Description & Specials area Editing Box (grey area above text box) Allowing you to turn your profile into a website with all the extras.
Toolbar Element	Function
	View or edit the document source code. Text written in this Editing area: This is what my Standard Text written in this area looks like before I click the source button. After pressing source button we can see the HTML code: Text written in this Editing area: This is what my Standard Text written in this area looks like before I click the source button. If you want to go back to the normal text just press again. Use the source button to insert a slide show, video, paypal link, live chat link a background, etc. Click the source button and insert (copy and paste) the embedded code (the embedded file code from the website that your application is on) Slide Show (we recommend www.photobucket.com or www.slide.com ) Video (we recommend www.youtube.com ) Live Chat (We Recommend www.google.com/talk/ ) Online Payment System (we recommend www.paypal.com) Online Calendar (we recommend www.google.com/calendar/)
	Removes all content, creating a new blank page. (Be Careful here. Remember "")
	Saves the page you were editing.
	Preview what the HTML page will look like for users.
	Select a layout template. (Pre Designed Layouts)
	Cut the highlighted text to the clipboard.
	Copy the highlighted text to the clipboard.
	Paste the data copied to the clipboard (with or without formatting).
	Paste content copied from Microsoft Word or similar applications.
	Print the current document.
	Spell check the text in the document.
	Undo or redo the most recent action taken.
	Find a word or phrase within the document.
	Find and replace a word or phrase within the document.
	Select the entire text in the document.
	Remove the formatting from the highlighted text.
	Applies bold, italic, underscore or strikethrough formatting to the highlighted text.
	Superscript or subscript the highlighted text.
	Creates numbered or bulleted lists.
	Increase or decrease the text indentation.
	Format a block of text to identify quotations (text prominent from other sources).
	Sets the text alignment (left, centered, right or justified).
	Converts or removes the text in hyperlinks. It may also by used to manage file uploads and links to files on the web server. The easiest way to convert any item in your profile (words, pictures etc) is to highlight the words or photo in your profile you would like to be a link to another page, and then click this icon and type/paste the complete link address in the box. More Info (Link to page 1)
	Inserts or modifies a link anchor.
	Inserts images into the document. More Info (Link to Page 2)
	Inserts an Adobe Flash element into the page.
	Creates a table with the defined number of columns and rows. More Info (Link Page 3)
	Inserts a divider line (horizontal rule).
	Inserts an emoticons image (smiley faces, email icon, light bulb, etc.).
	Inserts symbols & special characters (accented characters, trademark, currency symbol, etc.).
	Inserts a printing page break. Only impacts printed version.
	Styles & formatting determine the appearance and semantic value of your document. You may use the drop down boxes to apply styles, set the font, its size, etc. To remove the applied style select the style name again or click .
	Changes the color of the text.
	Changes the background color of the text..
	Maximizes the editor size inside the browser. (A very helpful tool when building your profile)
	Shows where the block elements boundaries in the text.