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Specialty Guide Software

Overview
The Specialty Guide software provides an easy way to professionally publish online guides and directories without technical expertise.

The software can produce a variety of comprehensive guides such as a dining guide, visitor guide, entertainment guide, automotive guide, etc. Users can quickly find businesses by products or services. Links to listings can be featured in appropriate areas throughout the site. Authorized groups can self-publish information in real-time.

The Specialty Guide portlet extends DynaPortal's Portal Directory to allow businesses and organizations to publish detailed product and services information, along with order or request forms. Therefore, this add-on portlet has all of the Portal Directory's features as well.


Benefits
Portal software return on investment is maximized by minimizing content management and site operations costs while increasing revenues.
  • Professionally publishes online guides with large numbers of listings quickly and easily
  • Full-featured and ready to go today - right "off-the-shelf"
  • Low Total Cost of Ownership - Low start up & training costs with continuing low operating costs
  • Distributed content management saves time and money by minimizing administrative labor
  • Groups can easily self-publish, increasing site participation, content, and value to users
  • A versatile content management software tool that can be used to publish a wide variety of information

Features
The Specialty Guide software provides flexible, easy-to-use content management focused on minimizing administrator involvement and cost.

  • Extends, and therefore includes the functionality of DynaPortal's Portal Directory portlet
  • Unlimited number of dynamic product and services types/categories
  • Guide listing pages include the product and service types with brief descriptions
  • Guide listing pages may include an online request or order form
  • Users quickly search the guide by multiple product or service types
  • The Guide Listing Page features a large text description, a graphic or logo, website link, address, contact information, along with product/service types and descriptions.
  • Links to listings can be featured in appropriate areas throughout the site
  • Featured Listings are presented before other searched listings
  • New Listings and suggested updates can be submitted on the site for administrative review and approval
  • Listings can be self-published and maintained by authorized users in real-time
  • Site visitors can email listings to others
  • Search engine meta-tag friendly
  • Users can select their favorite categories for quick browsing from their "My Portal" page using the Personalization portlet
  • Listings can be rated and reviewed by your audience with the Ratings and Reviews portlet
  • Restrict viewing to authorized users only using the Subscription/Users Content Viewing portlet
For more detailed feature descriptions please contact us.

Revenue Opportunities
The Specialty Guides software can generate a number of revenue streams.
  • Sell Sponsorships that prominently feature the sponsor on all the portlet's pages
  • Sell targeted advertising by page location and by category using the Ad Server
  • Charge for being a sponsored listing
  • Charge for self-publishing accounts to manage content in real-time
  • Charge for publishing listings using the Site Submission Payments portlet
  • Restrict viewing of the guides to paid subscribers
  • Earn hosting fees for DynaBiz™ satellite sites while aggregating their content on your site

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  • Specialty (Dining) Guide Main Page
  • Contact us to find out more about the versatility of the Specialty Guides and other DynaPortal directory software.


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