My name is Rocky LaLiberté and back in 1995 I started the first tourism website in Virginia Beach.   After 14 years of service the old website has finally been retired and in its place is a site that recognizes all the new ways people are using the internet.  The new VaBeach.com is database driven, which means it's expandable, easier to navigate plus it will be a snap to add new features.

In March of 2009 VaBeach.com got 7.5 million hits and that figure will increase about 30% per month until July.  Tapping into that traffic stream and diverting the flow to your website is as easy as starting an account with VaBeach.com.  

WHO NEEDS A VABEACH.COM ACCOUNT? 

If you have a website we can link to it, but you don't need to have a website to benefit from VaBeach.com.  In fact, once we have added all your information and photos and logos and links to VaBeach.com you may find that you don't need your own website. Our database holds all the same information that you would put into a website.  It is still highly recommend that businesses have their own websites, but if money is a critical factor, (and it is for everyone these days), this is a way you can save yourself money,  time and effort.

The heart of a VaBeach.com account is the inclusion of your business in our database.  Visitors to VaBeach.com will find links to you either through your listing or through our new custom-built search engine.  Your VaBeach.com listing will have all the vital information for your business plus links to your homepage, reservations, tour, menu, map, coupons, Facebook, MySpace, Flickr and YouTube.   To see an example of a complete listing please visit the VaBeach.com homepage leave the search box empty and click "search."  The AAA Sample Hotel is at the top of the list and has all of the features activated.  Click each of the links to see where it goes.

It may take a little while but eventually every business, large and small will have accounts on Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, YouTube and Google Calendar.  Facebook signed up its 100 Millionth user in August of 2008 and they signed up their 200 Millionth user in April of 2009.  There are more than 400,000 Facebook users in Va. Beach/Norfolk alone! Once all the Virginia Beach businesses are set up with social networking accounts VaBeach.com will be the site that brings all those sources of information together in one place.

Social Networking Consultation

The last few months has seen huge changes in the Internet.  Facebook has exploded with activity and Twitter has gone from being an unknown to the hottest trend in a matter of weeks.   Several new fly-by-night advertising agencies touting themselves as Social Networking Consultants have opened recently offering promises of "putting your business on facebook."  All you actually get for your $1000+ is get a list of instructions on how to use Social Networking, (Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, YouTube, Blogger, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, etc.). If you use e-mail, you've seen the spam messages touting the effectiveness of these services.  VaBeach.com has developed a set of instructions that explains how to set up your free social networking accounts and how to run them with the minimum of effort.  If you get stuck, we're here to help.

Your VaBeach.com Account includes:

     Listing In Our Database - This listing will include all your vital  information, plus more than a dozen links to information and social networking resources.

     Detailed Information Page - This your very own webpage on VaBeach.com.  This page will contain all of the information in our database plus more photos, more text, more links, more of everything.

     Free VaBeach.com Text Ad - Every Account gets a free Text Ad which appears in rotation on every page in VaBeach.com for the entire year! (homepage excluded).  To see an example of these text ads, scroll to the bottom of this, or any other page.

     Booking Engine Choice - The "Reservations" links in your listing connects to the booking engine of your choice.

     Home Page Link - Links to the homepage of your website.

     Tour Link - Links to the "Tour" page of your site or perhaps a VaBeach.com full-screen panoramic image.

     Menu Link - Restaurants or hotel restaurants.

     Link To Coupons - We will either link to your coupon page, or better yet, Google has a way to post free coupons for your business so that they are searchable via the Google search  engine.

     Banner Advertising Program - Banner advertising on VaBeach.com is very affordable and easy.  We charge a flat rate per year, unlike most other banner ad marketers who charge by the impression or the click.  You could spend as much money to advertise on AdSense for a month as you do advertising on VaBeach.com for a full year,  and month to month the banners on VaBeach.com will get more clicks than AdSense.  Click Here for a full description of our banner advertising program.

     Google Calendar - First you need to add your events to a Google Calendar.  You want to do this because then your  events will not only appear on VaBeach.com but they will also be part of the Google search engine and be easily found by people doing  Google Searches for things to do in Va Beach.  VaBeach.com will import your Google Calendar into our Google Calendar which appears on our "Calendar" page and is seen by literally thousands of people every day.  Google Calendar is the best way to get your events seen and noticed!  Imagine a complete list of events at the best restaurants, clubs, hotels and attractions - all gathered into one single calendar.  It should be a very popular resource.

VaBeach.com Membership - $485.00 per year (billed annually)
Visa, Mastercard, Discover, PayPal and Checks accepted.

   VaBeach.com Photography - Brochure and website ready photography.  We shoot hotels, restaurants, shops and attractions.  Full-Screen 360x180 Panoramic photography is our specialty.  No other photographer in the area offers this unique service.  We also shoot aerial panoramic photography and video as well as event photography and videography services.

   Quik Website Design - Quik designed, built and hosts the beautiful VABeach.com website!  If you need a website or have a website that is in need of attention, Quik Web Design can help.  Being a VA Beach based business, Quik understands this market and has built hundreds of websites for hotels, restaurants, shops and attractions.  Your website says a lot about you.  Make sure you are putting your best foot forward.  Please call (757) 460-9000 or visit www.Qhost123.com for more information.