xtownx is based upon the economic principle that everyone is both a producer and a consumer of goods and services.
As a consumer you will use xtownx to find the business and people that you would like to buy from, and so establish an economic partnership.
As a producer you will user xtownx to tell the world about what you offer in terms of goods and services, and how the wide range of potential customers will be able to find you, and find out about you.
Whereas xtownx has been designed around the specific needs of small business, including "one-man-show" businesses, there are no limits to the size of the business that may promote themselves.
These can range from a lady selling hand-made baskets from a stall in a tourist area, up to a major mining or manufacturing organisation, and everything else in between. You will have something you can sell, which may be your services as a carpenter or bookkeeper, and this is the ideal forum in which to make yourself seen and heard by those that need you.
One core element of the economic principles on which XtownX is based is that most small businesses struggle to find ways to promote themselves effectively, and this is aggravated in small towns, and their rural areas. XtownX provides a range of services to promote your business, no matter how small over the mobile web.
Another core element is to provide the capability for impoverished people, living in poverty, but with something to add to the economy, to find a way to uplift themselves by participating in this economy, and to use information as the basis for creating these opportunities.
xtownx offers a wide range of opportunities to put your business onto the web, and hence to allow it to be found through the powerful XtownX search engines.
The first option is FREE, and consists of providing a simple listing of your business, within the town in which you operate, identifying the type of services that you offer. This basic listing consists of simple your business name, address details, and telephone number under the selected category.
The next level up is the Mini Web Page, which is a small web page designed for the size of mobile phones, and which provides a basic one-page outline of your company, with a digital photograph as an option. This is priced at R10+VAT per month, with an additional R250+VAT for the initial design. This design and preparation is performed by the XtownX staff who gather the data, create the design, preapre the web site and then upload this to XtownX. It is our goal to provide this entire process to you within 30 minutes!
Once you have the Mini Web Site you are an official sponsor of xtownx, and this brings with it a range of other opportunities for targeting new business, all of which link back to your Mini Web Page: