Features & Benefits FAQ

The only thing ‘Real Time’ about the eCommerce web is the distribution of advertisements. People think that because they get relatively current news and weather updates or because they use social media to message back and forth (not to business’s, but to eachother) or because they go to an aggregate website like GroupOn, that their shopping experiences are also up to the moment.  BUT THEY AREN’T. see AdFor.US Difference Comparisons

The ‘Modern Web’ is built to serve all of Advertisements- and it is pay as you go, slowing us down at every click, intentionally obfuscating everything that we are searching for and placing their highest bidder advertisements in front of us regardless of relevance.  See Real Relevance, Emergent Evolution

AdFor.US is truly Current- Real Time Marketplace, as is familiar (but different) with GroupOn, Ebay, Amazon, etc.  AdFor.US users see only content/ advertisements/ announcements that are valid for a certain period of time– 7 days or less.

The AdFor.US platform is ALSO a LIVE DIGITAL EXCHANGE (also familiar, but different- See Difference Comparisons) Our merchant operators can even post announcements for 1 hour…. Because Real- Time means Right Now!

Operators know that they are speaking directly to THEIR COMMUNITIES, so they can ‘Say or Announce’ Extremely Relative Offers, Deals, Exclusives and provide Last second Updates or Statuses AS THEY HAPPEN (in less than a minute), that User patrons can Find (NOT SEARCH) in 5 clicks or less.

“Live”, also means that you can call, text or email these merchants and SPEAK DIRECTLY to employees that know exactly what announcements there are questions about and- since we were at it, you can Find EVERY Local Merchant operator in our Hand Verified Directory.  You can line them up in 5 clicks or less too!

Real Time means, Right now or Currently. “Live” means that the persons responsible for the announcements can reiterate the announcement or even remove their announcements in seconds.

Since AdFor.US is such a powerful information tool  for foot traffic, they may need to adjust their announcements to indicate real-time situational changes… Like wait/ no wait times, or Last One, or even announcing a parking lot sale for a semi- truck that just pulled up early.

See Also Real Time, Real Relevance

Because The AdFor.US Live Marketplace and Digital Exchange is REAL-TIME and is LOCAL ONLY, both neighborhood user shoppers AND community operator brick & mortar merchants have the exact same situational conditions.

Date, time and weather are standard indicators for the distribution of web content-But during a weather emergency, Say or Hurricane or Tornado Standard Advertisements are distributed–

With AdFor.US merchants & consumers may get up to the second updates regarding obstructed roadways or even a merchants parking lot access.  Last second announcements indicating inventory-  “We still have Ice”, “We have 2 Sump Pumps left” or a more significant announcement, such as ‘Closing At Noon’ might just save a patron a later trip and help them plan their day.  — Note: With The AdFor.US Solution- No Announcements would be displayed if the merchant isn’t Open to accept direct questions.

Since merchants

1. aren’t competing against other merchants around the world for display on page 1
2. and since it doesn’t cost them any extra dollars to make announcements
3. and since they don’t have to ‘Identify’ or ‘Select’ a Target Audience (Because their Audience is EVERYBODY in the community)
4. Since… A LOT MORE!

Shoppers can also see announcements about Professional Service Persons in their Area- “Finishing up here in an hour, 10% off if you book appoint in the next 50 minutes”

See more- Matched Context & Content

There are a lot of websites out there on the world wide web that have scheduling abilities, but this feature costs money to install, repair or update.  Local Merchant Operators don’t have the time to sort through thousands of scheduling ‘solutions’ that might be out there. They may even decide to hire an agent – or another web company that handles this for them.  It is also, likely these Merchants pay for leads from web portholes who unofficially ‘represent’ these merchants.

We’ve all seen it. Search for a business and next thing you know, you see results for Yellow Pages, Angies list, Find a ‘?’, etc.  You might even see a Google+, Facebook Page or Twitter link that when you follow it, somewhere on the bottom or off to the side of the page you see a little button that says “Is this your Business?” or “Claim your Business”– you’ve just been duped or hoodwinked- HoodLinked 😉 see also unknown publishers, aggregates, scraped.

Now-  with The AdFor.US Evolution, EVERY Business has a scheduling, rsvp, booking agent available to them.  Before you ask “How Much?”, let me say No Charge.  Infact.

The AdFor.US Evolution is designed to connect All Searching Shopper users DIRECTLY TO Merchant operators and every feature that you’ve ever heard of or seen elsewhere on the web.  Merchants pay us $500 a year for it.  (Thats an average savings of over 5000% to more than 20 million small businesses.)  See some of the other Built in Features.