Texas, Get Your Business Online!

Google Offers New, FREE Tools to Help Small Businesses Build an Online Presence 

Soundbite and Script

JULY 19, 2011

ANNOUNCER:

GETTING ONLINE REPRESENTS AN ENORMOUS ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY FOR TEXAS BUSINESSES. WHILE 97  PERCENT OF AMERICANS LOOK ONLINE FOR LOCAL PRODUCTS AND SERVICES, 51 PERCENT OF SMALL TEXAN BUSINESSES DO NOT HAVE A WEBSITE OR ONLINE PRESENCE.  AMY CHANG FROM GOOGLE SAYS THE PERCEPTION THAT GETTING ONLINE IS COMPLEX, COSTLY AND TIME-CONSUMING HAS PREVENTED MANY SMALL BUSINESSES FROM TAKING THE FIRST STEP.  FOR THIS REASON, GOOGLE HAS CREATED A FIRST-OF ITS-KIND PROGRAM CALLED TEXAS GET YOUR BUSINESS ONLINE :

AMY CHANG OF GOOGLE:

“Google and its partners will enable businesses to design and create free websites, provide domain hosting for a year and offer consultation to encourage entrepreneurs and small businesses to take advantage of the huge opportunities the Internet affords. Go to texasgetonline dot com to sign-up.”

ANNOUNCER:

BUSINESSES CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE PROGRAM IN PERSON AT A SERIES OF GOOGLE-HOSTED EVENTS THROUGHOUT THE STATE OR ON THE WEB AT TEXASGETONLINE DOT COM.   I’M JON DRYDEN.

Additional Soundbite from Amy Change of Google:

“Small businesses in Texas know how important the Internet is, because they use it every day as consumers; now they have a chance to easily and quickly create their own web presence. There’s a huge opportunity to find new customers, increase sales and grow their businesses.”