Elk Grove Businesses Encouraged to Get Online

The following is a press release from the city of Elk Grove: 

Nearly 97 percent of  Internet users look for local goods and services online, yet more than half of California’s businesses do not have a website.  That’s why the City of Elk Grove and Elk Grove Chamber of Commerce have teamed up to launch a new program designed to help Elk Grove businesses develop an online presence.

The site, www.ElkGroveGetsOnline.com, offers local resources, information and directories to make it easy for Elk Grove businesses to learn how to set up a website.  The site also promotes Google’s “California Get Your Business Online” promotion, which offers business owners a free website, custom domain name, hosting and other online resources for free for a year, with costs of less than $20 a month afterward.  

“When a business has a website, the business is expected to grow more than 40 percent faster than businesses that do not,” said Mayor Gary Davis.  “Since small businesses are the backbone of Elk Grove’s local economy, we want to make sure our business community has the tools and resources needed to be successful in ElkGrove.” 

“We are happy to partner with the city to offer this great tool for businesses to find the information they need to set up and manage a website quickly and easily,” said Chamber President/CEO Angela Perry.  “The new site not only offers the information needed, but local resources to help businesses along the way.”

For more information visit www.ElkGroveGetsOnline.com, call the Elk GroveChamber of Commerce at 916-691-3760, or contact Economic Development Director Randy Starbuck at rstarbuck@elkgrovecity.org or 478-3690.