HOW IT ALL STARTED . . . 

As small business owners, we were fed up with the very limited and extremely expensive advertising options available.  Advertising with the major search engines (I don't want to name names, but you know who they are) was particularly frustrating.  We felt as if we were "pay-per-clicking" our money down the drain.  To be at the top of our industries' search results -- and still put some food on the table for our children -- was becoming harder and harder.   Honestly, we were wondering just who was actually doing the clicking on our sponsored ads ( ads that cost an arm and a leg).  Was it our competitors clicking us out of business? The BIG GUN search engines knew they had us trapped!  They sat back and watched with glee as the bids between us and our competitors got higher and higher (they're smart, you've got to admit).    

Finally we decided, TO HECK WITH THEM! And so,  www.askDFW.com was born. We decided to be different from the major search engines! When you need your search  to be local, it will really truly be LOCAL. Don't  get us wrong, we need the biggies for many of things; however, OUR search engine lives and breaths DFW !  
 
That means when you want to send flowers, for example,  to your MOM  who lives in Richardson, you can get the listings for real, live flower shops IN Richardson, Texas!  Instead of getting hundreds of listings from "global" corporations monopolizing your local search results.   
 
We built this baby from scratch and WE WANT to share it with YOU!   Check now to see if your company is listed. If it's not, don't be discouraged.   We can remedy that in just a couple of minutes!  DID WE MENTION that your LISTING IS FREE?! 

Our ultimate goal is to help local businesses showcase and advertise their businesses, FOR AN extremely low cost, directly to  your "local market". Gone are the days of pay-per-click AND unwanted search results. We want to make the local search process, as simple -- AND AS LOCAL -- as possible. 
 
We will post monthly results showing the number of unique hits to our website.  So keep clicking, keep searching and spread the news!  You will soon see the results of askDFW.com as it  actively advertises, promotes and markets YOUR new local search engine!

Here are a few PERKS to advertising with askDFW.com (different from the biggies):     
 
*NO pay-per-click charges*Low monthly fee for top spots
*Low cost banner ads
*Only "LOCAL" search results
*No contracts (cancel any time)

We hope you'll agree that this is a wonderful, refreshing new look, on an old idea!  We do!

 The Metroplex is just a click away.

John Fite and Travis Bowman