Welcome to Hopewell.Biz - the new website serving the community of Hopewell, Virginia. Watch this site as we roll out new features. Register as a user and take advantage of the opportunity we offer to promote your business, share news and announcements of your group or organization, interact with fellow residents of Hopewell, Virginia via the internet, and keep abreast of whats going on in Hopewell, Virginia.

This site will be primarily devoted to promoting local content contributed by local businesses, organizations and residents. If you are interested in being a contributor, contact us. We welcome the opportunity to provide you the ability to promote your local business, share the success of your local sports teams, promote your local club or charity. Register as a user and take advantage of the free opportunities we offer to promote your business, share news and announcements of your group or organization, interact with fellow residents of Hopewell via the internet, and keep abreast of whats going on in Hopewell, Virginia.

The first step to use our features is to register as a user on our site. Then, as you explore Hopewell.Biz let us know what feature or news you want to share. Upon verification, we can give you privileges to input and post your news instantly.

Local businesses may become "Link Partners" and receive free promotion via banners ads, links and the ability to post news and announcements. Local Businesses may also list themselves for free in our local Business Directory and grow their business via the world wide web.

Local organizations, charities, and contributing writers may even profit by contributing content as qualifying contributors can earn financial rewards via Google Adsense from clicks by visitors to the news, announcement and content you supply.

Hopewell.Biz is what is known as a "Web 2.0" website - i.e. a feature that is composed of contributions by those who view and participate in the site. Anyone can participate. In order to post, you must be a registered user of the website. Posting is subject to our Terms of Use as linked from the bottom of our Home Page. By posting, you adopt and agree to our Terms of Use and News and policies applicable to various features as a binding legal agreement. These include (i) a representation by you that the post is accurate, does not contain any copyright content of any third party unless you have the right to post it, (ii) a prohibition against any posting that is slanderous, illegal, containing "hate" material," (material expressing racial, religous, sexual orientation or other bigotry) or known to you to be untrue, and (iii) a representation by you that if posting on behalf of an organization or other person, that you have the right to make such posting. Violaters are subject to loss of posting and/or website access privileges. If you observe any posting which violates our Terms of Use, please notify us via our contact link (on the Home Page) and report the abuse and we will endeavor to promtly investigate and remove if appropriate.

Become a www.Hopewell.Biz "Smartpartner"

Smart Partners
Smart Partners are local Hopewell and Tri-Cities region businesses and organizations who (1) maintain an active website (national firms with local offices may participate but they must have a webpage with information about the local location), (2) include a link to www.Hopewell.Biz on their website, and (3) submit both a logo and banner ad for rotation on our website.

To become a Smart Partner, the first step is to register as a user on this website. The place or include a link to our website on your site, either as a free standing link or banner, or on a local link page you maintain. The use our Contact feature to notify us, and provide your user name (on this website) and the URL of your website. We will then contact you with further details.

Benefits of being a Smart Partner include:
(1) The opportunity to have a "feature infommercial style article" about your business in our www.Hopewell.Biz - News. If requested, this infomercial can also be published on websites of other regional affiliate websites of Virginia Web Resources, LC
(2) The opportunity to have a free banner ad, linked to your website, included among the rotating banners on our website
(3) The Link to your website will be identified as a "favorite" local link in our link listing.
(4) The privilege of being enabled to post news, announcements of special sales or events in the "Hot Local News" section of our www.Hopewell.Biz - News

We have launched our HopewellFAQ - a feature designed to enable users to ask and answer questions, to share their knowledge of Hopewell, Virginia, and to create a knowledge base of frequently asked questions about Hopewell, Virginia. Visitors and residents are welcome and encouraged to submit questions. If you know the answer to a posted questions, please feel free to share your knowledge abd submit an answer. If you beleive a posted answer is wrong, or could be improved, please post a comment.
The HopewellFAQ feature may be accessed from the user menu in the left column of each page.

Understanding the difference between our "News" feature and "User Posted News.
User Posted news is intended to be an organized community "blog" which enables all registered users to submit and self approve for posting news and announcements on a variety of topics relevant to daily life in Hopewell. That feature is unmoderated, thus registered users have the flexible ability to post news and announcements relative to the topic. Submission to that category will be "pruned" after a reasonable period of time.

The "news" feature is a more moderated news area, where all articles are approved by the website moderator or a vetted contributing writer. We welcome providing serious writers the opportunity to publish articles and stories of the history and heritage of Hopewell. WE also are open to local writers who wish to write regular columns on a variety of topics (we are open to suggestions) relevant to local readers.