In some ways, now is a great time for those of us with microbusinesses because the recession is giving us opportunities we didn’t have before! The key is to keep your eyes open and look for the deals so you don’t miss them. Of course as I find them, I’ll pass them on to you, but I’d love it if you’d do the same for me!

A smart man, Ammon Johns, over on the forums I moderate said recently:

Many businesses have been awaiting this recession for a long time, with funds hoarded not to weather the storm, but to expand their market and make long-term aquisitions at rock-bottom prices.

Here’s one such deal I was made aware of recently. Not long ago, I had the opportunity to get a new website design created for me by the Wildfire Marketing Group. I haven’t yet finished the site, so it isn’t live and I can’t show you the design just yet, but you’ll just have to take my word for it that it looks great! I was super pleased with it.

Of course, getting top notch design work done isn’t cheap, especially during these hard times, but that same company is trying something new – website financing – with 0% interest! Sweet! When I saw that opportunity, I thought it was exactly the kind of thing I should check into and tell you about.

Well, once I spoke with them about it, they agreed that those of you that follow me deserved an extra bonus on top of the financing with 0% interest deal. Here’s how it works:

If you decide to get a site designed by Wildfire Marketing Group now or any time in the future, use this discount code – DAZZ3825 – during checkout to get $100 off the price of the design. You can read more about this special discount here. That’s $100 off the price PLUS you can still apply for the 0% financing deal.

After I heard about the financing deal, I searched online and while there are a few people on the net offering design financing, it’s apparently fairly rare (and some of them had sites that looked like they’d been designed in the early ’90s. ew…). So if you’re considering a new site design but would like to spread the payments out without paying more in interest, I can easily recommend the design skills of Wildfire – they know how to create current, attractive sites.

Since we’re on the subject of financing services, I was wondering what other web services or products (shopping carts, content management systems, etc.) have you found that are being offered with zero or low financing available? If you know of some, let us know about them too! Also, if you come across ANY really good deals that our little microbusinesses could use, feel free to tell us about them. We need to band together during these tough times and help each other make it through to the other side. I have complete faith that we will all see brighter days ahead, but we have to stay in the game long enough to see those days. Cutting costs, finding good deals, and stretching payments out are all viable methods of keeping afloat. Let’s use as many as we can.