Majic Genie.com was created to provide services that we saw were lacking or insufficient on the Internet.  The creator of the site has been, himself, a self-employed business owner most of his adult working life.   He has also worked professionally as a computer programmer / analyst and multimedia producer and consultant as well as IT tech.   He has been designing websites since the mid 1990's.   He has also been an Internet consumer / shopper since the early 1990's.  (He has also been an active member of a religious non-profit organization for most of his life)

The idea for the Majic Genie was actually born out of his own frustration in not finding a really good way of finding local sales on the internet.   It was very easy to find deals on nationwide stores, but the local businesses, it was not so easy.  You could enter in local searches on Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc., (trade marked names of Google, Inc, Yahoo, Inc, and Microsoft, Inc respectfully) but, mostly the results yielded only a list of business addresses and phone numbers, not a list of actual sales ads or local items for sale.  Over a 1 1/2 year period the design for Majic Genie was created.  The original goal was to create a system that would satisfy what he was looking for and wanted to use himself.  

Drawing on his skills as a website developer / programmer, a savvy Internet shopper and a busness owner himself (and his active partcipation in a non-profit organization) and using those talents and experiences to develope a system that fulfilled many diverse aspects.  He wanted a system that would cater to local business/sales searches.  A system where local consumers could go to in order to find local sales and bargins.  

After all, even though we live in the age of the internet and online shopping, still, most of us continue to do most of our shopping in local stores.  Local brick and mortar malls.   Most of our clothes, and all of our car repair, home improvment, and all sorts of services and goods we purchase locally from local businesses.   For local shopping the Internet should serve as the place you go to find who has the best local deals. It is the modern day replacement for the archaic phone books of the previous century.

What was wanted was to be able to go to a single site, enter in the area where one wants to shop, enter in keywords for what one is looking for, and rather than get a list of boring business addresses, the results should give you a list of local bargins and sale ads.   Time for an oil change?   Or time to get your nails done?   Who has the best deal in your local area?   What coupons are being offered? 

As the idea developed the idea for the Alert system slowly took shape.  Instead of constantly searching for what you are looking for,   the Genie will do the searching for you and send you alerts when it finds what you wanted.   This idea sprouted wings.  Why just local sales?  What about local Events?  And, so, the event listings and event alerts feature was added.

The project has been to make a site that delivers what consumers want and what business owner's want.  What business owners want is an inexpensive, yet powerful and effective means of marketing their goods and services.  What the general public wants is a free, easy to use service that provides them with a number of cool features, as well as a place to find the best local deals.   To succeed we had to assure sufficient local traffic, local consumers, coming to the site and using it on a regular basis.  To do this we added in a number of free and very desirable features, such as the Ad Alerts,   and the Free Event posting and Event Searching and Event Alerts.   The goal was to make Majic Genie thee place to go to to find local sales and events.  Private ads as well as store ads.

As we are just now marketing the services for the first time in the Albuquerque area, the reaction from the consumers and the business owners tells us that we have succeeded in putting together a very good combination of desireable features where everyone benefits.  The local consumers benefit, those putting on events benefit, those seeking to find local events benefit, the business owners benefit.

After dedicating more than a year and a half of his and his business's full time (and way over time) almost exclusively to this project, and putting his production team on the project as well, it is now time to let the Genie out of his lamp.   Roll-out the carpet and let the Majic begin...