DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS

General Basic Information: Dual Aspects of Any Registrant: Section 0A

Using FP as a buyer searching for Products / Services, Broker / Agents, Rentals, Skillsets: Section 2

0B). General Basic Information: The 4 Major Search Options:

The FirstPageit Platform divides all searches into 4 Major Search Options – Products / Services, Broker / Agents, Rentals, Skillsets. Definitions below:

FP is NOT designed for pricing of household goods such as TVs, laptops, furniture, etc.

FP will also submit your search for rentals from regular companies in the Rentals business.

1A). The Sign-Up Process: Business Registrations:

1AA) Identify if you are signing up as a Business or as an Individual by clicking on the appropriate radio button. You could sign up as a company at your workplace to use FP for business purposes and later as an individual to use for personal purposes – separate registrations are required. This section of the write-up is for Business Registrations.

1AB) Enter first name, last name, email address and a password (8 characters max). Re-enter password.

Email Address will be verified by an authentication code sent which will have to be entered.

Once you finish setting up your account, you must white label the Firstpageit platform with your email provider to enable transactional emails to come to your inbox instead of spam. We do NOT send spam. This is a strict above board platform.

White labeling allows your email provider to send search requests, responses to your requests, etc to be put into your inbox rather than to your spam folder. The very intent of signing up at FP is to advance in business, which will be improved by this step.

You can search “How to White Label Email Address” for help. It is really simple – just a few clicks

1AC) Enter Referral Code if available given by the person who referred you to FP, so he can get his tiny commission. This is an optional field.

1AD) Click Next.

Company and Product / Service Details Screen:

1AE) Choose one out of 2 radio buttons:

Manufacturer/Distributor/Reseller/Services Provider OR Broker/Agent.

Choose the first button if you are for example, a manufacturer of valves, pumps, etc., a coatings services provider, a heat treatment services provider, a distributor of O-rings, a re-seller of electrodes, etc.

Choose the second button if you are a Broker / Agent such as a life insurance agent, a business insurance agent, a commercial realtor, residential realtor, travel agent, etc.

1AF) Enter your company name.

1AG) Enter physical address of your location. Google Autofill feature will drop down for help. FP will extract GPS data enabling location features for geographical fencing for your incoming requests.

1AH) Radius of Active Business Service Slider:

Click one of two radio buttons: Miles or Kilometers to denote unit of distance measurement.

Now slide the blue slider to the value of the geographical radius within which you want INCOMING REQUESTS INTO YOUR PRIMARY EMAIL to be limited to. This will enable you to control the geographical fence within which you want to get incoming requests for your products and services.

Some examples for clarification.Example 1: Let us say you manufacture and sell tiny mechanical devices that you ship in small 10 pound boxes by UPS. You may be interested in business prospects throughout the world. In this case, you may want to put the slider all the way to the right, so you can capture overseas requests also.

Example 2: Say you are a heat treatment services or powder coating services provider and being that this is more of a regional type business, you may want to limit business requests from a 500 mile radius of your plant; in this case put the slider around the 500 mile mark.

Example 3: If you a basements finishing contracting company or are a realtor licensed to practice within a state that is about 150 miles in radius, put the slider accordingly; because you would not be interested in requests for someone trying to get their basements finished on the other side of the country or the world.

The slider geo-fencing feature is changeable and not rigid; once a value is put, it can be changed later in your Profile depending upon your future situation. For example, if you get bombarded with too much business, you can cut down the fence radius; conversely, if you want to expand your geographical reach, you can extend the radius – all with a simple slider !! You must study the instructional set titled: “Primary and Secondary Email Addresses” in order to understand the functionality of these in conjunction with the Radius of Active Business Service Slider. Only then will the understanding become clear.

1Ai) Main Products / Services:

Enter briefly the Main product or service that your company sells - for example, Gears. This is simply an identification term for your business, to be shared with companies during the buy / sell process.

This term does NOT limit the scope of incoming business OR outgoing search requests. [Where this term gets used is explained in Section 2L of this document.]

Another example: if you are a Real Estate Broker / Agent that deals ONLY with Commercial Real Estate Building Sales, you could put in Realty – Commercial; if however, you sell both Commercial and Residential, you could still simply put Realtor OR Commercial & Residential Real Estate.

If you are an insurance agent, you could put in Insurance agency – life, auto, etc.

1AJ) Categories – the heart of FP:

Now enter the categories into which the products you sell will fit best from the available drop down selections. This step WILL determine what kind of INCOMING business requests you receive.

In the 1st Gears example above, you should choose Industrial Products/Systems as Main Category, Mechanical/Electrical as the 1st Sub-Category; then Power, Power Transmission and Motion as the 2nd Sub-Category, Power Transmission and Motion as the 3rd Sub-Category; then Gears, Idlers and Rollers as the 4th Sub-Category.

Whenever a Buyer searches for any product and specifies to search in these categories, you will get an email notification with his needs.

Even though you only entered the term “Gears” as the Main Product, if the Buyer is looking for “Plastic Gears” or “Coated Gears”, you will get the opportunity to pursue the business as long as the categories the Buyer wants to search in matches your categories.

To avoid getting bombarded with unwanted requests, limit incoming requests to Pin-Point Accuracy by choosing categories accurately.

The broader the categories selection, the more requests you will receive, many of which may not be appealing.

In the above Gears example, if you had hurriedly just selected Industrial Products/Systems and moved on, then you will get requests form Buyers looking for Everything that falls in that Category including pumps, valves, packaging systems, etc.

In the 2nd Example above, you should choose Broker/Agent as the Main Category; then Real Estate as the 1st Sub-Category; then Commercial as the 2nd Sub-Category; then Commercial Bldg/Unit Purchase as the 3rd Sub-Category. If a Buyer searches to buy an Industrial building, and chooses these exact categories, you will get notified and it will be Pin-Point Accuracy.

If you had only chosen Broker/Agent as Main Category and Real Estate as the 1st Sub-Category and moved on, you will get requests from Buyers of residential homes or vacation properties also.

Similarly, even though you may have specified categories EXACTLY, if the Buyer of a vacation property requests that the search be conducted on all Real Estate Category entries, you will get a notification.

Multiple Products/Services and Multiple Categories:

In reality, companies may offer more than one product or service. In our Gears example, say these are Coated Gears – meaning gears that are CNC machined first and then a CVD coating is put on.

In addition to selling complete Coated Gears, you may be interested in offering CVD Coating Services as a service offering. Many firms do this to capture more business and load up productive capacity. This is accomplished by choosing multiple categories.

In the Gear Example, put Gears and CVD Coating Services in the Main Product field; and in addition to the Gear Categories chosen above, choose “Industrial Processes / Materials” and “as Main Category; then “Coatings and Surface Treatments” as 1st Sub-Category; then “CVD/PVD/FIC” as 2nd Sub-Category; then “CVD/PVD/FIC Services” as 3rd Sub-Category; then “CVD Services” as 4th Sub-Category.

This is Pin-Point Accuracy. Now you can offer both complete coated gears and just CVD coating services, thus increasing sales.

This same concept applies regardless of what industry it is, including brokers / Agents.

Deleting Product Offerings: In the Gears example, if you want to stop selling the CVD coatings service offering, you can do so in your Profile Page.

1AK) Entering Rentals Data: Do you have any Rentals? Click Yes OR No.

In addition to being the Main Section of Categories Selection for Rentals Companies, this option allows a company to rent out any equipment they may have that is not used fully. For example, a company box truck that sits idle in the parking lot on weekends or 3 days during the week could be rented out at a discount and bring in some income; this could be applicable to any piece of equipment; imagination is the limit..

1AL) Enter the categories into which the rental items would fit into. There is no need to specify the item exactly; it suffices to simply enter the right category.

For example, if there is a 24 foot box truck with an extended cab and lift gate available for rental, it is sufficient to place it in the transportation/truck category. This is because rental items can get to be very detailed as far as features. When a searcher looks for anything in the transportation/truck category in the above example, you will get an email with the rental request.

As in previous sections, one can add multiple categories.

1AM) Radius of Active Rental Service Slider:

Click one of two radio buttons: Miles or Kilometers to denote the unit of distance measurement.

Now slide the blue slider to the value of the geographical radius within which you want INCOMING RENTALS REQUESTS INTO YOUR PRIMARY EMAIL to be limited to, enabling you to set a geographical fence.

Example 1: Say you are a metallurgical laboratory that has a table top x-ray diffractometer instrument weighing 100 pounds costing $60,000 that sits idle for 9 months in a year.

You may be willing to rent it to another lab for a month for $10,000, even though they may be 300 miles away. So, put the slider for rentals at the 300 miles mark.

Example 2: Say you are a cabinet making company and have a fork truck used for incoming wood deliveries; assume this remains idle for the first three weeks of the month.

You may want rent it out for say $100 a week (which is way cheaper than commercial fork truck rental companies) and make some revenue from it. Because of the difficulty in transportation, you may want to limit requests to only 5 mile radius of your plant; in this case put the slider around the 5 mile mark. Because you would not be interested in fork truck rental requests from the other side of the world.

Example 3: If you are a Rental Company, choose the Slider to match with your business goals. For Rental Companies, this Slider here IS the determining Geo-Fencing Tool.

The slider geo-fencing feature is changeable and not rigid; once a value is put, it can be changed later in the Profile Page depending upon your future situation.You must study the instructional set titled: “Primary and Secondary Email Addresses” in order to understand the functionality of these in conjunction with the Radius of Active Rental Service Slider. Only then will the understanding become clear.

1AO) Platform Integrity Check:

Once all entries are properly filled out, click the Submit button. Now you will see a pop-up screen titled Platform Integrity Check. This is part of FirstPageit Platform’s Proprietary Fraud Detection Algorithm. (PFDA)

Enter the authentication code sent to your email address. If authentication is not successful, you will have the option to resend the code to the same address or enter a new email address, which in turn will need to get authenticated.

Choose the country code from the drop down menu and enter your cell phone number. Then click the blue Submit Phone Number button. A One-Time-Password will be sent to your cellphone. Enter that code and
click the blue Submit Code button.

1AP) FP Welcome Screen Content:

You will now get a “Welcome to FP” email. You will also see a Welcome Screen that says that your FP account was successfully created. This screen has several parts which are explained here.

A. Based upon the country of your registration, your default currency will be specified. For example, if you are signing up as a user in USA, your default currency will be listed as USD; if you are signing up as a user in India, your default currency will be listed as INR.

B. This is the currency unit for all your transactions, including payments for FP services, loading up of FP wallet, PayPal commission payouts if you are an RStar, etc.

C. You will now be prompted to enter a Secondary Email Address. This is an Optional Field. If you leave this field blank and choose to add it later once you have learned of it’s value, you can do so in the Update Profile Page.

This feature can be of tremendous value for sales people; it is described in great detail in the section: “Primary and Secondary Email Addresses” in this document.

To validate, a code will be sent to your Secondary Email Address, which will have to be entered here.

D. Sign Up as An RStar NOW and Skip Re-Verification: This option is for your convenience. Most users of FP will find so much value in the platform by way of increasing sales revenue and reducing purchasing costs that they will want to refer others to the platform and in the process earn a commission.

While you can choose to sign up as an RStar later, that process will involve re-verification of email address, cell phone, etc. By choosing YES to this option here and now, you get to skip the re-verification process. If you choose YES, you will receive your RStar Account Code as well as the necessary referral buttons to spread the word.

If you choose YES, a second input field requesting your PayPal Email id will come up. This is because FP will make your commission payouts by PayPal to your PayPal account. In order to become an RStar, you must have a valid PayPal Email id. ( which may be different ).

If you choose NO, you can always sign up as an RStar in the future.

You can learn more about becoming an RStar in the appropriate section in this Document.

1AR) Primary and Secondary Email Addresses:

In this section, we will describe in great detail how the Primary and Secondary Email Addresses work in conjunction with the Radius of Active Business/Rentals/Skillsets Service Geo-Fencing Slider.

We will address how the process works when you act as a Buyer and as a Seller.

Please review this section slowly and carefully, so you can maximize returns from the FP Platform. An example will be used for ease of understanding.

Example 1:

Let’s say a Buyer “A” puts out a request for a product: say “stainless steel”. Let’s say 5 companies “L, M, N, O and P” have put in their capabilities as being stainless steel suppliers and all these have put in the Radius of Active Business Service as 100 miles.

The Buyer “A” really does not care where the suppliers are located as long as he can get his steel delivered to his door step fastest and at the lowest possible cost. That is, if the supplier that is farthest away from him can deliver faster and cheaper, he will go with that supplier as opposed to the closer, slower, high-priced one.

This, in fact, is the spirit of the FP logic. One can see the success of this logic in the works, as shown by the tremendous success of on-line sales, where the seller may be thousands of miles away.

Assume Buyer “A” is in Connecticut. Let’s assume that suppliers L,M and N are well within 100 miles from the Buyer and are in the same state. Assume “O” is 101 miles from “A” on the western border of the next state and “P” is just 101 miles away from “A” on the eastern border of the next state.

By Strict, Non-Sophisticated logic, because of the slider values set, only L,M and N should even get the Request to Quote. “O” and “P” should have missed out on the opportunity!! “O” and “P” will cry “unfair” for having missed out for a mere 1 mile distance, even though they were the ones that put the 100 mile fence in the first place.

One could say 10 percent more than the Geo-Fencing should be allowed or 15 percent. What about 25 percent? FP does NOT want to be in the subjective game.

The User should be the Decision Maker, NOT FP. Yes, his preference is to stay within the Geo-Fence he prescribed, but the seller may be open to slight expansion: how much is slight? Only the seller can determine this.

To solve this dilemma, FP follows a More Sophisticated Logic. FP allows for the provision of a Secondary Email Address in addition to a Primary Email Address.

The Primary Email Address will be sent Opportunities that meet both (a) the Buyer’s Search Category Choices & Sellers’ Capabilities AND (b) meet the Sellers’ Geo-Fencing Preferences.

Opportunities that meet (a) BUT NOT (b) are sent to the Sellers’ Secondary Email Address if one is provided.

So, now in the example above, the Search Request from the Buyer will end up in the Primary Email of Sellers “L”,”M” and “N”, but in the Secondary Email of “O” and “P”. “O” and “P” can now decide for himself whether to participate or not.

Now, if “P” had chosen NOT to provide the Optional Secondary Email Address, he will completely miss out on the opportunity !!

It is highly recommended that one put in the optional secondary email address. You can always obtain a free email address and put that in.

Why should you put in the secondary email address? We will answer that here:

(A) If you act as a Buyer and search for something, putting in a limit of 5 responses as an example, if more firms provide a quotation within the first 24 hours, you can choose to have these additional quotations will be put into your secondary email, keeping your primary inbox cleaner.

There is a high likelihood that you might find the perfect source in the additional responses.

( To understand why the first 24 hours are important, please also review and understand the section: “How the FP Stack Works” after you have finished this section )

If you do NOT have a secondary email, you will be given the option to have these additional responses received within the first 24 hours sent to your primary email. You can of course choose NOT to receive any additional responses at all beyond the Response Limit Filter set.

But if you choose NOT to receive any additional responses and stick firm with your response limit filter, there is a high likelihood that responses you receive may be from entities that are far away from your Geographical Time Zone, since they WILL have a time zone advantage. ( This is the reason for the FP Stack. )

Once the first 24 hours have passed since Search Request submission, the Secondary Email address performs no function.

The Request itself will get closed upon reaching the specified number of responses or the elapse of the specified time, whichever comes first: hence no more responses will be entertained. To understand this better, you should also review the section on “How the FP Stack Works”.

(B) If you act as a Seller and are trying to get more business, by having a secondary email put in, you will get to see opportunities that are beyond the Geographical Fence that you put in.

This is of tremendous value to salesmen, because by NOT putting in a secondary email, you will surely miss out on opportunities beyond your Geo Fence ( even if they are just 1 mile away from your Geo Fence ).

And if you see more demand for your products / services / skillsets, etc outside the Geo-Fence, you can increase your service area by simply moving the slider.

(C) The Primary / Secondary Email Address combination along with the Slider is a more elegant way to observe the pulse of business opportunities as opposed to simply putting the Slider at the maximum value, because then you can keep your primary box cleaner and observe business activity by monitoring your secondary email.

1AS) How the FP Stack Works:

Buyer Stack Overage Choice Screen:

In this section, we will describe in great detail the reason for the introduction of the FP Stack and how it functions.

Please review this section slowly and carefully, so you can maximize returns from the FP Platform.

The FP Stack has been introduced in keeping with the core philosophy of the platform to level the playing field for all, regardless of size, geographical location or access to huge marketing funds.

We will start off with an example.

Example 1:

Let’s say a Buyer at a company “A” located in Connecticut places a search request to purchase stainless steel with a filter of 5 responses max and 10 days max. Assume there are 13 suppliers of stainless steel in the platform: 3 in Connecticut, 4 in California and 6 in China.

If the Buyer places his request just before 5:00 pm – just before everyone in his area leaves for home, the time in California at that point is only 2:00 pm and the time in Beijing, China is 6:00 am. The people in Connecticut return back to work 15 hours AFTER the search request was made, assuming they start work at 8:00 am.

This gives an undue “time” advantage to the sellers in California and China over the local suppliers in bidding for the job. The same can happen in reverse also.

In our example, assume the 4 California suppliers submit their quotation right away and the 6 Chinese suppliers submit their quotes in about 3 hours ( 9:00 am in China ). Using Strict Non-Sophisticated Logic the platform could close the request after the first 5 responses are received and submit the 1st 5 responses to the Buyer.

If this happens, the local suppliers that came back to work 15 hours after the search request was placed will not even have a chance to compete.

From the Buyer’s perspective, he will receive 4 quotes from California and 1 quote from China: that’s it. If more time was given, then the local closer suppliers may have had a chance to play, which is to the benefit of the Buyer. All this happened due to undue time advantage from a global stand-point.

Hence, FP has a Stack Concept instituted. Here’s how it works.

Key Note:The FP Stack functions to capture search request responses that happen only within the 1st 24 hours; after the 24 hours the Stack becomes inactive and performs no function.

Depending upon the industry you are in and / or the product / service / skillsets, etc. that is being searched, there is a likelihood that too many responses could happen in the first 24 hours.

Case 1:

If the user acting as a Buyer has a primary email and a secondary email AND chooses to receive any responses in excess of his specified Response Limit into his secondary email: ( This corresponds to choosing Option “A” in the Buyer Stack Overage Choice Screen.)

Case 2:

If the user acting as a Buyer has a primary email and a Secondary email BUT chooses NOT to receive any responses in excess of his specified Response Limit into his Secondary email: ( This corresponds to choosing Option “B” in the Buyer Stack Overage Choice Screen. )

In summary, this case involves a Buyer who STRICTLY wants ONLY the Responses Up to His Specified Limit, that are received FIRST in time. In other words, he has chosen to take responses Only from entities that respond first, REGARDLESS of where they are in the world Even though he HAS a Secondary Email Address.

Case 3:

If the user acting as a Buyer has a Primary Email and NO Secondary email OR he has a Primary Email and a Secondary Email AND chooses to receive any responses in excess of his specified Response Limit into his Primary Email: ( This corresponds to choosing Option “C” in the Buyer Stack Overage Choice Screen. )

Case 4:

If the user acting as a Buyer has a primary email and NO Secondary email AND chooses NOT to receive any responses in excess of his specified Response Limit into his Primary email: ( This corresponds to choosing Option “D” in the Buyer Stack Overage Choice Screen. )

In summary, this case involves a Buyer who STRICTLY wants ONLY the Responses Up to His Specified Limit, that are received FIRST in time. In other words, he has chosen to take responses Only from entities that respond first, REGARDLESS of where they are in the world.

1B) The Sign-Up Process: Individual Registrations:

1BA) Identify if you are signing up as a Business or as an Individual by clicking on the appropriate radio button.

You could sign up as a company at your workplace to use FP for business purposes and later as an individual to use for personal purposes – separate registrations are required. This section is for Individual Registrations.

1BB) Enter first name, last name, email address and a password (8 characters max). Re-enter password.

1BC) Enter Referral Code if available given by the person who referred you to FP, so he can get his tiny commission. This is an optional field.

1BD) Enter your physical address. Google Autofill feature will drop down for help. FP will extract GPS data enabling location features for geographical fencing for your incoming requests.

1BE) Enter the Skill Sets if you choose by clicking one of two radio buttons to the Question: “Do you want to enter your skill sets for freelance / job opportunities? “

Here an individual can enter his or her skill set by placing it on the appropriate category.

For example, if an individual is skilled in Technical Manuals Writing in the field of Mechanical Engineering, the appropriate category would be Engineering/Mechanical/Writing; when a company looks for a mechanical engineering technical manual writer, you will get an email notification.

Another example: an individual with skills in residential basement finishing would place skills in the category Construction/Basements; when a homeowner wants a price to finish a 1,000 square foot basement, and looks for individuals with such skills instead of going to commercial companies, you get a chance to bid -- and it costs less than $3 at the most! (with an attachment and 2 engagements)

No annual memberships, No bogus lead costs, No Ads !!! And for the Buyer ( companies or other individuals ) looking for the service to be done, he posts the Request and simply waits for the responses – no chances taken as far as getting the best price and service.

Thus FP helps both in finding someone to serve your needs and in finding opportunities based upon your skill sets that someone else may need.

As before, multiple categories of Skillsets can be entered.

2)Using FP as a buyer searching for Products / Services, Broker / Agents, Rentals, Skillsets:

2A) Sign In.

2B) Choose one out of 4 radio buttons depending upon whether you are searching for price / delivery for a Product/Service (eg. a valve, steel, coating services, transportation services, etc. ), Rental item (eg. a box truck, backhoe, power washing machine, etc. ), a Broker/Agent (eg. life insurance, package insurance, industrial space, etc. ) OR someone with a specific Skill Set (eg. Java programmer, carpenter, videographer, etc.).

2C) In the search box, type in BRIEFLY what you are looking for – be brief but detailed. This term will be seen initially by entities to determine whether to look further into your EXACT requirements and provide a price and delivery.

A few Examples:

Products/Services Examples: Tool Steel Round Bars; Aluminum Flat Stock; Vacuum Furnace; Thermal Spray Coating Service; Viton O-rings, etc.

Rentals Examples: 24 foot Box truck; Commercial Power Washer, etc .

Broker/Agent Examples: Commercial Store Space; Industrial Condo; Whole Life Insurance, etc.

Skill Sets Examples: Website Designer; Mechanical Engineer; Electrician; Landscape Artist; Electric Guitarist, etc.

Where this term gets used is explained in Section 2K of this document.

2D) Click Next.

2E) Click on the categories where you want the search to happen – you know your search and business better than a search engine does…plus you don’t have time to pan through blogs and articles.

In the above example of Tool Steel Round Bars, for pin-point accuracy and to avoid reaching firms that would simply trash your request, you would click the categories: Industrial Processes/Materials then Metals/Alloys/Ceramics/Plastics then Bars/Rods/Plates/Sheets/Wire then Steels/Stainless/Tool/PH etc.

2EA) If you find that you are going to be searching in these Cats and Subcats quite frequently, you can save a lot of time by saving this set of Cats and Subcats as a Favorite and giving it a name.

Next time, you can select the Cats and Subcats to search under by simply clicking the name of a previously saved Favorite. To learn more about this feature, please see section 4 titled: The Fav Cats / Subcats Feature.

2F) Click Next

2G) Now type in detail what you are seeking a price and delivery on; more details ensure accurate provider’s response.

Examples: 100 pieces of half an inch diameter D-2 tool steel bars 36 inches long cut to length OR

Need a 10 HP Liquid Ring Vacuum Pump with stainless steel body and Teflon port cylinder OR

Need an industrial power washer minimum 5 HP and minimum 10 gallons a minute and 30 psi min OR

Need Whole Life Insurance for 36 year old male, married with two children, non-smoker, no health problems.

Note: No company names, phone numbers, website addresses or email addresses allowed in this box. Refer FP - TOS. This DOES get audited.

2H) Now Choose Filters: From pre-set options, choose how long you want the search to be alive: 1 to 5 days, 6 to 10 days etc. – unusually short times will result in few responses leaving goal unachieved.

Also choose Maximum Number of responses before Cut-Off. For example, you could keep search alive for 5 to 10 days OR 1 to 5 responses.

When one out of the two conditions are met, the request gets closed. Thus the hungry anxious sales responder gets the preference over the well-fed, lazy one.

2i) Uploading Attachments:

Click the Upload Attachments Button, ONLY if you want to upload a file as an attachment.

As another example, you may want a price on finishing a basement and have a hand sketch showing some features such as dimensions and location of a bathroom and a wet bar with dimensions.

Note: Attachments cannot have phone numbers or contact details – Refer FP – TOS. If you add attachments then the Supplier HAS to pay $5 to download attachments.

Why charge for attachments? -- It costs money to audit one more item to ensure compliance with FP TOS; hence use them ONLY if needed to communicate your requirement.

A message pops up to this effect: You can still add attachments or choose not to.

2J)Click Submit

Now the Buyer Stack Overage Choice Screen will appear. In order to make the proper choice, please review and understand Section 1AS): How the FP Stack Works / Buyer Stack Overage Choice Screen.

2K) If all information is correctly entered, a message will pop up stating “Your Request Has Been Submitted”.

A Request ID is assigned to every request and will be displayed.

You (the Buyer) will also get an email with the subject “FP Buy Request Submitted.” The email body will state: “Your FP request ID is: xxxxx. For Product: ppppp.” [This “ppppp” is the brief search term entered in section 2C above.]

2L) Distribution of Search Requests: Who Gets Notified:

Once a Buyer makes a Search Request, the question might be “Who All Get Notified”.

Here is the FP Logic: FP first takes all the categories and sub-categories submitted by all users that summarize where the products they sell and their capabilities fall under and appends to them any children sub-categories that may exist underneath them.

Example:Let’s say there is a Main Category 1 (which has 3 sub-categories A, B, C underneath it). Assume A and C do not have any more children sub-categories.

Let’s assume sub-category B has 2 sub-categories ( M, N ) underneath it. Assume sub-category M has 2 more sub-categories (X, Y) underneath, but sub-category N has no children below it.

Scenario A:If a user Jack has put a Radius of Active Business Service as 800 miles and enters Main Category 1 and nothing else, FP takes that to mean that this user is capable of selling EVERYTHING that is covered by that Main Category 1 along with ALL the sub-categories underneath it.

So, his capabilities will be summarized as 1ABCMNXY.

Scenario B:If a user Jill has put a Radius of Active Business Service as 200 miles and enters Main Category 1, sub-category B, then she chooses sub-category M and then stops.

Then her capabilities will be summarized as being 1BMXY. FP takes in the response of the Buyer to the question: “Enter the categories wherein to search”, and determines that ALL users that have EVERY Single Category/Sub-Category Term the Buyer has put are Qualified in Round One.

Then it computes the distance between the Buyer and the Users that Qualified Round 1, using the GPS location of their physical address during Sign-Up.

Those that are WITHIN the specified radii are Qualified in Round Two.

Those that Qualify BOTH Round One AND Round Two end up with Notifications.

Example 1: If the Buyer’s response to the question is 1B, then BOTH Jack and Jill will Qualify Round 1.

Example 2: If the Buyer’s response is 1BMXY, again Jack AND Jill will Qualify Round 1.

Example 3: If the Buyer’s response is 1C, ONLY Jack will Qualify Round 1.

Example 4: If the Buyer’s response is 1A, ONLY Jack will Qualify Round 1.

Example 5: If the Buyer’s response is 1, Jack AND Jill will Qualify Round 1.

Now, assume distance from the Buyer to Jack is 700 miles and distance from Buyer to Jill is 300 miles.

Now Jill will fail and Jack will pass Round Two Qualifier every time with this Buyer.

So in ALL the 5 examples above, ONLY Jack will Receive Notification of Buyer Request. Jill will unfortunately lose out on this business.

Now, for the sake of completion, let’s say the distance from the Buyer to Jack is 900 miles and the distance from the Buyer to Jill is 300 miles.

In this last case, BOTH Jack and Jill will FAIL the Round Two Qualifier every time with this Buyer.

So in all the 5 examples above in the last case, NEITHER Jack NOR Jill will get any Notification.

The email subject that the seller receives will state: “ FP Buyer Request (xxx miles from you) [Main Product: eeeee] looking for “ppppp”.

The “eeeee” is the Main Product / Service that the Buyer is in. This comes from Section 1Ai above.

This is useful to the Seller, because he gets a clue to where the pricing interest came from – so much better than today’s PPC Ad platforms; and the seller doesn’t have to go doing research on the Buyer using his contact form email – it is handed to him.

For example a seller of steel would be interested in a request from a Buyer whose main product is “machined steel parts”, rather than in a request from one whose main product is “steel supply”.

The “xxx” miles will alert the seller that the Buyer is “xxx” miles away from him (the seller). This distance will be within the geo-fencing radius specified by the user using the Radius of Active Business Service Slider.

If this request interests the Supplier, he can respond to it by paying $5 and potentially get some business.

When a supplier responds to your Request, you will receive an email with the subject: “Supplier response to your RFQ received”.

2M) The supplier email referred above, will state:

“Unverified (or) Verified Supplier ( xxx miles from you ) has submitted a Quotation as follows to your Request ID: xxxxxx : RFQ Details: ddddd ( this ddddd is the detailed description that was entered ) Quotation: Price: $gg Delivery: kk. To get contact details about this supplier, click the Re-Engage button below; if not interested, click the Reject button below.”

Now you can evaluate if the pricing and delivery received from this specific supplier is appealing to you and want to place an order or want to negotiate OR it is totally unacceptable.

Upon evaluation, you may choose to Re-Engage with the seller or choose to Reject the Offer completely.

At this point, you have a Quotation, but no details of the Supplier. This feature prevents competitors from snooping on each other’s price structure.

If the Quotation Data is within range of acceptability and you either want to place the order or negotiate other details, you need supplier contact details, so you click the Re-Engage button.

2N) If you (the Buyer) click the Re-Engage button, a message pops up saying:

“Your request to Re-Engage has been sent to the Supplier. Please wait for contact details to be released by Supplier.”

At this point, an email is sent to the Supplier with the subject: “Buyer wants to Re-Engage”.

When the Supplier opens this email, he can get to know Who this Buyer is (Who You Are), by paying $5.

[For the sake of ease of understanding, note that the Re-Engagement email the seller gets will state:]

“Unverified / Verified Buyer has chosen to Re-Engage with you for your quotation on Request ID: xxxxxx : RFQ Details: ddddd ( this ddddd is the detailed description that the Buyer entered ) Quotation: Price: $gg Delivery: kk. To get to know Who this Buyer is, Click on the Buyer Details button below (It costs $5 ).”

Now the Seller will pay $5 and click on the “Get Buyer Details” button.

At this point, because You ( the Buyer ) approved the Re-Engagement, the Seller will be given all of your contact details.

If the Seller now chooses to share His identity and contact details, he will click a button on his screen that says “Share Seller Details with Buyer”.

Once the Seller clicks this button, His details will be given to You ( the Buyer ) and FP EXITS THE PROCESS.

Now it is between the Buyer and the Seller to either discuss and negotiate more, place orders using official method of placing orders, track goods, receive payments, etc… that is NOT FP’s business.

2O) If the quotation received from the Supplier is unacceptable and hence you (the Buyer) click the “Reject” button, you will be prompted “Do you want to provide Feedback for this rejection?”

This feature enables sales people in knowing why they lost a business opportunity so they can improve the next time.

(Unlike spending money with PPC Ads, wherein the clicker simply goes to someone else to buy with no option of giving insight to the Supplier, FP provides Buyers an opportunity to provide some feedback if they choose to.)

You can choose to click “No”, in which case the matter is closed. If you click “Yes”, a text box opens up in which feedback can be entered (subject to FP TOS).

Examples could be: “High Price”, OR “Long Delivery”, etc.

This feedback will be available to the Supplier by paying $5. So you can rest assured that your feedback indeed has value.

3) Using FP as a Seller responding to requests:

3A) If a Buyer is looking to price something in the categories that you have listed your products / services / rentals / skillsets, then you will receive an email with the subject as:

“ FP Buyer Request (xxx miles from you) [Main Product: eeeee] looking for “ppppp”.

The “eeeee” is the Main Product / Service that the Buyer is in. This comes from Section 1Ai above.

This is useful, because you get a clue to where the pricing interest came from – so much better than today’s PPC Ad platforms; and you don’t have to go doing research on the Buyer using his contact form email – it is handed to you.

For example a seller of steel would be interested in a request from a Buyer whose main product is “machined steel parts”, rather than in a request from one whose main product is “steel supply”.

The “xxx” miles will alert you that the Buyer is “xxx” miles away. This distance will be within the geo-fencing radius specified by you during Sign-Up using the Radius of Active Business Service Slider.

The field “ppppp” is the search brief product description for example: “Stainless Steel Pump”.

If you are a pumps distributor, but do NOT sell stainless steel pumps, you can simply ignore the email and go on.

If you DO sell stainless steel pumps OR if you sell pumps that could be cheaper / better alternatives to stainless steel pumps, then you may choose to participate in the quotation process by paying $5 and may be win the order.

You do so by clicking the “Initiate Engagement” box.

In case the Buyer has deemed necessary to include an attachment to the Request, such as a blueprint, sketch, etc., then You, the Seller, need to pay $5 to download the attachment.

Why charge for attachments? Because it costs money to audit one more item for compliance with FP TOS. Buyers are notified clearly to include attachments ONLY if necessary to communicate important details and are instructed that the Seller pays to download these.

Prior to quotation, if you wish to download the attachment, you can click the “Pay and Download Attachment” and it will take you to the Sign-In screen and then to the payment screen.

Once you have made the tiny payment of $5, a message will pop up
saying “Your payment of $5 successfully completed. Please click the
download attachment button below.”

Upon clicking this button, the attachment will be sent to your email. You can evaluate it and choose to either ignore the request (maybe it is beyond the capabilities of your facility or for any other reason).

Or you can choose to participate in the quotation process by clicking the “Initiate Engagement” box.

3B) When you click the “Initiate Engagement” box, it will take you to the FP Sign-In Screen.

Enter the email and password and it will take you to the Quotation Details Screen.

Enter your pricing and delivery details. [Refer to FP TOS.] The cost to
submit quotation is only $5.

Thus with FP, ONLY when you find a qualified lead to whom you want to
submit a price, you pay a small token fee.

NO subscriptions, NO payments for bogus leads, NO ridiculously high fees and NO cuts from the selling price !! Even if you stand to win a $10,000 order, you still pay only $5 for Initial Engagement!!

3C)Once you have made the payment of $5, a message will pop up saying “Your payment of $5 successfully completed. Please wait for Buyer reply.”

3D) At this point, FP sends an email to the Buyer with your Quotation Details, but NOT your contact details.

The Buyer then gets to evaluate your pricing and delivery with others that would have quoted to him and determines if you are in the running for the order.

If he is a competitor, then all he has had is some pricing/delivery information from someone about whom he has no idea of identity.

At this point, he (the Buyer) clicks a Re-Engage button and he gets an email that states:

“Your request to Re-Engage has been sent to the Supplier. Please wait for contact details to be released by Supplier.”

Now you, the Seller is notified of the intent of the buyer to Re-Engage. The email will have the subject: “Buyer wants to Re-Engage”.

The content of the email will be:

“Unverified / Verified Buyer has chosen to Re-Engage with you for your quotation on Request ID: xxxxxx : RFQ Details: ddddd ( this ddddd is the detailed description that the buyer entered ) Quotation: Price: $gg Delivery: kk. To get to know Who this Buyer is, Click on the ‘Get Buyer Details’ button below (It costs $5).”

Below the ‘Get Buyer Details’ button will be a message in smaller print that states:

“Once you get to know Who the Buyer is, you will have a chance to confirm that your details can be shared with the Buyer”.

3E) Now click on the “Get Buyer Details” button.

It will take you to the payments screen.

Once payment of $5 is made, the next screen pops up saying:

“Your payment of $5 successfully completed!” “Buyer Details Sent to Your Email”.

3F) The subject of the Buyer Details email to you ( the Seller ) will be:

“Buyer Details for Request ID: xxxxx”.

The body of the email will say: “Buyer Details For: Request ID: xxxxx: Product: ddddd: Buyer Name, Address, etc.”

At this point, you can evaluate the Buyer to see if it is a competitor OR if it is someone you would like to conduct business by sharing your contact details.

If you choose NOT to reveal your details, simply do nothing and the process dies naturally.

If you wish to continue by sharing your details, so further discussions or a purchase order can be received, click the “Share my Details with Buyer” button.

Your contact details will now be sent to the Buyer.

Now it is between You and the Buyer to either discuss more or get purchase orders using Buyer methods of placing orders, tracking goods, receiving payments, etc… FP stays out of it.

3G) If the Buyer Rejects your quotation right away and thus does NOT Re-Engage, then an opportunity is given to the Buyer to provide feedback as to why the quote was rejected.

This allows sales people in knowing why they lost a business opportunity so they can improve the next time.

(Unlike spending money with Pay-per-Click Ads, wherein the clicker simply goes elsewhere to buy with no opportunity to give insight to the Supplier, FP allows Buyers to provide some feedback if they choose to.)

If the Buyer DOES leave a feedback, you will be notified so.

You can either choose to ignore OR get the Buyer Feedback data for a tiny payment of $5.

4) The Fav Cats / Subcats Feature:

This time saving FP feature will be of great value to users that buy the same family of products and services repeatedly with some changes.

Instead of constantly clicking on Cats and Subcats wherein to search, you can save frequently used Cats and Subcats into Favorites.

An example will provide clarity.

ABC Stamping Co frequently purchases custom copper resistance welding electrodes from outside vendors for its welding operations.

These items are not always the same – the print associated with the electrodes change depending upon the stamping welded.

But they want to get the best prices all the time including from new suppliers that may enter the market.

So, they’ll have to upload the specific print and choose Industrial Processes / Metal Joining / Welding / Resistance / Consumables as the Cats and Subcats.

But every time they get a new electrode to be ordered, they do not want 4 clicks.

Since they use this Cat / Subcats set frequently, they could call this search set as Copper Electrodes.

Next time they need to send out a request, they could choose the Favorite Copper Electrodes and all of the necessary Cats and Subcats will get invoked.

The same ABC Stamping Co may decide to buy 2 new laptops for its shipping department, but doesn’t purchase these often.

So they need not save this laptops search Cats / Subcats set into a favorite.

Favorites are used only for frequently searched categories and sub categories.

Duplicate Favorite names are not allowed. One cannot edit a favorite – delete and add a new one.

5) The Repeat Request Feature:

This time saving FP feature will be of great value to users that buy the same family of products and services repeatedly with NO changes.

Instead of constantly writing product search details, setting filters and constantly clicking on Cats and Subcats wherein to search, you can save tremendous time by the Repeat Request Feature. This can be found in the Dashboard.

An example here:

Speed Mfg Co purchases Stainless Steel bars 36 inches long in 600 piece quantities every 2 months from the same metal supply house.

They want to know if they are getting the best price every single time; but don’t want to spend hours and hours looking for suppliers and every month keep sending Request For Quotes manually.

So they sign up at FirstPageit.

Once they make the first search, that search appears on their dashboard.

Next time, they can simply click the Repeat Request and their exact search will get repeated.

This One-Click Repeat Request feature is a huge time saver for companies buying the same commodity repeatedly.

6) The Block Buyer Feature:

The FirstPageit community strives to allow Registrants to buy at the best price and sell at a very low cost per sale level.

Because the same entity acts both as a Buyer and a Seller, the agenda to squeeze suppliers or gouge Buyers wouldn’t exist, for it is a community of like-minded users.

Even with all the controls in place, there may be individual cases wherein a Seller keeps quoting to a Buyer by initial engagement, gets a Re-Engagement request and takes it only to find he doesn’t win any orders.

True or not, the Seller may feel being taken advantage of.

In that case, by simply clicking “Block Buyer”, the Seller will no longer receive requests from this specific buyer.

Thus the Seller can stop wasting time and $5 on someone who is not going to buy anything from him based on history.

7) Becoming a Verified Entity:

7A) People always prefer Verified Entities because of STRICT authentication that the user registered data is factual and NOT misrepresented.

Data misrepresentation is a disservice to all FP participants.

Verification ensures that the company is indeed what it has registered itself as and is in the business of what it has claimed.

This reduces chances of some business signing up with false information in order to get competitor pricing.

FP takes this seriously and hence the VERY STRICT guidelines.

Only businesses can get verified; there is a one-time charge of $99. There is NO Get Verified for Individuals.

FP does not choose to verify the identity of individuals; the burden of verification is on the companies or individuals that do business with individuals.

Please read this Entire Section BEFORE starting, so you will know how strict the guidelines are. If you feel you will NOT pass the requirements, do NOT attempt at Getting Verified.

If your company fails the Verification Process, you LOSE the $99 payment – it is Non-Refundable and Non-Disputable. Re-Verification requires Re-Payment.

Once Verified, any changes to the User Profile fields marked with a purple star will drop the Verified Status and Re-Payment will be required for Re-Verification.

This is so an entity does not register, get verified, then go change critical info in the Profile and still maintain its Verified Status.

Verification starts by clicking the Red Get Verified button in the Profile Page.

Upon clicking, the above information appears followed by: “Do you want to continue? Yes / Later.

7B) If the Yes button is clicked, it will take you to the Payments Screen.

If you have accumulated value in your FP Wallet, you can pay by Wallet. Upon successful payment, a message will appear:

“Your payment for Verification successfully completed. Please watch for a “Get Verified Packet from FP” by email and one will be sent.

7C) The Get Verified Packet:

The following are the steps per the contents of the contents of the Get Verified Email packet.

Step 1: Go to your Profile/Personal Details screen and make sure all data is correct.

Step 2: Go to your Profile/Other Details screen and ensure all business and categories are correct.

Step 3: Using the Upload button, you will need to upload as attachments, the following info:

Step 3A: Write and scan company website address or OLDER social media posting that will clearly state your company’s physical address and the products you sell. OR

Step 3B: In the absence of anything from Step 3A above, scan a copy of an invoice to a customer specifying clearly the products / services that has been registered at FP as being sold along with the proof of payment from the customer for the said invoice. OR

Step 3C: In the absence of anything from Step 3A or 3B above, scan an official letter from your company attorney or accounting firm in their letterhead attesting to your physical address and the products sold. OR

Step 3D: In the absence of anything from Step 3A,3B or 3C above, write and scan names of two customers with a contact name and email address that FP can contact to verify your physical address and the main product / service that has been registered at FP. ( This is the least preferred method if you want to fly under the radar).

7D) Once uploaded, you will get an email stating:

Once uploaded, you are done with your part; just sit back.

7E) Process of verification may take several days to a month, depending
upon responses from references.

Once Verification is completed, you will get an email either approving or rejecting the request.

8) The Profile Tab:

8A) Once signed in, the Profile Tab can be accessed from the top right. This section deals with the Profile Tab.

No parts of the Profile can be edited if a search request is in progress.

The Profile Tab has 4 Sub-Tabs: Personal Details, Other Details, Fav Cats / Subcats and User Type. The User Type tab will only be available for Business Users and not be visible for Individual Registrants.

Note that if you are a Verified Entity, changes cannot be made to fields with a purple star as that will drop your Verified Status. Other fields can be changed and profile updated.

The Personal Details Screen will show the name, email address, Geo-Fencing Slider, etc. You can also upload an image to display as your Profile Image.

If the Email Address ( Primary OR Secondary ), is changed, it will get validated by an authentication code sent.

The Other Details Screen will show the main products / services and the categories and sub-categories that are chosen and implied.

[To understand categories and sub-categories, please review the section 1AJ and initial explanations in section 2L above].

8B) The Fav Cats / Subcats Screen: This will list the favorite Cats / Subcats saved from searches.

8C) The User Type Screen ( Only for Business Users ) will allow to switch your work function from a previously choice to a new choice. All Individual Registrants are automatically indicated as a Buyer and a Salesman and hence the tab will not appear for Individuals.

9) The Dashboard Tab:

The self- explanatory dashboard provides details of Outgoing Requests, initial and Re-engagements, Repeat Request Options, etc. so a user can see everything in one view.

The very first set of two check boxes titled “ALL” and “FAV” allow you to view all requests OR only the Favorite Requests. Note that for ease of review, requests are grouped by Product / Service, Rentals, Broker / Agents and Skillsets; so you don’t have to go through all services in order to find requests in one service.

Every displayed field also has an Up / Down Sort feature. A Quick Search Option is also provided.

10)The Wallet Management Tab:

10A) Payments By PayPal:

While a user can make the tiny $5 payments on an as
needed basis by invoking Credit Card / Paypal interface, the following
has to be clearly understood:

Every time a Payment gateway is used,such as PayPal or Stripe ( for
Credit Card Payments ), there are Payment Gateway Transaction Fees that
apply. These fees are quite expensive. These are PayPal Fees that go to the
Payment Gateways and do NOT end up at FP.

Payment Gateway Fees such as PayPal Transaction Fees and Stripe
Transaction Fees are paid by the FirstPageit Platform and NOT charged
back to the User.

When you choose to pay per transaction by the Payment Gateways, there
will be a separate entry in your bill for every single transaction. For
example, if you engage 50 times a month in trying to bag orders for your
firm, you will end up with 50 line items in your bill for every individual
$5 transaction.

10B) Cleaning Up Clutter in your credit card or PayPal Statements :

You can REALLY clean up your billing statements and be well organized by
choosing to charge your FP Wallet with a certain larger amount say $10,
$25, $50 or $100.

In this case, only a single line of the amount of your FP Wallet charge-up
will appear.

This will also allow you to keep your accounting records clean.

If your FP Wallet runs low, you can re-load it based on your needs.
Note that FP converts the dollars charged into your Wallet into FP
points and does NOT stay as currency for security purposes.

The FP Wallet works like a store gift card. Once charged, the
money CANNOT be returned back as cash. It can ONLY be
used in the FP platform.

The Wallet Management Tab gives the user a clear listing of all wallet transactions, including payments made, purpose of payment, etc.

11) Become an RStar and Make Money With Us:

Once you start using the FirstPageit Platform, we are confident that you will love it so much that you might want to share the excitement with your friends and business acquaintances.

We are aware that the power of the platform will exponentially grow as more users register.

Instead of spending money on advertising and making ad platforms wealthier, which is what we are trying to overcome, we would rather reward the Raving Star who refers others to our platform.

We ourselves charge very little for our service, but whatever little we earn, we would like to share with you, the Raving Star.

There are a variety of ways an RStar can contribute not only to this new FirstPageit platform that is a direct response to a direct need, but also to his or her favorite charities and worthwhile causes.

This is explained in the videos section of the Know More page.

FirstPageit Platform’s Proprietary Fraud Detection Algorithm ( PFDA ) seeks to minimize ( and eliminate ) fraudulent activity on the part of RStars, so only legitimate and honest referrals are rewarded. Please refer to the FP Terms of Service before signing up as an RStar.

11A) Sign up as an RStar.

11B) Once you sign up, you will receive an RStar Code and associated buttons with your RStar Code appended.

You can publish these in your social media posts, messages and emails and share with friends and business acquaintances.

11C) You can also manually share this code with others by word of mouth and offline methods.

11E) As an RStar, whenever you want to check in on the commissions received, etc, you need to sign in from the Know More Tab.

Once signed in, you will be taken to the self-explanatory RStar Dashboard, where you can track all the users that have signed up from your referrals, the commissions earned, etc.

The RStar dashboard will also allow you to zero in the commissions, so you can keep checking the incremental revenues earned.

By knowing which of the referred users is contributing the most to your earnings, you can provide them the most support and encourage the lower level contributors to participate more.

And finally, a word of gratitude to all the users and RStars – Thank You For Your Support !!