Professional opinion needed

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> How the Internet could help YOUR particular business?

By connecting me to customers that are not Internet savvy in my local area. 

I know the idea is to reach beyond local markets, but, wood is heavy, gas is expensive, and for small sawmills or anyone involved with wood most of your business is going to be local.

An example would be a customer seeing a 1/4 page ad in the Yellow Pages, going to the site listed in the advertisement, and following a link from that site to my site. That might be worth paying for per click since a 1/4" page ad in the local Yellow Pages is $1200. I can attest from personal experience anytime less then a 1/4 page ad is a complete waste of money.

I really liked the Find a Sawmill feature.

I found a few listings within 100 miles of my location that I did not know existed. Since this is a free site, you might want to volunteer people to search down the websites of the companies listed and have that information included in the web site database since this is about the Web.

Phone numbers would not be a bad thing either. E-mail addresses ... people change those like underwear sometimes, so I do not think that would be worth the effort of keeping updated unless the company could do it themselves.

You could sow a few links that are empty on the wood web directory. An example would be under chippers you could list http://www.vermeer.com/. 

Under Forest Landowners you could list that organization in Maine that represents 90% (??) of the small private landowners in Maine. Or contact them because that one contact could bring 100s of interested people if your site is listed in their next printed newsletter.

Bonus points for having real contact information under Contact Us!

You might want to change the word "hezitate". FWIW: I can count up to 30 in Spanish ... and that is about it for my second language :D