Popular Local Search Portal FoundLocally com Launches Kitchener-Waterloo Site
Released on: October 21, 2007, 1:10 pm
Press Release Author: FoundLocally.com Media Inc
Industry: Internet & Online
Press Release Summary: Launch of a new community information portal for the community of Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario
Press Release Body: Calgary, AB October 22, 2007 -- FoundLocally.com Media Inc. [www.FoundLocally.com] has just launched a new community information portal catering to the community of Kitchener-Waterloo, west of Toronto. The 8-year-old company now has 25 sites servicing major cities and communities across Canada from Victoria, BC to St John's, Nfld. FoundLocally sites consistently attract more than 15 million visitors a year.
The http://Kitchener.FoundLocally.com/ [Kitchener.FoundLocally.com] site covers the "Tri-Cities" area including Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge, and Guelph, all about an hour's drive west of Toronto.
http://FoundLocally.com/ [FoundLocally's] portal sites provide comprehensive information about each community including travel, entertainment, shopping, neighborhoods, sports, education and government. They are an excellent trip-planning resource for both business and leisure travelers. Site visitors can browse about a thousand pages of background information, pictures and maps about each community, and popular resources like weekly ski reports, movie show times and golf courses listings.
The sites also include a useful http://kitchener.FoundLocally.com/Searches.htm [business directory] where visitors can search for businesses by name, category, or location. The http://kitchener.FoundLocally.com/General/FreeListings.asp [free business listings] are entered by businesses themselves and they provide descriptions, contact details and other marketing information. FoundLocally.com is a popular marketing tool for small businesses often run from a home phone or cell phone, and therefore excluded from the phone directory. And once registered, businesses can post jobs, events, special offers and news announcements as part of their listings. This service is free and well suited to those businesses without a web site. Local businesses in the Kitchener-Waterloo area may add themselves by going to Kitchener.FoundLocally.com and clicking on http://kitchener.FoundLocally.com/General/FreeListings.htm ["Free Listings."]
The site earns its revenues from traditional web "banner advertising" and optional "Logos & Links" in the business directory, which combines a web site hot-link, placement priority before free listings, and logo placement on all listing pages, for a small annual fee. Significant discounts are given to non-profit groups, and to organizations with multiple establishments.
Communities now covered by the portal include: Victoria, Greater Vancouver, Fraser Valley, Okanagan-Shuswap, Banff & The Rockies, Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Regina, Winnipeg, Thunder Bay, Sault Ste Marie, Sudbury, Barrie-Muskoka, Niagara Falls, Hamilton, Oakville, Mississauga, Oshawa-Durham, Ottawa-Gatineau, Fredericton, Charlottetown, Halifax, and St John's.
About FoundLocally.com
http://FoundLocally.com/ [FoundLocally.com Media Inc.] is a Calgary-based company that creates community information portals, and provides web design and web marketing services. It also runs http://www.transcanadahighway.com/ [TransCanadaHighway.com] (about travel along the world's longest highway), and http://www.movingincanada.com/ [MovingInCanada.com] (about relocations & real estate). The FoundLocally web sites are represented nationally by http://247canada.com/ [24/7 Canada], the nation's largest interactive ad agency. The company was recently (October, 2007) featured in an Alberta Venture magazine article "Battle of the Digital Directories".
For more information contact Mark Ruthenberg, FoundLocally's General Manager at (403) 245-2194 or by email at mark@FoundLocally.com or Lucas Steinman, Manager, Affiliate Relations & Marketing, 24/7 Canada Inc. 416-966-2542 x300 or by e-mail at Lucas.Steinman@247Canada.com