FoundLocally.com Media Inc. has just launched a new community information portal forMississauga, Ontario [http://Mississauga.FoundLocal ly.com]. This site will serveMississauga, Brampton and the Peel Region, in Ontario's Golden Horseshoe region. The Mississauga site also includes lots of information about and relating toToronto's Pearson International Airport, including the hospitality businesses, someof which are actually situated in the neighboring Etobicoke area of Toronto/
This adds to existing sites in the Toronto are http://Oakville.FoundLocally.c om (Oakville, Burlington & Halton), http://Hamilton.FoundLocally.c om, http://Niagara.FoundLocally.c om (Niagara Falls & St Catharines), andhttp://Barrie.FoundLocally .com (Barrie, the Muskoka Region, and Georgian Bay fromthe Bruce Peninsula to Parry Sound).
http://FoundLocally.c om 's portal sites provide comprehensive information abouteach community including travel, entertainment, shopping, neighborhoods, sports,education and government. They are an excellent trip-planning resource for bothbusiness and leisure travelers. Site visitors can browse about a thousand pages ofbackground information, photos and maps about each community, and popular resourceslike weekly ski reports, movie show times and golf courses listings.
The sites also include a useful business directory athttp://Mississauga.FoundLoc ally.com/Business where visitors can search forbusinesses by name, category, or location. Athttp://Mississauga.FoundLoc ally.com/General/FreeListings. htm, free business listingsare entered by businesses themselves and they provide descriptions, contact detailsand other marketing information. FoundLocally.com is a popular marketing tool forsmall businesses often run from a home phone or cell phone, and therefore excludedfrom the phone directory. And once registered, businesses can post jobs, events,special offers and news announcements as part of their listings. This service isfree and well suited to those businesses without a web site. Local businesses in theMississauga area may add themselves by going to http://Mississauga.FoundLocall y.comand clicking on "Free Listings" or athttp://Mississauga.FoundLoc ally.com/General/FreeListings. htm
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 toorganizations with multiple establishments.
Communities now covered by the portal include: Victoria, Greater Vancouver, FraserValley, Okanagan-Shuswap, Banff & The Rockies, Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Regina,Winnipeg, Thunder Bay, Sault Ste Marie, Sudbury, Barrie-Muskoka, Niagara Falls,Hamilton, Oakville-Halton, Mississauga-Peel, Ottawa-Gatineau, Fredericton,Charlottetown, Halifax, and St John's.
About FoundLocally.comhttp://FoundL ocally.com Media Inc. is a Calgary-based company that createscommunity information portals, and provides web design and web marketing services.It also runs http://TransCanadaHighway.com (about travel along the world's longesthighway), and http://MovingInCanada.com (about relocations & real estate). TheFoundLocally web sites are represented nationally by http://247Canada.com, thenation's largest interactive ad agency. Contact: Mark Ruthenberg, General Manager(403) 245-2194
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