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The http://Kitchener.FoundLocally. com/ [Kitchener.FoundLocally.com] site covers the Tri-Cities area including Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge, and Guelph, all about anhour s drive west of Toronto.
http://FoundLocally.com/ [FoundLocally s] portal sites provide comprehensiveinformation about each community including travel, entertainment, shopping,neighborhoods, sports, education and government. They are an excellent trip-planningresource for both business and leisure travelers. Site visitors can browse about athousand pages of background information, pictures and maps about each community,and popular resources like weekly ski reports, movie show times and golf courseslistings.
The sites also include a useful http://kitchener.FoundLocally. com/Searches.htm[business directory] where visitors can search for businesses by name, category, orlocation. The http://kitchener.FoundLocally. com/General/FreeListings.asp [freebusiness listings] are entered by businesses themselves and they providedescriptions, contact details and other marketing information. FoundLocally.com is apopular marketing tool for small businesses often run from a home phone or cellphone, and therefore excluded from the phone directory. And once registered,businesses can post jobs, events, special offers and news announcements as part oftheir listings. This service is free and well suited to those businesses without aweb site. Local businesses in the Kitchener-Waterloo area may add themselves bygoing to Kitchener.FoundLocally.com and clicking onhttp://kitchener.FoundLocal ly.com/General/FreeListings.ht m [ 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 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, Mississauga, Oshawa-Durham, Ottawa-Gatineau, Fredericton,Charlottetown, Halifax, and St John s.
About FoundLocally.com
http://Found Locally.com/ [FoundLocally.com Media Inc.] is a Calgary-based companythat creates community information portals, and provides web design and webmarketing services. It also runs http://www.transcanadahighway. com/[TransCanadaHighway.com] (about travel along the world s longest highway), andhttp://www.movingincanada. com/ [MovingInCanada.com] (about relocations & realestate). The FoundLocally web sites are represented nationally byhttp://247canada.com/ [24/7 Canada], the nation s largest interactive ad agency. Thecompany 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 atLucas.Steinman@247Canada.co m
