Press
Release Summary: FoundLocally.com Media Inc. [FoundLocally.com]
has just added detailed local coverage for Toronto with 5 new sites
for Toronto, North York, Etobicoke, Scarborough, and the York Region.
Press
Release Body: FoundLocally.com Media Inc. [FoundLocally.com]
has just added detailed local coverage for Toronto with 5 new sites
for Toronto, North York, Etobicoke, Scarborough, and the York Region.
The 8-year-old company now has 31 sites across Canada from Victoria,
BC to St John’s, Nfld which already attract 15 million visitors
a year.
FoundLocally’s
five separate sites provide community information based on the way
people live, work, and play, without the traditional media focus
on downtown business, sports, and arts. These complement sites launched
over the past year for surrounding communities including Oshawa-Durham,
Mississauga-Brampton, Oakville-Burlington, Hamilton, as well as
Niagara Falls, Barrie-Muskoka and Kitchener-Waterloo.
Each
http://FoundLocally.com
portal site provides comprehensive community information for locals
and new residents, including travel, entertainment, shopping, neighborhoods,
sports, education and government. There are typically about a thousand
pages of information, pictures and maps, along with popular resources
like weekly ski reports and one-click movie showtimes. FoundLocally
has become excellent trip planning resource for business and leisure
travelers.
Each
FoundLocally.com site’s community directory allows visitors
to search for businesses by name, category, or address. All businesses
and community groups may add themselves to FoundLocally’s
free community directory. Organizations adding and updating their
listings to provide descriptions, contact details and web links.
Especially welcome are small businesses, run from a home phone or
cell phone and typically excluded from the phone company directory.
Many FoundLocally listings are for businesses without
a website, also ignored on global search engines. Once registered,
businesses and organizations can freely post jobs, events, sales
& coupons) and news. Toronto area businesses may add themselves
at Toronto.FoundLocally.com by clicking on “Free
Listings” to go to http://Toronto.FoundLocally.com/General/FreeListings.htmFoundLocally earns its revenues from traditional
web “banner advertising,” which supports
the free community directory.
A
new JUMP! Feature makes it easy for consumers to view matching information
in adjoining communities. This works for editorial content, as well
as for business searches.
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 TransCanadaHighway.com
(about travel along the world’s longest highway), and MovingInCanada.com
(about relocations & real estate). The FoundLocally
web sites are represented nationally by 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”.
Communities
now covered by FoundLocally.com include: Victoria,
Greater Vancouver, Fraser Valley, Okanagan-Shuswap, Banff &
The Rockies, Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Regina, Winnipeg, Thunder
Bay, Sault Ste Marie, Sudbury, Barrie-Muskoka, Kitchener-Waterloo,
Niagara Falls, Hamilton, Oakville-Burlington, Mississauga- Brampton,
Etobicoke, North York, Toronto, Scarborough, York Region, Oshawa-
Durham, Ottawa-Gatineau, Fredericton, Charlottetown, Halifax, and
St John’s.
Contact
Details: 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 RealMedia Inc.
416-966-2542 x223 or by e-mail at Lucas.Steinman@247Canada.com