We made a couple of changes that speed up the site, and make our dual purpose more obvious: Search for local info & businesses Add your business, to post your news, sales, events, and jobs We put those two features together in the upper-right of all pages, regardless of screen size or reolution. This redesign made the content and city…
We received a great suggestion from a friend and mentor, Jeff Nelson, of Calgary's Anduro Marketing and Mx3 Metrics. He asked "why not move that menu to the left?" ... where it would be more obvious, and in the line of sight. We use to have the Popular Links menu in the right column for desktop browsers, and put it with…
This will be an ad auction for EXCLUSIVE position, in seven sections per city: Community, Shopping, Business, Travel, Home, Entertainment, Auto (starting at $100 per month per city & section). Let us know about your business and your marketing GOALS. Travel providers (hotel chains, airlines) can also choose, where to be featured on TransCanadaHighway.com by province. Show up in all searches in that…
We have completed a Pareto Review (80/20 rule) of issues we deal with from week to week. Here are some tips that help you -- THE WEB MARKETING PROFESSIONAL -- get the greatest visibility, with the least amount of effort, while minimizing rejected submissions on FoundLocally.com. And speed the review & approval process for your clients' listings. 1) Each bricks & mortar…
To help the many Americans, who following the election of Donald Trump, are considering moving to Canada, we have added some features to our MovingInCanada.com website. Each of our provincial and community pages now have a "WHY Move to....?" summary of that province's or that community's key attributes. We put it at the top of each page, and highlighted the…
[originally posted Sept 2014, updated Oct 2016] We recommend you do a SEARCH, using the Search box at upper-left, and searching by popular keywords that apply to your and your business (like “realtor” or “hotel” or “sushi”) Review how your listing appears compared to competitors. You can also click on the editorial stories that appear above the business listings, and try…
We are working now on Beverage Tourism: we are adding all Wineries, Brew Pubs and Craft Breweries into our directory. ACROSS CANADA (shown above, Black Hills Winery, Oliver BC). While some are already featured in our editorial pages, our directory lets such attractions post events, news, and coupons/deals. Its all self-service (so you can update the info any time). And…
We have recently made the pages for each of the 30 major communities more interactive, and incorporated "featured business" listings to the major city pages. On TransCanadaHighway.com, we added features for accommodations (hotels, motels, campgrounds, and long-term accommodation), and travel & attractions businesses (including festivals, attractions, museums, historical sites, travel agents, etc). Five random businesses are displayed in each category,…
The FoundLocally.com, TransCanadaHighway.com, and MovingInCanada.com websites are now part of TransCanada FoundLocally Inc. The company's inception 17 years ago (in 1999) used the ".com Media" in the company name to draw attention to the fact that we were in the web/internet business, which was quite remarkable back then. We also prominently displayed the FoundLocally.com URL on business cards. Nowadays, EVERYTHING is online…
We have updated all of our forms, making events, coupons, and jobs postings easier. We have also have added a number of new TEMPLATES for new listings, and now have over ONE HUNDRED differnt templates, for teh most frequently added business types. The templates (at the bottom of the Add/Update Profile form when ADDING a listing) pre-select categories for about…