Bizjournals, the online division of American City Business Journals Inc., launched Wednesday its new Local Business Directory, a tool for helping users find and connect to services, vendors, prospects and business leaders.
The Local Business Directory contains more than 600,000 companies, public and private, operating in the 40 U.S. markets served by ACBJ publications, including the Portland Business Journal.
The data, based on proprietary bizjournals research, can be sorted by 14 industry categories, as well as location, business name or keyword.
The directory is prominently accessible through a display module on all bizjournals market home pages and also via top-level navigation anywhere on the site. To use the Portland Business Directory, go to www.portland.bizjournals.com.
Through the online interface, users may rate businesses found in the directory, based on their interactions with the appropriate companies, helping users not only find businesses, but zero in on the ones that are generating positive feedback in the community.
The interface also allows users to submit their own companies for inclusion in the directory, or to submit changes to existing listing information.
In addition to bringing this powerful new tool to users, bizjournals also is creating high-profile premium listings for select customers who want a bigger exposure with the millions of readers who count on bizjournals for news.
Premium directory listings provide clients with:
• Exclusivity — only two available per industry, per market.
• Premium placement on market home pages.
• A page devoted to the client’s company, on which a business can provide contact information, products and services, map of location, testimonials, Web site and more.
• Contextual listings on news articles within industry category (i.e. Banking and Finance article displays Community Bank ABC’s contextual ad on the page).
• A directory listing badge to use for marketing and promotional purposes.
“With the new Local Business Directory, we’re giving businesses a new way to connect and succeed,” said Tim Bradbury, president of ACBJ New Media, which oversees bizjournals. “It ratchets up the value of our local business journal sites, which millions of people already regard as critical to their competitiveness.”
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http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2009/06/29/daily47.html
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