Reply! Achieves Major Milestone - Surpasses 10,000 Neighborhood Websites Across America
Posted on: Tuesday, 9 May 2006, 09:02 CDT
WALNUT CREEK, Calif., May 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Reply! Inc. (http://www.reply.com/), a leading provider of online consumer services and performance-based e-marketing solutions, today announced an exciting milestone for its ConnectingNeighbors division. The nation's leading provider of local neighborhood websites now operates more than 10,000 unique neighborhood websites across America, more than doubling the number of unique neighborhoods in the past 18 months.
Reply!'s ConnectingNeighbors division is growing rapidly because of its ability to help local consumers, real estate agents and other service providers stay connected with their communities and each other. It provides consumers with locally relevant content, valuable decision-making tools and easier access to trusted local service providers and businesses. ConnectingNeighbors has local service providers -- specifically real estate agents, but increasingly other key industry service providers as well, sponsor the websites, along with related neighborhood newsletters, as a community service and an incredibly powerful online marketing platform.
"This latest milestone further establishes Reply! as the Internet leader in helping consumers make life's big decisions easier," said Payam Zamani, Chairman and CEO of Reply!. "Like all Reply! services, ConnectingNeighbors equips consumers with rich and relevant information and great tools that make it easier to make big decisions, like choosing a neighborhood and buying or selling a house. For service providers, we are simply the most effective way to reach and acquire customers and clients online."
Neighborhood marketing programs from ConnectingNeighbors include an interactive neighborhood website and newsletter, providing residents with a wealth of local information, including job openings, community news, classified ads, school information and community updates. The sites also brand local real estate sponsors as the neighborhood real estate expert. The dramatic success of the real estate agents' sponsorship of these sites has attracted other service providers, including those in the automotive and finance industries/categories.
"We have already signed up over 6,000 agents as local sponsors for the ConnectingNeighbors' marketing programs and the number is growing rapidly," said Sean Fox, executive vice president of Reply!'s real estate division. "While real estate has been the foundation of ConnectingNeighbors, the success and popularity of the site has attracted other significant service providers scheduled to be added soon."
To become a sponsor, visit http://www.connectingneighbors.com/sponsor. About Reply! Inc.
Since it's founding in 2001 by a team of veterans, Reply! has become the leading provider of online consumer services in their commitment of "making life's big decisions easier"(TM). Reply! provides consumers with free-of-charge access to valuable services and decision making tools currently in two core industries: real estate and automotive, with continuing expansion into other major categories. Reply!'s comprehensive family of online trade brands -- RealtyNow(R), AgentConnect(R), ConnectingNeighbors(R), and iMotors(R) -- provide a highly effective model of performance based e-marketing solutions to locally targeted service providers.
Based in Walnut Creek, CA, Reply! has experienced significant overall expansion and success. Within the last 12 months, Reply! has doubled its workforce to 240 employees, secured a funding round of $17 million, and made a series of important executive management hires. To learn more about Reply!, visit http://www.reply.com/.
About ConnectingNeighbors
ConnectingNeighbors was acquired by Reply! in early 2005, and now, as a division of Reply! Inc., is the country's leading provider of Neighborhood Marketing Programs and was recognized as the Inman 2002 Innovator of the Year for the most revolutionary use of the Internet. Currently, the organization services more than 10,000 neighborhoods across North America. For more information, contact ConnectingNeighbors at 866-607-1414 or on the web at http://www.connectingneighbors.com/.
Reply! Inc.
CONTACT: Tonya Hayes, Senior Director Public Relations of Reply!,+1-925-947-2166, ext. 283, or tonya.hayes@reply.com; or Cedric Vanhaver ofNeale-May & Partners, +1-650-328-5555, ext. 125, or Cvanhaver@nealemay.com
Web site: http://www.reply.com/http://www.connectingneighbors.com/
Source: PRNewswire
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