Welcome to SwitchLocal.com!
SwitchLocal.com is the website where you can find the deals, ads, products and
services available in your locality.
If you are a local business owner, SwitchLocal.com can help in making your business be known to the web users in your community. More and more people are using the web to search for products and services that are available in their neighborhoods before shopping and availing for services locally. Unfortunately, most local search websites out there are just local business listings. SwitchLocal is redefining the Local Search by making our website the home of your products and services, ads and deals. In SwitchLocal.com you can create searchable web pages in just minutes.
Keep your credit card. The service is FREE for 1 year for local businesses with one physical location when you sign-up before July 31st, 2013.
For businesses with multiple branches or stores, please e-mail us at promo@switchlocal.com to know of the available promotional offers. Promotional subscriptions may differ depending on the number of your branches or stores. Minimum free promotional subscription will not be lower than 30 days. Read more ...
SwitchLocal Basic Features
Create your own searchable
web pages
SwitchLocal.com is the perfect advertsing vehicle to make your business known on the web. In SwitchLocal you just not post your business listing but you also showcase your own products and services. We made it so easy for you to create your own searchable web pages by mere posting of your products and services. In SwitchLocal.com you are in charge of your ads - you may update, delete and add new ads at any time convenient for you. It may only take 5 to 10 minutes of your time to create your profile, set-up your ad and post your products and services.
Powerful Local Search
The ads that you posted will be found by web users in your locality by typing the search keywords and specifying the zip code and the number of miles within the zipcode. Search may also be done also by city. The site is powered by a fast, powerful local search engine.
Post your Business
Logo, Ad Picture, and Ad Items Pictures
SwitchLocal.com lets you post your own business logo, picture for your ad headline and picture for each of your product or service ad items.
Promotional Text
+ Expiration Date + Shopping list features = Coupons
When you type a promotional text such as Buy One Get One FREE, 50% OFF when posting your ad items, your ad will be displayed in special promotional form as you see in other promotional coupons. You may even specify the expiration date of your ad item. When web users add your products or services or deals to their shopping list, the promotional text and expiration date will be part of the shopping list that they may later print. You may accept the printed version of your ad as your own business coupons.
Different Ways Of Price
Entries
When you post your product and service, you may or may not specify the price. Not only that, you may even specify the price as a price range.
Unit of Measure
You may specifiy the unit of measure of your products such as each, per serving, per lb, etc. See more SwitchLocal features ...
SwitchLocal Premium Features
Multiple Stores
or Branches Set-up
As your business grows, SwitchLocal.com will also grow with your business. If your branches or stores have the same common ads, you only need to set-up your ads once. You just have to link each store to each ad and the web users will find your products within the specified zipcode or locality. To get a clearer view of this, let's say a restaurant business has 100 restaurants across America and the business has one common menu for all the restaurants. Do you need to repeat entering 100 menus? No, not in SwitchLocal.com In SwitchLocal.com, you will save a lot of time by setting-up only one common menu and link each restaurant to the same menu . You may ask ... how about If the restaurant business has 3 different menu in different regions?. In this case , only 3 menus need to be set-up and you just need to link each restaurant to its corresponding menu.
Work-In-Progress Ads
You can create your ads ahead of time and only make them active as you are ready. Let's say you are working on your new future weekly ad to be impleremented next month. In SwitchLocal, you can create this new weekly ad while your current ad is active and your new work-in-progress weekly ad is still hidden. Actually. SwitchLocal allows you to create multiple work-in-progress ads... that means you may work on many work-in-progress ads simultaneously. When you are ready to make an ad active, you just link the store or branch to the ad that needs to be active.