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Introducing the Metro Readers Community

We’re excited to announce a new partnership with Metro Canada – publisher of Canada’s #1 free national daily newspaper.

The partnership will enable Metro readers across English-speaking Canada to find local services, both online and in print, through recommendations from fellow Metro readers.

Metro Readers Community

By visiting www.metronews.ca/gigpark, Metro readers will be able to browse recommendations for plumbers, accountants, personal trainers and hundreds of other services. Metro readers can also recommend their favourite businesses to the reader community. To accompany the online component, Metro print editions in Toronto, Vancouver, Ottawa, Edmonton, Calgary and Halifax will feature the most recommended businesses in that city on a weekly basis (e.g., Top 5 chiropractors in Calgary).

We’re hugely excited to be working with Metro and helping to offer a very cool service to their readers.

Win a 10″ Eee PC

To say thank you to everyone who joins the Metro Readers Community we’re giving away a 10′ Eee PC. Check out www.gigpark.com/win for all of the details.

Metro Ad

Posted on May 25th, 2009 by Pema. You can leave a comment, or trackback from your own site.

10 Comments

Ryan Feeley Said

Congratulations!

May 25th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Pema Said

Thanks Ryan. We’re really excited about this partnership!

May 25th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
Tim Tracey Said

That’s great news. All the best!
– - Tim

May 25th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
John Philip Green Said

Looks like a great fit… congrats on partnership.

May 25th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
Mark Kuznicki Said

Great partnership news! Makes total sense. Congratulations to the whole team.

May 25th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
Sean Neville Said

Good partnership opportunity to get the word out on GigPark and the companies you recommend. Not sure if the site has been primarily focused in Toronto, but clearly this expands that geographic scope. Great work guys!

May 25th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
Pema Said

@Sean Neville
Absolutely! Metro have 6 very well read english speaking editions right across Canada. This is a great opportunity for us to grow our member base outside of Ontario and for Metro to offer a cool/useful tool to their readers. We’re pretty excited about the partnership :).

May 26th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
Leila Boujnane Said

Just catching up on my reading. That’s an awesome partnership. Great way to grow the current community and reach out to everyone outside of Ontario. Great work guys!

May 31st, 2009 at 10:39 pm
Pema Said

Thanks Leila!
The results have been great so far… thousands of Metro readers are now finding businesses via recommendations from their friends (and other Metro readers). We have a nice glow of pride in the GigPark office at the moment :)

June 1st, 2009 at 10:09 am
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