One size fits all? RegisterLocal good idea but are they the one to do it?

Posted on April 17, 2006
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Sitting in a pub somewhere in Soho, London me and some colleagues came up with an idea. You know that after having just too much beer and long hours of work sometimes you guess how wonderful life could be after you start your own dot-com business and earn millions.

And as it is very hard to get good base content for local search in Europe we said:” If today you had a business to offer comprehensive and normalized content for local-search that covers the whole of Europe you would earn a fortune!”(In our terms that’s just UKIE, France, Germany, Italy and Spain) You say:”Just buy them!”
Well that’s not that easy; to buy the listings is only the first step. The hard work starts when it gets to clean the data. Getting rid of duplicates, wrong entries and keeping the entries up-to-date is a heck of work.” … I could go on like forever on this … and I will soon. But for now let me point to a approach that seems to be a possible solution, sure they’ve still got a long way to go but the idea is nice. I’ll keep an eye ….

RegisterLocalTM enables a business to create a Master Business ProfileTM. A Master Business Profile is a central environment to store and distribute critical business information on the Internet. Master Business Profiles can be used as a business website or in addition to a business website.
Successful use of the Internet as an advertising medium for a businesses requires the accurate and comprehensive distribution of business information throughout the vast array of Internet search properties and data providers. Register Local enables business owners to update their business information in one online location and update this information across all properties within the Register Local distribution network.
The goal of Register Local is to provide a central point of control for a business to share its information with the leading Internet search properties, where users are conducting searches for local-based products and services.
Register Local enables effective advertising exposure for businesses through a diverse mix of business information suppliers that include Search Engines, Internet Yellow Pages, and local search engines.

Our Value

All major local search providers permit business owners to contribute content to their search utilities in the form of a business profile. Unfortunately, most business owners are unaware that opportunities exist to submit their business profiles. When they do, the task of submitting information to each of these properties is a frustrating and time consuming task. Even more, when a business needs to update their business information, it requires that they update each of their profiles separately.
Register Local saves businesses valuable time and money by enabling a business owner to store their business profile information in a single on-line source. Businesses can log-in and update and edit their information at any time. When a business updates their information, the data is updated through Register Local profile partners. …

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