Touch Local

About Touch Local

Established in 2004, Touch Local offers an integrated approach to online marketing for businesses of all sizes. The online business directory offers blanket coverage across the UK and has over 2.4 million businesses listed, attracting over 4 million unique users every month looking for products and services. Touch Local handles in excess of 6 million searches per month via its own site and through the major search engines.

Touch Local is not just an online business finder, however. It also allows visitors to review, rate and recommend businesses that they have used, enabling consumers to make informed choices based on user feedback. Touch Local also offers businesses expert management and application of the latest internet marketing to fit with individual business plans. From achieving national exposure on major search engines, to delivering targeted customers locally, Touch Local provides effective solutions for businesses and claims to offer proven return on investment for its advertisers. Based in London, the online business website is growing at over a hundred per cent each year and is backed by Balderton Capital, a prestigious European venture capital company.

The Touch Local website is well designed and easy to use with the search facility letting users simply key in the name of the business and its location. When the entry appears, there is a list of similar businesses in that area which can be viewed on the right hand side, meaning that visitors can view a number of options, see what the public are saying, and make an intelligent and informed decision based on past records. Each business entry comes with full contact details, directions to its location, a map view encoded onto the Touch Local website and previous customer reviews.

The search facility also allows visitors to explore via type of business and a list of the appropriate service providers will appear. Those with the best 'Touch rating' (based on a 1-5 star rating system) appear at the top of the page.

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