Biz-find launches Philippines directory

MAKATI, Philippines - Jan. 3, 2014 - PRLog -- The successful business directory franchise ‘Biz-find’ owned by Netmedia; has launched a site in the Philippines. www.biz-findphilippines.com The new sites have some new and very dynamic and practical features for businesses to find products, services and leads for their own business. These new features are being introduced across the range of all the existing sites in January 2014

“Website users find Directories quite boring actually!” admitted Netmedia Owner Alan Johnston “Sure they can find similar information on Google so why use a business directory? This is one of the reasons why we are as much about great blogs and content as we are about categorized listings.”

He continued to explain: “It’s common knowledge to any website owner; that being a part of a business directory is very helpful to your search engine ranking, as you have a link back from an authority site, and of course our directory listing pages have a lot more information and competitors than a google search result, so the user gets a non-monopolised result with social media links, making his search quicker and  more cost effective, nevertheless website users are fickle, so you have to offer more than just lots of businesses and blogs.

This thinking led to the main brainstorming behind a new feature the Biz-find team believe will make their websites into an International brand, they are already well branded with their UK site, biz-find.co.uk there first outing into online business directories launched in 2011 now in the top 0.5% of all websites according to Alexa, and with over 1000 UK based companies registering on the site since launch.

We asked many of our business friends and Directory members one question which was; ‘What does almost all business want? And the answer was nearly always; more leads and more business. We thought to ourselves ok, we have the Directory members and the website traffic now, so why not marry them up and introduce members and the visitors to one other, like at a physical networking event.

The buyers feature was an inspired choice for http://www.biz-findphilippines.com to complete the effectiveness of the websites, so now when a company adds their business as a free listing; they get the chance to tell us what they are looking for or, an established business can log in and complete a business buyer’s request. These requests are posted free on our ‘buyer’s wall’ and sellers can access a month’s worth of leads for $10.”

We asked why the Philippines was the next project? Mr Johnston told us:

“Philippines is a massive growing population of people who are naturally entrepreneurial, love traveling and trading with the rest of the world, and because of their great skills in English, the were no translation issues, and I felt the Philippines people will have no trouble understanding the concept of the leads sourcing feature,  as they are a very intelligent people. Also The Philippines are very much part of the Asian Economic community (AEC).

We have all the domains for the South East Asian region and we are aiming to be the hub of all internet business activity for the region by 2015.

The Vietnam Directory and lead sourcing website is due to launch by spring 2014, and Singapore, Myanmar, and Malaysia by the end of the 2014.”