TalkLocal is a Finalist in the NVTC Hot Ticket Awards

WASHINGTON - May 24, 2016 - PRLog -- TalkLocal is a Hot Ticket Award finalist, the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) today announced. The local services marketplace and technology provider submitted its Amazon Alexa skill for the Hottest Consumer and Enterprise Innovation award category. The new feature is called Ask TalkLocal, and it lets consumers describe their needs out loud and get a call from a relevant and interested local professional in under three minutes. The possibly award-winning Amazon Echo app was demoed live to wide acclaim at a recent DC Tech Meetup and is expected to launch for the plumber service category this week.

"I'm glad our latest technology product has been so well received," said TalkLocal co-founder and CEO Gurpreet Singh.

Gurpreet credits TalkLocal's ability to demystify marketing on an internet of things device like Amazon Echo, as well as its potential to achieve universal accessibility across devices, for making it such a strong candidate to win the competition of Hottest Consumer and Enterprise Innovation.

Whenever the matching businesses in TalkLocal's network decline or miss a service request call, TalkLocal expands its search to find and connect consumers to any matching business with a strong reputation and a publically listed number. Consequently, the small startup company boasts nationwide coverage and is uniquely positioned to close the business/consumer technology gap that has made marketing across multiple channels and devices so difficult for small businesses til now.

"Businesses have never been able to evolve at the pace of consumer technology disruption. TalkLocal's technology can be integrated into any platform so that businesses can connect with these traditionally out of reach consumers simply by picking up the phone like they've done for decades", Gurpreet said.

The TalkLocal Amazon Alexa skill will soon be available in the Alexa Skills store. TalkLocal has raised $4 million in venture and angel funds to date, served customers in 49 states, and delivered nearly 2.5 million calls to connect consumers and businesses. We currently support thousands of tasks across 50 service categories including roofing, accountants, and heating and cooling.

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