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“Google it” and you’ll be amazed at how many service providers　are listed online, on Google Maps, Yellow Pages, or Yelp, just to name a few sites of business listings and customer reviews.

What is the next step? Let’s say you require a plumber to fix your bathroom faucet this Saturday. Your budget is only $50 but you want someone qualified and highly recommended by others. You pick the first 5 listed on Google and start calling them. After an hour on the phone you realize that they ask too much or they don’t have availability for that Saturday! And so you keep on calling the next 5 plumbers…

What if there was a better way?

Well, I started PinBud because so many times I was that frustrated caller on the phone! I thought why can’t I ask my questions once and then wait for those 10 plumbers to respond back to me? I want to make the selection myself based on what I read, I don’t want to pay any “finder’s fee”, and I simply want to save some time when reaching out to them.

This is what PinBud.com offers now and it turns out it will be a real winner. Because everyone is winning! I win because I save time and I get the best contractor for my job. Companies listed on PinBud are winning because they get a free profile and free, unrestricted emails from potential customers with clear job and quote requests. Yes, that’s right: free and unrestricted requests! There’s no transaction fees, no job commissions, no intermediaries in the negotiation process! Let me know if you get a better deal on Yellow Pages, Yelp, Service Magic, or Angie’s List! I am very curious to hear about it!

How does PinBud make money? Of course we’re into this website to make a couple of bucks! We’re offering a great service for everyone and the response will be overwhelming: so many companies are already getting a listing on PinBud! At some point the list will become very crowded and some smart business people will want to spend a couple hundred of dollars to get a top listing and make sure they are selected by our users on their quote requests. Hey, can someone please tell me how much did you spend on your online advertising last year and what clear results did you get from that marketing effort?

PinBud’s strength is in the quality and number of our members, NOT in how much we rip off a new small business for getting a link on our website. $149 is really low for the value you get but we’re counting on many subscribers on PinBud, not just a few paying a lot.

Now here’s the real great news of the day: PinBud is still new and we don’t have millions of listings just yet! So, you don’t really have to pay for that top listing just yet! Get yourself listed and get a head start on PinBud. Don’t miss the next customer looking for your services in your city!

I can tell you one last thing: in this “Great Recession”, people that don’t take up free offers like this really deserve to go under!

Happy sales!

Chris

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

We are celebrating the New Year’s beginning by launching a new BIG opportunity for our users.

You know that any PinBud GOLD account usually comes with a 1 year completely free, full trial period. But we are ready to give away some extra FREE 1-4 years subscription periods!

What’s the deal?

The deal is simple. You must have a blog and post a review about PinBud. Or you can ask a friend that has a blog to help you and post a review on his / her blog. We encourage everyone to be honest and write honest reviews (with both pro or cons). In order to get the promotion, the review must meet the following conditions:

1. The blog’s homepage must have at least Google PageRank 0. Blogs with no PageRank will not be accepted.
2. Your review must contain at least 1 dofollow link towards PinBud.com or PinBud.ca (this is up to you, but we suggest you to link the most appropriate domain). Reviews with nofollow link will not be accepted.
3. The review must contain at least 200 words. This text contains 185 words up to >>> here <<<. Shorter texts will not be accepted.
4. The review must be a real, readable text. Ready-made reviews composed with article spinning software will not be accepted. We need real, honest feedback!
5. The blog must stay live all the time during the promotion. We’ll automatically check every blog, from time to time. If you get a 3 years subscription but the review will disappear after 2 months, we’ll cut your subscription (and notify you).
6. The reviews must be unique and coming from unique blogs. The same blog cannot be used in order to promote 2 different company profiles.

What do you get and for how long?

1. If your blog has PageRank 0-2, you will get 1 extra year (plus the initial 12 months).
2. If your blog has PageRank 3-5, you will get 2 extra years (plus the initial 12 months).
3. If your blog has PageRank 6-7, you will get 3 extra years (plus the initial 12 months).
4. If your blog has PageRank 8+ you will get 4 extra years (plus the initial 12 months). That’s almost 5 years!

We will consider only the initial PageRank. If your blog will gain or lose PageRank in a given unit of time, we’ll not increase or decrease your subscription period.

How to get this promotion?

This is the easiest part. First of all, make sure that you have an account with PinBud. Then write your review (or ask somebody to write it). Then drop us a note at the following e-mail address:

reviews |a| pinbud DOT com (of course, you have to replace |a| with @ and DOT with . )

and mention in that note:

• what’s your business profile on PinBud
• where is posted the online review

We’ll acknowledge your application, we’ll analyze it and we’ll give in few hours a reply if accepted or not. Than, if accepted, you will see in your account the new subscription’s activation.

Enjoy writing!

We must say a big “THANK YOU !” to all those Canadians who visited and used PinBud Canada during the last November. As anyone can see from the map shown above (taken from Google Analytics), PinBud is now used all over Canada, from Halifax to Vancouver and from the frozen North to the US border.

For December, we are preparing some changes that will positively impact the UX and another big launch. Stay tuned and thank you all for your support!

Are you using Firefox? Now you can dress it in a nice Persona inspired by  PinBud’s logo

You can install this persona from here:

http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/persona/292579

Enjoy!