NEWSFIRST

Newsfirst publishes 5 biweekly newspapers and maintains 6 websites.
Our primary mission is to provide English language information and news to communities that are not otherwise served.
The objectives of the sites is to provide local communities news via the online version of the newspaper. These news site are also community references for finding everything about local communities. We collect nformation from a number of databases, regular readers and advertisers, which allows us to present: community event listings, school sports teems and standings, entertainment and other event listings as well as the articles and stories from our newspapers writers. The site addresses the need for the community to be informed about what politicians are doing, what city programs are available, how the news affects them etc. We are often the only English language media for the area. The target market is based on the search results for the Laval News: Majority Male (62%) versus 38% female, the age group is between 35 and 49. This description may change with the greater emphasis on entertainment and restaurants (once the databases are online).

Why Advertise Online

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Websites dominate all media in the 21st century as the most effective way to reach new leads and attract new customers and sales.
People conducted 87.8 billion searches on Google in December 2009. Most likely, someone out there will need your product. Nearly four-fifts of Internet users, shopped online and close to two-thirds of Internet users made at least one online purchase. It has become imperative that business have a strong and visible presence on the web these days: 97% of internet users use the internet to shop, of which 57% report shopping online, but purchasing offline; 90% of online commercial searches result in offline brick and mortar purchases; 82% of local searches follow up offline via an in-store visit, phone call or purchase; 80% of budgets are spent within 80km. of the home; 73% of online activity is related to local content; 61% of local searches result in purches; more than half of the population have swaped the phone book with internet search; 35% of all searches are local; 25% of internet searches have a purely local,commercial focus.
For more information on how we can assist in developing a program that will help meet your marketing needs and objectives, please Email Us: sales@the-news.ca