The Annapolis Valley in Nova Scotia has been my home for most of my life. So it isn't that big of a surprise that I would try and start my first business right here, close to home. Growing up I always enjoyed making websites for my own baseball team, or fantasy sports league or whatever and I loved having other people come to my site. Im not sure why, but I still love having people come to my sites and look at what I have done.
Anyways, long story short, I have always wanted to do web design, and so I decided this was as good of time as any to start. So I got to thinking what the Annapolis Valley could use for an online site, that could bring in lots of traffic, and hopefully make me a decent income while I was at it.
There are several different business directories on the web which I looked at, none of which struck me as extroadinarily well done. Also, I am aware of the need in our local economy to support local businesses, and have therefor created a web directory that is all about locals and tourists helping support the many locally owned businesses in the Annapolis Valley, no matter what size they are.
From there came the idea for AnnapolisValleyLocalfied.ca. The funny thing is, that originally I was planning on using the domain name foundin.ca as a prefix to the site. But I wanted to own the main domain foundin.ca incase it ever caught on, and I wanted to start similar sites throughout the region. During the week or so that I was thinking over the name, someone happened to snatch it up. Pretty ironic, that the name domain had been unused for how ever many years, and the week I was about to buy it, boom someone else jumps on it. Anyways, then the search was on. I couldn't come up with any other local type names that werent already in use, so I decided to make up a word and use it. Localfied. Kind of a mix between classified and local, and I liked it.
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