The North Amercian Challenge: Who can write and share faster?

Many people have written us asking if our service existed in their town - from Atlanta Georgia to Winnipeg Manitoba. HomeStars initially started in Toronto and expanded to Vancouver and Boston, but we realized we couldn't build slowly, city by city.

So we took up the challenge and spent hundreds of hours on our expansion plans. It was a real technical challenge to create wide yet local service you can use ANYWHERE (well, in North America) - and we are excited to tell you we finally did it!

Now we need your help to grow.

Type in your city in the search near box and access home improvement companies that are within a few miles of your home. And more importantly, rate a company you hired or purchased from. You will be contributing useful knowledge for others in your community (at the ground floor in most towns)!

Your wondering how that works when we only have a few big cities listed on the site. While we are officially open in these 10 cities, you can still access your own neighborhood in the search bar. Try it! Add a city, or zip / postal code. Whether you are in Austin Texas, Tulsa Oklahoma or Naples Florida there are thousands of local home improvement companies to find and rate.

Our team has come up with a challenge for our readers - see which person can write and share the most, and truly build community participation the fastest in 2008. I've been thinking of how to reward such a connector and I'll save that for an upcoming post. In the meantime;

- Have you done some work on our home? Some examples: Fixed the floors, replaced your cabinets, bought new lighting - and can share your good or bad experience?
- Do you know lots of homeowners in your community?
- Do you know lots of people in North America?

If you answered yes to any of the above, jump in and help build this free online resource for the home.

We’ll start to feature the biggest contributors every month.

What do you do next?

Step 1 Register (it's free)
Step 2 Tell your friends nationwide about HomeStars;

Bonus: each Tell a Friend also is an entry in our Home Depot $1,000 Shopping Spree which closes January 31.

PS - our team is very concerned about privacy and there are strict safeguards to protect emails. We wont spam and we won't share with any other company. We really hate spam too!

Posted by Nancy Peterson
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