Escalate Media

ContractorTalk Launches Niche Social Network

Building on the success of Contractor Talk’s forum with over 74,000 members, is Contractor Talk 2.0 — an enhanced niche social network.

“We have created a niche social network platform that will offer product reviews, customizable toolboxes, an area for showcasing projects, and many other engaging tools. With all of the new tools made available to our already engaged membership, we will see continued growth and expansion in the B2B sector, serving professional contractors,” says Wingate.

The new site launched Tuesday, April 26th 2011at:http://www.contractortalk.com

Features include:
Forums – to discuss business and get advice from other professionals
Blogs – to share stories and experiences
Projects – to show off completed projects with photos
Reviews – to find and rate tools of the trade
Customizable Toolbox –show off your toolbox and see what other contractors are using
Roofing contractors, landscaping contractors, plumbers, electricians, and even solar energy contractors can find and share valuable information in this online community.
Take the tour here: http://www.contractortalk.com/community/tour

Check Out the Full Press Release Click Here.

Escalate Media’s Communities Going Mobile

Escalate Media has recently launched their mobile platform for 8 of the network’s sites including: Contractor Talk, Electrician Talk, Paint Talk, Plumbing Zone, Woodworking Talk, DIY Chatroom, A   Full Cup, and Sprint Users.  Within days there were multiple thousands of app downloads on both the iPhone and Android platforms. The new platform allows for push notifications, efficient forum browsing and posting, the uploading of photos, private messaging, an more. Escalate Media plans to launch other communities within the network over the coming weeks. This has definitely been a much anticipated enhancement to the various online communities. The user feedback has been fantastic and the growth in community participation via a mobile devices will only continue to accelerate.

 

DiaperSwappers.com Recognized

I wanted to further recognize one of the great sites in our network, DiaperSwappers.com.  The site recently had one of its administrators participate in an interview about the growth of cloth diapering.  Here is a snippet from the article:

Cloth-diapering site Diaper Swappers now has more than 67,000 members, and it is adding new ones at a rate twice as fast as before the recession, now around 100 per day.
To the uninitiated, the cloth-diapering world may seem oddly fanatical. For years, parents had a hard time finding cloth diapers that work well, and the Internet provided support and consumer advice to parents who sometimes felt under siege from Pampers commercials. Sites like Diaper Swappers evolved their own slang, and users zealously evangelize for brands with names like Fuzzibuns, Swaddlebees, and Urban Fluff. Cloth-diapering parents sometimes sound like junkies obsessively trolling the Internet for a hit. “I couldn’t stop researching CDs [cloth diapers],” wrote one Diaper Swapper mother. “I am addicted to them.”

Go green…go Diaper Swappers!