More Guns! Monthly Stats and More Alberta Towns Added

[Steve@TownPost]

TownPost made tremendous gains this summer, mostly thanks to all of the hunters and firearm enthusiasts telling friends about us (Thank you!)
Last month we had an incredible 1,231,448 pageviews in the Alberta area which is fantastic traffic for summer and up about 7.7% from earlier in the year.

Growing our site across Alberta
Some of our biggest gains were in areas we were already doing well, including Edmonton, Camrose, and Calgary. But the most surprising moves in places like Grande Prairie (https://townpost.ca/buysell/gp), Fort Saskatchewan (https://townpost.ca/buysell/fortsask), and Lethbridge (https://townpost.ca/buysell/lethbridge).

What's Next
We saw a large increase in requests from folks outside of Alberta (Mostly BC and Sask), and while we're happy to see out of province people join this is a bit more work for us to verify these individuals. Our main focus will remain on serving Alberta primarily, one of the things that made this site a success was keeping it small(ish) and growing through referrals. Personally, my next mission is to try and create a 'premium member' particularly for the gun crowd that adds more functionality to the site. Many of the features being requested by the hardcore gun nutz is the ability to rate and review other users. To do this right it's going to take time to setup and also maintain to ensure people aren't gaming the system. More about that later...

If you like Firearms and want Help an Alberta Startup Succeed
We have been running this free service for about 8 years now, it has not been easy to balance making the site fast/simple, separating our service from what Kijiji provides, and keeping it free. But we constantly hear positive feedback from people happy to see something Alberta based and easy to use that allows decent folks to buy and sell firearms legally. If you appreciate what we do ask your friends/family to <a href="https://townpost.ca/locations">check for their town</a> or follow us on Twitter / Facebook to get notifications on recent and interesting posts.

If you have any questions or comments about TownPost I am always happy to respond, send an e-mail to contact@townpost.ca or use the Contact form at the bottom of the TownPost website.

Have a good one!
Steve