Scott McBride
Sudbury, ON (CAN)
Role(s):
IconXs
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Location:
Sudbury
Industry:
Internet
Year Founded:
2006
Number Employees:
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Description:
IconXs (pronounced Icon-ics) is a Local Visual Search Engine featuring local online advertising based on a company’s logo. Similar to your computer’s “desktop”, we use business logos for a colourful, fast and efficient web search. IconXs competes with search engine companies such as Google, MSN and Yahoo by offering a unique, child friendly search engine featuring relevant local searches. Unlike our competitors, IconXs patented design attaches tag words to each logo and does not just index words on a page read by a robot. This feature alone is the leading reason 90% of all people surveyed online chose IconXs over Google, MSN and Yahoo put together. IconXs sales come in a variety of ways but mostly from Independent Sales Representatives (ISRs) who work for very high commission, selling