ELocaL COMMUNITY MAGAZINE

About Us

LOCAL PEOPLE DOING LOCAL THINGS!

eLocal Magazine is Published by Adbonanza NZ Limited. eLocal is a Community Publication and is published both on-line and in-print. The on-line format is database driven and the magazine in a high quality, A4 sized gloss format. The on-line version operates 24/7 and is real time as far as the accuracy of the information. The magazine is published monthly and is delivered free to homes and businesses in various areas in New Zealand. Articles and information that you find on-line are also available in-print and vice versa!

We pride ourselves on meeting the needs of our immediate community’s, delivering loads of “Local” content particular to each area we publish to, both on-line and in-print. You can place Classifieds and Business Advertisements on-line and choose to print them in the area specific eLocal Magazine. eLocal on-line is largely a FREE service and so is the magazine, however we charge local businesses for advertising. To print your classified advertisement in the magazine is not free and we able to receive your payment either by credit card on-line, manually by phone or by you depositing directly into our account. This is how everything keeps on going! So please buy local and support your local businesses as they are your local community.

Thank you for using eLocal, we aim to be a big part of your community.

Mykeljon Winckel Managing Editor and Publisher

Here’s what you can do!

My eLocal
Favourites
My Cart
View eLocal Magazine
Subscribe (eLocal Magazine)
List your Business for FREE
Place an Advertisement for FREE
Find a location
What’s on this month
View Discount Coupons Book
Local weather and Tide charts
View Local Transportation Timetables

My eLocal

This is your personalized administration area and is available to you once you have registered and logged in. This is where you edit, publish your advertisements and answer questions. Web statistics are also available in this area also.

Favourites

As you see things that catch your attention you can select them to your personal favourites list.

My Cart

With various classifieds and business listings (where products are displayed) you are able to put items of your choice into a shopping cart. The shopping cart will send your order through to the various vendors for them to verify your order. eLocal does not handle the transaction after this. The transactions are handled by yourself and the vendors direct this is in regard to stock inventory, money, shipping and warranty.

View eLocal Magazine

This is an electronic version of our Community Magaine delivered FREE to homes and businesses in various distribution areas in New Zealand. More and more areas are opening up all the time. You will need the free Adobe PDF reader plugin to view the pages [http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2_allversions.html]. You can either view a page at a time or download the complete version.

Subscribe (eLocal Magazine- Coming soon)

Many of our subscribers live out of the area for a particular publication or just want to make sure they receive their copy. Subscribe here – we charge a minimal handling/shipping fee.

Find a Local Business

From our homepage or any page for that matter it’s very straight forward, just put your keyword in the “search” box and choose “Business” and which categories to narrow down the search if you need to. You can also click the link on the homepage ad browse by category.

Individual Business listings

Individual business listings offers a variety of functions. Contacts, email the business, add to cart from products listed, mapping and directions, discount vouchers, slideshow and a download section containing sales brochures to video. Business owners can select from a FREE listing to our “Bizfinder Max” option and can choose to print a business classified in the in-print version (this is not free).

List your Business for FREE

Businesses can take advantage of our current “LIST FOR FREE” offer – Click the link on the homepage.

Find a Classified

From our homepage it’s very straight forward, just put your keyword in the “search” box and choose from either “Business” or “Classified” which categories to narrow down the search if you need to. You can also click the link on the homepage ad browse by category. Once in an advertisement you can email the advertiser and see the responses below the advertisement. Also add to cart maybe appropriate for “BY NOW” purchases.

Place an Advertisement for FREE

You will need to register, go to the home page and look for “Register” up the top of the page. Once registered click “Place an Advertisement for FREE” on the home page and follow the instructions. Most on-line services are free however you can choose to print your advertisement in an eLocal edition near you – this is not free.

Find a location

Simply put the address you are looking for in the search box under the map.

What’s on this month

Find out what events are listed by various organizations in various areas and “List an Event for FREE” – you must be eLocal registered to do this.

View Discount Coupons Book

This is a great value you ad tool for you to save money! Yes business advertisers can offer you discounts. Simply click the link on the homepage and print the booklet and use at the various retailers/service businesses listed with eLocal. You can subscribe to this and receive a monthly discount book via email.

Local weather and Tide charts

As each area of eLocal comes on you will be able to select which area you would like information in. Weather is updated very regularly and offers 10day forcasting. View Local Transportation Timetables This is linked into our main Transportation provider for each area.

View Local Transportation Timetables

This is linked into our main Transportation provider for each area.