Sunday 29 August 2010

LagosLocation.com helps MTN Subscribers find their nearest MTN Dealers in Lagos

LagosLocation.com, Nigeria’s leading home grown online mapping and location-based services providers, today announced the implementation of its Store Locator service to enable MTN subscribers across Lagos find their nearest MTN dealer selling MTN recharge cards, MTN SIMs, Phones. The mapping of over 400 MTN dealers across Lagos was done by the map experts of Spatial Technologies Ltd –Nigeria’s foremost mapping and GIS solution provider.

The MTN dealer locator implemented on www.LagosLocation.com is expected to help MTN subscribers find the nearest dealers selling MTN products in an efficient and consistence manner.

To access this service and search for the nearest MTN dealer, visitors go to http://www.lagoslocation.com/ and select the FIND A BUSINESS link. Visitors can search for MTN DEALER and restrict the search to a geographic area within Lagos e.g. IKEJA and hit the ENTER key or click on the “search” icon


LagosLocation.com delivers a list of MTN dealers currently operating from Ikeja each complete with full contact details, a thumbnail map which when clicked takes a visitor to a map showing its precise location, and further details including products sold MTN Recharge cards, Top vouchers, GSM SIM cards. MTN logo is also integrated as an indication of the affiliation of the dealer to MTN.

A visitor can click on the thumbnail to see the precise location of the dealer in Lagos. The location is marked by a icon right at the centre of the map. A user can click on the map to see popped up window showing the contact details, product information and contextual dealer o business location pictures.


Visitors can also select from a drop down list a category of business e.g. restaurants to be show on the map to see the relative distance and locations of restaurants to the MTN dealer. A visitor can right click on the location icon to get accurate driving direction either to or from the dealer location.

Ireti Ajala the owner of LagosLocation.com, stated, “Most Nigerian dealership companies now recognize the importance of high-quality mapping services in lead conversion. It is believed that our effort in integrating over 400 MTN dealers in Lagos will help play an important role in boosting the ratio of online to actual visitors to MTN dealer shops. With a proven track record in online mapping, and a reputation for excellence in customer support and the reliability of its services, we are certainly pleased to have worked on this project. To integrate this solution on MTN’s website is very interested and we would be happy to discuss this with MTN or any othe rcompany interested in this type of solution.”