helping the products and services you need find you.

the zipzoom mission

To connect ready-to-buy customers with ready-to-sell businesses in a novel way that saves time, money and effort. zipzoom has and will continue to challenge status quo, fulfill unmet market needs and use cutting edge Internet technology to create, build and maintain the most efficient communication platform for buying and selling services.

concept

zipzoom will change the way you shop for products and services. Its revolutionary communication technology allows you to anonymously request a personalized quote from local businesses registered with zipzoom who sell the product or service you’re looking for…at no cost to you! zipzoom leverages your buying power by gathering all the bids from vendors wanting your business. Their personalized quotes are then sent directly to your inbox or to your cellular phone leaving you the choice to decide which deal is best for you.

zipzoom wants what you’re looking for, to find you. No more scanning through endless search page results. No more ruffling through weekly flyers. No more driving all over town hunting for the best deals. With zipzoom, your search is over. It’s a complete rethink in searching technology. And we think you’re going to love it the very first time you try it.

history

The zipzoom concept was created by Reg DesRosiers while he was developing a new credit oriented Gift Card allowing customers to use a special search engine to find the products and services they wanted at the best prices. But it was late one night in November 2007, while working on the new Gift Card, when a spark literally ignited Reg’s imagination.

Reg heard some disturbing news. There were reports of wildfires racing through a residential community in California. Searching for a way to reach a large number of people as quickly as possible, local authorities deployed the reverse 911 system. In effect, an automated evacuation message was sent to some 250,000 people in just a single hour! Needless to say, the blistering speed of the message helped save countless lives— and gave Reg an idea. A big idea.

Reg realized that he could develop a reverse search engine that would return reverse results. Such a system would allow businesses, salespeople and service providers to instantly connect with their customers in an entirely new way. A way that was faster, easier, more economical and vastly more effective. For their part, customers would be able to find the product and services they were looking for and get quotes simply by sending an anonymous email from the comfort of their home. No more long, futile, multiple-page searches with few or no relevant results. Customers would magically find what they were looking for…and vendors would have their business magically come to them!

Reg, knowing he was onto something big, unique and unprecedented, applied for a patent for his revolutionary concept. History was in the making and zipzoom was born.