Stik.com Reaches 1M Recommendations for Trusted Professionals
Site Helps Consumers find service providers in their network for real estate, mortgage, insurance and other big-ticket industries
San Francisco, CA - July 28, 2011 - Stik.com, a startup connecting consumers with trusted professionals, announced today that it has generated more than a million professional recommendations and more than 150,000 written reviews in its first eight months. The website enables consumers to find professional help recommended by their friends on Facebook - for example, a real estate agent recommended by your college roommate, or a mortgage banker recommended by your brother-in-law.
"Consumers have always preferred to use personal referrals to find the right person to help them find service professionals," said co-founder Jay Gierak. "At Stik.com we have simply brought that process online, enabling consumers to take advantage of their entire Facebook network to find help they can trust."
Stik.com makes it easy to find professional help you can trust for life's most important purchases. Studies show that shoppers get better deals when they work with someone they know, and Stik.com leverages Facebook's 700 million users to help consumers discover exactly who in their network can help them with a particular need.
Yet Stik.com goes a step further and connects consumers to professionals they not only know through friends, but those that are explicitly recommended by their friends. With access to a growing base of millions of recommendations and reviews, shoppers are seeing more relevant and robust results each time they log in.
For professionals, Stik.com provides a simple, low-maintenance platform to build and store a professional reputation and referral network on Facebook. The average professional is connected to 40,000 people through a friend, representing an enormous opportunity to generate referral business through Facebook.
"This site simplifies the process of getting recommendations from past clients and colleagues from school and the business world," said Tyler Freed, a real estate broker in Seattle. "Since implementing this website to my email signatures, and a few plugs on Facebook and Twitter, I have gotten over 36 recommendations."
In a world where people have hundreds of friends and tens of thousands of friends-of-friends online, we no longer are subject to pain and risk of making important purchases alone with strangers.
About Stik.com
Stik.com is a service that connects consumers with trusted professionals recommended by their friends on Facebook. Stik.com was founded by Nathan Labenz and Jay Gierak in 2010, two classmates from Harvard who wanted to build a more personal way for people to make important purchases. Stik.com is privately held and is based in San Francisco, CA. For inquiries from the press, please contact us at press@stik.com.