As we have in the past, and as this community service business has grown, we've given you little progress updates on how the service is growing and evolving. Four and half years in the making, the Salt Spring Exchange now officially serves over 8,500+ people per week (Verified by Google) and has become one of the top ranked websites when users around the world search for Salt Spring Island online.

We're here for one simple reason - you, the residents, visitors and fans of Salt Spring Island. Our goal isn't to be everything for everyone, or to be everything for even other Gulf Islands, it is simply to be the very best, most actively used, local and people focused media, classifieds, local stories, news, events and small business advertising channel for our island. And we're all here together.

We're proud to share that over the past year, the Salt Spring Exchange averaged more than 8,500 visitors per week, more than any other media channel on the island, print or otherwise. It's why so many of you choose to tell your stories, thank your friends, sell your stuff, tell people about your events and advertise your business. It's become a great results oriented platform for doing all those things well, 7 days per week, 365 days per year, no holidays, no deadlines, except for the occasional downtime when we're keeping things running in the backend.

The Exchange has also become of the best, most effective, low-cost, measurable ways of advertising on Salt Spring. If you want to harness the strength of our community to make them aware of your business or work. Consider becoming an advertiser. You'll get results you can measure and you'll be part of the goodwill helping to keep the service running for everyone. Learn more about our easy setup process and ad rates.

Our pledge has always been simple, if you keep using it, we'll keep running it. We're here in service to you, the community of Salt Spring Island.

Thank you for your continued support,

Christopher Roy
Founder | Account Director
Salt Spring Exchange

PS: Don't take our word for how much the Exchange is used, here are sample weekly visitor reports from Google Analytics, the tool we use to measure activity and performance on the site.