Rhino Media is a diversified marketing services organization. We founded the company in early 2006, with the launch of the websites RentMontrealApartments.Com and TrouveUnAppart.Com. During our first year, we accelerated traffic on our sites to up to 15,000 visitors per month and added 100 properties with multiple listings. Through 2007, we have grown by over 300%, and attract up to 35,000 visitors per month. In March of 2007, Alexa.com listed us as the 4th most visited website in Montreal, and the Homefront section of the Gazette ran a feature about the company and its founder, Matthew Turgeon.

Impressive as that may be, we also grew in many other directions in 2007. We launched our first print publication, an insert in the VOIR weekly newspaper, to increase visibility for our website and clients. During the peak rental period of 2007 – April, May and June – we produced 50,000 copies of our insert each month.  Many clients requested that we continue the publication; however, in order to reach a more targeted audience, and deliver a higher-quality publication, we decided to launch the Renters Pages magazine in standalone format. Distributed through over 300 newspaper racks in retail locations and direct mailing, Renters Pages/Pages des Locataires reaches renters in all areas of Montreal. We also changed our English-language domain name to RentQuebecApartments.Com in order to provide the same outstanding service to clients off the island as we do to Montreal-area property managers.

In addition, we expanded our service offerings to become a one-stop marketing shop for property owners, allowing them to take advantage of unique tools such as satisfaction surveys, mystery shops, market analyses, marketing communications services and more. We also added many new features to our web offering, including self-serve ad management, virtual video tours and the ability to instantly post your favorite apartments to Facebook. This, along with the growth in traffic of RentQuebecApartments.com and TrouveUnAppart.com, enabled us to grow our client base to over 300 properties on the island of Montreal.

2008 promises even more growth and innovations, as we plan on adding more advanced features to the sites, as well as expanding our service offerings into other major Canadian markets through the Renters’ Pages brand.