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Welcome To the Lafayette City Portal
Acadiana's Home page to everything local on the Internet
Thank you for your support!
YourHomeTownPortal is a network with our own search engine. Explore Lafayette.com is a part of a growing network with 7 years in development from the conception, to today's state-of-the-art portals. We have worked countless hours to develop and fine tune the Home Town Portals to their present state with all the free services for the citizens and businesses of the individual towns they serve. We are now a part of the Acadiana community and are offering local residents a local home page and directory just for them. We can help conserve paper by providing information on display and would only be printed on demand by the customer thereby reducing the volume of junk mail. You may also send the info to a friend by email. - A GREEN SOLUTION!
We invite all members of the community to spend time to get acquainted with all the free services we offer and encourage everyone to make Acadiana Portal.com your home page. With many of your friends and neighbors in Acadiana already making us their choice homepage and over 4,000 have bookmarked us as their favorite with 11,000 plus searches for local businesses to date and growing daily we hope you will find the same value and ask for your support in making us the choice homepage for our town. Enjoy the local news, weather, sports, free classifieds, coupons and local business directory and even our local radio station as the first thing when you turn on the Internet.
Local businesses are listed so that you can easily find them by entering a key word in our search engine or by clicking on the quick links at the top or on "business list". A lot of what you look for on the Internet is available from a local business and with our local portal, you do not have to search the whole world if you need to find a local business close to home. You can see what you are buying instead of risking your money being spent ordering on-line and not being satisfied with your product.
We are constantly adding listings so keep coming back if you didn't find what you wanted the first time. Recommend us to the local businesses you go to. Local businesses can start by posting a free listing themselves so you, their customers, can find them. The business can upgrade so you can then get information, specials, menus, coupons and their website found all in one spot. The Acadiana Portal is here to bring the citizens and local businesses together to promote the economic growth within our city and, keep your dollars within the local community. We provide a service for the people of our city to enable you to find LOCAL businesses, services and goods easily. We are encouraging local government agencies and non-profits to make our portal your portal by linking or posting events, information and services FREE on your Acadiana Portal so that users of our site can find you and be informed of your organizations events.
We appreciate your readership and invite you to make us your start page! We are dedicated to providing interesting, fresh content all about the Acadiana area. In addition we are the fastest growing online local business directory that is integrated into our portal home page and linked to all the major search engines like Google, Yahoo, Msn and others. Now you can access local products and services with one click access or use our local search engine. We invite you to use our classified, event calendar and coupon sections and be part of your local community network. For example your special announcements i.e. wedding, births, happy birthday wish, daily lunch specials etc. as these are instant and placed on front page up to 10 days at no charge to you.
To request a premium listing, inquire about feature sponsorship or for any other questions contact
Acadiana Portal Director's Name: Parris Plaisance
Parris Plaisance 337-349-0646 cell:

Past seven months as public Relations Director for the Balbeisi Brother's Coporation. Owner's of Zeus and Agave.
Parris has many years of experience in helping his clients get the best bang for their buck in advertising. He was a top producer for a major weekly magazine in Lafayette. He is well known in Acadiana for being extremely creative in his approach to helping to find the right marketing avenue for his clients. After deciding to make a difference in a new direction, Parris decided to leave the big company to make something big for himself and his children.
Parris has helped raise money for various charities and also helped bring the filming industry to Acadiana. He is a minority partner in Acadiana’s only Film Production Company.
Parris is originally from New Orleans. He and Portal Co-Owner, Jason Lopez went to high school together and first met on a school bus back in the early 80’s. After High School, he moved to Lafayette and completed his Bachelors Degree at Southwestern Louisiana in Mass Communication. Today, he has two beautiful children and resides in Lafayette.
Acadiana Portal Office Telephone:337-216-1073
Portal Director Email: parrisplaisance@hotmail.com
Acadiana Portal Co-Owner's name:
Jason Lopez

Jason also owns and operates Louisiana Training, a division of Louisiana Blueprints.com. Louisiana Training is dedicated to implementing systems to help increase the morale and profits of our Louisiana citizens.
Louisiana Training .com is also a Crestcom International Inc. ( J.P. Morgan subsidiary) authorized licensee for Louisiana. They offer the world class "Bullet Proof Manager" training via the 7 major markets in Louisiana. The Louisiana Bullet Proof Manager Course has been the #1 choice for manager and leadership development throughout the state. Louisiana Training (Peak Performance Solutions LLC) also a primary training provider for the Louisiana Department of Labor's Incumbent Workers Training Program. The Bullet Proof Manager Course has met or exceeded expectations in more than 99.1% of respondents. His company also runs seminars on increasing referrals.
Jason is originally from New Orleans and went to the same High School as Portal Director Parris Plaisance. He has owned several companies over the years including a web hosting company in the mid 90’s in Houston, Texas. He also got into the training industry as one of the youngest instructors for a major International Training organization. He loved both training and the advances in technology with the Internet.
He and his former internet business partners considered themselves to be on the bleeding edge of the internet boom. After the Internet Crash of 2000, he regretfully took a few years off away from the industry searching for Internet version 2.0.
After years of research and development he is excited to create a local internet portal that everyone in Acadiana can use. After searching for several months for the right person as business partner, he partnered up with his old high school bus mate Parris with Acadiana Portal.com
Lopez has a degree in construction engineering technology from Louisiana Tech University. He has completed graduate and executive-level coursework in business administration from both ULL and LSU. The majority of his extensive business training has come through impressive, real-world experiences. Today he and his wife Betsy live in Lafayette and have 2 beautiful children.
Portal Owner Telephone:
337-319-1313
Portal Director email:
Contact me here ---jason@referralblueprints.com
Feel Free to contact me anytime for questions. If you are interested in upgrading your listing, send an email to parris@referralblueprints.com and Parris Plaisance will contact you. Thank you and have a great day
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