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Twitter for Business

2009-07-25

If you are curious what Twitter is and how to use it for your business, take few minutes to read “Twitter 101 A Special Guide” that explains how business owners can use Twitter to promote their businesses. Guide is nicely organized and contains various case studies and a slide show. In the begging of this [...]

Joseph Kellner Haircolor Advice For The Salon Owner!

2009-04-02

The following post is written by our premium business member Joseph Kellner. Joseph Kellner is a top hair colorist and makeup artist in Orlando Florida. Use The Internet To Boost Business During A Recession. 1) Increase the number of customers. 2) Increase the average size of the sale per customer. 3) Increase the number of [...]

Business Profiles – Mobile Version

2009-02-16

We have optimized your business profiles to be used on 260 + mobile devices including cell phones, smart phones, PDAs and etc. There are 3 major versions that are available for mobile users: iPhone: click to view HTML Rich Version (G1, BlackBerry and etc.) : click to view WAP Version (all smaller devices): click to [...]

New Feature Alert: Tweet This!

2009-01-30

Along with Facebook Business Space comes new Tweet This feature. You can now post your coupons, blog posts, specials, jobs and events to your twitter time line directly from your business dashboard. We will keep adding this feature to all portable content of your business profile. Related: Facebook Business Space, 5 Things about Coupon, “Post [...]

“Link your Blog” aka “External Blogs” feature is live now!

2009-01-24

If you run blog separate from your ShowMeLocal profile you can use our new “external blogs” feature to blend your existing content into blog section of your business profile. Feature supports most of the popular blogging platforms and mixes your content into one continues blog with subscription button available. We support wordpress, blogger, typepad, livejournal, [...]

Buzzaround.us – free reputation monitoring and social search.

2009-01-12

We would like to introduce buzzaround.us – free reputation monitoring and social search service. Site is checking popular social destinations, including various blog directories like Google Blog Search, Technorati, micro-blogging sites like Twitter, FriendFeed, popular bookmark services like Delicious, blog comments, news sites, videos, images and many other community powered resources, for relevant and time [...]

5 Things about ShowMeLocal Coupons that you might not know about.

2008-12-05

1. You can create “Appreciation” coupon and assign it to customer actions. When customer writes a review you can award him/her with the exclusive coupon that will only appear when customer finishes the review. 2. Your coupon is automatically converted to widget in form of HTML or javascript and is available for you to place [...]

How to remove business listing from our site.

2010-07-17

If you would like to remove your business listing please either login to your business dashboard and pause listing or click on "Delete" button at the end of your business dashboard.
If you don't have an account with us claim your business and delete the listing.

How We Promote Your Local Business

2008-10-26

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Introducing Premium Profiles

2008-09-08

Dear Valued Customer,

After a successful beta launch, we are happy to announce the release of one-stop fully functional website with opportunities for you to find new local customers using the power of Internet marketing, web 2.0 tools, advertising, social networking and extensive content distribution.

Today we are introducing premium profile packages (press release), to help you stand out among the competitors and convert online visitors into returning and loyal customers.

Premium profiles are advertising free, have extended collections of features, unique splash pages and detailed statistics for each visit to a business profile. As usual it is free for a business to get started at ShowMeLocal.com and full subscription packages are priced up to the deluxe package at an extremely affordable price per month.

For those of you who joined before September 5th 2008 and have free beta account, we are offering you an extension of service until October 31st 2008. You will still be able to enjoy our premium features free of charge. After that date your account will be downgraded to a regular free plan. You can upgrade your account at anytime before or after that date.

We’ve proved to deliver great results to you, strongly establishing and dramatically increasing your business’s online visibility, driving your local profile to the top organic positions in all of the major search engines. Most of you are using your local business profiles as prime online presence for your business. As you have noticed we have the most advanced tools and features that any player in the local advertising market has today. With introduction of our premium packages we will help you grow your business even further by creating new and unique features, extending your premium distribution network and tremendously boosting your local online share.

We hope you join us in reaching this goal!

Eugene Belenky

Founder of ShowMeLocal.com

Secure Login

2008-08-24

Your login information is now encrypted to prevent the identity theft.

The Development Team

Landing page and partner button are now available for our affiliates.

2008-07-10

We have added new "partner" button that links back to our landing page with your affiliate id. Button is available on your partner dashboard and looks like this

For those who is unfamiliar with ShowMeLocal Affiliate Program please click here for more information.

Street View

2008-05-17

We have placed a new button on your profile (next to the map) called “Street View”. It loads Street View Images of your location under the map on your home page.

Availability of this feature goes together with “Driving Direction Box” option on the Business Information/Map Zoom & Driving Directions in your Business Dashboard. If this box is unchecked – “Street View” and “Driving Direction” box are not available on your profile page.

_{*Please note that not every location has “Street View” available.}

Please review related post: Driving Directions...with a little twist

The Development Team

Let your customers buy products, gift certificates and etc. right from your website pages!

2008-05-09

Now you can incorporate PayPal's "Buy Now" button into your specials.
Just follow instructions in the Miscellaneous/PayPal Settings to set up a valid PayPal email and start placing "Buy Now" button into your specials.

Have a great day

The Development Team

Driving Directions...with a little twist

2008-03-17

Your profile now displays driving directions box with a little twist.
When customer prints out driving directions to your business all your current offers (coupons and specials) are printed out as well!
If you would like to disable driving direction box, go to your Business Dashboard / Business Information / Map Zoom & Driving Directions.
Support

Send this Coupon to a Cell Phone!

2008-03-06

We have stared to test new
"Send this Coupon to a Cell Phone"
feature on your profiles. Your customers are now able to SMS coupons straight to their cell phones and redeem them at your location. Each coupon has unique coupon code that you can review in the coupon details section.

We are asking you to support Cell Phone Coupons and honor them at your business locations.

Please note that we don’t store cell phone numbers and have Zero Spam Tolerance Policy. If you have any suggestions please let us know.

Statistics. It is all about the numbers!

2008-02-16

We have implemented an all new statistics page for your profiles.

Now you know exactly where traffic comes from and how visitors have discovered your site.

Visits are grouped by the referral source; each source displays number of total visits.

Expanded view (small plus sign next to the source) displays clickable urls along with keywords that user typed to discover your site.

There is also an accumulative statistic for web spiders and crawlers and for top printed coupons.

Default view is always tuned for Today and displays detailed break down of your site visits organized by time and source.

Note: we started to collect detailed statistics from 2/6/2008

ShowMeLocal Updates

2007-12-15

We've been working these past weeks on some minor improvements to the site and here is what we have been able to accomplish:

Profile Pages:

1.    Profile Home Page got a nice image collection under the main image.
2.    Pictures and Videos page has a new look and feel.
3.    Business Network Page – got a makeover.

Business Dashboard:

1.    Now your can attach Marketing Message to your business.
2.    We have increased size of upload image to 1.5MB. It applies to picture and coupon uploads.
3.    items, Coupons, Jobs and Specials Management Pages got a nice addition.
Now you can activate/pause/delete posts in one shot without going to the items’ detail page.
4.    Now you can “feature” and “un-feature” blog post on the post detail page.

Sincerely,

Development Team

Business Space

2007-12-13

We are happy to introduce the Business Space, new application developed specifically for Facebook Pages. It allows you to enhance and compliment your Facebook Page with content from ShowMeLocal such as blogs, coupons, specials and job postings. In addition you will be able to post your business badge directly to your Facebook user profile, attach news feeds with your updates and have full control over the posted content. Business Space has look and feel of the Facebook and naturally blends your content with the existing page.

It is extremely easy to connect ShowMeLocal profile to Facebook. We have created comprehensive guide describing steps you need to perform to set up your Business on Facebook and then successfully bind your ShowMeLocal Profile with Facebook.

ShowMeLocal 2.0. New version is out!

2007-10-25

Showmelocal.com is pleased to announce tons of great new features that will be available through the month of August for your local community.

We have worked steadily on making Showmelocal.com more effective and easier to use for local business owners and consumers alike. All of these great features are absolutely free to use. Our goal is to perfect the interaction between local consumers and business owners through the many tools on the Internet. That is why we are asking for any feedback you can give us to best facilitate this process.

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Branding on a Budget

2007-02-21

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iPrint and VistaPrint – Both iPrint and VistaPrint let you put your logo on a number of professionally printed promotional products like flyers, business cards, door hangers, rubber stamps, posters, or stickers. It is important to remember to keep all of your marketing and printed materials consistent across your business with the same logo and design. This will reinforce your brand image and build it into your customers’ minds. (Remember to put your ShowMeLocal.com URL (website address) on your business card and all other promotional material (such as flyers, take-out menus, ads, etc.) so that your customers can find you online!)

CafePress – Promotional products are a great way to get your logo out to customers on a regular basis. If you have customers wearing t-shirts, using coffee mugs, calendars, etc. with your logo on it then they are not only seeing it and thinking about your business more often, they are also likely to be sharing it with others without knowing it.

Stamps.com– Custom stamps with your logo and business name will make all of your correspondence seem more official and give your business the feel of a major corporation for a low cost.

LogoMaker - Create a professional logo in just minutes.

Design A Shirt – An important part of branding is making your logo and name recognizable. A great way to do that is to get your customers to wear your advertising. Design A Shirt lets you create t-shirts sporting your name, logo, and/or slogan.

Guerrilla Marketing: Secrets for Making Big Profits from Your Small Business (Guerrilla Marketing)– Guerilla Marketing is an excellent book full of creative and often low-cost marketing ideas that will help you get the word out about your business, build and establish your brand, and get customers into your store.

American Incorporators, LegalZoom– While not necessarily related to branding, it is important for businesses to incorporate for a number of other reasons. Eventually most businesses will incorporate, and rather than changing all of your marketing and branding material later to include “Inc.” (or “LLC” or “Corp.”, etc.) it is a good idea to incorporate now and prepare your branding materials right the first time.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

2007-02-20

ShowMeLocal.com is specifically designed with brick & mortar businesses in mind. While some businesses without a physical presence (i.e., real world storefront) can benefit from ShowMeLocal.com, the site is best suited to traditional, offline stores and service providers. With that said, ShowMeLocal.com is not the place for Multi Level Marketing companies.

All business profiles are subject to periodic review and companies with anomalous information (mismatched address, faked contact info, etc.) may be removed without notice. Fictitious or non-existent businesses, as well as MLM companies will also be removed.

Thank you, and please continue to help make ShowMeLocal.com great!

If you have any questions or comments please contact us at: feedback@showmelocal.com

Updates and Announcements

2007-02-19

Dear business owners,

ShowMeLocal.com is proud to announce some exciting new features for your business, as well as enhancements to some existing services already available to you.

New Section: Help Center

ShowMeLocal.com is so easy to use, we doubt you'll need it, but we have created a comprehensive help center that answers most of your frequent questions and has detailed instructions on how to use our tools.

Please visit the help center at http://www.ShowMeLocal.com/faq

We’re blogging!

We’ve launched a special ShowMeLocal.com blog on which we will be blogging about effective small budget marketing, Internet for businesses, how to-s, tips and tricks.

Please visit and bookmark our blog at: http://blog.showmelocal.com

This week: ShowMeLocal.com essentials. What everyone should know to get started at ShowMeLocal.com.

New feature: Profile Colors & Layouts

You can now customize your layout with six attractive new color schemes, and you can also change the orientation of information on your profile. These new options let you create a layout that matches your business and can help make your business better stand out from the crowd!

New feature: Videos

ShowMeLocal.com now supports embedding videos from popular video sharing sites like YouTube or Metacafe. You can add up to five videos to your profile. Put up a video tour of your store, a commercial advertising your products or services, a promotional video describing how to use a product you sell, or just about anything else you can think of. Remember: you can attach videos to blog posts!

New feature: Activity Points

Activity points are simple: every time you add content to your profile, you are rewarded with activity points. The more activity points you accrue, the more visible your profile will be across the ShowMeLocal.com network. Activity points are awarded for any content you add to your profile, including blog posts, business information, photos, videos, and coupons. Companies with more activity points are featured on the main page and appear higher in local search results. The more active you are, the more customers will visit your profile!

Enhanced features: items, Coupons, Specials, Jobs

You now have expanded editing options for your posts. You may choose colors, fonts, upload pictures and attach multimedia to any post.

KINDLY REMINDER

If you have not activated your account as of yet, please do so. Your profile is inactive and isn’t working for you. Request an activation email

ShowMeLocal.com Team

API Ideas

2007-01-31

This is an open API discussion. We provide RSS feeds for State, City and Zip levels, neighborhood feeds as well as full local business profile xml wrap ups. We are interested in expending API services. If you have any ShowMeLocal API ideas, want to use our content or write any widget, please let us know.
You can comment directly to this post or Suggest here .

ShowMeLocal technical team

How you can use your Business Network to your advantage

2007-01-10

When you register your business with us you are getting an opportunity to build your business network and utilize power of cross-promotions.

Here’s an example: If you build your business network around your community by encouraging other local businesses in your neighborhood to join ShowMeLocal.com and your network, you'll get exposure to local customers on their profiles even if those customers not visiting your profile directly! You can provide coupons and specials to a much larger local audience!

Want to attract newcomers? It’s easy! Users can browse their neighborhood on the main page of ShowMeLocal.com, and when they view profiles of other local businesses in your network they will eventually reach you!

Or say, for example, you run a real estate agency and want to provide your clients with mortgage brokers, contractors, decorators and suppliers from your area. Your business network can help you out! Create a network of merchants you trust and help your customers find the services they need.

Simple concept - numerous possibilities!

Please comment on this post if you have any ideas for the Business Network feature of ShowMeLocal.com.

Have a great day

Business Website $9.99/Mo Including Free Domain And 5 Business Emails

ShowMeLocal.com — Fri, 3 Oct 2008 02:16:00 GMT

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ShowMeLocal.com — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 19:53:00 GMT

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ShowMeLocal.com — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 17:21:00 GMT

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ShowMeLocal.com — Sat, 4 Oct 2008 18:44:00 GMT

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ShowMeLocal.com — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 20:18:00 GMT

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Part Time Community Manager Position

ShowMeLocal.com — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:54:00 GMT

Responsibilities include:

Blogging/Micro Blogging
Newsletter management
Community Engagement
Social Media Interactions
Public Relation
Various Editors tasks

Should have business/writing/pr related background.
General understanding of small businesses, local markets, internet marketing, SEO is a bug plus. Social Media experience is a must.
Apply by sending email to ShowMeLocal.
While replying please attach your resume and compensation rate.

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This is pretty neat that you have added sms alerts when my business recieves new review or customer email.

ShowMeLocal.com — Wed, 26 May 2010 15:35:00 GMT

This is pretty neat that you have added sms alerts when my business recieves new review or customer email.
Mike 5/26/2010 10:35:00 AM

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ShowMeLocal.com — Sun, 9 May 2010 19:52:00 GMT

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Adam D. 5/9/2010 2:52:00 PM

I can't believe how awesome this site is...We are always on the first or second google search. Most of my other link sites charge me for posting pictures and information and then I go and try to find my info and I am buried on like the 6th page of google....YOU GUYS ROCK NO DOUBT. I am way pleased with SHOW ME LOCAL.

ShowMeLocal.com — Sun, 9 May 2010 19:49:00 GMT

I can't believe how awesome this site is...We are always on the first or second google search. Most of my other link sites charge me for posting pictures and information and then I go and try to find my info and I am buried on like the 6th page of google....YOU GUYS ROCK NO DOUBT. I am way pleased with SHOW ME LOCAL.
5/9/2010 2:49:00 PM

Your site is the best business listing site on the web. I've been on over 20 of them and this is top of the line. I love the features on this one and the interface. Very simple to understand.

ShowMeLocal.com — Wed, 3 Sep 2008 12:25:00 GMT

Your site is the best business listing site on the web. I've been on over 20 of them and this is top of the line. I love the features on this one and the interface. Very simple to understand.
Rudy Triana 9/3/2008 7:25:00 AM

You are great.

ShowMeLocal.com — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:19:00 GMT

You are great.
Alex 8/14/2008 7:19:00 PM

highly recommend

ShowMeLocal.com — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:36:00 GMT

highly recommend
Denise Dobbs 7/31/2008 7:36:00 AM

It's great that you have managed to pull off a listing site without it looking cheesy. I've used your link to quickly get information to potential clients. It saves me time on the phone so I can focus more on running my business. Your up to the second view counter is great because I can instantly know if my advertising is getting seen. I have had several coupons from your site presented to me which is exciting. Keep up the good work!!

ShowMeLocal.com — Mon, 5 Mar 2007 20:28:00 GMT

It's great that you have managed to pull off a listing site without it looking cheesy. I've used your link to quickly get information to potential clients. It saves me time on the phone so I can focus more on running my business. Your up to the second view counter is great because I can instantly know if my advertising is getting seen. I have had several coupons from your site presented to me which is exciting. Keep up the good work!!
Cindy 3/5/2007 3:28:00 PM

ShowMeLocal.com: Images, photos and videos

ShowMeLocal.com — Tue, 18 May 2010 22:41:00 GMT