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 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.
These features include:
* New, sleeker profile design which includes a more intuitive and extensive business management section.
* Addition of a new profile styles.
* Business dashboard redesign.
* Online/Offline user status.
* Business owners now may monitor the effectiveness of their marketing efforts from our new statistics section.
* New Blog detail page with statistical reference.
* New Coupon page with an improved interface to enter coupons. See changes you make to the coupon in real time.
* New Coupons detail page with statistical reference which includes a print counter.
* Control over how your coupons get distributed, whether by email, widget or an HTML source.
* “Thank you” coupons are now “Appreciation” Coupons and are assigned to all feedback pages (suggestion, complaints and feedback), user reviews and comments pages.
* New interface for the Specials page which include new predefined categories for Services, Autos, Real Estate and other Products.
* New Specials detail page with statistical reference which includes a print counter.
* Control over how your Specials get distributed, whether by email, widget or an HTML source. Image hosting with Photobucket
* New interface for the Jobs page which includes more options to create a job posting.
* Control over how your job openings get distributed, whether by email, widget or an HTML source.
* Coupons, Specials and Jobs can now be inserted into a variety of sites for advertisements such as Cragslist, Ebay and so on.
* Message Center redesign. Now merchants have the ability to write messages to their network associates. Virtually any business can be contacted from inside the business management section through our network search.
* We do auto promotions now! We supply content to Edgeio, Vast, Google Base, Oddle, Google Maps, Lycos Classifieds, Local Classifieds and their associates, not to mention search engines.
* We have created FaceBook application, which will enable local businesses to reach out to even more local customers.
* Widgets! We are now supplying a variety of Showmelocal.com links and buttons for you to insert into other websites. New widgets for Blogs, Coupons, Specials and Jobs can now be found on the widget page.
* Online Places! Now local businesses can add all relevant links to their homepages (websites, classifieds, ads, social profile, local sites) to be displayed on their profile. This is a great way to catch the attention of customers and to give the ability to fully explain any information about a local business.
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