Archive for November, 2009
New Features for Friday the 13th
In our quest to bring you more tools, and a better user experience, we are announcing two new features this weekend, both of which are now live. The first is a more advanced way for users to track views of their business and event pages. Its a simple addition that allows you to track, by day and by month, how many people are looking at your page. Not overly exciting but we think it will help you track what is happening on your page.
Second, and much more exciting is the new Fans feature. If you use Facebook or Twitter, you are probably familiar with “Friends” & “Followers”; well for The Local Life, “Fans” is our version of those two things. Becoming a fan of a business will soon allow you to follow any updates a business makes to their page, like adding a new coupon or event. Once we have a few fans, we will begin to show the businesses with the most Fans on the homepage, and within each Category.
We will also be introducing some new functionality for business owners around Fans, which we will update you on fully when we go live with them, but we think they are pretty exciting as well.
For now, log in and become a Fan of your favorite business. Its easy - just click onto the “Become a Fan” tab on a Business Page click the button; simple Who doesn’t like simple?
Update Twitter from Your User Page
Well for those of you who don’t know what Twitter is, its a ragingly popular new messaging service that lets you broadcast short messages of 140 charachters or less to people who “follow” you, or those who care about what you have to say. For businesses, it is becoming a popular tool to send out specials and build good will with your customers, often resulting in more sales for those businesses using it wisely.
Since our ultimate goal is to help our small business customers increase sales, we just pushed out another great feature for our customers and users: Post to Twitter. As of last night anyone can update their Twitter Status from your User page, simply by adding your Twitter username and password to your User Profile. For those Businesses who use our Dashboard to track click throughs and views of their page, you will now see a message prompting you to either add your Twitter account, or to Post to Twitter if you already set it up.
No fancy stuff, just enter your Username and Password to Twitter like you would however you access Twitter, and then start sending your messages instantly. The beauty here is that not only will all of your followers see your post this way, but anyone who goes to your Business Page on TheSaratogaLife will see it too!
Let us know if you have any problems, but you should see a message in RED if you have any errors. As always you can contact us by clicking the “We’re in Beta” bubble in the top right. We’ll get back to you as soon as we can.
Thanks for stopping by today and being a part of The Saratoga Life
- Jamie