Posts Tagged ‘new features’
December Update
Its that busy time of year again. We had our first snowstorm and now we are all scrambling to get our shopping done. If you have any Holiday specials going on over the next two weeks, add them to the calendar or write an article about them. Over one thousand events have been added to our calendar in the last three months - all by you, the users themselves. So log in and post your sales, specials and events - if you don’t know your log in please contact us today and we’ll give you a refresher course on all the great features of the site.
This is our first newsletter aimed specifically towards our business owners and managers, but we will be featuring one business each month that is doing something great on the site. This month that business is One Caroline and The Mouzon House. (Sounds like two, but really Dave Pedinotti runs them both). Dave has taken full advantage of the blog and has posted several articles about his cooking style, his influences and most recently several great recipes used in his restaurants. You can see his business page here - notice how all his articles are featured on the “Articles” tab, and all the upcoming events at his business are listed under the “Events” tab. He also posts updates to their menus directly in the body of the Business Profile. Thanks Dave for helping visitors get a full picture of what make One Caroline and Mouzon House special.
That is one example of using our new platform to emphasize everything thats happening at your business. We want to also introduce a new feature - Fans. I wrote about Fans when we first launched it just before Thanksgiving - read that article here. Basically, any registered user can become a fan of your business, and once they are a fan you can message your fans and let them know about upcoming events, specials and promotions at your business. As with all our tools, you can manage your fans and messages through your Dashboard. We will be visiting with some collateral for you to use in your business to encourage your customers to become your Fan on The Local life.
We are in the process of converting all of our old sites to the new platform. As we do so we will be notifying you individually regarding timelines and upgrades available to you. If you have any questions about the platform or any of its features, please let me know - jamie@thelocallife.com or click the bubble in the upper right of the screen - we’ll get back as soon as possible.
Thank you so much for being a part of The Local Life, have a great Holiday Season and we wish you the Best for 2010.
Cheers,
- All of us at The Local Life
Local Blogs
Last week we released some very exciting new features, mostly around the ability for anyone to add a blog to their business, or to their user page, or just in general. We talk to a lot of businesses that would like to start a blog, but don’t know how or where to start. Well like everything else we do, we strive to make it easy for businesses to spread the word about their specials and features. Now we have made it easy for them to keep a blog, which they can then feature on their business page if they own a business, or simply share with the local world on the homepage.
Blogs are fun, they bring new things to light that you would never find otherwise. We are looking forward to seeing what the world comes up with, and sharing it all with you!