Facebook has finally implemented a daily deals program of their own. As we all know, Daily Deal sites have taken the Internet by storm and numerous sites are running deals in nearly every big city in the USA. Now Groupon and Living Social are the top Daily Deal sites, but who knows, maybe Facebook’s new addition will push them to the top! There are now hundreds of daily deal platforms, but its very likely the reach of these platforms will be a key to successfully delivering customers in a scalable and impactful way.    

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Bing has recently been working on changing the way in which their Business listings are claimed and presented. What was originally the “Local Listing Center” is now being converted to the “Bing Business Portal” (BBP). This is good news for local business owners because Bing is making changes to make listings on their site more efficient for local businesses.

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Facebook has recently made changes to make Facebook pages easier to use for small businesses. Let’s face it, setting up a Facebook page, can be a little confusing for some less savvy business owners.   When initially setting up a Facebook account for business purposes, many business owners don’t realize and set up a personal profile page.. We have seen that about 20% of SMB businesses that have registered for chatmeter and provided us with their Facebook URL have setup these personal profile pages. The problem with this is that only “friends” of this business can see the valuable posts, updates, feeds, and information that the business owner is providing.  Which means potential consumers are “out”…that’s not good.  Also these individual profile pages do not allow you to add your listing information (Name, Address, Phone Number), which can provide a valuable citation  (reference to your business and website from an external site…Facebook.) . These citations are  important because they provide more credibility, especially from a popular site like Facebook..

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