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Monday, January 5, 2009

The Michigan Business Directory goes Social!- CLICK HERE!

We were hoping to announce our new "2009 Social Features" on January 1st, because that would be most fitting, but ... a programming bug here and a holiday drop-in there .. and well ... here we are on the 5th of January finally ready to announce!

The Michigan Business Directory - http://www.michiganbusiness.us/ has gone social with Google Friend Connect and a 1/2 dozen new ways to promote your business and manage your online reputation.

Although "Google Friend Connect" sounds social in a non-professional sort of way, the way that The Michigan Business Directory has implemented it into our site is geared towards professional connections, business ratings, discussions and lead generation.

Join our new business community on the front page of our site, or join on any company page. Once you create an account (or use your existing Google profile or other Open ID profile) you can rate any company on our website, add comments to company profile pages and even rate your own company!

Google Friend Connect is fairly intuitive, but it's important to note that your Google Friend Connect account will be different than the normal login that you created when you first listed your business. This is an important distinction, because visitors can rate companies without necessarily having a listing on our website.

As google expands it's offerings through Google Friend connect, we will also be expanding our offerings.

And that's not all!

On each company page, you will see new icons below the rating box as shown to the right. We call these are new "Reputation Builders". When you login to update your company information, you will see new fields to add links to your online profiles. Currently, we are offering you the ability to add links to:

Your Google profile
LinkedIn.com profile or company page
Facebook profile or company page
Delicious profile
Your company or individual blog (RSS feeds are accepted)
Your twitter profile

Finally, we added a field that allows you to offer a coupon, discount, sale or promotion to your company page.

More on all of our new features in subsequent blog entries, but now is the time to login and reap the rewards of extra exposure by adding your profile pages.

Happy New Year and don't forget to add me as a friend when you create your Google Friend Connect account. My id is: nicayla9042