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Attaining 'Top Merchant' Status is Kind of a Big Deal!

Attaining 'Top Merchant' Status is Kind of a Big Deal! Stemulite Fitness Formula in Florence, OR, recently put out a press release after attaining 'Top Merchant' status on MerchantCircle. Achieving 'Top Merchant' status has proven to boost traffic to your MerchantCircle listing - for some, by over 300%! Becoming a 'Top Merchant' isn't that difficult and the results are proven. You can log into your dashboard and get to the requirements here - or look below. The Top Merchant badge requires the... READ MORE Posted October 23, 2009 at 12:16 PM

MerchantCircle's New Forum Moderators

As you know, we have some wonderful MerchantCircle Moderators currently perusing and helping out in the forums. What you may not know is that our moderators have also been an integral part in many of our new products, ideas, and growth in their local communities and on the web. Today, we're announcing 3 new moderators to join our original 6 - bringing the total number to 9. Here they are! - Janet Rothstein, Owner of Rothstein Jewelers in Beverly Hills, CA. - Deb Robinson, Owner of The Teeny T... READ MORE Posted October 20, 2009 at 03:47 PM

MerchantCircle Sponsors MMA Fighter and Supports Martial Arts

MerchantCircle Sponsors MMA Fighter Trish Burnside, Supports Martial Arts MerchantCircle recently began sponsoring an up-and-coming martial arts fighter. Trish Burnside handily defeated her more experienced opponent in her first professional fight, and looks to gain a few more fights under her belt in Muay Thai before moving into Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) in 2010. Currently, Trish trains with renowned martial artist Cung Le. You may think it's odd that MerchantCircle is sponsoring a fighter, b... READ MORE Posted October 13, 2009 at 12:15 PM

Ping.fm Adds MerchantCircle to Network

Ping.fm Adds MerchantCircle to NetworkI met one of the founders of Ping.fm recently at theGnomedex Conferencein Seattle. Ping.fm is a website that allows you to update your status or micro-blogs across dozens of websites. A few weeks after my conversations with the founder, I was pleased to find out they had put MerchantCircle on their network.You can now update your status on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, MerchantCircle, and any number of top sites, and do it just once! We know how valuable y... READ MORE Posted October 06, 2009 at 05:03 PM

How MerchantCircle Neighbors and Answers Will Get You More Business

No, this isn't a battle cry for X-Men, but more a completion of a dream 3 years in the making. With over 910,000 members, on its way to 1 million by the end of year, MerchantCircle has launched MerchantCircle "Neighbors" and MerchantCircle "Answers." After cracking 20 million unique consumer visitors each month to MerchantCircle listings, we knew consumers were routinely coming to MerchantCircle to find deals and their local business owners. They needed ways to follow deals and coupons in rea... READ MORE Posted September 09, 2009 at 02:24 AM

YellowPages versus MerchantCircle

We're always flattered when local business owners blog about their success using MerchantCircle. It's even better when they blog about their lack of success using the YellowPages, which we've always felt is a waste of time and money. Well, don't take our word for it, read A+ Affordable Upholstery&More;'s blog here. Below is an excerpt: For the record, A+ Affordable Upholstery in Norfolk, VA, is a free member! One of the keys to their success on MerchantCircle is the frequency of their blog po... READ MORE Posted September 06, 2009 at 02:27 PM

What the Web.com Deal Means to You

MerchantCircle and Web.com today announced a partnership that will grow your network of local businesses by more than 100,000 members. With more than 20 million local unique consumers visiting MerchantCircle each month, we're excited to have an even stronger network or members creating more coupons, blogs, and newsletters, than ever before. Today, we have over 900,000 members and are on pace to hit 1 million before the end of the year! Web.com will power many of our high end services like cus... READ MORE Posted August 19, 2009 at 04:09 PM

Have you Built a Consumer Profile Yet?

Greg Sterling, of Sterling Market Intelligence, recently profiled on his blog, Screenwerk, our "quiet" launch of MerchantCircle 'Neighbors' - which will allow consumers to create consumer profiles and 'follow' their favorite local merchants. This launch, which is still in BETA, gives our merchant base a stronger connection to offer deals directly to their customers. Sterling writes: Read the rest of Sterling's post here or create your Consumer Profile now! Click here to get started. Consumer ... READ MORE Posted June 18, 2009 at 04:18 PM

Using Twitter to Promote Business Deals and Coupons

MerchantCircle member Brad Loveland, owner of Advocare in Round Rock, TX, has been using his Twitter account recently to Tweet sales and promotions from his MerchantCircle page. Posting deals and specials to Twitter is a great way for businesses to gain followers on Twitter. You can create promotions here and sales here from your MerchantCircle dashboard and coupons here. It's all free! Nice work, Brad! You can follow MerchantCircle on Twitter too: http://twitter.com/merchantcircle. Sincerely... READ MORE Posted June 12, 2009 at 05:11 PM

Guest Blog Post: How To Optimize Your Business in Local Search

by Andrew Shotland http://www.localseoguide.com/ localseo@localseoguide.com SEO, the art and science of ranking well in search engines, is one of those things that is easy to learn but hard to master, so let’s focus on the easy part. You’ve got a website and it’s not ranking in Google so well for whatever search term you are coveting. So what do you do? Here are some (hopefully) simple things you can do, or even better tell someone else to do, to get your SEO strategy in gear: 1. Figure Out Y... READ MORE Posted May 11, 2009 at 06:35 PM