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SoBiz10 Launches First Social Networking Site for Colorado Small Businesses to Communicate With Customers and Prospects
More Than 45,000 Colorado Merchants Listed on Site
| Source: SoBiz10, Inc.
DENVER, CO--(Marketwire - February 2, 2010) - SoBiz10 launched today as the first social
networking site designed specifically to help merchants communicate with
and attract customers and members to keep track of their favorite
businesses. The site made its debut with more than 45,000 Colorado
merchants listed on the site that can begin utilizing the tools to build a
network of customers for their businesses. Through a single site, business
merchants can send, and customers can receive, coupons, catalogues, sales
announcements, special incentives, and a full range of marketing messages.
"SoBiz10 was designed to be a social networking one-stop-shop to provide
businesses all of the modern day communications tools to speak to their
existing customer base, while reaching more prospective customers through
the shared network of social media," said Marion Mariathasan, Founder of
SoBiz10.
Just as Facebook is designed for finding friends, making new friends and
contacts, and communicating with those friends and contacts, SoBiz10 is the
only social network designed for businesses to communicate with customers
and customers to communicate with businesses. The SoBiz10 community is
built entirely around members' interest in what their favorite businesses
are doing, offering and saying. Members can receive e-mails about new
products or services, job postings, coupons, promotions, catalogues,
special events and more -- all with a few clicks.
Businesses also benefit from SoBiz10's networking capabilities because they
have the ability to communicate, connect and market to existing customers,
potential new customers and other merchants in their neighborhood. They can
keep in touch through SoBiz10's carefully tailored networking, marketing
and advertising features without being intrusive and while respecting
members' privacy. In addition to outbound communications, businesses will
benefit from the referrals and cross-networking of their customers, and
customers of other merchants, driving traffic to their websites and to
their stores.
"Whereas Yelp and other similar business directory sites simply allow the
merchant to post profiles for a fee, SoBiz10 merchants create a profile
that will serve as a Web page through which they can readily market,
advertise, promote and perform just about any marketing function necessary
to effectively drive traffic and generate additional revenue," continues
Mariathasan. "With SoBiz10, small businesses get the power of social
networking with an easy to use marketing tool that can simplify marketing
to 5 minutes per day."
Businesses interested in joining the SoBiz10 network and beginning to take
advantage of social networking to build their business can search for their
business profile off the SoBiz10.com home page and "claim their profile" or
establish a new profile for free at www.SoBiz10.com. From the Become a
Merchant page, the site provides a step-by-step PDF guide to creating a
profile and using the communications tools for promotion which can be found
here http://www.sobiz10.com/auth/bemerchant.
SoBiz10, Inc.
SoBiz10 is the only social networking site designed for small businesses to
communicate with customers and customers to keep up on what their favorite
businesses are doing, offering and saying. Through a single site, business
merchants can send coupons, catalogues, sales announcements, special
incentives, and a full range of messages to both their existing customer
base and potential new customers. In addition to these outbound
communication initiatives, businesses will benefit from the referrals and
cross-networking of their customers, and customers of other merchants,
driving traffic to their websites and to their stores. For more
information on SoBiz10, visit www.SoBiz10.com.