Jeromakay

Probably you noticed there’s a big gap in my blog, that’s what busy people usualy have on their lifes.

Lately, I’ve been spending a lot of time playing with time management techniques and it turned out to work pretty well until few days ago when I realised I have no time left for myself, to breathe.

I’m doing all those activities that life/work requires, but I didn’t really have time for my self, to stop, and breathe, relax and just let things go by.

OH yes, I’ve been running hard lately, but besides the physical benefits, there’s no boost on the mental side, I can’t see great improvements.

My guess it’s just stress, and I’m realising it as I write this post. I need to stay away, and watch things from the outside for a while.

… and of course, commit less to do other people’s work. There’s no real benefit in this – for me or them.

What I learned? UCC is a great environment to be where knowledge floats around the place and it’s there for you to grab it. I think this is a great boost for me right now.

I’ll write some more here later.

Vladimir

I’m busy today migrating files and settings from one machine to another plus sorting out some things which suppose to help Loopthing grow easier.

So far, we’re ON for finding the right investor to provide us with seed capital while code development is moving forward at a faster pace than last week. (there will be an update on this, soon)

These are the updates for now, keep an eye on my Twitter page for faster updates.

I’m happy to announce this. We’ve put great energy into this, and now the OpenScore it’s live for every of the 24k businesses on the site.

What is the OpenScore?

The OpenScore is a social media alalysis result that we provide, after analyzing different elements of a business, based on the feedback we have about it. In other words, we can tell how involved is a business in the online environment, from Twitter to YouTube and lots of other services in between.

For more information on this launch please read this blog post on the official site.

Join the live web presentation

If you’re around today (28th of October) at 2 PM GMT time, just drop by to see a quick presentation and ask questions.

The URL to join is: http://www.present.ie/loopthing1. We’d love to have you there.

Cheers!
Vladimir

I am excited to announce that the Loopthing social networking platform got an important update today, which mainly has something to do with professionals from the online environment providing consultancy services for SEO, SEM, online marketing and PR.

This major update is part of a long plan that Loopthing has ahead, and enables account managers to manage other businesses’ profiles on the Loopthing business network.

How this can be applied to your SEO, SEM, online marketing, PR consultancy/web development business?

Now you can pitch your customers about a new set of services you added to your business:

• submitting their business to Loopthing
• maintain this profile, where you both have control over the shared content

The reason why this should be included into your business plan is because your company doesn’t need to pay anything to get started, while you can charge your customers the activity you put into developing their Loopthing profile.

Building a profile on Loopthing is simple, the staff is helpful and there’s tips on the way while you use the site. Once you do it for a business, it will be very easy to do it for the other ones inside your portfolio.

Plus, this comes with no obligation from your customers, and they can take control over their accounts whenever they want.

This feature is very useful for some of your customers (probably all) who want to expose more of their brand online, and get seen all over the Internet. Loopthing is there to provide you with the ability to set up and manage profiles for other businesses, while they are still in control.

How can this help my SEO company?

Loopthing has a feature called “websites urls” which displays up to three urls on your customers business’ profile. These links are nofollow free, and you can link to the home page of the company that hired you or/and their blog.

There’s also a feature called “news feeds” where business owners can submit their blog/RSS feed as a news source, or even their Loopthing profile. This is very helpful because the “news feeds” page connects the Loopthing visitors with these pages as well.

There are also SEO related elements that we are currently working on which are going to enhance the effects of sharing your company’s information with the Loopthing visitors.

Why is so important for my customers to be on Loopthing?

Loopthing is a business networking platform which integrates elements of social networking, social media, branding and online marketing.

Joining a site like Loopthing, a service specifically tailored to businesses interacting with individuals, is the next logical step to take for an entrepreneur. This is because two-thirds of the internet users are now involved in a social networking or blogging activity [source: Nielsen wire].

And here’s the good part, Loopthing not only targets businesses, but provides a good share to individuals as well. These people can be easily converted into customers by being on the site.

Got questions?

Read the official blog post announcing the new features and let me know how it goes, I’d be more than happy to hear your comments and opinions.

Ola! I have promissed to myself that I’m going to keep this blog updated consistently. Been off for few days in a great trip to Lisbon, and here’s what I’ve found there – a bridge which invited me for a jump.

I’m going to come back with more serious posts, lol.

Finding information should be easy for people. It must be accessible, fast, and flexible.Flexible, thanks to filtering.

I’m happy to say Loopthing’s search got a new dimension, it’s a lot more relevant, and it is crazy fast.

The way it works is simple: one enters the search string into the search form, selects the type of results to return (businesses or individuals) and hits the “Search” button.

The results are extracted from the database and the less relevant ones don’t show up initially, unless the user is willing to expand that list.

Here’s a sample search for the keyword branding. If you have any ideas and questions, please send them over, I’m more than happy to adjust or comment.

This summer is being a blessing for Loopthing, the business networking platform. We just finished integrating the Twitter functionality for business profiles, and there’s few more other features integrated as well.

A sample page where twitter is the news feed page of the Loopthing company profile.

Besides the Twitter integration, we also added RSS feeds news feeds reader which also adds content to the profile page of any company joining Loopthing.

Two more other features were also integrated into the networking functionality of the site. The networks members can now upload media files (audios, videos and images), and they can also store files into the repository of each network.

I’m going to keep you posted on updates related to Loopthing, but for now, this is it! Here’s the official blog post announcing the Twitter integration feature.

Party time for 14.7 seconds

Good news for the social media community out there. Loopthing will integrate Twitter in the following days and this was a feature which we kind of pushed and prioritized it into the plan.

This is because social media is the most important aspect of promoting a business online nowadays, and here it is. It will take few days until it’s complete, but it will be there. The good news is confirmed by a blog entry posted on the official blog of Loopthing.

Basically businesses will have their tweets flow available on their profile, and as an extension to this, I can tell you there’s more stuff to help businesses promote themselves coming soon.

So…

Loopthing + Twitter = LOVE

Now it’s possible! You can browse all the individuals who joined Loopthing until this moment. The feature has been added later today at 19:00.

The feature has been requested a long time ago, and it was on the TODO list for a while. You’ll see more features coming soon. In case you haven’t joined Loopthing yet, I highly recommend you to become a member.

Hope I’ll see more people joining the site, not only businesses. This thing is growing slowly but surely so sooner you get on board, easier for you is to watch it grow.

Are you into promoting your business online? Then it’s time for some good news: a new group was launched recently on Facebook exclusively created for business networking.

I started this group with one thing in mind, to enable businesses and self-employed people to network. The group web address is:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=112167781192

If you are an individual, you are also welcome and I believe there is no limit on how much this group should grow. There will be some events added there as well, so my advice is to become a fan and stay tuned for some more.

If you’re into promoting your business, besides joining this group you can have a look over the following ressources as well:

• Loopthing – the business networking platform (100% dedicated to promoting offline and online businesses)
• 34 links to help you promote your small business on Facebook (with comments)
• 10 reasons to use Facebook for your business
• few marketing resources for Facebook users

Thanks to the links above I tried to cover most of the things that would help you promote your business via Facebook. If you discover any other healthy tecnique and would like to share, please do!