Hey local bloggers, hey newspapers, hey anyone else who has a locally relevant website – want to display businesses in your neighborhood, city, or town, on your website? CitySquares just made it very easy for you to do that with Local Feeds for Publishers. You can add these feeds of local businesses to your website [...] [...more]
This week at CitySquares we launched something called Facebook Connect – a very cool Facebook feature that allows anyone with a Facebook account to log in to CitySquares. One nice thing about this is that people don’t have to create yet another user account, and therefore remember another user name and another password. That’s the [...] [...more]
CitySquares is happy to announce that we now allow all small business owners with the opportunity to add coupons to their free business listings! There’s no gimmick, no catch, we just want you to see, first hand, the value that CitySquares is already delivering hundreds of small businesses. By adding your free coupon to your [...] [...more]
As you likely know by now, CitySquares recently completed our national expansion. So, it’s time to get back to building and implementing all the cool, hyperlocal features we’ve long envisioned, and start making the site just a lot of fun to use.
As CitySquares.com grows we need to make sure that the site continues to be [...] [...more]
CitySquares is proud to announce a new partnership with CallSource, through which we are now providing call tracking for small businesses. This new service allows small businesses to measure and monitor phone calls coming to their business through a variety of campaigns, and therefore increase marketing effectiveness, capture more sales opportunities and improve customer service.
With [...] [...more]
Last week I wrote about the first stage of our national expansion to Delaware and Maryland. Well, the road trip continues further down south. As the weather in New England stays frigid we figured we would take our show on the road and head past the Mason Dixon into Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and [...] [...more]
I’ve long believed that at the heart of our communities, be they urban neighborhoods or rural villages, there are a few things that define the character of the community. Those things are…
1) the small businesses along the streets, with their storefronts, their goods and services, their owners who employ the locals and teenagers during the [...] [...more]
Our last product update was a while ago, but that certainly doesn’t mean we haven’t been doing anything. Quite the contrary in fact, we’re so busy we often forget to go home! Our last update went over our Business Amenities feature, which has been very well received by our customers. Since then we’ve been pretty [...] [...more]
It has been a while since we have introduced some new videos, so here are a few that are sure to make your mouth water! If you are a chocolate lover, you are going to LOVE these two new videos!
Chocolee Chocolates in South End, Boston is an adorable boutique chocolate shop that specializes in handmade [...] [...more]
Something that CitySquares‘ product team works very hard at is a little something called SEO (Search Engine Optimization). It’s very important that our advertisers get maximum visibility online through their CitySquares profile. The more detailed information we have about particular businesses, the easier it is for them to get higher results in search engines like [...] [...more]