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Whenever you create a business, a Suggestions popup will be shown to you, enabling you to selectively suggest your business to friends. You can select your desired friends from this popup and send suggestions to them for your business. You and other visitors to your business can also suggest your business to friends any time by using the “Suggest to Friends” link available in the left quick links on your business Profile. While sharing enables users to share your business with all their friends, suggestions enable suggesting your business to selected friends.
By using the “Share business” link on your business Profile, visitors to your business can share it with others on this website. Whenever a visitor Likes your business by clicking on the Facebook Like Button, a feed gets published on the user’s Facebook wall for this action, thus sharing your business with their Facebook network. There are also numerous Social Sharing buttons available on your business Profile using which your business can be shared across multiple websites like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google+, etc.
Yes, you can change the order of the tabs and blocks on your business Profile from the “Edit Layout” section of your business Dashboard. From there, you can move the widget blocks vertically up and down to change their ordering. You can also rename some blocks according to your choice. Some blocks might be “blocked” and would thus not be movable. This feature enables you to highly customize your business, and allows you to give more prominence to that content for your business which you feel has more relevance.
This setting is also monitored by our site administrators. You will not be able to change the ordering of tabs / blocks, if they have disabled the corresponding settings.
The “Marketing” section of your business Dashboard provides multiple tools for marketing your business, and to expand your reach. You can easily send updates to people who have Liked your business in one go by using the “Send an Update” option available in the “Marketing” section.
businesses can be made Sponsored only by our site administrators. There could also be certain Packages for businesses on our website, businesses of which would automatically be made Sponsored. You can choose such a Package for your business during business creation, or upgrade your business to such a Package. The availability of such a Package is conditional.
Sponsored businesses are businesses which are specially marked as “Sponsored”. Such businesses are more highlighted than others and thus gain more visibility. Sponsored businesses appear in the “Sponsored businesses” carousel on businesses Home. On “Browse businesses” and in search results, they are marked with a “Sponsored” marker. Their business Profiles also have a marker. Sponsored businesses appear in a “Sponsored” tab on businesses Home.
businesses can be made Featured only by our site administrators. There could also be certain Packages for businesses on our website, businesses of which would automatically be made Featured. You can choose such a Package for your business during business creation, or upgrade your business to such a Package. The availability of such a Package is conditional.
Featured businesses are businesses which are specially marked as “Featured”. Such businesses are more highlighted than others and thus gain more visibility. Featured businesses appear in the “Featured businesses” slideshow on businesses Home. On “Browse businesses” and in search results, they are marked with a “Featured” marker and their entries have a distinct background color. Their business Profiles also have a marker. Featured businesses appear in a “Featured” tab on businesses Home and the search form for businesses also has a quick filter for seeing Featured businesses. In all maps, markers for Featured businesses appear with jumping animation effect.
Yes, you can close your business on this website by using the “Close business” option on the business Profile or by visiting “My businesses” and using the corresponding “Close business” link for your business. Users will be able to browse your closed business. However, if you want to permanently make your business unavailable to public, you can delete your business anytime.
You can also reopen your business by using “Open business” option available on the business Profile or by visiting “My businesses”.
Yes, you can Link your business to other businesses available on this website. You can Link your business to another business using the “Link To Your business” option available on the other business Profile. Any number of businesses can be linked to a business. The other businesses linked to your business will be shown on your business Profile in a separate “Linked businesses” block. This functionality for linking businesses is very useful for connecting other businesses related to your business. An example usage of Linking businesses could be a movie theater business linking itself to the businesses of movies being played over there.
While creating your business, or editing its information, you can specify its location. You can then accurately point out the exact location of your business on map using a drag-and-drop marker from the “Location” section of your business Dashboard.
Foursquare offers free tools to help you attract new customers and to keep the existing customers engaged. With the help of “Save to foursquare” button on your business, visitors can easily get foursquare reminders from you when they are near the places that you suggest. This button is very easy to setup. When one of your business visitors clicks on the “Save to foursquare” button on your business, your business is saved on their to-do list in foursquare. Then, when they’re out and about, foursquare Radar will buzz on their phone when they’re close to it.
When you want to display admins of your business on your business Profile, then you can make some or all the admins as Featured Admins. An example usage of making Featured Admin could be highlighting the Manager of your Store on your business Profile in a block.
business Admins will have all the permissions for your business as you currently have, to manage various aspects of your business like editing it, viewing reports, editing style, adding new content, updating information, etc.
Yes, you can add other members to be admins of your business. To do so, go to the “Manage Admins” section from the business Dashboard. From here, you can add any number of Admins for your business. These admins will have all the permissions as you currently have to manage various aspects of your business. You can also choose Featured Admins for your business from the “Featured Admins” section in business Dashboard. These Featured Admins are shown on business Profile in a separate block.
You can choose to have your business colleagues, managers, etc as admins for your business, and have them assist you in keeping your business active and updated.
If you have completed configuring your business and want it to be available for public then select its status as: “Published”, otherwise, if you would like to save current configurations of your business, and continue configuring it later on, and would not like your business to be visible to public, then choose status as: “Saved As Draft”. Once you save the business as “Published”, it cannot be switched back to draft mode.
How can I create a business on this community?
Ans: To create a business, please follow the steps below:
1. Click on “businesses” from the main navigation menu bar at the top of any business on this community.
2. Go to “Create New business” section.
3. Choose a suitable “Package” for your business and click on “Create a business” button placed alongside the chosen Package.
4. Fill the basic details for your business.
5. When you are done, click on “Create” button to create your business.
6. Configure and enhance your business from its Dashboard.
7. Add content like Photos, Videos, Documents, Offers, etc to enhance your business.
Tip: Our site administrators control Packages, if you are not asked to choose a Package while creating your business, then they might have currently disabled this functionality.
A business enables you to showcase your offerings, businesses (hotels, stores, restaurants, etc), properties, organization, personalities, products, profiles, services, books, pets, etc by choosing the appropriate category. It enables you to have an effective online presence. You can interact with your fans and visitors through your business. You can also enhance your business by adding various Apps to it and get new fans virally by inviting your friends and your contacts to your business and much more!
You can create a business using your personal account on this community and can also add other people to administer your business.