Upspring For Promoting Your Company

What Company says:
Upspring is a new network for businesses that’s aimed to help you promote your company through social networking with other businesses.
How It Works:
You bring the products and upspring brings the marketing tools. It’s specifically designed for local businesses looking to leverage the Internet for attracting customers and gaining offline sales. Upspring will essentially provide a space online, within its network and marketing platform, to do just this. By marketing you across search engines, offering web surfers a certain amount of information on local businesses, and offering tools to connect them directly to the businesses, Upspring hopes to bring value to both ends–businesses and consumers.

As a business, you’ll need to first complete the Essential Business Profile and Professional Profile, where you give upspring a plethora of information about what you do and who you are. This information is used to help you promote your products and also build your online network. Now you can chat with other local business owners, see what’s going on at the business chamber, and exchange ideas with others in your industry. Upspring will also offer a space for retailers to promote their products, though there doesn’t seem to be a way to purchase items online. This isn’t surprising, as upspring has determined to help local businesses get offline connections with consumers.

Upspring has a free plan which offers limited features that you can take advantage of for the business you’re promoting. For about $20 per month you can get a premium plan, which lets you do things like offer coupons, embed videos, and send and receive private messages. The Storefront plan for $50 per month lets you display products and offer real time inventory updates for site visitors.

More at:http://www.upspring.com/