Data Evolution, Entity Search, Smartphones Explode, and more - NewsClicks Q4 2013 Edition

CrucialClicks.com Data Evolution

The CrucialClicks.com Team has been hard at work over the last year working on major changes to the CrucialClicks.com Client Center. For those who don't know, the CrucialClicks.com Client Center is our secure and easy to navigate dashboard that is full of useful tools and information to provide you a hands on way to access information from the CrucialClicks.com Platform. Previously, this dashboard was referred to as the StorageClicks.com Client Center as it was focused on our Self Storage customers. Since 2013, we have become involved with more diverse industries including Apartment Rentals, Dental Offices, Daycare, and Reputation Management. Our Client Center needed to be updated to accommodate our growth.

The road to the new CrucialClicks.com Client Center doesn't actually start with the Client Center itself. It actually starts with a complex and powerful layer of code and data which often goes unseen. As part of our goal to enhance the CrucialClicks.com Client Center, we also made a conscious decision to enhance our underlying data systems in a way that allows them to be easier to maintain and upgrade. What this means for CrucialClicks.com customers is an opportunity for faster bug fixes, quicker rollout of new features, and better optimization of our existing data to improve data retrevial performance.

Thanks to the data performance enhancements, the CrucialClicks.com Client Center will be able to provide faster access to call data and all other reports. Pulling up User Accounts and Location information will be extremely fast and easy with our powerful searching capabilities. In addition to that, call reports and logs will load surprisingly fast.

Not all of the changes are behind the scenes. We have made plenty of enhancements that can easily be seen. One of the major changes we have made is the entire CrucialClicks.com Client Center will have a Responsive Design that will make it usable on devices as large a Smart TV and as small as a Smartphone. Also, we have unified all charts and graphs to utilize an interactive graphing system. Aside from all charts having a similar look and feel, they will remind you that looking at data can be fun and interactive. We also have made a whole bunch of smaller improvements that can found while you explore.

Interested in getting a guided tour of the new CrucialClicks.com Client Center? We will be hosting webinars starting in February to provide guided tours of the features, changes, and improvements. Keep your eyes open for exact dates as we get closer to February. Thank you all for your continued support and if you haven’t experienced the Power of the Click, it may be just the New Years Resolution you need!

Sincerely,
Michael Schulman
Chief Technology Officer
CrucialClicks.com

Future SEO: Understanding Entity Search

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"Entities are people, places or things. One way of introducing entities is to recognize that Google's Knowledge Graph is an entity graph and represents Google's first step toward utilizing semantic search (or entity search).

What is "entity search"? Let's keep it simple - it's basically a more accurate method for bots to understand user intent while mapping additional verified sources to answer a search query." Learn more about it now.

Top 20 Local Search Ranking Factors: An Illustrated Guide

By reading this guide, you will understand both the lingo and the concept of each local search ranking factor. Use this information and you will be on the road to promoting local businesses on the web from a firm and educated foundation. Sound good? Start reading!

ReputationRepo™ will put you in control of your online presence that tracks visibility scores, online reviews, unstructured mentions, competition, and more

As a business owner, you want your business information on the internet to be accurate. Sometimes you have full control over that information (such as your company website), but sometimes you don't.

Many public business listing services find your business information from different sources, which are sometimes inaccurate. Getting these listings corrected can be a major headache since there are many different services and each service has their own methods of updating the information. Our visibility management system searches the most well known listing services that are relevant for your type of business and centralizes that information on the ReputationRepo™ dashboard. This makes it incredibly easy to see what information is listed for your business on a dozen sources by visiting just one website!

Empower your businesses to certify, enhance and actively manage your anchor local business listings providing you a single source for creating a consistent identity for direct, authorized distribution to the largest local search platform networking in the industry. SMBs (Small to Medium-sized Business) demand cost-effective tools that can monitor reviews, improve their online visibility, and increase their social audience in order to attract customers and build brand loyalty. ReputationRepo™ gathers all the data you need to get a complete picture of your online reputation. And it's all done automatically so you don't need to learn a bunch of complicated software.

With 85% of consumers having searched for a business online at least once in the past year^[1], it's clear that SMBs need to be listed correctly and consistently online.

With ReputationRepo™ Management Toolkit, businesses can easily:

• Check listings across the web and correct for inconsistencies
• Ensure that a business is listed on the places where their customers are looking
• Receive alerts and reminders to deal with missing and incorrect listings
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The Smartphone Grows Up

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"Who buys via smartphone?

If you imagine that the customers shopping from this small screen are mostly youngsters, you are missing the emerging trend in the e-commerce market. Smart phones are quickly becoming the focal point of the online shopping experience."

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Social Media Facts & Stats

Here are some interesting facts and stats on the latest in the Social Media trends. These numbers highlight and stress the fact that your business needs to get more involved with Social Media. If you haven't done this, or have and want your website to link to your presences, let us know and we'll be happy to help get you going.

LinkedIn:

• 60% of LinkedIn users have clicked on an ad on the site (Lab42)
• 43% of US marketers have found a customer through LinkedIn (A Sales Guy Consulting)
• 60% of LinkedIn users have clicked on an ad on the site (Lab42)
• 51% of online business-to-consumer marketers use LinkedIn, compared to 83% for business-to-business (Brafton)

Twitter:

• 69% of online business-to-consumer marketers use Twitter, compared to 80% for business-to-business (Brafton)
• 50% of technology companies have acquired a customer through Twitter (Hubspot)
• 25% of consumers who complain about products on Facebook or Twitter expect a response withing 1 hour (American Express OPEN Forum)
• Twitter users send 400M tweets each day (Nielsen)

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Our Customers Continue to Grow and Prosper

These customers have continued to grow and prosper by acquiring and adding new properties to their portfolios:

Devon Self Storage - 33 Properties

• 9 in Memphis, TN
• 2 in Apple Valley, CA
• 2 in Cordova, TN
• 2 in Fayetteville, GA
• 2 in Greenville, TX
• 2 in McDonough, GA
• 2 in Sherman, TX
• Atlanta, GA
• Cathedral City, CA
• Grantville, GA
• Lanett, AL
• Marblehead, OH
• Milwaukee, WI
• Palm Springs, CA
• Rialto, CA
• Sharpsburg, GA
• Stockbridge, GA
• Thousand Palms, CA
• Waterbury, CT

Sentry Self Storage Management - 2 Properties

• Lake Worth, FL
• Winter Garden, FL

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The Inbox is a Battlefield [Infographic]

"Marketers are struggling with a problem that consumers know all too well: The inbox is a battlefield. And each consumer decides the winners every time they choose what to read. Or delete..." Read the infographic to learn more.

Should Your Company Be on Google+?

"For the last few years, social media experts have heavily debated Google+ and its role among the big social media platforms. While many claim that it's a successful, growing platform, others argue that it hasn't taken off in the way that other well-known sites like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Pinterest have." Read more on why you might want to get on Google+.

The Latest Search Engine Statistics

"Google Sites led the U.S. explicit core search market in November with 66.7 percent market share, followed by Microsoft Sites with 18.1 percent and Yahoo Sites with 11.2 percent (up 0.1 percentage points). Ask Network accounted for 2.6 percent of explicit core searches, followed by AOL, Inc. with 1.4 percent (up 0.1 percentage points)." Click here to see the rest of the data.

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