CloudProfile - Small Business Marketing

CloudProfile Helps "Joe" the Small Business Owner Attract More Customers
Tue Sep 15, 2009 8:00am EDT

Simple to Use Online Marketing Service is Cost Effective Replacement for Yellow
Pages
SAN FRANCISCO--(Business Wire)--
At the Techcrunch50 Demopit in San Francisco, California, CloudProfile today
announced the addition of new tools that help small business owners attract more
customers. Built on the existing power of CloudProfile
(http://www.cloudprofile.com), the new tools include:

* 2-way Facebook engagement that lets a business publish updates to one or many
Facebook profiles or pages and search Facebook based on keywords and
geo-locations for `real-time` conversations that they should join
* An open API for third party developers to extend the power of the CloudProfile
publishing, customer engagement stream and communications tools
* Mobile application support for iPhone with Android and Blackberry coming soon

"Consumers don`t look in phone books anymore -- instead they spend time
searching the web, socializing with friends, reading reviews, and seeing what
others have to say about businesses in their local area" said Alex Hawkinson,
CEO of SMBLive. "Small business owners need a simple way to amplify their online
marketing voice to connect with modern customers - and that`s exactly what we`ve
delivered with CloudProfile".

"I`ve been in business for 21 years and I`ve always had a yellow pages ad and a
web site - but the truth is that I get most of my new customers through good old
fashion word-of-mouth referrals" said Mike Carroll owner of Leesburg Vintner a
wine and cheese retailer in Leesburg, VA. "I don`t understand all the technical
details - but I do know that people are talking with each other online and
CloudProfile is a simple way for me to be part of the conversation."

Small business owners can try CloudProfile completely free for 30 days. After
that, the service is just $49.95 per month. Interested SMBs can sign-up in
minutes at www.cloudprofile.com.

About SMBLive

CloudProfile from SMBLive is the world`s first online marketing platform
designed specifically for SMBs that embraces the social and conversational web.
CloudProfile enables SMBs to transition well honed word-of-mouth marketing
skills from offline to online.

The company offers CloudProfile services direct to SMBs at www.cloudprofile.com
and also distributes the platform via affiliate and reseller channels including
British Telecom and Telmex.

For more information, please visit www.smblive.com or www.broadbandevolved.com.

About TechCrunch50

Founded in 2007 TechCrunch50 conference provides a platform for early-stage, and
frequently unfunded, companies to launch for the first time to the technology
industry`s most influential venture capitalists, corporations, angel investors,
fellow entrepreneurs and the international media. Companies are selected to
participate exclusively on merit. TechCrunch50 is supported by corporate
sponsors Google, Microsoft, Bing, MySpace and Facebook, as well as venture
capital and legal-advisory firms including Sequoia Capital, Charles River
Ventures, Founders Fund, Redpoint Ventures and Perkins Coie.



SMBLive
Andrew Brooks, 480-235-7195
andrew.brooks@smblive.com