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Brownbook Celebrates its First Birthday and a Year of Sustained Growth

john — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:16:39 +0000

Free free global business directory that anyone can edit now lists 28 million businesses worldwide

United Kingdom: Brownbook.net, the free global business directory that anyone can edit, is celebrating its first year in business; a year of sustained growth. Today, the site continues to thrive, with thousands of businesses being added, worldwide, every week. The international distribution of listed businesses can be seen here: http://www.brownbook.net/countries.

Miamism.com, USA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rFyBJT5CeM
R A Hilton, Jeweller, USA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX0SAmObg-k
Bush Marketing, Australia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBF9qDwHPRU
Carpet Doctors, UK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx2__rhjsYI
Sort Out My Visa, UK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQOARcUve0k
OM2 Marketing, UK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_GcM_LqIug
Elite Advertising Consultants, UK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jWHP6yb8qw
Pople Web Design, UK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIAotTqPvkk
French Tutoring, UK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpXlAk2W8Es

Brownbook also regularly enjoys positive reviews about the site; these left, for example, on Brownbook’s own listing page:

“Love it… Love it… Love it. This is SEO magic for the uninitiated. Simple, quick and powerful. Love it! Have recommended BrownBook to ALL my friends! Actor Expo Team, www.actorexpo.co.uk, May 25, 2009 17.23”

“I had a wonderful review of my business appear on my [Brownbook listing] a few days after signing up for your service. It was an unsolicited endorsement from a business associate. Right on! May 22, 2009 11.06”

Marc Lyne, co-founder: “We are currently listing 28 million businesses from all around the world. One of the reasons for Brownbook’s success, I would say, is that we never stop providing innovative new features to businesses, helping them to get found online. This keeps the site fresh and on its toes. Here are 2 of our latest enhancements, for example:

1. Stats counters and stat graph on every businesses page; plus a global stats league table, since May 5, 2009, here: http://www.brownbook.net/user/hof/top-viewed-profiles

2. Bidget (Business Widget) for reviews. Now anyone can add their reviews that appear on Brownbook to any other website, blog or forum. See an example here: the Brownbook page for Onedrywash: http://www.brownbook.net/business/31008544/sjk-products-ltd, and their Brownbook reviews which they have placed on their own blog: http://onedrywash.blogspot.com

Brownbook V18 live today

dave — Tue, 05 May 2009 13:13:35 +0000

Brownbook V18 went live today, with a couple of changes which I’ll outline here. Aside from a whole heap of back-end stuff, the key front-end improvements revolve around the customizable business pages.

When you add new information to your business profile page (e.g. text, images, videos, widgets, etc) you can now choose to show or hide the unit titles, show or hide the unit borders, and edit the titles on most of the units. If you already have a customized page go have a play. On the face of it that sounds kinda small, but the result is your business profile page now looks rather more ‘clean’. You can take a look at a few examples here:

Kosibah Creations Ltd – all borders showing, all titles showing

Woodland Skills – all borders showing, all titles showing

and our own Brownbook – some borders hidden, some titles hidden, some titles edited

Have fun

Dave

How to get the most out of Brownbook

Marc — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:40:52 +0000

Here are two videos from Dave that tell you how to make the most of your business listing on Brownbook – hints and tips, what to look out for and what really works:

And part 2…

An interesting listing of other web2.0 yellow pages

admin — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 04:50:47 +0000

I just had the pleasure of speaking with Yanir Allouche the owner of www.bizbee.co.uk

The site has a listing of web2.0 yellow pages services, plus a newsroom and discussion forum. Its a useful resource of information on a subject dear to our hearts.

I can’t sleep

admin — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:07:56 +0000

I can’t sleep tonight. I can’t sleep because my mind is racing concerning the impact of peer-produced projects like The Brownbook. I decided to pick a book of my bookshelf, one of those I bought recently but haven’t yet got round to reading. The book is “Small is The New Big” by Seth Godin (www.sethgodin.com). Please allow me to share this opening page with you (and I hope that Seth doesn’t mind me spreading his word to a few new eyes):

Small is the new big. Recent changes in the way that things are made and talked about mean that big is no longer an advantage. In fact, it’s the opposite. If you want to be big act small.

Consumers have more power than ever before. Treating them like they don’t matter doesn’t work.

Multiple channels of information mean that it’s almost impossible to live a lie. Authentic stories spread and last.

The ability to change fast is the single best asset in a world that’s changing fast.

Blogs matter. If you want to grow you’ll need to touch the information-hungry, idea-sharing people who read (and write) them.

There are no side effects. Just effects. Indulge short attention spans.

Do something that matters.

Ponder on that if you will. I know I’m gonna like this book.

Small is the New Big, Seth Godin