MerchantCircle's New Forum Moderators

As you know, we have some wonderful MerchantCircle Moderators currently perusing and helping out in the forums. What you may not know is that our moderators have also been an integral part in many of our new products, ideas, and growth in their local communities and on the web. Today, we're announcing 3 new moderators to join our original 6 - bringing the total number to 9.

Here they are!

- Janet Rothstein, Owner of Rothstein Jewelers in Beverly Hills, CA.



- Deb Robinson, Owner of The Teeny Tiny Farms in Smithfield, VA.



- Jason Stevens, Owner of Fan Man Lighting in Burnsville, MN.



Thanks a lot! We look forward to your continued contributions in making MerchantCircle the best site for local businesses and consumers on the web.

If you would like to be a forum moderator, please start contributing in our Forums and your peers will pick you out before long. You'll get a number of perks including free MerchantCircle Verified, free Local Plus, as well as links from our forum, blogs, and newsletters, amongst others.

Sincerely,
Community Relations

Introducing Your MerchantCircle Moderators!

I wanted to take a moment to introduce you to your new MerchantCircle Forum Moderators who are joining our original moderator, Lindy Asimus of Design Business Engineering. You can also find them in our January Newsletter here. They have been and will be instrumental in helping to facilitate conversations between our merchants. Thank you!


- Rick Cook of Treasure Islands of Santa Cruz in Santa Cruz, CA



- Ken Mapel of The Glass Guy in Saint Paul, MN



- Monica Ross-Williams of ServiceMaster Building Services in Canton, MI



- Kathleen of A Tile Nation in Denver, CO


Sincerely,
Community Relations

We've Gone Mad From All Our Tinkering!

We have some of the coolest features in the works set to debut this summer, which explains the lack of recent blog posts. It’s super busy and really exciting around the office. Our 3 new employees and intern are now fully in the swing of things and the team gave the okay on releasing some advance buzz on one of our newest features.

You may already know about our MerchantCircle forums, where small business owners across the country are helping each other and trading ideas, but we’re going to take it to the next level - the local local level that is, or hyper local. Now that we have merchants in almost every city in the US, we know that there’s a real need for merchant discussion within cities.

Our city pages to begin with are pretty cool, take for instance this one in Colorado Springs. You can see all of the city's coupons, blog posts, top merchants and ads, but now they'll be even more informative as community members and business owners can post anything going on in the community. Say for instance a street fair, or block party, or maybe a huge sale, you can post whatever you want. Look for this interactive community engagement to be released over the next few weeks.

Let us know what you think as we make your community the strongest it can be.

Sincerely,
Kevin
Community Relations