Hi, Habrozhiteli!

December 2 marks one year of the project of my friends
“100 Brands” , but since it was on Friday, and Friday is Friday, I decided to talk about it today.
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The 100 Brands project was launched on December 2, 2010 in order to assist Russian companies in promoting and developing their businesses. Any company of any industry and legal form can register on the site and start maintaining its corporate blog. All the main features of the site are provided to companies-users - for free.
A corporate blog on 100 Brands’s website and any company gives you the opportunity to declare yourself on the profile business platform, create an image and reputation for the company, find new markets and new partners, get feedback from social network users and use online services for business - all at no cost.
"Owner of information owns the world" Nathan Rothschild.In terms of conducting and developing a business, this is only one side of the coin, and the second is the correct and optimal placement of the necessary information. You need informational messages (occasions) to communicate with customers. A corporate blog is a corporate media company, and even more: a constant source of information about the company, its products and services, through which you can both broadcast and answer questions, creating feedback from customers and just readers.
Through the company's corporate blogs, on the 100 Brands website, they create an image and reputation on the Internet, which, in turn, influence the company's position in the market, and in the industry, and the number of customers. A third-party platform for a corporate blog allows you to create another source of information about the company. The company's corporate blog independently attracts attention, and turns interested people into readers, and readers into customers.
The site has more than 200 active user companies, including large steel production, food manufacturers, construction companies, shipping companies, and Nomos Bank, a commercial bank, actively maintains its corporate blog. At the moment, it can be argued that more than 30% of companies communicate with each other, reach mutually beneficial agreements.
The 100 Brands project is constantly growing, new opportunities are emerging and the functionality is expanding, constant work is being done to improve the website usability. The last “utility” that was made is industry-wide cataloging on a page with a list of companies. For this, a separate plugin was written, now companies can find partners not only in the catalog of countries and cities, but also in industries, which simplifies and speeds up work on the site.
I also could not pass by utility for users of social networks:
- Firstly, the site has the “open id” plugin installed, which allows any user of “facebook”, “vkontakte” or “twitter” to enter the site with one click.
- Secondly, for all users, a system of a single feed of comments has been created; users of different social networks can communicate with each other, comment on each other's records and share new ideas.
- Thirdly, for commenting users of social networks, a separate page was made, indicating the rating of the commentator, which is based on the voting of other users. Thus, the most active and useful commentators will be encouraged with prizes and gifts from both the 100 Brands project and the companies themselves, whom they have helped with their comments, feedback and possibly suggestions for improving those or other points in the companies' activities.
Also ongoing work is underway to attract and train representatives of companies. One of the main free features on the site is training: the site contains and constantly updates both the latest important business information and information on the optimal maintenance of a corporate blog with the highest efficiency from it.
Corporate blogs are a necessary basis for the promotion and development of business on the Internet, but the project is already beginning to integrate new online business-oriented services that will solve certain problems and problems. At the moment, several services have already been launched:
- The first is the “styling of corporate blogs”: any company that owns a website can order styling and a corporate blog will be a continuation of the company's website.
- The second service is free video conferencing for user companies; the service became possible after the start of partnerships and the integration of the MetroNet video conferencing service.
- A new online service is coming up, which will be a joint product of the 100 Brands project and the I Agree! Project.
Next year, new online services that are convenient and useful in business development will be brought to the site.
Soon the 100 Brands project will become the main assistant for small and medium-sized businesses on the Internet, with its help companies will be able to tell about themselves, find new niches, markets, partners, use the necessary online services - definitely, the project has a great future!

And once again I will give a link to the project:
http://100brendov.ru/