We Made the Wall Street Journal thanks to Merchant Circle!!!

Hello Everyone,
We wanted to share with you our excitement over our recent article in the Wall Street Journal. First, the WSJ is the Prima Donna of all Business Newspapers across the nation. For our business to be mentioned in the journal was a gift that ServiceMaster Building Services will treasure forever. We hope that we can be honored to make it within the Wall Street Journal again in the future.

Second, we have to thank MerchantCircle and particularly Kevin Leu-The Director of Community Relations at MerchantCircle for suggesting to WSJ Reporter Pui-Wing Tam that we could contribute to the article on "Out of Office: Job Loss in the Age of Blogs and Twitter" published in the Tuesday, February 3, 2009, edition on page A11.

Mr. Leu recommeneded ServiceMaster Building Services owner-Monica Ross-Williams- for this article after noticing her contribution on the MerchantCircle Forums, were we are one of the five forum moderators, connecting with over 670,000 businesses across the country. Other moderators include: Lindy Amimus-Design Business Engineering (Business&Life; Coaching), Kathleen-A Tile Nation, Rick Cook-Treasure Island of Santa Cruz (Custom Ourdoor Kitchens, BBQ Islands, Fireplaces, Firepits, Firetables and Ken Mapel-The Glass Guy, MN (Glass Repair, Replace Brken Glass, Insultated Windows, Shower Enclosures).

In the article, Ms. Ross Williams commented on during this period of economic downturn, how she has turned to the internet with sites such as Merchant Circle, LinkedIn and Facebook to connection with firends and promtoe her newer business venture-ServiceMaster BuildingServices, which she started in June of 2008. By using the internet social networking sites, she has been ablve to increase the marketing efforts for her business by 70% with little overall costs to her marketing budget in general. In addition, due to her social networking and internet marketing efforts, she was recently named to be one of the fourm moderators at the Merchant Circle website-which helps small businesses create a low-cost and/or free web presence on the internet, using top-notch SEO/SEM marketing techniques.

This would not have been possible without the great people at Merchant Circle. If you have not placed your small business on the Merchant Circle Business Networking site yet, what are you waiting for? We made the Wall Street Journal for our association with this website!! As a small business owner, I know that free media is GOLDEN for any business, especially in this economy were money is tight and marketing costs have to be measured with the direct return on investment.

I personally cannot say how much joining the Power of MerchantCircle has helped out small business-ServiceMaster Building Services, since we joined in July of 2008. We were nowhere to be found in the area of the World Wide Web for our business website. In EIGHT short months, by placing efforts into blogging, connection with other small business owners writing reviews for businesses we have associated with and being active on the Merchant Circle Forum, we have be included in a article in the WSJ; something most small businesses such as ours take YEARS to do, if at all.

I highly encourage that if you have a small business that is seeking to make a presence on the Wold Wide Web, want you business included in top seach engines like Google and Yahoo, want to increase your Search Engine Marketing efforts, want to connect with other great small business owners across the United States to share ideas and finally, might want to be included in a article in the Wall Street Journal one day; connection with the Power of Merchant Circle, Today!!!. For a low-cost, your business can use the lastest SEO software, located on the site, to increase your web interface for a lot less than the $5000.00, $3000.00 or $1500.00 figures I have heard other businesses have paid, with less results.

If you have questions about MerchantCircle Marketing for your business, connect with me and I would be happy to discuss with you on how joining MerchantCircle will increase your business.

Thanks!!
-Monica Ross-Williams
MerchantCircle Forum Moderator
Our Company-ServiceMaster Building Services in Wayne County-
734-328-3025