Upspring: new social networking site for local business promotion

[mandy]

From Mashable:

Upspring is a new network for businesses that’s aimed to help you promote your company through social networking with other businesses. The site will go live in the Bay area over the weekend.

You bring the products and upspring brings the marketing tools. It’s specifically designed for local businesses looking to leverage the Internet for attracting customers and gaining offline sales. Upspring will essentially provide a space online, within its network and marketing platform, to do just this. By marketing you across search engines, offering web surfers a certain amount of information on local businesses, and offering tools to connect them directly to the businesses, Upspring hopes to bring value to both ends–businesses and consumers...

full article: http://mashable.com/2007/10/05/upspring/

the upspring website: http://www.upspring.com/