Online coupons launched

We recently launched the online coupons section and have gotten really good feedback. We're very hopeful that more local businesses and restaurants will start putting up their coupons online. The interface is very easy to use. In fact, anyone can use it, and since we're charging on a pay-per-print model, everyone can afford it. This is much cheaper than paying to distribute your coupons through print outlets that charge you based on printed circulation.

See a demo of the ezColumbia coupons system (you can literally create a coupon in less than a minute).

Healthcare, Automobile Services and other upcoming updates

We recently got requests for a category for Acupuncture and Auto Detailing, so we put up 2 new Local Services groups this week --- Healthcare and Automobile Services. We're thinking of putting up an *other* category in each group so that businesses that don't fit in an existing category can still submit their listing.

As the number of groups and categories grow, we will be redesigning the Local Services page to make it less cluttered. We have a few ideas and we'll be building some prototypes in the next few weeks to see which one would work best. We do have a search engine in place but we're still fine tuning the interface. That should be accessible soon.