DistributorCentral Updates and Tips

The rapidly growing use of community and social marketing sites has led to numerous requests for additional functionality within DistributorCentral to help our users more easily interact with these types of services. One of these requests has been addressed with a new feature that allows you to instantly “share” a product or website content with friends or their favorite social websites such as Facebook, Twitter, their blog, and more. A new website preference allows you to display a “SHARE” button on the catalog page that enables you, or your customers, to quickly share information with a wide range of 3^rd party tools. By default this button will appear on your websites; if you wish to turn it off it is located under the “General” section when editing your website preferences.

The default tool is a product from AddThis.com which enables compatible sharing with AIM, Amazon Wishlist, Ask, Backflip, BallHype, Bebo, Blogger, Blogmarks, Buzz, Delicious, Digg, Diigo, Email, Facebook, Fark, Faves, Favorites, FriendFeed, Google, Hatena, Kaboodle, kIRTSY, Link-a-Gogo, LinkedIn, Live, Menéame, Mister Wong, Mixx, Multiply, myAOL, MySpace, Netvibes, Netvouz, Newsvine, Nujij, Plaxo, Print, Propeller, Reddit, Segnalo, Simpy, Slashdot, StumbleUpon, Stylehive, Technorati, ThisNext, Tip’d, Tumblr, Twitter, TypePad, WordPress, Y! Bookmarks, and Yardbarker. New sharing sites are routinely being added.

If you have an account with AddThis.com, ShareThis.com, or other 3^rd party tools you can also use a second new preference (“Custom Share Button”) which allows you to insert your own HTML/JavaScript code in lieu of the default button. By registering for an account with these services you can track the use of the SHARE button on your site as part of your ongoing marketing and traffic research efforts. In general you would not use both of these preferences at the same time, but rather use either the stock SHARE button or custom code that you obtain from one of the share button providers.

To access these website preferences:
- Go to the Website Sites meneu and select Add/Edit Websites
- Click on the the Preferences link for your website
- Click on the Catalog tab
- Scroll down to the bottom of the page (see image below) 

This entry was posted on Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 at 3:27 pm and is filed under New Features, Websites - General. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.