February 25, 2005

People Search - A Guilty Pleasure?

Have you recently searched for someone on the Web prior to meeting with them or speaking with them by phone? Have you recently "googled" your X's on the Web? More and more people are exhibiting this somewhat "guilty pleasure" by searching to learn more about someone they're about to meet, or searching to find information on someone they once knew. It somehow seems like a guilty pleasure, because we know we may find information on someone - without them knowing we've found it.

Even if you've never searched on a name before, many of your fellow Americans have. According to Knight Ridder, one in three Americans online say they have plugged in the name of someone they know in a search engine. Wordtraker Report indicates that the search term "people search" ranks within the top 100 - 200 search terms across the Web each day. So someone may be searching online for you.

If that sounds unsettling, there is one solution that can give you a bit of control over the results that people find online about you. Try building an online profile. It's easy and it's free at Ziggs. Ziggs offers an easy-to-use profile creation template that lets you answer a few questions to build a professional profile. When you're done, it's hosted for free at Ziggs and searchable by your name or keyword. And if you'd like to see your name at or near the top of every search engine, Ziggs can make that happen for you as well for no more than $4/month. Learn more at Ziggs.

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February 07, 2005

Welcome to the Ziggs Blog

The purpose of this blog is to provide helpful tips and techniques for professionals to enable them to better find and connect with one another through the Internet.

Understanding that people do business with people, Ziggs mission is to assist professionals in meeting their business objectives by optimizing the experience of presenting to and connecting with professionals online. Ziggs' purpose is to help make doing business more personal by enabling integrity, quality and trust in the initiation phase of business relationships. To leare more about how we offer aid in this effort, visit us at Ziggs!.

We open this forum to professionals to review, add to and hopefully profit from. Our first value-add post will be coming shortly. We look forward to your participation.

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