GoldenListing gives you presence management and social media monitoring for local businesses in Europe. It’s taken a while, but we are finally live with our beta in the Netherlands (if you’re reading this and you’d like a login, type your email into the home page, and we’ll set you up). A lot of our beta users are not actually Dutch, so I (Robin here) thought it might be useful to take you through how the site works and what we’re trying to do. Tim’s already done this in Dutch and this post is a quick recap of that — but in English.

Presence management or presence monitoring lets a small-to-medium business monitor its online presence easily. On Golden Listing you can see an overview of the a company on a variety of different directories and verticals. We’re adding to these each week. Zoekned and Bedrijventoets went live last week, and  de Telefoongids, Qype, AlleBedrijvenIn, Brownbook, YelloYello and Youropi were already there. (Update: we now have over 30 directories and vertical live in the Netherlands).

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