Peopletoucher.com News and Updates

As LinkedIn grows upwards of 40M+ users, spanning 150+ industries and representing every country in the world, recruiting and sales professionals outside of the US continue to find value in searching for business contact names.

Considering all of the Search enhancements LinkedIn has released over the past few quarters, it's a surprise to see how hokey the Advanced People Search is when trying to search for contacts based in or near any non-US cities.

For the US-based recruiter who needs to place the occasional candidate based outside the US, it isn't terribly difficult to memorize a token postal code to put into the Postal Code field.

However, this process can get old rather quickly if you are not based in the US, and require city/regional focus to source contact names.

Soon after LinkedIn launched in May of 2003, it became apparent the professional networking site would turn into a great resource for B2B salespeople and recruiters.

In 2008, the site launched LinkedIn Recruiter for large enterprises and recruiting firms, yet the advanced search function (the free search tool available to everyone else) has always been watered down in order to appeal to a variety of backgrounds outside of business development and recruiting.

While creating the Peopletoucher Search Engine we took apart the features of LinkedIn's Advanced Search and put them back together piece-by-piece with our audience in mind. Here's what we found:

Now that Peopletoucher.com has been up for a few months and pre-season is over, it's time to get down to business. Let us know what to work on and please leave additional thoughts in the comments!

Peopletoucher was featured last week on Cheezhead.com, a popular blog on emerging recruitment issues.

What is especially satisfying is the fact we did not have to take the drastic measures we had been planning in order to get bloggers to write about us.

Maybe "press coverage" isn't the best way of putting it, considering we paid to have a press release issued via PR Web, but it still sounds like a great way to kick off the release of the new version of the Peopletoucher Search Engine.

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Here's the full press release.

Peopletoucher launches in September of 2008 amidst fanfare, public parades, generating massive media attention from international news outlets.

OK. Maybe there were no parades, media recognition or any type of celebrations but our friends and colleagues certainly think this site is cool.

We received a few emails from friends and people involved in business development. Here's a sample:

"Great site but the name freaks people out." -Keith
"That is the creepiest website name I have ever heard." -Pat
"Did you buy the domain from the Catholic church?" -Ethan