Central.ly is a service which helps to “make your business a big splash on the web.” Currently in private alpha, the service makes it easy to create a beautiful and personalized page for your business that will attract customers. These pages cut out the clutter and focus on eye-catching images and your social media accounts.
Brain child of Chris Bennett, Arrel Gray and Edward Robertshaw, they claim that Central.ly can build a new web page in five minutes. Not surprising given the simplicity of the designs, but this very simplicity may be the secret to success. The pages focus on large images with very little content. The focus is in prominently featuring links and content from social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Yelp, Linkedin, and Foursquare.
Central.ly claims to provide the best hosting tools for reasonable prices. They also provide access to analytics tools so that you can track your page’s performance and figure out where visitors are coming from as well as where they end up going. These dedicated pages make locating your business on the web easy and integration with your social media accounts may help to keep your site up-to-date with minimum work.
There are others in the game of creating simple and beautiful landing pages with social media integration, but Central.ly seems laser-focused on the business niche. It would be a great service for businesses and brands who need a basic home on the web, but primarily engage potential customers through social media. Besides analytics, Fudzology is also working on SEO, new media tools, and SEM to improve your pages.
While the service is in private alpha, you can still sign up to reserve your brand or company URL and receive a notification when your site is ready to be set up. As is the trend these days, inviting some of your friends to also sign up for the private testing period will get your access sooner.
via Springwise