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Launching a new business is never easy, "With a startup, you're eager to bring your product to the attention of potential buyers, but the way you do that is critical," said Arefin, the Founder & CEO of LocalBlox. Here is the list of top five startup mistakes and how to avoid them.

Confusing customers - Too much information is not always desirable, but startup founders often attempt to list every detail of their product. Instead of convincing the customer to make a purchase, all that information only serves to confuse them. Just as too many cooks spoil the soup, extensive verbiage fails to make the intended impact and can have the reverse effect.

Beat the buzzwords - It's a common practice among marketing firms to create buzzwords and specialized jargon to promote everything from mobile apps to pizza. Those artificial words may look good on paper, but they mean little to the average consumer. Clarity is a virtue. If it's necessary to explain what those buzzwords mean, it's

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LocalBlox founder and CEO, Sabira Arefin, has announced the launch of the firm's latest innovation, the LoveScore™ for 23 million businesses across the U.S. The LoveScore™ has been calculated through real time aggregation, updates and proprietary scoring based on user reviews and activities on the LocalBlox platform, along with a variety of sources such as social media activities, reviews and ratings from online directories and review sites, loyalty points, checkins and profile features. An array of social media sites are utilized including Facebook,Twitter, Pinterest likes and tweets, dimension of profile features, photos available on Patch, Manta, Foursquare Checkins, Yelp ratings along with reviews on CitySearch and disparate sources that are rendered into a single weighted score. The feature offers users a quick and convenient way to find all about a local businesses without going to multiple sites and find the best and most trusted local business.

"LocalBlox is a "Kayak"

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Sabira Arefin, founder and CEO of LocalBlox, announced that the firm is offering a variety of mobile and social media tools to help keep neighborhoods safe. "LocalBlox is dedicated to building safe neighborhoods nationwide," said Arefin. "We have numerous online social media and mobile tools that provide information to help keep neighbors safe and warn them of impending danger."

One of the primary tools in the firm's efforts to build safe neighborhoods is Blockwatch, that provides safety scores on a myriad of areas throughout the nation. Scores are awarded based on user reviews of those actually living in a given area. LocalBlox utilizes GPS technology and functions much like an online Neighborhood Watch program. Neighborhood Score/BlockWatch information can be accessed immediately in real time, allowing users to take appropriate precautions or avoid an area completely.

Mobile and social media integration is included, providing multiple ways for the app's users to stay

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Seattle, WA - Aug. 28, 2012 - Labor Day is a time to pause, reflect and honor the contributions and achievements of the American workers. LocalBlox is dedicated to assisting its users build strong neighborhoods, and the firm's founder, Sabira Arefin, has reaffirmed her company's commitment to its thousands of neighborhoods throughout the U.S.

"Labor Day is especially meaningful this year, with so many people out of work," said Arefin. "We at LocalBlox salute American workers and their many contributions to our way of life."

Since its inception as a national holiday in 1894, celebrations, parades and special events have paid homage to the work ethic and sacrifices of American workers. LocalBlox is assisting neighborhoods across the nation plan community events for Labor Day, maintain the safety of its members and working to provide high-tech business tools for entrepreneurs.

LocalBlox encompasses two different and distinct aspects. The firm provides a

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LocalBlox founder and CEO, Sabira Arefin, announced that the firm has added coverage to 17,000 new neighborhoods in major cities across the U.S. LocalBlox now serves in more than 77,000 neighborhood communities, offering a of high-tech social media & mobile tools for small businesses and an extensive array of services.

The firm is a founder-run startup and Arefin is cognizant of the challenges small businesses encounter. She understands the need to make every dollar count and offers numerous free services to assist individuals in building their own businesses.

"Neighbors don't need to go to five different pages like Yelp, Citysearch, Superpages, White Pages and Yellow Pages," said Arefin. They can see what's in the universe for that business, and reviews from their local neighbors - reviews from people in their community they can trust. The pages function much like "Kayak" for small neighborhood businesses."

LocalBlox provides its 23M small businesses with a state-of-art

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Communities throughout the U.S. are struggling to maintain their identity and viability. LocalBlox CEO and founder, Sabira Arefin, announced that the firm has released new social media & mobile tools to help local neighborhoods build strong communities online and offline.

"Strong neighborhoods are essential, especially is smaller communities," Arefin. "LocalBlox offers a variety of social media & mobile tools to help neighbors connect with one another communicate and advocate for their communities. LocalBlox ambassadors work tirelessly to make their neighborhoods better places to live."

LocalBlox utilizes social media and local neighborhood community pages to aid members in keeping informed of issues and concerns that directly affect area residents. To help neighbors stay safe in a world that's becoming increasingly dangerous, LocalBlox launched the Neighborhood app for the iPhone that identifies unsafe areas for users.

Neighborhood wall and community bulletins are

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Far too often, businesses hire expensive marketing firms to increase visibility and traffic, but their efforts fall far short of their claims. LocalBlox is dedicated to helping small local businesses succeed and the firm's founder, Sabira Arefin, announced that the site now encompasses a comprehensive suite of tools to feature member businesses.

"We offer high-tech tools and free local business listing to help businesses reach local customers," said Arefin. "SoLoMo for SmallBiz is one of most recent offerings. It allows businesses to reach local customers and take advantage of opportunities presented by mobile consumers with geo-targeting technology."

LocalBlox is the first company of its kind to gather disparate individuals from their own local communities to work as ambassadors toward creating online neighborhoods that are a reflection of the physical communities. The business portion of the site utilizes the efforts of ambassadors who work to promote local businesses

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Sabira Arefin, founder and CEO of LocalBlox, has announced that Dane Madsen has joined the firm as an advisor. The visionary founder of YellowPages.com brings a wealth of experience with start-ups and small business marketing, an arena in which LocalBlox excels.

"I am truly honored and delighted to welcome Dane Madsen as our advisor to LocalBlox," said Arefin. "As an Internet pioneer, he is truly passionate about helping local businesses online."

A well-known and respected stockbroker, Madsen's parents owned a small business and he managed a family-owned small business in his early life. Those experiences built a foundation of knowledge upon which he drew when he launched YellowPages.com. A self-made business icon, Madsen is cognizant of the challenges faced by small business owners and entrepreneurs.

Madsen and two partners purchased the YellowPages.com domain in 1996 and began with a small hosting package. Those humble beginnings fostered the growth of YellowPages.com

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