It has been a long time coming, but we've finally launched our new, interactive company profiles! For examples, see our Companies Directory or our BiggerPockets Profile.

The new company profiles are far more robust than the previous ones, and have some great features to allow businesses to interact here on the site, including:

- Companies no longer require admin approval from BiggerPockets. Once you've created your company profile, it will be live on the directory.

- You will not need a user profile to create a company profile, but we certainly recommend it. Anyone can create a company account.

- Companies will be able to create a blog on the site and will also have a dashboard feed that they can post to.

- If you follow a company, you'll be kept up to speed with the latest developments at that company, but otherwise, the new companies directory should not affect your experience on the site, unless you want it to.

- Companies are NOT able to post on our forums. Only user accounts will be able to do so. We still believe that interaction between people is essential on a discussion forum, and we know that if we allow company accounts to engage on the forum, it will certainly lead to spam.

- Users are able to create more than one company. We know that many of you have multiple real estate related businesses and we felt it imperative that those all have the opportunity to be represented on our site.

- You'll be able to switch between your user and company profile(s) effortlessly via the site navigation bar. Just move your mouse over the down arrow next to your profile image and you'll be able to effortlessly switch between your various identities on our network.

- Company profiles also include a public feed so interested parties can see the kind of dashboard posts you're making to help them determine if they want to follow. These feeds can be found once you visit a company's profile.

- Once you create a company, it will show up on your user profile. If you create multiple companies, you'll be able to select a primary company, which will be the one that shows up.

- Other employees will be able to join your company, and that can all be managed once you're logged in as the company.

- You can add links to important areas of your company website and to the major social networks.

Overall, the new company profiles will allow our users to get a more exposure for their businesses.

For a Complete Tutorial, visit:
Launch of BiggerPockets Social Company Profiles: Features & Tutorial

Please let us know if you run across any bugs or if you have any questions. We've been testing this for weeks, but it won't be perfect without your help. We'll look forward to your feedback!

Joshua Dorkin

Podcast Guest on Show #100