With SuggestionBox.com, you can make a suggestion to any company, even if they do not yet have a SuggestionBox page. When you search for a particular company, if there are no matches, a new SuggestionBox is automatically created. If there are results, but none of them are appropriate, you can click the ‘First to Suggest!’ button and create a new one.

Simply enter in the company name, an email address (if you know it), your suggestion and click ‘Preview’. A new SuggestionBox page will be created and your suggestion will be delivered to the company.

In addition, our community of Suggesters can now edit a company’s details that appear on their SuggestionBox page (if they are unclaimed). Simply click on the ‘Edit company info’ link to update the company information. Here’s a list of the items you can update and what impact they will have:

• Website: adds a link to their website
• Contact Email List: email address that should receive any new suggestions
• Address: displays their address and automatically adds a Google Map
• Company Details: displayed on the SuggstionBox page and in search results
• Icon/Logo: displayed on the SuggestionBox page next to the company information

We review all edits to make sure there is no funny business. If you have any suggestions how we can make this process better, you know what to do.

Improvement is a continuous process. We combine your suggestions and our web analytics (Google and CrazyEgg) to understand what is working and what needs improvement. 23 design revisions and 14 copy changes later, we launched a new homepage.

Here are some of of the things we learned:

• Suggesters search before they suggest - they find the SuggestionBox page before they make their suggestions
• There needed to be a better explanation of how the suggestion process worked
• Show, don’t tell - Suggesters wanted to see the suggestions, the community and what we were up to

The goal of the new homepage is address all these things and to show you, as a Suggester, how you can use SuggstionBox.com to “Make _____ better.” You fill in that blank. It can be any company, product, service or event, whether they are in our system or not.

To get started:

1. Enter any company, product, service or event in the big text box
2. Select the suggestion box you want to submit your suggestion to
3. If there is not a suggestion box, you can create one on the fly
4. Make a suggestion
5. We deliver it on your behalf, when the company responds you will get an email

The new homepage features Suggesters from the community and the things they want to help make better. Keep an eye out, you may just see yourself!

In addition, the new homepage now displays the latest public suggestions from all SuggestionBox pages. Check out the latest suggestions, post your comments, or follow them to receive updates.

Let us know what you think. Send us your suggestions to make it even better!

We are happy to announce that we have rolled out an update to SuggestionBox.com that includes a number of interface enhancements, updates to the RSS feeds, and a new message preference center with email notifications.

Hungry? Feed on some RSS
The latest suggestions RSS feed, which displays all newest suggestions for all suggestion boxes, now includes the current status of the suggestion. This change has also been added to each suggestion boxes individual RSS feed. Add the feeds to your favorite reader or start page (I love Netvibes).

Stay informed with email preferences & notifications
Within your account there is now an ‘Email Preferences’ page under ‘My Suggestions.’ Here you can turn on and off various types of email notifications for both your suggestions and your suggestion box (if you have one). The different types of messages and their content is outlined below.

• New account activity - sends emails when there are status updates and new comments on your suggestions and suggestions you are following. In addition you will get a notice when a friend you have invited signs up.
• Private messages - sends emails when you receive a new private message in response to one of your suggestions.
• Features & events - receive our monthly newsletter (coming soon!) and other exciting news.

If your account is setup to manage one or more suggestion boxes, you will also be able to set your preferences for the following emails:

• New suggestions - sends emails when there is a new suggestion in your suggestion box.
• New comments - sends emails when there is a new comment posted on one of the suggestions in your suggestion box.

Thanks for all your great ideas, keep the suggestions coming! As always, if you have a suggestion for us, submit it here.

We are happy to announce that we have rolled out an update to SuggestionBox.com that includes easier ways to make suggestions, keep track of your stats and get credit for inviting your friends & family.

Make A Suggestion On The Fly!
You can now submit a suggestion without creating an account. If you provide your email address, we will notify you when the company responds to your suggestion. Any suggestions you make with your email address can later be claimed when you create an account using that same email, and all of your suggestions will then be accessible via your Suggestions Dashboard.

Creating an account allows you to vote, follow your favorite suggestions, comment, and read private messages. In addition, all your suggestions are centrally located and searchable in your Suggestions dashboard. Think of it as your Suggestion Headquarters.

Suggestions Dashboard Improvements

On your Suggestions dashboard, you will now find the total number of friends who you have invited and signed up. In addition, we have fixed a small issue with the suggestion counts that are displayed on your dashboard and throughout the site. The total number of suggestions in each category are now consistent and accurate.

Stay tuned as we continue to roll out new features. Let us know what you want the most by submitting your ideas.