Product News
As an effervescent Start-Up, growth and development is occurring everyday whether it is visible or not. Curious? Here is a list of key features and updates recently added to Eloquens.com.
December 2022
New feature: Seamless Downloads
This new feature allows users to download Best Practices without having to go through a sign-up wall.
May 2022
High Security Update
We’ve just released a high-security version of Eloquens.com, protecting your published Best Practices on our servers and strengthening our infrastructure against cyberattacks.
October 2021
New Mobile Version
We launched a new mobile version of Eloquens to improve the ease of use.
February 2021
Smart Notifications Feature
A feature enabling authors to better connect with their users is launched with the objective to create greater value from the transaction on the marketplace.
October 2020
New Publication Format: Podcasts
Introduction of a new publication format available for Authors to increase the reach of their Best Practices and to respond to the increasing demand for Podcasts in the Business World.
April 2020
Eloquens Affiliate Program Launch
Launch of the Affiliate Program enabling our Partners to establish an additional passive revenue stream (thanks to a 20% commission) and to further contribute to our know-how sharing mission.
January 2020
Co-Authoring Feature
This new feature enabled authors to start publishing together + credit other contributors, and organizations they work for (Companies, Universities or Non-For Profit).
November 19th, 2019
100,000 Users Reached
A 10-Fold increase in Eloquens’ Community of Professionals since January 2018!
September 20th, 2019
Farewell to “Tools” and Hello to “Best Practices”
A Best Practice is defined as a commercial or professional procedure that is accepted or prescribed as being correct or most effective. Consequently, whilst a tool facilitates a means to complete a certain function it is clear that Best Practices are exemplary and of a higher quality, allowing us to complete a certain function, but also to do so in the most successful and efficient approach.
September 9th, 2019
Launch of “Hire Me!” Feature
The “HIRE ME” feature is aimed to allow our users to directly access a secure and trusted Freelance channel in search of more specialised work, making the exchange of Know-How even more accessible.
August 20th, 2019
Launch of Eloquens Online Video Course
The launch of our 5th Best Practice Format enabling our authors to have a full expert publishing strategy from free Downloadable How-To Tools all the way to Premium Priced Video Courses.
April 4th, 2019
Release of Eloquens Followers
This is a feature that allows users to find and follow specific authors and receive email notifications on their new Best Practices publications and updates.
March 3rd, 2019
Release of the Interactive Dashboard for Authors
Launch of an interactive dashboard for authors to monitor their performance live on the site.
January 31st, 2019
Release of Eloquens Author Channel V2
- New Author Channel Cover Photos: This feature enables authors to personalise their channels, increasing the visual aesthetic for users. Whether you want to add your business logo, your favourite landscape, or a simple pattern – you are now able to customise your author page to enhance your brand’s image.
- The Floating Menu Statistics: As you scroll through the author channel page, a bar will remain at the top allowing users to see your key stats, such as views, users, reviews, and Best Practices.
- Filtering Options: Define whether the user is looking for Downloadable Tools, Step-by-step Methods, PDF guides, E-books or Videos
December 6th, 2018
200 Published Authors Reached!
Eloquens.com hosts a fast growing community of over 200 published authors. 47% of our author base primarily derive from the United States, whilst the majority hold a Master of Business Administration (MBA), or equivalent, and specialize in financial Best Practices.
November 23rd, 2018
Release of Discount Coupons
This feature enables authors to create and implement coupons for their Best Practices. This allows our authors to address different types of audiences those of which whom have a different price sensitivity and offers them to launch discounts on a specific time frame to boost their sales.
March 8th, 2018
Release of Bookmark feature
This feature enables users to save all the Best Practices that they would like to explore later in a dedicated tab. From their “bookmarks” tab, users can then decide to add specific Best Practices to their library for immediate usage, enhancing our user experience.
January 28th, 2018
Reached 10,000 users
A 10 fold increase in Eloquens’ Community of Professionals since April 2017!
December 11th, 2017
Release of Embedded Iframes
This feature enables authors to embed their Best Practices that have been published on Eloquens, on their own websites to channel their website visitors towards their ready-to-use Best Practices and methods.
November 21st, 2017
Release of Author Rankings
This feature was developed to democratically to give extra visibility to our high performing authors in specific categories, and to reward those who build value by regularly sharing and contributing on the site.
The algorithm used is made of: a maximum of 1/3 of historic performance + 2/3 of performance over the last 30 days.
The Algorithm is a combination of the following elements:
- Downloads
- Sales
- Strength of Reviews & Ratings
- Number of Publications
- Participation in discussion feeds
The algorithm is refreshed every 10 minutes.
August 11th, 2017
Launch of Eloquens Mascot
Eloquens team wanted to create a mascot that represents Eloquens to complete our visual identity with a friendly face!
August 9th, 2017
Release of Private Messaging
Now authors can contact their users to privately discuss with them on their Best Practices, activity and answer eventual questions.
Users can also directly send private messages to authors to ask questions privately and/or give their qualitative feed back on the Best Practices that they have downloaded.
May 3rd, 2017
Release of the Staged Upload Process
This feature enables authors to have a more smooth and progressive experience when uploading the Best Practices that they would like to share.
For each type of Best Practices format (downloadable tool, how-to methodology, PDF File), the author can now work on each section, one step at a time (upload of document, title, description, methodology, pricing, confirm).
Additionally, a new section called “confirm” automatically analyses and checks your Best Practices before sending it over to the Eloquens Author Team. This will help you make sure that you’ve included all that is needed for success.
April 24th, 2017
Release of “3 types of Publication Formats”
Authors can now publish three different types of Best Practices on the platform:
- Downloadable Tools (Excel Models, Powerpoint Presentations, Word Documents, Excel Add-Ins etc.)
- How-To Methodologies (Step by Step Text with Illustrations and Videos)
- PDF Readings (PDF Files)
March 7th, 2017
Release of “Discussion Feeds”
Users can now ask questions directly on each Best Practices page, category page or on the profile of a specific author. This is a great way to start conversations as a community and help each other out.
October 27th, 2016
Release of Explanatory Videos
Authors can now attach explanatory videos to their Best Practices as a whole and in each step of their methodology. Videos are accessible on the public Best Practices page and enable prospective users to get a deeper look before downloading it.
September 22nd, 2016
Release of the “Identified Users” Feature
On the “views” tab situated in your personal menu, you can now see who has viewed, downloaded and used your Best Practices. From this authors are able to connect efficiently with Eloquens Online Professional Community.
November 12th, 2015
Eloquens is officially created by start-up studio adVentures
The Eloquens Team is proud to announce the creation of the world’s first marketplace for Professional Best Practice under the Startup Studio adVentures umbrella.
