Today’s Featured Doc of the Day is from Jason Buckingham

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Thanks to all of you who stopped by the docstoc table at the Techcrunch/Popsugar event. We had fun meeting all of you and, of course, discussing documents.

The event was great and myself, Jason, Alon, and Andrew were there spreading the word about docstoc. Ilya, our other developer, couldn’t be there because he was sick but he was there in spirit. We were supposed to post the pics on Friday, but Mr. Nazar couldn’t find the cord!! But we found it, and here are the pics of all the cool people that stopped by our table.

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We’ve now added a Digg button on each document page. Now it’s a snap to submit your documents to Digg and to vote on other Docstoc docs that you like.

The benefits of submitting your own docs to Digg are two-fold. First, your content will be viewed and voted on by the savvy Digg community. Should your doc get enough votes to reach the front page of Digg, you can expect anywhere between 10,000 to 100,000 views of your content! Second, any doc you submit to Digg is indexed by Google and will raise your search engine rankings for keywords relevant to your document. Simply submit your docs to Digg (make sure they are correctly titled and tagged) and let Google do the rest.

Now it’s easy to make it a habit to Digg your content and vote up any other docs on the site that catch your attention! Try it.

We’re happy to announce we’ve added two new features to Docstoc that make it even easier for you to store and showcase your content.

If you have an existing document uploaded to Docstoc and have since made changes or revisions to that document, now you can update the doc on our site with one click. Simply hit the “Upload new version” button and point to the updated document on your hard drive, and the new version will replace the old one instantly.

Our second new feature allows you to more fully take advantage of our “private” doc tools. Any time you upload a document, you can check the Private box and it will not be visible on your profile or included in any search results on Docstoc. Today, we’ve added a button that lets you generate a secret URL for your private docs that you can give to anyone you want to allow see the content. This link is completely hidden to the public. If you have a large doc or presentation you need to distribute to certain individuals, instead of emailing them a big file you can simply link them to your doc’s private URL and they can instantly view the doc’s contents and/or download it themselves. You can upload any file (pdf, Excel, Word, Powerpoint) up to 10mb.

This feature is great for private financial data, inter-company reports, business plan presentations, etc. Try it!

Digg recently released a new set of very cool tools to integrate digg into your own site. Here is an example of some of the recent submissions to digg from docstoc.

Spending all the time putting blood, sweat and tears into producing valuable content, and then giving it away for free. Seems counter-intuitive, right?

Well, people across multiple industries have discovered positive results doing just that. In fact, giving away content for free can actually boost sales.

At the Digital, Life, Design conference which took place in Munich earlier this year, world-famous author Paul Coelho (of The Alchemist fame) spoke about the power of giving away content. In his case, this meant uploading translations of his books for free distrubution on the internet, resulting in wild success: after putting up the Russian translation of The Alchemist as a free download, he saw yearly sales of the book in Russia go from about 1,000 to 1 million. Paul was so happy with the results that he has since created his own site dedicated to free translated versions of his books.

At Docstoc, we offer an easy and effective way to upload your content and distribute it amongst the world, creating raised visibility for your professional portfolio or business. Harness the power that Coelho has discovered.

To watch Paulo Coelho’s full keynote speech (it’s great!), click here.

One of the added benefits of docstoc, is that users can store all their documents privately online for free. Upload your word, excel, powerpoint, and pdf files to docstoc, mark the documents private, and easily access your important documents anytime, anywhere.

There are two ways to make documents private on docstoc.

1.) After upload go to your profile and check the box to mark a document private.
2.) At the time of upload, select the private drop down box for those documents you want stored privately

Documents that are stored privately, can not be accessed through the keyword search or categories on docstoc. Those documents will remain hidden from the rest of the community. However you can still access those documents from your profile, and share the link to the document with people you want to provide access.

Private storage on docstoc is great for:
1.) Having easy access to important files, you can preview or download, anywhere you have internet acess
2.) Sharing large files such as a presentations or business plans. Instead of trying to email a 10 MGB file, upload the doc to docstoc and simply email url of the document.
3.) Keeping backup copies of your files online in case of emergency. Also try creating your own directory of folders from your “my documents” on docstoc, and drag and drop your private files into your own customized directory of online folders.

And stay tuned for our new and improved “My Documents” on docstoc, more to come….

Documents that you upload and share on docstoc, quickly get indexed at the top of search engines. Take a look at some the sample keyword searches for documents on docstoc and how they place on Google.

Executive Summary Template – Page 1 Google
LLC Company Agreement – Page 1 Google
Star Trek Spec Script – Page 1 Google
Business Documents – Page 1 Google
Business Masters – Page 1 Google
NDA Template – Page 1 Google
Agreement to Sell Business – Page 1 Google

In order to ensure that your document gets ranked as high as possible, follow the steps below.

1.) Make sure the title of the document corresponds to the search term/phrase you want to ranks for
2.) Add descriptive tags that include the search term/phrase
3.) Place the document in the appropriate category
4.) Add a description that has your key terms or phrase
5.) Make sure the content inside the documents includes the search terms/phrase as much as possible
6.) Promote Your Document. The more views your document gets the higher it will rank in search engines
(try importing all your contacts and emailing them the link to the document on docstoc to help is spread virally)

Every document you upload on docstoc provides you with an opportunity to promote yourself and your business. It’s a fantastic way to generate business leads for free. Take a look at the sample document/profile below.

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1.) Make sure to register and complete your profile
2.) Include your web address and fill out the “about me section�
3.) Users will contact you directly from each of the document display pages

Thousands of unique visitors will see your documents. And each of those visits could turn into a business lead, referral to your website, or valuable self promotion. Plus, all the documents you upload get indexed at the top of search engines.

See how docstoc can help you and your business today – try uploading some documents

And if you’ve already got business leads by uploading documents, please share your story with us.