I came across this website (pictured below) today while looking for a local business to help with a pool issue I am having. I wanted to give them my money, I wanted to pay them and become a loyal customer, but could never do so after what I saw. This problem goes way beyond this business not receiving my money. Let me be very clear, that by not paying attention and monitoring the activity on [...]
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Don’t let Google catch you with your website’s pants down
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Don’t do this, do that, with local landing pages
Jan 28 2013I thought I would share something with you that my wife (who is the perfect example of the target local audience in this example) shared with me the other day. I do my best to pay attention to the things that she gripes about with websites, especially local ones. I love the local market, and am always trying to do my best to educate local business owners (and their marketing companies) so that they can [...]
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What the Google+ and Google Places Merge Means To You
Jun 07 2012*Disclaimer – If you absolutely must tinker with your Google+ Local page right now – check out this little write up. I think we should all hold tight for a while to see what happens while a lot of the kinks are worked out so things don’t get really screwy. Anyway, if you are one of those kind of people that cant help but mess around with stuff – Check out this post first for [...]
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Google Adwords Express -The Pros & the Pests to Automated Local Advertising
Mar 02 2011Google Boost is now Adwords Express Local search marketing may be in it’s infancy for Google, but this baby is booming. In two short years they have grown through a 10-pack, to a 7-pack, to a mixed local and organic result. They have further added a revenue stream with Google Sponsored tags (Yellow tags) and most recently they added Google Boost. Google boost has been active for about 6 months now, so time for a [...]
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Why Local Businesses Can No Longer Ignore Foursquare
May 19 2010When reading this, picture Biff knocking on your head saying: HELLO, McFLY?? You know the movie, its one of your favorites. Attention local business owners: location based services games checkins are here to stay. You need to stop worrying about people robbing you blind, or knowing where we are at all times, or any of the other things you heard that may have scared you about location based marketing checkins. I am talking about Foursquare - so [...]
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A Nickels Worth Of Free Online Marketing Advice
Oct 20 2009As I was searching online for some information to one of my favorite Mexican food joints here in Arizona I ran across several problems with their website and wanted to share them here. I also came across several areas where I thought they could capitalize on social marketing, increase traffic to their website and interact better (online) with the people who love them. The Argument: You walk into one of their locations and they are [...]
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Local Business + Yelp App + iPhone = Money
Jun 14 2009Local marketing bliss is what I want to share! For those of you who own a local business, how would you like to get your business on the first page of Google today? In most cases, you will achieve top 5 results with out any real SEO! What if I told you, that you could achieve these types of rankings without having a website. You would jump on the opportunity right? Of course you would, [...]
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Who Does Local Search Best?
May 13 2009I got distracted today and the result of that distraction is this post. I was curious about something dealing with local search and the SERPs – so I decided to do a little comparison. The four major search engines I compared are Google, Yahoo, MSN and ASK. I wanted to find out how their specific local programs compared to one another when searching for non geo-targeted terms? I wondered if I would get any usable [...]
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China City Super Bufffett; Online Local Marketing Done Right
Feb 18 2009I love when I find local businesses that are doing things they need to be online. It’s even better when I find businesses I use taking advantage of local marketing services that search engines offer that can save me money (and drive business to them)! I just want to spotlight a company I feel is doing something right, and if you learn something from it – that’s even better! If you own an offline business [...]
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We Are Already Getting Calls Because Of Your Local Advertising Post
Dec 10 2008The whole reason I personally blog is to inform my readers of the things they need to be doing to help them increase their business online. It really is that simple for me. I am not in it for popularity, and there is nothing (and I mean – NOTHING) that puts a bigger smile on my face, then when someone sends me an email telling me that my methods have helped them make money! I [...]
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