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Marketing is something that sometimes seems too hard. And while companies like SBIM make it look easy, there’s a lot that you need to know to successfully market. That being said, if you’re wanting an easy solution for small business website marketing we’ve been...
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QuickBooks and Salesforce have become staples for small and medium businesses around the world, and are considered the cornerstone of business-critical operations. Wouldn’t it be great if SMB’s could easily integrate QuickBooks and Salesforce? There are several...
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Beginning this year, Piper Jaffray sees local online advertising spending outpacing the national spend in the US. In 2008, national and local spending levels were equal. But while the research firm projects a drop in national online ad spending for 2009, local is...
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Mountain View, California — Attempting to win over its rival Yahoo’s local ad unit model, Google has finally introduced a more novel and simplified version of short ad unit for local businesses called Local Listing Ads. These Local Listing Ads are configured to...
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Google Maps updated the business listing quality guidelines over the weekend. The new guidelines are welcomed by those who have noticed an influx of spam or borderline spam submissions to the Google Local Business Center over the past couple years. Here are the new...
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Local Search can be very tricky and not accurate at all. Businesses need to claim their local listings and make sure they are correct. Here is a funny story that Danny Sullivan “Godfather of Search” recently told about his issues with Local Search. Have you claimed...
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Online retailers represent over 30% of the search listings from a typical online retail search on a major search engine, while brick-and-mortar stores only show up in searches 12% of the time, according to an analysis of search-engine results by Internet-Engine . The...
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Grabbing customers’ attention is always challenging, particularly for small businesses with limited marketing and advertising budgets. Smart search engine optimization can level the playing field by allowing smaller shops to march up the search stacks on Google and...
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Here’s a list of the most important factors to look at when optimizing for local search. Focusing on these factors will help you rank higher in both the Geo-Targeted searches and in regular search results. 1. Do extensive keyword research to be sure you’re targeting...
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Local search traffic refers to visitors who arrive at your website by typing a combination of a keyword or phrase and a geographical term, such as a city, county, state, zip code or any other geographical designation, into a search engine. It stands to reason that in...
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Excerpt from Channel 7 news Santa Clara, CA – Teresa Garcia SANTA CLARA, CA (KGO) — A South Bay business has now found an innovative way to use the hottest trend in social networking to help keep the business growing. The Pizza Party parlor in Santa Clara has been...
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Master these three marketing secrets and your business is sure to grow fast. Do not sell to your customers do these marketing secrets instead …watch the video for the marketing secrets. Share your comments and experiences below. Please share your comments and...
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7 Online Marketing Strategies to Make 2009 the Best Year Ever For Your BusinessBy Kenton Newby With the whole world in a bit of a financial mess, more and more business owners are looking for better ways to attract prospects and customers to their business. The...
by | | Social Media Marketing
GOSO’s App for Auto Dealers Streams Inventory to Facebook –Social media marketer GOSO unveiled a new Facebook app this week that allows auto dealers to connect their inventory to their Facebook page. The BMW of Minnetonka, Minnesota is the first dealership to use it....
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I work with local businesses as a lead generation expert & internet marketing coach and I only use the internet, search engines and social media to get these leads. And it works really great! With social media I use Twitter and Facebook pages. I find Twitter to be...
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Social media company Twitter is struggling to craft a profitable business model, but the Web-based service has helped Dell Inc chalk up millions of dollars in sales. Dell said on Thursday it has raked in more than $3 million from Twitter...
