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Jan
25

Get More Local Business

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Lately, the main focus for almost all of my clients is new business.  The questions they ask are,

  • “How can I find new business?”
  • “What can I do to gain more attention for my site?”
  • “How do I stay ahead of my competition?”

Just about everyone is looking for more business these days.

One of the first things I ask when starting with a new client is, “Do you have a Google Local listing?”
Unfortunately, few of my clients answer, “yes”.  Most say, “What the heck is Google Local?”

No matter what business your’re in, you can take advantage of Google Local.

Why Google local?

Nearly 65% percent of internet searches done today are through Google.

Who would want to ignore something that could potentially provide 65% of your business.  Simply put, having a presence on Google will result in business.

What is Google Local?

Google Local (or Google Local Business center) is a free services offered by Google that allows you to set up a profile for your business that can be found on Google maps and in Google search.

Here is a brief 2 minute video that clearly explains Google Local:

How do I sign up for Google Local?

The very first step is to set up a Google account and then go to Google Local Business Center and fill out your profile.  You’ll also find a number of useful videos on YouTube to help you optimize your profile.  Here is a video with some good suggestions from John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing:

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Nov
02

Video Marketing Webinar

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videocamera1Webinar – Video Marketing: Where To Start and What to Do

Thursday, November 19, 2009 – 11:00 am to 12:00 pm eastern AND 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm eastern

The barriers to creating your own videos have disappeared.  Video Marketing is one of the hottest new areas for reaching more customers with descriptions of your products and services.

People will watch a brief video much more often than read a text copy and video provides way to build rapport that is unique to any other type of communications: people see you, hear you and get more information in a comfortable format.

Why don’t more businesses do it? There are many reasons, however the perception is that creating video is complex, you need equipment and it is time consuming.  These challenges may have been true in the past, but are no longer true today!

So how do you get started with video marketing? Do you need equipment?  What about software? Is it hard to learn?

In this webinar we examine why companies are moving to video, what are steps to creating video and how you use free tools available on the internet to get started.

Webinar fee – there is no cost for this webinar


Agenda

  • The explosion of video marketing
  • Why you should consider video marketing
  • Case study – Gary Vaynerchuk
  • How to get started: plan create, distribute, monitor results
  • Measuring the effectiveness of you video marketing
  • Creative ways to use your video

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Sep
25

Registering at Technorati

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In the process of optimizing my site, I’ve recently registered at Technorati.  Here’s my claim code:

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If you have a blog and you need more backlinks, start by registering at Technorati.

If you’re not sure what this is and you want to find out more, give me a call and I’ll explain it.

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Jul
06

8 Biggest Mistakes Webinar

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iStock_000000939284XSmallWebinar-The 8 Biggest Mistakes for Business Blogs (and how to avoid them)
Wednesday, July 15, 2009 – 11:00 am to 12:00 pm

A business blog is an online conversation about your company, products and services. It is different from a traditional website in that is creates a dialogue between you and your customer — something that was traditionally costly and time consuming.

Starting a business blog can be very easy, maintaining and making it work is something different.

In this webinar we examine the 8 mistakes people make when starting a business blog and what to do to avoid them

Webinar fee – there is no cost for this webinar

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER


 
Objectives

  • Describe the differences between personal and business blogging
  • Discuss blogging platforms
  • Explore blogging strategies
  • Examine blogging guidelines that make business blogging effective
  • Review blogging promotion and optimization
  • Identify other tools that support blogging and internet marketing
Agenda

  • To blog or not to blog
  • Driving the bus
  • Who’s in charge
  • The Blogging platform
  • SEO and promotion
  • Other marketing tools – email, video, webinars

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Jun
13

Create Engaging Websites

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For many years, most websites have been nothing more than online brochures.  These sites have been useful for providing information to customers, however after a customer visits the site, there is very little reason to return.

In this video I share three things you can do immediately to create a reason for your customers to return to your website (customer engagement) — add a blog, add video, offer free stuff.

Your comments are always welcome.

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Apr
18

Hello World! We’re Changing.

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Business Launch2 If you see the “Hello World” in the title of a blog post, you’ll know that a new blog site has just been created.  That’s what’s happened here!

We’re in the process of updating our site as well as some of the programs and services we offer.

One of our most favored sayings is, “if you always do what you always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always gotten.” Time now to do something different.

We still have some work to do on the site and we’ll be posting:

Business Promotion Strategies – we’ve had so many individuals and companies approach us to help them with internet marketing and promotion that we are redirecting our training services to focus on this area.

Event driven marketing strategies – from our experience, one of the most effective, low cost and engaging approaches to building your business is offering events then promoting them with low cost web, e-mail, voice and video. For businesses, offering tangible products, events are conducted at physical locations where customers can see and feel the products.   Events for intangible products and services are conducted by webinar and distributing valuable information products.

Traditional media – we still support existing traditional promotional methods such as direct mail and will be offering ideas to blend the traditional with new media at much lower cost.

Traditional training – we’ll still be offering training and consulting in the areas of sales and management, but we’ll be blending traditional approaches with new technology to offer more flexibility and options for building skills in these areas.

We invite you to comment on the site and offer suggestions for the types of things you would like to have us offer.  We’ll do our best to accommodate and fulfill our purpose of:

  • Finding more prospects
  • Creating more sales
  • Satisfying more customers


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