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Play- How To: Google Places (Formally Google Local Business)
Google Places (formally Google Local Business) is a great way for you to promote your business through Google. By creating a Google Places account for your business you will come up when people do local searches. (You may have noticed a map at the top of some of your searches with place markers for businesses in the area that fit your request.)
Published: Tue May 18 10:49:46 PDT 2010 - Business Twitter Tips
Twitter is the hottest social media tool that allows people to connect online through 140 characters of information. More and more businesses are leveraging Twitter as a way to promote their business and communicate with clients and business resources.
Published: Thu May 14 18:08:31 PDT 2009 - Facebook Groups Vs Facebook Pages
Facebook is a growing platform for businesses to advertise and communicate with their clients and business resources. Facebook Groups and Facebook Pages are two ways businesses can set up a public profile. So which one should you use? Below are the differences between the two.
Published: Sun May 03 11:02:06 PDT 2009 - Flash and SEO: Like Oil and Water
We often deal with clients that are planning to “revamp” their sites with Flash, with SEO having already generated tremendous gains in their sales. The thing that we most dread to hear is that they’ve hired an experienced “Flash designer” that will be taking their Web sites to the “next level.” Unfortunately, that “next level” is often the basement - at least in terms of SEO results.
Published: Mon Mar 09 21:21:55 PDT 2009 - Google Profiles and Reviews Helps Promote Business Online
If you haven't familarized yourself with Google Profiles and/or Google Reviews through their local business section, you should! It is an easy and inexpensive way to promote your business a little more online.
Google Profiles
If you have a Google account then you already have a Google profile! Make sure it is up-to-date with your lastest business information. You can upload links to your website, blog, LinkedIn account, and Facebook. You can customize it with your company logo or a picture of yourself.
Once you have a Google account and profile you can write reviews for other businesses that you network with. You can also invite clients and business partners to write reviews about your own business. Next time someone Googles your business, those reviews will show up in the results. People can start reading testimonials before they even get to your website. Talk about getting off on the right foot!
Google Local Business
It is important that you are registered with Google Local Business. Google tries to index as many business locations as possible in Google Maps. However, you need to make sure that all the information is correct and complete. Don't leave it up to Google to get it right.
Click Here to Add Your Business to Google >>
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Published: Mon Feb 02 12:03:18 PST 2009 - Social Media - The Best Way for Businesses on a Budget to Promote Themselves Online
In a perfect world we would all like to pay someone to promote our business for us. However, sometimes it just isn't in the budget. There are a lot of things that ambitious business owners and their staffs can do to promote themselves online and drive more traffic to their websites.
Published: Mon Feb 02 12:01:27 PST 2009 - How to Promote Your Business Online
Here is a great article that was brought to our attention on StartUpNation.com. It sums up a lot about what we talk to our clients about. However, it is always great to hear from other professionals in the field...
There are several options for those who want to promote their websites. I will go over some of the most effective ways of getting traffic, but before I start, I want to give you a word of warning: not all these techniques are good for all the businesses. Some might work very well for a certain industry and not work at all for a different niche.
Published: Wed Nov 19 16:53:06 PST 2008 - Website Marketing Strategy
You have a website built, you are proud of it... now what?
There is a reason you spent thousands of dollars on a professional website for your business - to get more qualified clients, either directly or indirectly. However, just having the website built will not bring clients to your doorstep.
Published: Mon Oct 20 20:14:51 PDT 2008 - Understanding How to Use SEO in Your Business
SEO. We know it's a good thing and it can help us get more clients via our website. But what is it really and how to I use it in my business effectively?
SEO is a term that has come to mean many things to many people. SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization, and is a big topic all by itself with many different levels and strategies. So how does a business owner figure out what kind of SEO, and which company providing it, will work for them?
Published: Tue Jun 24 12:23:54 PDT 2008 - Top 10 Ways to Inexpensively Promote your Website On and Offline
We understand that most businesses have a limited marketing budget. Everyone needs to have a plan to be smart about how to maket their business. Internet marketing can be very costly if you want to see dramatic results, and printed materials can add up as well.
Published: Wed Feb 20 06:09:25 PST 2008