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Google Local Maps – Must Have for ALL Small Businesses

Just watch this video below and tell me why you would not want to take advantage of Google’s free tool to list your business in on Google Maps. Google local is even showing up majority of the time now on organic SERP’s when a local keyword modifier is being used. If you have a small [...]

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Why WordPress

Small business owners always ask what is the best platform or the best user friendly website platform to use…and my answer is always: WORDPRESS Why WordPress…? I think the below video will sum up why WorpPress is one of the best platforms to get started as a newbie. Glenda Watson Hyatt, aka the Left Thumb [...]

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Following Online Local Searches

I was reading an article today on MarketWatch.com that exposes the Findings of Consumer Online Local Shoppping Habits. Gregg Stewart, senior vice president of interactive, TMPDM. “Our 2008 study again confirms that consumers do a majority of research online, but continue to make purchases offline with a phone call or in-store visit. Additionally, marketers need [...]

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Discover The Fastest Way to Know Where to Market

Small business owners always ask where should we market or where is the next hot place to market…? Emarketer.com posted this today: “Social networking is an everyday activity for the majority of college students, and the percentage of students who use the networks daily has nearly doubled in the past two years. EDUCAUSE compared social [...]

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Is Your Business Positioned To Capture Shoppers Changing Habits?

Emarketer.com today posted these stats on how shoppers shop today. What does this tell you…? That it is equally as important to make sure your website is easily accessible as your retail location. If basically half all people split their shopping between online and offline – wow! It’s doesn’t get any more obvious then this. [...]

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Know Your Customer’s Better By Using YouTube’s Demographics Tool

Just another reason for your business to have their own YouTube channel. What do you think…?

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Ranking Well With Google in 4 Easy Steps

Ranking well for local search or long tail keywords is currently fairly simple if you follow these 4 simple steps: Decent Original Content – that has on page relevancy to the keywords your are trying to rank for Title Tags – Get your keyword up front in in your title tags Inbound Links – Get [...]

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Google Maps – Learn What Determines Your Rankings

I thought this presentation by Mike Blumenthal on understanding ranking factors on Google Maps was really well done and it would be useful to all small business owners. What did you think…?

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Digg Mashup Tool Provides Fast, Easy, & Cool Research Results

I found this very awesome tool that can be used to do market research on Digg . This Mashup Tool allows you to discover what articles, posts, conversations that became "hot" and buzz worthy in the Digg community over the last two years. One of the best ways to learn what will work in your [...]

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Hitler Uses Twitter!

This is very funny if you use Twitter! Hitler is very P.O.’ed because he wants to tweet about his dog dying, but can’t because Twitter is always down. Best quote in twitter spoof: "I have 2,000 followers who need to know every minute detail of my life! How else am I supposed to convey my [...]

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