Even if your small business could afford a Super Bowl ad - at $3.5 million - there is another form of advertising that would benefit you more and consistently bring you far more business. And the good news is you only have to pay to have it submitted ONCE to get free advertising on Google Places, Yahoo! Local, Bing, Superpages and hundreds of other local directories indefinitely*. Completely Free Advertising You can do it yourself manually, or create your own listings through Universal Business … [Read more...]
Twitter for Business: How to Geo Target Twitter for Small Business Local Social Media #smallbusiness
Small businesses and bloggers are missing enormous opportunities that can be easily accessed by creating geographically targeted Twitter accounts and blog content. By adding a local component to your social media accounts and blog, or creating accounts specifically to reach a location based audience, your Twitter account becomes far more valuable - for you and others. Any business that operates in a limited geographic area will want to implement these tips as will all bloggers - whether you … [Read more...]
SEO – Its Real Value to Small Business Owners
This is a guest post from GetUsSocial offering my readers the chance to win an iPad2 and sharing social media marketing tips from their experience offering Social Media Marketing Services. This is a very basic post about SEO offering tips to small business owners and a video that explains what SEO is in a very simple way so that anyone can understand it. As a small business owner, you have most likely hear the term SEO - but do you really understand what it is? You may have an SEO … [Read more...]
Free Business Listings in Local Search Directories
It is foolish for any business not to obtain their free listings on at least the major sites offering local directories. Not having these listings is like having someone offer your business years of free advertising and saying "no thanks". This benefits Bloggers and Online Businesses too. You do need to provide a physical address and phone number to be listed in most directories. Nielsen Consumer surveys clearly show the importance of having an Internet presence. Among the latest Nielsen … [Read more...]