here is an interesting article about getting customer reviews on Google!! http://www.semreportcard.com/small-buiness-tips-for-local-online-customer-reviews/
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Just Say No To Flash
Flash makes my small business look more professional = Common misconception As a minimalist-loving web developer nothing gets my eyes rolling faster than a small business that “has to have” flash animation on its website. Please! read http://flashsucks.org/ It is a common misconception that small business people have that adding Flash to your website makes [...]
The Google Local Listings Ads Are Coming…
There has been a lot of talk about these new ads: Google Intros Local Listing Ads to LBC in Limited Markets — Blumenthal My Thoughts on Google Local Listing Ads — David Mihm They haven’t come to Florida yet so I have a little breathing (and learning) time… It seems that the jury is still [...]
Tattling on Google Local Spammers
Are your competitors spamming Google Local? Turf them out! Google has a page for reporting Google maps spam Thanks Blumenthal
How to get a 100% on your Google Local Listing
Ok. So Blumenthal had an interesting post detailing with a pie chart how to get your google local listing 100% complete. Although whether this matters or not is up to debate and the odds are on the side of it NOT mattering. But it is fun to have a 100% nonetheless so I tested it [...]
Mining your customer database for gold and Google Maps
I have been reading Tom Feltenstein’s 401 Killer Marketing Tactics… so my marketing muscles are looking rather buff. One idea I found in the book that I am applying as we speak for a client is the idea of a customer map. The map would have pin-points at the address of each current/past customer. (actually [...]
WoW, I’ve read all of these…. – Amazon’s Small Business & entrpreneur books
Getting Things Done Seven Habits of Highly Effective People The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (I haven’t read this one) Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What [...]
WordPress and Breadcrumb navigation
Breadcrumb (navigation) Without it Hasel and Gretel and your website visitor will be lost… Luckily, wordpress makes it easy with nifty plugins like this one: WordPress breadcrumb plugin – Breadcrumb navxt
Strategic Planning – A consulting gem
Jaxworks.com, a brilliant small business website I found circa 2004, has an excellent Strategic Planning worksheet. I had a printout of it in my binder since November 2004 and gave it another look. Wow! I will certainly be using this in my consulting work.
Bootstrapping like Subway
A quick rant about Subway, bootstrapping and small business. I had the following article in one of my binders: Stake Your Claim It is all about bootstrapping your small business. Starting on a shoestring budget and building incrementally to success. The article is based on the ideas of Subway’s Fred DeLuca who wrote the book [...]