Last time the frog broke news on the new “post to your place page” feature in the Google LBC. It was nice to have it picked up by Blumenthal and read his enlightening thoughts on understanding “post to your place page” feature’s importance.
Today I noticed another new feature, “Service Areas” (something every small service business [...]
So as far as I can tell Google just rolled this update out.
The Google Local Business Center (the dashboard where businesses can edit their local business listings) has added a new feature:
“post to your place page”
It seems to be a some sort of blogging functionality for creating posts about your business which then show up [...]
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 out on whether they [...]
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 all customers [...]
I have been quite busy lately with various projects for myself and clients.
I have a large online project that I currently maintain and I am launching an online marketing campaign for a new client.
I have three personal online marketing projects that I am working on. And I have two local marketing campaigns I am maintaining [...]
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Posted 06 October 2009
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This article by the foremost local search engine optimisation expert, David Mihm, is a must read.
These are his “10 commandments of marketing online for small and local businesses”
I do local search engine optimisation for my small business clients and I have to say the list hits the nail on the head.
I read (or did I listen to?) Tom Feltenstein’s 10 minute marketer’s secret formula earlier this year and have been in love with the idea of “neighborhood marketing” ever since.
At least I think it is a good idea for my clients (I prefer to pull clients from the internet as I don’t want to be [...]
I love websites that have been around since 1995 and are at the top.
For example wilsonweb internet marketing
Found them today searching for “local marketing.” I probably have seen them before too (sometimes it feels like I’ve seen the whole internet at least once…).
Anyway, it was a good find. Local marketing is the way to [...]