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Thoughts on Local Business Profiles
2008-01-09 03:38:00 Reading the post, Anatomy & Optimization Of A Local Business Profile, got me thinking about business profiles again. I had previously mentioned them here. Also Brian Wool, wrote about them in his post, Is One Good Web Site Enough for a Local Business? Brian said: “I don’t think these profile pages are meant to — or ... More About: Small Business , Thoughts , Profiles
Must Reads for Small Business
2008-01-07 05:53:00 There are three articles I would like you to read (if you have not yet). Understanding the Needs of a Searcher by Gareth Davies over at Marketing Pilgram. This is a summary of a presentation given at SMX London in 2007. It is a long article but has some great info and definitely will make you ... More About: Business , Small Business , Small
My New Year Goals
2008-01-02 21:23:00 I am not one to make predictions but I do set up resolutions or goals each year. The “professionals” say not to go overboard and create too many goals simply because you can only get so much done. I decided to create four for right now and will add more as needed. My goals are simple. 1. Build ... More About: New Year , Goals , Year
2007 Down, 2008 Up
2008-01-01 00:58:00 At the end of any year, it is a natural thing to take a step back and review what has been done and see what is coming up. Every small business needs to do this; I definitely am working on my plan for 2008 based on 2007. I wanted to pull together some of the more ... More About: General
Thank You For Your Support
2007-12-29 04:56:00 Search Engine Journal has posted their nominations for the Search Blogs Awards of 2007 and the voting has began! LocalBizBits has been nominated in the Best Local Search Blog category. If you can, please head to the polls and cast your vote. I, of course, would appreciated any support you could. :) More About: Support
Happy Holidays!
2007-12-24 05:42:00 Just wanted to take a second and wish everyone a great and joyous holiday season. Here is hoping your 2008 is even better that 2007. After a few days off, I will be back here, posting away! Merry Christmas to all and to all, a good night! More About: Holidays , Happy Holidays , Happy
Pay It Forward
2007-12-18 03:39:00 Today I take a few minutes from my normal posting to mention BloggerUnite. Today, December 17th 2007 is about Acts of Kindness. What is this about? “The Acts of Kindness theme aims at putting a human face on the bloggers responsible for so much good in the world. The goal is to expose their kindness and ... More About: Forward , Pay It Forward
Interactive Local Media 2007 Conference (and others)
2007-12-10 03:07:00 I was not able to go to ILM conference this year but from what I have heard it was good. Just wanted to bring to your attention a couple of nice posts on the conference for those who could not make it. Closing The Book on ILM:07 by Peter Krasilovsky at The Local Onliner Six Takeaways from ... More About: Media , Interactive , Conferences , Conference
Zvents - Local Events to Promote Your Business
2007-12-07 02:38:00 Now for the exciting conclusion of my interview with Paul O’Brien of Zvents. Q. The Zvents website also mentions that one can add Zvents to their website - can you explain this? A. Certainly. One could consider using the Media Platform though that is really the right solution for major publishers. Smaller websites and blogs can add everything from ... More About: Business , Events , Interviews , Promote , Local
Using Local Events to Promote Your Business
2007-12-06 04:37:00 Local SEO with Event Promotion by Paul O’Brien is a very interesting articles talking about how local busines can use local events to promote and advertise their own business. This is not a new concept but Zvents, now gives the local small business a way to do it on-line. “Zvents is the local search engine for discovering ... More About: Business , Events , Interviews , Promote , Local
Adding Local Value to Your Web Site
2007-12-04 05:55:00 I have always been a big supporter/advocate for adding some general, related content on the small business web site. Why?…To provide keyword rich content, create another avenue into the web site and finally, to simply provide a resource to the visitor. I definitely will work with someone who seems to want to help me and provide some information, ... More About: Web Design , Site , Local , Web site , Loca
Show Me Local (continued)
2007-11-28 01:38:00 ShowMeLocal .com Interview (continued) Q. Tell me about your Facebook and your other applications. A. This week we have released the Business Space application that allows business owners to integrate their blogs, coupons, specials and job posts with local Facebook Pages. Business owners will be able to control what type of information to put on the page and have ... More About: Interviews , General , Show , Conti
Show Me The Local (Businesses)
2007-11-27 04:25:00 ShowMeLoca l .com is one of the better websites/directories where local business can create an online profile and promote themselves. I came across the site when I did my post of local search in Facebook. They had a local search application, so I clicked over their website, did some review, and then contacted them about doing this interview. ShowMeLocal has a lot of unique and neat promotion ideas for their local business profiles and in general is pretty easy to use. I created a profile for me, which you can review. After speaking with the founder Eugene Belenky during the course of this interview, I have decided to contribute to their blog on a weekly basis. The ShowMeLocal blog will cover updates to the ShowMeLocal directory/web site  but also cover general web site marketing topics. But without further ado, the interview with Eugene Belenky at ShowMeLocal.com Q. What is ShowMeLocal? A. ShowMeLocal.com is the website that gives local business owners the tools to promo... More About: Show , Businesses , Sine
Holiday Special at LocalBizBits
2007-11-26 23:58:00 In keeping with holiday spirit -I am offering a Cyber Monday special. If you are a small business or know of one and needing some local search or general marketing help, contact me (larry at localbizbits.com) and for a free web site evaluation. Use the code LBB-1107. This expires on Dec 31, 2007. Happy Holiday s! More About: Special , Loca
Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Local Search
2007-11-23 21:29:00 Let the shopping begin! As I mentionedin my last post, I made my big purchase /holiday shopping last week and am still enjoying it! This is a big time of the year for businesses and yours need to be ready. Now, I am not one who loves to brave the huge crowds and traffic the day after ... More About: Search , Black , Local , Friday , Cyber
Practicing What I Preach
2007-11-19 06:34:00 For the past week or so, I have been doing more local search than writing about local search! It was my wife’s birthday and I wanted to do something special. I got her (and the family) a new widescreen TV. It is awesome! we previously had a 27″ TV and it is a whole new world right now. ...
Universal Business Listing (Part 2)
2007-11-12 01:29:00 Continuing our conversation…. Q. How does Universal Business Listing s.org (UBL) differ from many of the other sites/services that offer business listings? A. Primarily this is an industry initiative, where the data is not owned by anybody other than the non-profit .Org and will never be sold. Our understanding is that other companies provide something like this as part of ... More About: Interviews , Part
Universal Business Listings (Part 1)
2007-11-10 05:05:00 A new service for local business, Universal Business Listing.Org was started recently. I got a copy of their press release so I decided to do some investigating. I read over their website and it seemed pretty good but I wanted some more information. I caught up with Chris Travers and was able to get him to answer ... More About: Interviews , Listings , Part
SuperPages - You are now off of the list!
2007-11-06 03:35:00 If you recall, on Oct 26, I post about being bothered by phone calls from SuperPages. Well I am happy to report that the system works. SuperPages saw my post and a customer service rep called me, took my information, and started an investigation. Well they called me back today to say that they found the source of the trouble, took my number off of the list, and apparently fired one of the callers. Thank you SuperPages for taking this seriously and responding to a customer complaint. As I told them over the phone, I did not mind one phone call but multiple calls in the same day, when they said they would not call, was too much. I can now blog worry free! More About: List , The List , Ages
Be My Friend
2007-11-05 03:47:00 Hope everyone had a good weekend. I got some time this weekend to catch up my social networking. The newest group I have joined is Gooruse. I need to put the following (localbiz.gooruze.com) in a blog post, so I can link my blog to my profile. As I am always looking to build my network, please feel free to connect with me in any of the follwoing settings. Gooruze Facebook Local Search Central on Facebook Sphinn StumbleUpon LinkedIn MyBlogLog These are the main ones I use. Got some nice interviews this coming week, so stay tuned. More About: Friend
Doing Local with iBegin
2007-10-31 04:38:00 Today is an interview I did with Ahmed Farooq from iBegin.com. I had heard of the site and took a quite peak around but when I hooked up with Ahmed via Facebook I asked him if could enlighten me. Q. iBegin- can you tell us what it is? A. Hard to pigeonhole iBegin. In a nutshell - “we ... More About: Search Engines , Interviews , Local , Directories , Loca
SuperPages- you are on my list!
2007-10-27 05:52:00 Ok-is there anyone from SuperPages reading this blog? If so, please contact me. I am a bit ticked off. Why? Because I have been getting phone calls from SuperPages asking to review my business information-to make sure it is correct/up to date. When the first call came in, I said all the information is correct because ... More About: List , Ages
My 100th Post
2007-10-25 04:21:00 I have hit a milestone today, my 100th post! I have really enjoyed sharing here at LocalBizbits and look forward to the future. I want to thank everyone for their support, feedback, and encouragement. I will be adding site sponsors here soon, so if you would like to support LocalBizBits, please send me an email and ... More About: Post
The Importance of Good Web Design
2007-10-23 05:15:00 I often hear local advertisers talk about what advertising worked and what didn’t… they almost always consider the medium and rarely the message. Then I wonder… “So… 100 people typed in the category of your business, your town,and visited your site… then decided */not/* to do business with you… why do you think that is? ... More About: Web Design , Design , Good
Small Business Wake Up!
2007-10-19 05:19:00 Why Small Business es Don?t Invest in Online Marketing by Janet Meiners was a great article at MarketingPilgram last week. Before I read the article, I took a guess on what it would say. You will have to trust me, but my answers were pretty close to those in the article. Janet says education is the key ... More About: Small Business , Wake , Wake up
Local Findability
2007-10-18 04:53:00 Andrew Shotland has a nice post I recommend you read: The Loca l Business Information Cloud. This post is a summary of a talk that Gib Olander from Localeze, gave at the SMX Local Search Conference about 2 weeks ago. It is a straight forward and informative article. The “business information cloud” is basically the information you ...
Greyboxx Hits Augusta
2007-10-16 05:48:00 Greyboxx, a nationally based, local business directory is opening up in tons a cities through the US right now. Greyboxx sets up its listings based on references it finds on-line and then gives the business a certain rank based on its pervasion. This is what they call its “PreferenceScoring” system. In general, I was thrilled to ... More About: Search Engines , Directories , Hits , Augusta
Local Search on Facebook
2007-10-12 05:29:00 Facebook, in general, has a local flavor to it. As a local business, you can tap into this as a way to promote and brand yourself. Remember the goal is to increase your visibility to local visitors. In yesterday’s post, I introduced this idea; today I want to expand on it. There are 3 components in ... More About: Social , Search , Local , Facebook , Loca
Local Business on Facebook
2007-10-11 03:37:00 Social networking is one of the 3 components to local search. Currently there are many different sites and services one can use. Facebook is one of the more popular services and one that you should take a closer look at, when discussing local search. I have only been involved with Facebook for a short time but ... More About: Business , Social , Local , Sine
Local Search and Franchises
More articles from this author:2007-10-06 04:09:00 Franchises are a huge part of the local economy you find in any town. Can local search marketing help franchise owners? Definitely. I was speaking with a franchise owner here in Augusta and asked about his website. He told me the chain company had a main web site with a location finder. I tried to explain to him ... More About: Search , Local , Franc , Loca , Ranch 1, 2, 3, 4 |
