Category: Local Business

What Is Yelp and How Should I Use It?

Location Based Services or LBS platforms like Yelp, FourSquare, GoWalla and Facebook Places are all the rage with marketers these days. Between social media, mobile and local there is a lot of potential for savvy…

Google+ Local Fuses Social and Search

Google is constantly make new changes to its products and service platforms. On May 30th, 2012, the search engine giant scrapped its Google Places pages for what are now called Google+ Local pages. This change…

Real Deals – Advertizing in a Magazine With Real Local Business Ads

Are you looking for great ways to advertize your local business? We have a few suggestions for how you can make real deals happen for your local business. Offline Advertizing Strategies – Posting a colorful…

How To Promote Your Business On Facebook

Regardless of whether yours is a small or large business, Facebook is one online platform that you cannot afford to ignore when it comes to promoting our business. The modern trend is that most consumers…

Learn How Google My Business Can Impact Your Local SEO

A Google My Business profile is essential for local online business. It’s free and will enable you to appear in local search results for queries specific to your products or services. Without local SEO, you…

Is Google the New Yellow Pages?

Are you in business? Do you spend ridiculous amounts of money for a one year’s membership to your local yellow pages directory? How’s that working for you? C’mon…think about it. When was the last time…

Key Advantages of Businesses in Multilingual Markets

This day and age has seen the rise of a new type of small business, the micro-multinational. The internet and globalization have opened up a lot of possibilities for local businesses to expand their reach…

Brand And Product Displays For Businesses

Visibility is the key to success for any new or existing commercial entity. No matter the industry you serve, you must be able to effectively market your brand to core, niche or mass audiences. While…

Benefits of Local Business Directories

A Local Business directory is a website or printed listing of information, which lists about all businesses of every category. The businesses can be categorized by four things, which are: Business Location Size Activity The…

Free Local SEO Tools That Belong in Your Kit

What a lot can change in just a few years! When I wrote the original version of this post in January 2014, the local SEO industry didn’t have quite the wealth of paid tools that…