A couple of weeks ago I referenced David Mihm’s top 20 most important factors for making your local listing work. I talked about how proper category placement could boost your business listing’s presence, number of clicks to your website, product purchases and so forth. With the third most important factor out of the way, I…
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Squidoo! Before you click off thinking you’ve been duped into a bogus sushi search, let me crazily rant for a bit about the wonders of having your small business marketing behind the reigns of a Squidoo page, or to be exact, a Lens. With Squidoo skyrocketing onto the social media scene, there are plenty of…
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Still wondering why your local search page may be down on its luck? After reading a diagnostic chart surveying the successful factors for a page, there are plenty of ways to get back on your feet. Even though a few of them can seem straightforward, there’s a reason why they are at the top…some businesses…
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Forgive me. I ranted last week about Google not giving in to your business descriptions, character limits, blah, blah and more blah. And now I’m turning my ire to certain online directories who think mass confusion is the best way to add a business listing. Don’t get me wrong, there are some that hit it…
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Alright, Google. Everyone loves working their business listing with you. They love the courteous phone call immediately after it’s submitted. They’re comforted in knowing it’s posted as soon as the PIN’s entered. Whatever gets the website some quick LSV love is numero uno in the hearts of every owner. But, that little handicap for the…
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Everyone loves a kitten. There are calendars, coffee mug pics, greeting cards, and other devices spreading their love for kittens. There are millions of sites dedicated to just kittens. Want to know if your macho friend secretly loves kittens? Well, that’s now a possibility thanks to Google’s Social Search. After viewing the demo, I’ve drawn…
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How to make Twitter really engaging: 1 lime, 2 ounces of Cachaça, lots of ice cubes, copious amounts of sugar, a muddler, and your Caipirnha is ready to go. This Brazilian gem is good for just about any occasion. Tweet about it, tweet while drinking one, drink one out of a glass in the shape…
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Even though it’s pure speculation at this point, since Conan O’Brien fled from NBC’s The Tonight Show, some analysts such as Nick Bilton have suggested he move his act onto the web. Sure, websites such as Hulu have clips of his previous shows, but Bilton`s suggestion does make sense for how much social media and…
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The song, “Bird is the Word”, is either a frustratingly annoying song or a crowd pleaser. Because one thing is for certain: The likes of Family Guy on thru to Stanley Kubrick have inserted it into their media. And with the recent announcement of the “word of the decade” being google, it should come as…
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Repition in writing can be imagined from the most unlikeliest of sources
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