Where To Claim Your Free Local Business Search Listing: Yellow Book.com

August 24, 2011

Yellow Book.com offers free local business listings you should claim for your business. Fifty years ago, the local yellow page directory was one place every business owner made sure to have a listing.  Consumers turned to the printed yellow pages to not only find the phone numbers of local businesses – but also the physical [...]

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Where To Claim Your Free Local Business Search Listing: 7 Main Street

August 23, 2011

When local business search listings are free, you should spend your nights and weekends claiming all your local business listings. One of the sites you’ll want to be sure to check out is 7 Main Street. Like many local business search listing sites, if your business has a business phone and has maintained a listing [...]

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Where To Claim Your Free Local Business Search Listing: Google

August 22, 2011

If you’re only going to claim one of your free local business search listings – then claim the one provided by Google. Google calls their local business listings “Google Places” and if your business has a business phone and has maintained a listing in the yellow pages – then you probably already have a listing [...]

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Claiming your Local Business Listings

November 12, 2010

You may not know it – but your local business listing is a HOT property right now.  However, if you’re like most local business owners – you’re not even AWARE that you have a local business listing. These local listings are – in fact – free online advertising for your business and the fastest, easiest [...]

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Marketing Your Small Business Online

October 29, 2010

Perhaps the only thing harder than marketing your small business is marketing your small business online.  Navigating the maze of alphabet soup terms like PPC – SEM – SEO – is just the beginning of an arduous and ever changing path which is putting the internet to work for your business. Until recently as a [...]

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Fastest Way to Find New Customers

July 21, 2010

The fastest way to find new customers for your business is to get your message in front of people who are actively searching for what you offer. Advertising legend Fairfax Cone is credited with saying, “Advertising is what you do when you can’t go see somebody. That’s all it is.” Every day- more and more [...]

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What business owners need to know about online advertising

July 14, 2010

The most important thing for business owners to keep in mind about online advertising is that successfully advertising your business on the web requires the same preparation and strategic thinking needed to successfully advertise your business off line using traditional media tools such as newspaper, radio and television advertising. Think of the web as just [...]

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Small Business Web Advertising

June 28, 2010

Advertising your small business on the web is no small undertaking.  Big or small – web advertising is big business and even though it may be deceptively easy to launch an web advertising campaign – the real goal is to create a web advertising campaign that delivers new customers to your business. Preparing to Advertise [...]

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How Can I Advertise My Small Business?

June 16, 2010

Small businesses have one thing in common: small advertising budgets.  When you own and operate a small business – every dollar you spend has to work hard bringing new customers into your business. While there are many ways to advertise a local business, many small business owners build a web site, hope that it will [...]

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Advertising on the Internet

June 13, 2010

There are a lot of ways to advertise your business on the internet.  One of the most popular ways is to build a web site and wait for customers to find your business online.   Of course, if you’ve tried that already – you may have found there’s a lot more to advertising on the internet [...]

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