Of course traditional websites are not the only form of media on the Worldwide Web. The web presence of a business can take a variety of alternative forms…

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It Depends On a Number of Variables

If you are a novice, you can gain the knowledge. Advances in website technology have made the “Small Business Do It Yourself Website” far easier than it has ever been. But you do have to weigh the variables facing you to determine whether or not you want to do it yourself: Read more »

If You’re Customers/Prospects Can’t Find You Online They’ll Find your Competitors!

The Following Is All Common Knowledge In Case You Missed It

The U.S. is quickly approaching 200,000,000 MILLION Internet Users.

92% of Internet Users have searched Online before buying locally offline.

The primary source of consumers finding/researching local businesses – 60%.

Just having a website is not enough if it can’t be found in local search engines.

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At least that is my advice if you use your computer for anything more than playing games.  Even then you should beware of the Windows product release track record.

While there are some nice new features (If they worked as advertised) IE 8 has, it’s the “IF” factor that usually cause power users like myself let the casual web surfers complain about enough bugs with new MS releases that we can feel fairly safe doing the upgrade. Read more »

Don’t think you don’t have somebody watching out for you and your small businesses online efforts. Here is a way we can help to watch out for each other. I have been waiting so see something like this for the small business person online for some time now. You may want to watch the video below before reading this excerpt. Read more »

It appears that yesterday MicroSoft Network (MSN) has launched BING as a replacement for MSN’s “Live” search. Read more »

Talking with a friend and local business owner, we eventually got around to why he still doesn’t have a web presence of any kind. After about 20 minutes he had covered an litany of excuses as to why not. All pretty lame but what it all came down to is he thinks there are better ways he can spend his time to increase his business. Read more »

The Importance of Local Business Listings

As I said in my most recent post on Google Local Business Search, “All of a sudden the final excuse for local merchants to put off building a web presence that will work with Local Search is history. Watch this video interview Read more »

This just in from The “San Jose Business Journal”
Modified: Tuesday, April 7, 2009, 8:13am

Google Inc. on Monday began including local search results by default on all queries made to its search engine. Read more »

Zero Cost Local Online Marketing

If this post title got your attention, this may be of significant interest to you. While it’s not actually ZERO cost marketing (It will cost you about 66 cents a day), it is the least expensive way I know of to market your local business online without having to own a website. Read more »