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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

Why Small Businesses 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. …

Andrew Shotland has a nice post I recommend you read: The Local 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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …