Small Business

New Local SEO Book For Small Business

Today I have a great interview with Eric Shanfelt from LocalSearchHandbook.com. He has put together a new local seo handbook for small business. I got a chance to review the text and put in my two cents. It is a very well done book and quite affordable. So if you are looking for local seo [...]

Dealing With Online Customer Reviews

One of the big things any small business needs to handle is customer reviews. It can be a bit harder online since pretty much anyone, at any time can put a review up about you without your knowledge. The best thing you can do, as a small business is to monitor your online reputation. Spend [...]

Web Equity-owning your local web presence

When I saw this graphic, I thought it was awesome, so I wanted to reproduce it here.  It comes from Mike Blumenthal’s post: Infographic: Owning Your Local Web Equity Mike wrote this about what the graphic. The goal of this infographic was to provide a foundation for that understanding from the perspective of long term [...]

YouGottaCall Awarded Patent

Got a copy of this press release from my good friend Tim yesterday so I wanted to share it with everyone. Connecticut-based YouGottaCall.com Awarded Patent for Online, Word-of-Mouth Referral System June 7, 2011 South Windsor, CT YouGottaCall.com is a Web-based word-of-mouth referral service for consumers and businesses. Today, YouGottaCall.com, LLC announced that it has been [...]

Web Hosting for Small Business

Thought I would take a bit of time out of my normal postings to provide an article about web hosting for small business websites. For a website to function and work for the small business it has to be properly designed, optimized, and promoted but it also needs to UP! How many times do you [...]

TXTio.com Mobile Text Marketing for Local Business

Target Local Customers with TXTio.com Mobile Text Marketing My good friend Eugene Belenky, has let me know that he is launching a new service to help small business market to local customers. It is called TXTio.com.  Another good friend, Andrew Shotland commented on TXTio a little while back and I too was able to try [...]

Small Business Advice for 2011

As we begin 2011, there are many predictions being bantered about. (Do not worry I will be writing about all of the predictions in the next few days). But for the small business owner, trying to get online, what do they need to do?  I have come across a few articles that I thought provided [...]