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Schmap – Intersection of Local – Social (Part 2)

Today I finish my interview with Paul Hallett, CEO of Schmap.com Hopefully this interview will give you a little insight of what is happening on mobile-social-local front. Twitter is just one of the many areas online where small business can interact and reach out to potential new clients.
Q. What is schmap.me?
A. Schmap.me is a simple [...]

Schmap – Intersection of Local – Social

Twitter is becoming a very powerful tool for individuals and small business. Recently I have found myself spending more time on Twitter, trying to keep up with the new trends and ideas on local search marketing, as well as sports scores, trades, rumors, the latest Android phones and more etc.
Mobile-local and social-local are growing areas [...]

Don’t Waste Time in Haste-Social Media Tips & Tricks

Today we have a guest post from Ben Johnson of Logoinn. They provide custom logo design services and are based in the UK.  As a side note, if anyone else is interested in being a guest blogger here at LocalBizBits, just let me know. Thanks for the article Ben.
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Can you really make a lot of [...]

Predictions….

Well 2010 is well under way. Why am I talking about predictions in Feb?  LOL. There are a number of good articles that have been published I wanted to summarize them here. As a small business, you need to keep an eye on trends and patterns and see where and when you should get involved.
It [...]

Articles on Social Media and Small Business

Social media is growing-a day does not go by when I do not see an article or two about it.  Here are some articles I have read and bookmarked, which I wanted to pass on to you guys. After putting this list together, I realized they all have to do with Twitter. LOL  Twitter is [...]

Local City-Specific Biz Coupons Through Twitter

Got a press release from Kevin Leu at MerchantCircle today about Merchant Circle now providing coupons via Twitter pages…very interesting.
From the press release/blog:
To further increase local business exposure online, MerchantCircle also announces the first-ever local city coupon Twitter feed. Merchant-built coupons are now automatically fed to city-specific Twitter feeds, so that [...]

Twitter- just a quick observation

A while back, my good friend Gib tweeted “Has twitter reduced the comments on your blogs? Seems like the conversations happen on twitter instead of the comment sections? I saved his comments because I wanted to respond but wanted to use more than 140 characters. LOL
Twitter has changed a lot regarding blogging. I find [...]