In keeping with holiday spirit -I am offering a Cyber Monday special. If you are a small business or know of one and needing some local search or general marketing help, contact me (larry at localbizbits.com) and for a free web site evaluation. Use the code LBB-1107. This expires on …

Let the shopping begin! As I mentionedin my last post, I made my big purchase /holiday shopping last week and am still enjoying it!  This is a big time of the year for businesses and yours need to be ready. Now, I am not one who loves to brave the …

For the past week or so, I have been doing more local search than writing about local search! It was my wife’s birthday and I wanted to do something special. I got her (and the family) a new widescreen TV. It is awesome! we previously had a 27 TV and …

Continuing our conversation…. Q. How does UniversalBusinessListings.org (UBL)  differ from many of the other sites/services that offer business listings? A.  Primarily this is an industry initiative, where the data is not owned by anybody other than the non-profit .Org and will never be sold. Our understanding is that other companies …

A new service for local business, UniversalBusinessListing.Org was started recently. I got a copy of their press release so I decided to do some investigating. I read over their website and it seemed pretty good but I wanted some more information. I  caught up with Chris Travers and was able …

If you recall, on Oct 26, I post about being bothered by phone calls from SuperPages. Well I am happy to report that the system works.  SuperPages saw my post and a customer service rep called me, took my information, and started an investigation. Well they called me back today …

Hope everyone had a good weekend.  I got some time this weekend to catch up my social networking. The newest group I have joined is Gooruse. I need to put the following (localbiz.gooruze.com) in a blog post, so I can link my blog to my profile. As I am always looking …

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, …