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One of the oldest local search apps for the Blackberry is Beyond411. One of the earliest reviews I found for it was in 2007 at Berryreview.com Review: Beyond411 With GPS Support AKA Berry411. As I did my initial set of searches for local search apps, Beyond411 was always being mentioned. …
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Mobile Search-Where Is It Going?
As things would have it, recently I have been spending quite a bit of time working/learning about mobile search….playing with my new Blackberry Storm, looking for local search apps, using Google maps which now employes the Storm’s GPS, and working on mobile SEO. I have found a few great posts …
Read More »Getting to the Poynt with Andrew Osis of Multiplied Media
In addition to getting a copy of Poynt, I was able to sit down with Margaret and Andrew Osis, CEO of Multiplied Media. Here is some of what we spoke about: Q. Andrew what is the story about GPS in Blackberry phones and Verizon? A. The short answer is before …
Read More »Can You Poynt Me In the Right Direction?
One of the reason why I upgraded to the Blackberry Storm is because I want to be able to do mobile search. As the Storm is only a few months old, the number of Storm optimized apps are few but they are growing. Being new to Blackberry also, I am …
Read More »Local Search In Today's Economy
Just wanted to direct everyone to a nice post by Gregg Stewart over at Search Engine Watch, Local Search Tactics for Tough Economic Times. Gregg talks about branding but also reviews a “checklist” of his past posts. His checklist covers: Local Listing Management Internet Yellow Pages Local SEM Local SEO …
Read More »SMBs Using Their Blogs More
Over at Merchant Circle, they posted today about how they have seen a “190% increase from last January” on the number of small businesses blogging on their network. The also stated that: a merchant who has written one blog sees an average of 30% more traffic to their website 700 …
Read More »Local Search Saved My Butt Today
Today I had to take one of my sons to a doctor’s appointment while my wife took another son to a doctor appointment at the same time across town. She asked, “you know where you are going?” I said “yep” Now I sort of remembered where the office was but …
Read More »Local Search Thoughts
It has been a while since I posted here…has been a crazy January. Have been thinking of two things recently. Why do I ( and a lot of others) do online local search? One of the main reason that I could come up with is “laziness”. I want to use …
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