Today and tomorrow we have a guest author -Tim Conley from LocalMarketingMastery.com (Thanks for the article Tim.) What if there was a way for you to get more than the average 50+% of visitors from a number one Google ranking? I don’t know about you, but I really dislike paying …

Every time I sit down to work on a post, something comes up. Yeah, I know “a likely story”. LOL I have been reading so many articles that I like and think are worthwhile but I have been keeping them to myself. So to fix this situation, I am planning …

Hope everyone is well. Yes I am still around- got too much on my plate now. Got lots of post ideas to work on.. Well if you remember, I set up a fantasy baseball league earlier in the year. Thankfully that league and the main baseball season is over. It …

Got some info about a couple updates, that I wanted to pass on. 1. MerchantCircle launches: Neighbors “Neighbors enables consumers to “follow” local businesses for the latest promotions, coupons and announcements.  Business owners can use the Neighbors “feed” as an easy way to communicate directly with their customer base and …

About a month or so ago, my good friend Mike Belasco of seOverflow published a series of articles on Google Analytics for Local Search. These article are jam packed with excellent info for those wanting to know more about local search and analytics. Here are the links to those posts. …

With more and more consumers searching online, it is critical for small business to get online themselves. With the current state of the economy, it is more important than ever to work on building your online presence. Right now I am seeing more business “giving up” being online and trying …

I got a copy of a press release from Mixpo today that I thought was interesting. Local Video Display Ad Campaigns Grow More Than 300 Percent Year-Over-Year for Mixpo Thousands of video ads generating more than 1.2 million minutes of viewer engagement is fueling strong interest from advertisers looking to …

I got notification today that Poynt, probably the best local search app for the Blackberry has official updated to include the addition of restaurant searches. I had reviewed Poynt, back in Feb 2009.  From their press release: “Poynt’s restaurant search feature rounds out the already robust business, movie and people …

Got some info today from Kevin over a MerchantCircle. Web.com and MerchantCircle are expanding their partnership.  From the press release: In addition to MerchantCircle’s suite of easy-to-use online publishing services, MerchantCircle’s local business members will have access to Web.com-powered marketing products and services designed to help them successfully market their …

It has been a long time since I wrote.  Need to apologize. To put it simply, I have not had the time.   I have a ton of articles to review and post, got a good number of ideas on articles, but just like any small business, I  need to focus …