Got a note late last night from Steve Espinosa, the world’s #1 White Sox fan, about a new conference he has put together: Local Search Summit. This awesome sounding summit will take place in San Francisco on July 17, 2009. If you want more info, please head over to the …

Wanted to bring to your attention some cool articles I have recently read.  Remember reading is good for you. 🙂 The Definitive List of Local Search Directories You Need To List With from Keith Hagen at eMarketing Matador Google Local – Out of Date, Riddled with Spam But Absolutely Worth …

One reason smartphones were created were to hopefully make some things in life easier and give us access to important information or resources quickly. This week, a new app for the Blackberry Storm, is coming out, the fone book, from BlindingRain, a small start up company here in the US.  …

For the second year in a row, David Mihm has put together his incredible Local Search Ranking Factors survey.  David’s motivation? “It is my hope that this study will help small business owners confused by Local Search, or those strapped for time, to prioritize their marketing efforts.” The Internet and …

Today marks the official launch of the YellowSpaces iphone app, iLPS. With that I continue my conversation with Constantin S. Manta of YellowSpaces. Q. Why did you decide to make a mobile app also? A. I believe mobile is the purest form of local.  I also noticed that the IYPs …

If you have spent anytime reading the search engine marketing blogs or tweets, you undoubtedly have heard of YellowSpaces– a new local search engine that recently went live. Greg Sterling had a nice post/interview on the site. Well, Constantin S. Manta, the man behind this site,  was gracious to give …

Found a few good articles for you to review: Gauging The Online Visibility Of SMBs by Hanan Lifshitz. Thoguht this was a nice follow up from his last article over at Search Engine Land Twitter and Local Search: A Status Update by Mike Boland at Search Engine Watch.  One article …

With all of this talk about Twitter, what are some the sites or tools you can use for Twitter, specifically local related tweets?  (the descriptions come from the respective websites) TwitterHawk “TwitterHawk is a real time targeted marketing engine that will find people talking on twitter now by your chosen …

My regular readers should have noticed by now, there is a  new tab of the top of the blog: “What is being said about local search” I have set up this page to provide a quick and easy way for you to see what is being said about local search …

There have been a number of excellent articles on Twitter and how local business can and are using Twitter to connect and promote.  Here are the ones that I recommend: Can Twitter Be Useful For Business? by Dave Wallace. Dave provides 5 points he believes Twitter can help small business.  …