LocalBizBits Local Search Marketing Information and Resources

Last time, I gave you my two cents, now to hear what my colleagues say.  (So if you do not listen to me, listen to them!) I contacted a good number of folks and asked each of them, “What is the #1 aspect of this area of online marketing that …

It is a new year, the holidays are over, kids are back in school and it is time to get moving again. 2009 can be the year that your small business really breaks through online. Over the holidays I ask a number of associates for their thoughts on what small …

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Have not posted in a while, simply because I have been busy and playing….with my new Blackberry Storm. Yes I got one last week and I really like it.  If you read the reviews, some think it is great, others a piece of garbage. Now I came over from a …

While at the Kelsey Group’s ILM last month, they spoke a lot of video marketing. I wanted to follow up the meeting and a few posts I had done before Kelsey with some info on SEO for online video. I am currently reviewing a couple of services that allow small …

Palore has come out with some interesting data on small business paid advertising trends. From their post: “..looked at over 3000 SMBs who advertise online, on different websites, out of which we focused on 300 businesses who also advertised on search engines in the past 5 months. The chart shows …

If you have nothing else to do, why not check out Interview with Larry Sullivan: Value of Local Search and Online Marketing. Nisarat Sujatanond from MySolutionSpot.com conducted an interviewed with me the other day. For those unfamiliar with MySolutionSpot, it is a new online business resource and professional networking tool …

Hope everyone had a great holiday. I did but now it is time to do some work. LOL. I had a great time at ILM 08 and definitely would recommend the conference to those who want to understand more about local search. I thought all the discussion/talks were great. I …

While attending ILM 08 last week and talking with Ben Saren of CitySquares, I bit the bullet and signed up for Twitter in between sessions one day. The next thing I know, I am spending more time trying to get it set up the way I like it than listening …

One of the final talks was The Web 2.0 Communities, which featured Dave Galvan, VP, Business Development, Topix, Mark Josephson, CEO, Outside.in, Mike Orren, Founder and President, Pegasus News, and Sebastien Provencher, Co-founder and VP, Product Management, Praized. They, like the earlier talks, spoke about the geo-targeting component of the …