Google Rolls Out Local Tags, Soon To Mobile

Google today announced it’s rolling out its experimental “tags” feature nationwide, with plans to take it mobile in the near future.

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Local Business Marketing

Local business listings began with a basic business directory more than a decade ago. Chances are, your business has a local listing wherever you have a physical address location. Check it out — go to Google, type in your company name. You’ll probably see a map locating your business and an address. Of course all you may find other information too.   Local business listings are treated passively by many businesses.  But that could be a mistake. You’ve probably read that prospects have something specific in mind when they are shopping. So try this test. Go back to Google, type in the name of a product or service your business provides plus your hometown. Did your business show up? If it did: congratulations. If it did not: you’re missing a major marketing opportunity.

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Tips and Tools for Location-Based Marketing

Directing customers to a nearby physical location is getting more sophisticated, thanks to mobile devices and emerging technologies known to marketers as location-based services, or simply LBS. There’s no need to get sophisticated in your approach to location-based marketing, however. The technology may be new, but the concept has been around ever since the first phone book listed only the businesses in a particular town or region.

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Learn Local Internet Marketing

Local Internet Marketing is merely marketing a business online. Most businesses, unless they begin online, are local. For example, a local bakery may service a small community and an airline may service an entire country, or a few countries. These businesses have borders. However, generally speaking when referencing local internet marketing, one considers a business that provides products or services locally, dealing directly with customers, sometimes face to face. These businesses typically have other marketing vehicles to drive patients, clients and customers and consider investing money and effort into driving more business from the Internet.

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Successful Internet Marketing: Tools of the Internet

By Chuck Hall

When I am discussing an Internet marketing project I am building for a client, I always discuss the tools I plan to use. The Internet has become the No. 1 source of reference material used for practically any project of any size. Well, it has at my house anyway.

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Google Local Tags for Ads Now Available Nationally

Google has taken what was once their enhanced listings for local businesses, renamed them Google Tags and is rolling the program out nationwide. With local search becoming more and more important in the Internet marketing landscape this is welcome news for many who are trying to figure out the best way to get the most mileage out of listings that appear in the 7-pack map listing. ……………. Marketing Read more

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Tucson Business and Marketing: Turn boycott threats into a positive

By Ken Pedersen
Published: Wednesday, June 9, 2010 4:48 PM MST

So, we’ve got city council members around the country calling to “Boycott Arizona! Yeah! Get those people! Who do they think they are … running their businesses and trying to make a living with their ‘new law’! Let’s hurt ’em!”

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Three Most Important Tips for Local Business Marketing

If you are a business dependent upon the local consumer for your revenue, then local business listings at multiple local listing websites is an important local business marketing tool for you. A few important tips.

Empower Your Local Marketing

Designed to meet your specific business goals and objectives, our robust custom applications provide the opportunity for your local sales team or staff to create localized, brand-compliant marketing collateral in a matter of minutes. This solution allows headquarters to maintain control while providing a simple, easy-to-use system for the end user.

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