Local Business Marketing: Three Most Important Tips for Local Business Listings
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.
1. Claim Your Local Listing
By claiming your listing you are effectively protecting your listing from hijackings and also allow you to use your local business listing as a marketing tool. Don’t wait to do this….run!
2. Update Your Local Listing
Not only insure that all your basic business information is accurate, but add photos, videos, coupons, and events to your local business listing. The added information helps your ranking position amongst local listings and the consumers have more information to entice them to your business.
3. Monitor Your Local Listing
Consumers have been posting their experience about a business, products and services into local listings for the past three years. Sadly, business owners have been less than aware of this practice and finding themselves in a public relations problem. These reviews show up in web searches and mobile searches. Monitoring and managing these reviews will insure that you are up to date on any problems and also encourage customers to post positive reviews too.
With each marketing tool comes the management and the time it takes to insure the marketing tool is effective. We have to keep in mind that this work has to be performed at multiple local listing websites. If you are constrained with your time resources, there are Local Business Listing Management Services that can help you.
The Internet has become a good marketing source for the local business dependent upon the local consumer for their revenue through web searches and mobile searches. Tap into the power of Local Business Listing!
This is a guest post by Melih Oztalay of SmartFinds that provides Local Business Listing Management Services. You will find SmartFinds Internet Marketing to be of great benefit to your time resources and the low cost service may eliminate your yellow page ad costs. Let the experts of over 15 years Internet marketing experience help you use this local business marketing tool properly.
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Recently i seen Google update the name of Google local listing to Google place. It’s really good tool for local business owners.
Thanks for tips for local business marketing. Google change many things in 2010.
Good tools and thanks for your tips.Keep write on this….
When I put together a site for my friends new bakery, I made sure to include geo tags.
Within a week they now pop up for their main keyword within about a 30 mile radius which is really great. The combination of geo tagging, clear and optimized addressing and title tags I think really helped them overall.
Why does everyone seem to thing Google Local Business Listings is new for 2010? It’s been around for many years…at least since 2003 The same thing goes for Google TV ads – been there, done that. Who is listening to who? Maybe they don’t tell people until years later? Makes you wonder what else is going on…like page loading times…How fast is fast enough for Google PR now?
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I have been working with the Google Local Search Results for almost three years now and they really are a powerful marketing tool for small to medium sized service based businesses. With the proper design and display of cusotmer expereicnces incorporated with targeted local online advertising it provides one of the lowest cost per customer aqusition of any advertising meduim in the history of commerce.
Good tips and very thanks for this……..
We offer a Local Business Listing Management Service on the Isle of Man
Google has to keep re-naming the old and changing a couple of things to make it new again.
Local business marketing is like brain surgery. Not very many people know how to do it and most people think they don’t need any.
Is there any ebooks or week end coaching on how to perform brain surgery? I rest my case.