Promoting Your Events Locally

Posted by on Dec 31, 2007 in Email Marketing, Local Search, Marketing | 0 comments Do you offer local training, seminars, conferences or other, “open-to-the-public” events and need a better way to get the word out? Then you might consider using FullCalendar.com to promote your next event. Their service is pretty straight forward. You sign up for an account. Create your event listing. Pay $19.95 and voilà, FullCalendar will send your event’s announcement to...
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Local Search to Become a Focus

Posted by on Sep 26, 2007 in Local Search | 0 comments Well, I’m back after a bit of a hiatus devoted to vacationing on the island of Kauai in Hawaii. If you’ve never been–we hadn’t–I can’t recommend it enough and if you have been …. GO BACK! My blogging suffered as I caught up with projects … a website redesign for a client and a couple of projects of my own including one that I hope to launch this...
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Can You Be Found In Local Search?

Posted by on Aug 27, 2007 in Local Search, Marketing, Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Optimization | 0 comments It’s amazing to me the number of businesses that I patronize locally that don’t show up when I search for them locally using local.google.com or local.yahoo.com or just thai restaurant 80227. Even if they have a web site many sites fail to register locally for the simple reason that they don’t do a good job of populating their sites with the geo tags (ie, zip code, city, etc.)...
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