Jan Kearney -Your Local Business Marketing Consultant
Are Your Local Business Listings Up To Date? There’s no doubt that Google Places Local Business Listings are a fantastic way of raising your online visibility. Not only can it drive traffic to your website but also increase calls and foot traffic too. Google takes into account a whole range of factors when deciding where [...]
Your Local Business Website Is Live! You have driven boldly onto the information super highway and your local business website is proudly proclaiming your presence to your city, county, country and the world at large. So, what is missing? Can your readers contact you? It seems a daft question, but oddly it is one that [...]
Yell Small Business Websites – Lies and Damn Statistics For a few years now, Yell have offered small business websites and marketing packages to compliment the Yellow Pages directory. It’s been a while since I have dealt with a Yellow Pages sales call. However, I am taking my own advice and slowly adding my business [...]
Today is D-Day, the war on cookies officially begins and new EU laws are now implemented in the UK. Amendments to the UK Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, which implement the EU Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive now require business websites to request explicit consent from users to accept cookies. Let’s start at the beginning. [...]
Today’s Local Business Online Marketing Thursday Thought, inspired by my visit to the hairdressers, for some reason reminded me of the Eddie Izzard sketch – Cake or Death! The mind works in mysterious ways… While Google is definitely “cake”, Facebook is only “death” when not used to its full potential. Let me explain a bit [...]
You’ve set up your Google local business listing and have activated your pin. What now? It’s easy to sit back and and trust to luck that your local business will reach the top seven and stay there. But as competition heats up and more businesses in your area take advantage of the free listing, you [...]
Is your small business using outdated advertising and marketing methods that essentially throw your hard earned cash straight into the recycle bin? Advertising and marketing your local business is changing fast. As a small business owner you need to keep up with changing trends to ensure your company is seen by your potential customers. The [...]
I'm really pleased to have Evelyn Cucchiara as a guest blogger today. I met Evelyn through the … [Read More...]
The 30 Day Facebook Fanpage Challenge started on Monday in a flurry of activity and mad clicks. One … [Read More...]
Facebook Graph Search is rolling out to users as we speak. Unfortunately, small businesses simply … [Read More...]
“Being novices to IT, we hired Jan through a recommendation to help us with our web site(which is brilliant). Not only did she build the web site but she as mentored us through every step of the way, navigating the internet, encouraging us to joining different social networks. With out her help we would have been really struggling to cope with the requirements of a modern day business.
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