Jan Kearney -Your Local Business Marketing Consultant
Google welcomed in April today by changing maps to old school graphics. Personally I love it, it reminds me when computer games were fun. I’m tempted to dig out my quest sheet and go off in search of my fortune! What’s happening in Google this week? Google No Longer Support XML Geo-sitemap Now, I love [...]
A Google Places Listing is the easiest ways for a local business to appear at the top of search results. It’s a free service if you do it yourself, but it does need to be monitored. I talked about changes to Google Places in October. People with a Google account can make updates to your [...]
So, you decide to start using social media for business. You set up an account or two – maybe even half a dozen… The promised magic didn’t happen. You were broadcasting to a vast emptiness. Perhaps you ran out of things to say. Either way, you come to the conclusion that social media is not [...]
An odd match you may think. What has your online visibility got to do with parking cars? No, I haven’t partied too hard over the break! I was sat here, wondering what can I do for my first blog post of 2012. Staring at a blank page and waiting for inspiration to hit just wasn’t [...]
Are local marketing and sales skills really that difficult? Would you believe I started and finished my Christmas shopping yesterday. Granted, I don’t do Christmas, so the running around and spending fortunes for the hell of it really isn’t my thing. Needless to say I do buy the odd gift. Town was busy with last [...]
A message to local business owners… A rather harsh title, for which I make no apologies… I read my local paper this morning (don’t die in shock, I don’t read everything online!) On page 4 there’s a headline “Falling profits are on a road to nowhere”. Keeping it brief, a road was closed while the [...]
Over on Facebook yesterday, Ginny Carter commented about a network meeting she had attended. She spoke about businesses who resist social media, and with my lack of internet last night – it got me thinking… Social media for business is very much the in thing – the buzzword of today. Like it or loathe it, [...]
What Internet Marketing for Local Business Really Means (Hint) It’s Not Just About Your Website! I have lost track of how many local business owners I have spoken to who tell me, “Oh we have a website, we are already marketing on the internet.” Or words to that affect at least. So it’s time [...]
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.
Rating by Elaine Parry: stars
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