If you follow along on Facebook, you’ll know I have doing a coaching course. Nothing to do with marketing online, but it has been life changing! It’s been quite revealing and very soul searching. It’s made me realise I have to take stock – from how I work to why and with whom. Anyway, I […]
Your Local Business Online Visibility vs My Neighbours Car Parking Skills
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 […]
Local Business Owners: Stop Moaning and Start Marketing
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 […]
Google Places Local Business Listings Recent Changes
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 […]
How to Simply Improve Your Local Business Website
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 […]
Small Business Websites
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 […]
The War on Cookies (or UK Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations if you prefer)
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. […]