Online marketing for your local business is becoming a necessity if you are planning on being competitive in today’s market place.

With about 90% of potential clients going to Google to find local businesses, the first page of Google is where you want your business to be found. Why the first page? Because most people seldom go past the first page of Google when looking for a business.

Marketing is about getting your message in front of as many potential clients as possible, and convincing then to take the action. In other words you want them to call your business rather than your competition.

You want your business to be found for as many keywords as possible. These are the actual words that a potential client will type into Google to find your product or service. And example of keywords for a plumber might be: (plumber, plumbing, plumbing repairs, leak repair, etc.)

In addition to Google there are other places that potential clients go to find your business or service on the internet. There are Bing, Yelp, Yahoo, Best of the Web, and hotfrog to name a few. These are sites that you can go and claim your listing.

The least expensive is to do what you can yourself, and outsource the rest. As determined by your budget, you can leverage the expertise and time of professional online marketing specialists to optimize these listings so that your business is one of the featured businesses found on the first page.

With internet marketing, you need to get your product/ service in front of as many eyeballs as possible. And the better the placement of your business listing the more your phone will ring.

The main concept is this: Provide as much excellent content and information to as many sources as possible, as consistently as possible. With proper SEO (Search Engine Optimization) your business can be one of the featured businesses (these are the ones that have a letter A-G in the maps area).

Although you are finding that Google is placing businesses that have a website in the maps area as a featured business. There is a way to get your business there even if you do not currently have a website.

If this is all Greek to you and you need help with claiming your listings to get your business on the internet give us a call. It is inexpensive and an excellent way to get your phone to ring.

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