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Small Business Local Search Traffic Examples

July 20, 2009 By Eddie Perea Leave a Comment

GoodNews Small Business Local Search Traffic Examples

Here are two videos that illustrate the potential in local search available to small businesses in my area.  In both videos I show niches which have a good number of searches and plenty of opportunity to leverage social media and Web 2.0 to steal some of this traffic.

If you are in a service business such as flooring, plumbing or design, it would only take a couple of new customers each month to open your mind to the potential in local optimized search-engine friendly blogs with social media. [Read more...]

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Local Search Potential For Small Business

July 18, 2009 By Eddie Perea Leave a Comment

Revenue Local Search Potential For Small Business

Local search for small business is an untapped market at the moment and for local businesses that leverage this source of leads, it could be a windfall of revenue. Could yours be one of them?

I put together this video showing an overview of the potential for your business and I used conservative numbers.  You can see that the opportunities to generate leads for your business by effective use of local search are incredible.

Check it out.

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Performing searches with a sample of service businesses yielded a range of daily searches from 3000 to 8000 people in my local area (Atlanta) that are looking right now for services from small businesses.

How do you capture some of this business?  I’m willing to bet even a small percentage of this traffic would translate into potentially thousands each month for some of you reading this.

If you want to learn more, fill out our contact form and we will contact you.

My next post asks the question:  How do I make money from people who do not use my service or buy from my store?

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Economic Climate Killing Local Business?

July 17, 2009 By Eddie Perea Leave a Comment

smallbusinesssurvival Economic Climate Killing Local Business?

I know, it’s a tough way to open an article but many small businesses are  hurting for revenue and in some cases, this economy is putting hard working people out of business.  Here is the good news:  You can turn it around if you find yourself in a position of near failure, by expanding your focus on what you do to drive business to your door.

Whether you are a service business or a brick and mortar small business retailer, changes to catapult your business in tough economic times are available and very effective.

Welcome to Small Biz Online Helper

We provide information on expanding your local business using resources to capture local website search traffic for…what else? To make you more money of course! Especially today, it’s getting harder to find ways to justify spending even more money on advertising to get customers calling you or visiting your store so you need to be smart and strategic in your advertising and marketing efforts.

Right now, today in Atlanta (where I live) there are thousands of people each day searching on Google to fill a need related to a service or product that a local business provides and this is true no matter where you are located. Are you capturing any of that traffic?  Would you like to?

In this tough economy it is important that you explore all methods to generate leads and the internet is one that works very well for local businesses.  I know – my family has been in locksmithing for 3 generations and we feel the pinch too.  Adding targeted local search marketing to our business strategies has started to turn the tide for us.

The good news is this:  it is not that hard to setup a lead generation system using local search for your business that drives people to you.

Our site provides information that applies to any local business and you may already have a website (which is only the first step in capturing business from local searches) and that’s great BUT having a website does not generate traffic to your business. A website is the online equivalent of your business front door – you still need to get people in the door.  We can show you how and provide resources to point you in the right direction.

Maybe you are too busy and do not have the time to learn it on your own.  If that’s you, we can help by doing the setup for you to get you going.  Your job from that point is to maintain your free resources and drive traffic to your business (we show you how). Your job? Collect the money.  Believe it or not, this is VERY simple to do.

Stay tuned for my next post Optimize Your Business for Local Search.

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