The Pew Research Center through its Internet and American Life Project has released a study called “Where People Get Information About Restaurants and Other Local Businesses“. It can be a bit of an eye opener when it comes to the perceived pervasive sharing about social activities by using social media. The chart below shows where people go to get information about local businesses other than restaurants, bars and clubs.
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Research Says Social Media is NOT the Place People Get Local Business Data
on Dec 15, 2011
The Pew Research Center through its Internet and American Life Project has released a study called “Where People Get Information About Restaurants and Other Local Businesses“. It can be a bit of an eye opener when it comes to the perceived pervasive sharing about social activities by using social media. The chart below shows where people go to get information about local businesses other than restaurants, bars and clubs.Google, Intuit and Missouri Partner Up to Get SMBs Online
on Aug 30, 2011
There was a time when all a local business needed was a phone and an ad in the Yellow Pages in order to bring in customers. Today, 97% of Americans go online to find local services but only 63% of small businesses have a web presence. Why? Because as hard as it may be for anyone who reads MarketingPilgrim to believe, not everyone knows how to build a website.
Here’s the Deal: Facebook Scraps Deals
on Aug 29, 2011
Facebook has been busy lately with sweeping privacy and sharing changes which are in response to the ripple that Google+ has sent through the tech writer technologist Scoble following social media world with it’s initial “success”.
Why Your Next Online Marketing Client May Live Next Door
on May 12, 2011
The new buzz word on the street is local. The thing is, it’s not just buzz. Brian Clark and Robert Bruce talked about local businesses back in February on the Internet Marketing for Smart People Radio show. If you haven’t heard it yet, you need to check it out.
Google and Marketing to the SMB
on May 5, 2011
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If you are an SMB owner or marketer and have been in the Internet marketing game for any length of time you know how strange it sounds to consider Google reaching out to you though marketing. It’s a well known frustration regarding Google that having something that has a pulse behind it rather than a blinking light to field questions or concerns or even give some general information often feels more like a matter of fate and chance rather than design. Of course, if you spend enough money in AdWords you mayGoogle’s SMB Achilles’ Heel: People
on Dec 24, 2010
I wasn’t planning on posting today until I saw an article in the Wall Street Journal about how Google has added sales people to sell to local businesses. The push is to move products like Boost and Tags for the local market.
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