Social search is not going away.  It is important for small businesses to get involved with the major social media sites especially now that social search is a part of the search results pages for people who belong to your social circles. I believe small businesses should have several social profiles.  One that is personal for [...]

Gary Vaynerchuk is one the smartest entrepreneur’s who use social media correctly. The reason I like him so much is he runs real business using social media as one of his major marketing methods, so he walks his talk.  Not the case with most folks who teach social media marketing. My thoughts on whether social media [...]

With Google Maps showing up in the organic search engines, it’s ever so important that businesses that provide services locally actively pursue getting positive reviews on their Google Maps listings. By doing this, it accomplishes two things: Better Rankings within the 7-Pack A Good Social Profile (which improves calls & clicks) The Challenge Often small businesses have a hard time [...]

Social Media Can Benefit An SEO Campaign. To begin, I would like to thank Matthew Hunt for enabling me to contribute this article to his blog. As a keen SEO content writer and social media user I have learned just how important it is to network with others in the industry, a sentiment that Matthew clearly [...]

Back in the day, a lot of technology was sold using the F.U.D. principle. Business owners are pretty sharp, but when pressed for time they cannot always dig deeply and research every new thing that comes along. So tech sales agents would exploit this situation and tell them just enough to close a sale based [...]

Google Maps can be a mess.  Often it can produce duplicate listings for business(s) which can cause many issues when you are trying to get your Google Map Listing to rank well (ideally within the 7-Pack). Sometimes its Google Map’s fault and other times it’s Merchant’s fault for  not understanding how Google Maps works.  Regardless of [...]

This totally blew my mind!  Talk about Star Trek technology emerging before our eyes. At TEDIndia, Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data — including a deep look at his SixthSense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper “laptop”. I thought smart phone technology was a game changer, but [...]

This is really cool.  Not sure when Google LBC released this new feature, I haven’t heard anyone speak about it yet. I was in tweaking a couple of things with a fairly new client’s account and I noticed a new feature called “Post to Your Place Page”.  It looks like this: And then when it goes live it [...]

I noticed there was quite a few people who were having trouble understanding how to edit and/or delete their Google Maps Coupons on the G-Maps Forum.  It looks like some of merchants where dealing with a bug, but some people just didn’t know how to navigate around on the Local Business Center.   This video tutorial [...]

To Upload, Or Not To Upload, That Is The Question: This has become a current question I have had to ask and consider with one of my more recent clients.  This client has several hundred locations via a franchise and they want to monitor & optimize their Google Maps listings.  The question we had been pondering [...]