Local Social Search for Small Businesses

Posted by julieanne | November 16, 2009 | Posted in: Local Social Media Marketing | Comments (0)

Local small businesses are gaining more and more advantages for using the Internet every day. As stated on SearchEngineLand.com today, if you combine social networking and local search you will have a diversified mix of sales tools that will empower circles of families, friends, co-workers and organizations to share experiences and opinions about your local business.

According to Stephanie Hobbs – Small businesses will risk missing important growth opportunities if they don’t learn to harness “local-social search”.

These are the highlights of the article on SearchEngineLand.com -

  • Google has recently launched Place Pages where you can discover a lot of relevant information about a particular business, all in one place. Here is an example of some of the information shown about a Gold Coast resort in Australia:
    Gold Coast Australia resort
  • Google maps also integrated a user review in their searches, and the resort above has a number of user reviews shown in it’s description.
  • Yahoo! Local now includes review content in its index.
  • YellowBot offers local search results based on networking and tagging.
  • Internet Yellow Pages continue to provide up-to-date local content and are adding a social aspect.
  • There may even be a Twitter feature for SuperPages

Go to the following page on SearchEngineLand, to read the article written on Local-Social Search: A Powerful Marketing Channel for Small Businesses

Local Social Media Solutions For Australian Businesses

Posted by Julieanne | September 29, 2009 | Posted in: Local Social Media Marketing | Comments (2)

Infinite Marketing Consulting in Australia offers social media solutions for local brick and mortar businesses that flat out bring traffic and results.

Can a simple four step social media plan really make a huge difference in your business? You bet it can! Watch the video below to see why Social Marketing plays such a huge part for local businesses both Internationally and in Australia now:

You see, it works like magic but almost nobody knows about it.
When you start getting calls and new customers…You’ll ask yourself, how something so simple can be so powerful…

So call us today to find out more about our Managed Media Marketing Services Plan.