Discover some NO Cost Internet Marketing tips that will help your local business in 2012 and beyond….
It’s amazing but apart from hosting and connection fees the Internet is FREE! Here you have just the most powerful communication medium in the world at your finger tip, are you going to waste the potential.
It’s a new year and all of us are off to a rearing start and already many are starting to ask why does it cost so much? It seems that no matter what every little bit of advertising and marketing we do cost us money and often it is a risky spend.
BUT what can you do on the Internet that’s going to have an effect on you businesses visibility online without costing you a fortune or better even cost you nothing. In the image above you’ll see two 1st place Google listing I have achieved for my business under the term “internet marketing consultant cape town”.
Two listings on the 1st page of Google, this can cost you quite a bit if you had to get someone to do it for you but these two things you can do yourself and later when you want to optimise them a bit you can get a professional.
So instead of wasting time and money today killing the planet with another junk pamphlet drop, why don’t you spend a bit of time and learn how to set-up these two FREE profiles properly and get your own Google 1st page listing in your area.
FACT: local search e.g. search with a place name in it has an 84% economic intent. That means that more than 80% of searchers in this category wants to do business with you. How’s that for odds?
The TWO Internet Marketing Tips I’m talking about here are: Google Places and LinkedIn!
I get the question often about why these two listings are of any significance? So here’s the answer!
These specific TWO online properties have the ability to help local business show up on the 1st page of Google more often and at less cost than almost any other strategy and they are FREE.
I’m not going to go into major detail here, I have covered the topics in depth in previous articles see What is google Places? and 5 Simple Steps to an EFFECTIVE LinkedIn Profile for some advice on how to optimise your Google Placed and LinkedIn profile.
I know that Internet marketing is a whole new learning curve for most and that many of you don’t have time to learn new more effective marketing strategies. All I can assure you is that the best investment you can make into your business right now with regards to marketing is to get your Internet marketing up and running, EFFECTIVELY!
I’ll be conducting a 2 day workshop at IEASA on the 7th and 8th of February 2012, do contact Lee-Ann on 021-531 3180 for more information, else pop me a comment and I will get you sorted.
Make it your mission to be more social on Social Media this year, don’t get distracted by what other people do, focus on building your friends and communicate regularly with them.
Also make sure that you remember to bring your cyber buddies into reality where ever you can because we can meet and stay in touch online but we still need that physical interaction to cement lifelong relationships, so don’t discount your off-line networking opportunities.
Internet Marketing Expert Helping Local Business Profit from the Internet and Social Media, See My Blog Internet Marketing Consultant SA
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