Comments on: Are You Making These 5 Local Marketing Mistakes?

By: onlinemarketing

onlinemarketing — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:36:24 +0000

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By: Michel

Michel — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 13:53:32 +0000

the biggest mistake is not having online prescence on a site that does the work for you. There are plenty of sites that promise small biz advertisement with just a listing…lets be honest, we are a vision driven society and small businesses need more than a listing. they need inventory, personality, and charisma online…the only way 2 do so is on the free Business marketing site TheLocalIndex.com that allows free signup, free pictures, everything is free and is obviously for the business owner adn not about the money!

By: Martin Lindeskog

Martin Lindeskog — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 13:19:28 +0000

Anthony Kuhn,

Is the Innovators Network an open blog community?

By: Anthony Kuhn

Anthony Kuhn — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:08:22 +0000

Staci:

This is a great idea for busy people who don’t want to monopolize their eyeball time reading. Why not listed to a great piece on marketing while multi-tasking? Thanks for this nice piece on 5 marketing mistakes to avoid.

I linked to your piece in my blog at the Innovators-Network, where I’m always looking for interesting stories to include in my daily post.

Best wishes for continued success!

Anthony Kuhn

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:08:39 +0000

I like a site with easy to understand navigation, which is something that I don’t think “do-it-yourselfers” have in mind when creating unless using a service which provides a basic template with that in mind.

Contact information should always be front and center. And frankly, when a site forces me to dig for it, I don’t feel too good about conducting a transaction with them. What if something goes wrong? Can I reach someone? That’s what I begin to think.

As for myself, I find local search quite valuable for my own personal uses. I sit at the computer – I’m not one to reach for the Yellow Pages.

By: Martin Lindeskog

Martin Lindeskog — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:14:55 +0000

We have had a tough time to reach out the local market. It has taken a long time to get known in the central area of Gothenburg. We have tried to advertise in local press, insert notices in the newspaper and putting flyers on billboards downtown.

We are listed in the Swedish version of Yellow Pages called “Find” (“Hitta” in Swedish) and we have a map on our contact page.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:01:06 +0000

I would have to agree with Connie. Sites that are just thrown on the web with no design or thought turn me off. A more professional looking site is worth a few bucks spent.

I do also hate having to search on a site for a phone number or email address. It should be right in the open.

By: Small Business UnMarketing

Small Business UnMarketing — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 06:41:27 +0000

Small Business Marketing Mistakes

The majority of small businesses are still getting most of their customers within a 50 miles radius of their home location. But according to Small Business Trends Radio, many of these businesses are still making the same mistakes when it

By: Connie Ragen Green

Connie Ragen Green — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 06:27:51 +0000

A home-made website can look like just that, so it is best to at least have someone do some basic design for your site. You can still keep it simple, but you must include contact information that can be easily found.

By: Vlad - Small Business and Web Design

Vlad - Small Business and Web Design — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 04:04:26 +0000

If business caters to a younger crowd, Yellow Pages is just a waste of money/time. These money better be spent on other offline promotions.

By: EJMalyn

EJMalyn — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:51:34 +0000

A lot of clicks by me failed because a phone number was not listed__very frustrating!