Tuesday, 20 March 2012

Small Business Help - use Yelp for better local internet search results

In my last post we looked at how to use Yelp for better local internet search results.

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This was the quick and easy process of claiming you local business listing. Now to turbo charge your listing you need to get reviews. As Jon writes on Noobpreneur.com 'But the most useful part of Yelp is the review section that allows customers to leave reviews for others to

Small Business Help - use Yelp for better local internet search results

Sunday, 18 March 2012

Small Business SEO Tips - Claim your business on local Yelp results

Are you after free, quick and easy small business SEO tips for your business website?

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Here is a great tip to Search Engine Optimize your website using Yelp.com that I read from an article on Noobprenrur.com. So don't put this off, use yelp and claim your business so that your website will rank higher in local search engine rankings. Noobprenrur states:
Small

Small Business SEO Tips - Claim your business on local Yelp results

Thursday, 15 March 2012

Do customer loyalty programs really work?

My small store does not have a customer loyalty program. Why? A couple of

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reasons. Firstly I'm not sure that customer loyalty programs really work, and secondly I haven't found a program that suits my needs. It seems now though, that because other stores have them, potential/new customers are expecting me to follow suit. My opinion,

do customer loyalty programs work

Wednesday, 14 March 2012

Small Business Marketing - Does facebook advertising work?

Does facebook advertising work? This question has been asked of me a few


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times lately. And unfortunately, like all forms of advertising there is no way of really guaranteeing whether it will work for you or not. However, we can look at other small business experiences to get an idea .
Payvment is a facebook ecommerce platform that build facebook stores for businesses who have

small business marketing - does facebook advertising work

Tuesday, 13 March 2012

Small Business Tools at a discount

Do you want small business tools at a discount. There are so many great tools on the web that internet marketers use, and the good news is that those in small business can also use them. Be wary, there are many not so good ones as well. Here's a daily deal site that specialises in internet tools, videos, courses. So check it out and get small business tools at a discount. There are many facets to this site including free stuff so do check out all the tabs, it's huge!



Check out the

get small business tools at a discount

Small Business Tools at a discount

Do you want small business tools at a discount. There are so many great tools on the web that internet marketers use, and the good news is that those in small business can also use them. Be wary, there are many not so good ones as well. Here's a daily deal site that specialises in internet tools, videos, courses. So check it out and get small business tools at a discount. There are many facets to this site including free stuff so do check out all the tabs, it's huge!



Check out the

get small business tools at a discount

Small Business Advice - try not to compete on price

This small business advice, try not to compete on price should be changed to DO


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NOT compete on price, but that may be a bit hard to take. Watching what the competition is doing is important, but following blindly when many are discounting madly could lead to disaster. Here is what Michael Hess has to say in his article on 'Why you shouldn't stress about the

small business advice- try not to compete on price