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5 Ways to Get More From Local Search

Posted by Valerie | Posted in marketing, small business, Tips & Tools | Posted on 29-06-2010

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Looking for more tips to get your website up to the top of local searches on search engines like Google? Here is a great article from Duct Tape Marketing, with simple tasks to help bump up your ranking. All of these are not only easy to execute but FREE.
If you need help with implementing any of these tasks let us know, we would be happy to help: Valerie@JDaeDesigns.com or 208-861-9841

CLICK HERE FOR: 5 Ways to Get More From Local Search, John Jantsch, Duct Tape Marketing


Local Partnerships

Posted by Valerie | Posted in Business Tips, marketing, small business, Tips & Tools | Posted on 04-05-2010

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Another great way small businesses can get the word out about their business is by creating local partnerships. This takes the link exchange we always discuss one step further. Not only are you linking this local business on your website you are create an active referral system between businesses.

We found this great article from Duct Tape Marketing Blog that discuss just this. There are six simple ideas to explore and 5 or 6 are FREE! Let us know what you think of this article or if you are interested in joining in a local partnership with JDae Designs call or email us anytime. 208-861-9841 or Valerie@JDaeDesigns.com.

Click here for the article on How to Create a Killer Local Partner Team Program.

7 Insanely Useful Ways to Search Twitter for Marketing

Posted by Valerie | Posted in Business Tips, marketing, Social Media | Posted on 06-04-2010

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From  Mon Mar 22, 2010 at ducttapemarketing.com:

As a marketing tool Twitter gets much more interesting and useful when you can filter out 99% of the junk that doesn’t apply to your objectives and focus on the stuff that matters.

The basic search.twitter.com functionality is fine for searching things that are being said about your search terms. The advanced search function offers more ways to slice and dice the stream, but still leaves some room for improvement as it only searches what’s being said and where. From a marketing standpoint who is saying it might be more useful.

Now that the search engines are all pretty geeked up over real time search you can create some very powerful searches and alerts combining Google and Twitter.
Click here for the 7 tips!