If you have a cellphone the chances are pretty darn good that you have a smartphone with all kinds of stuff on it. Smartphone sales were up 63% from 2010 with almost 500 million sold in 2011. Interestingly these units were used less for making phone calls than any other task.
If you stop to think about all of the posts, tweets, mentions, like, adds, +1s, uploads, shares, hashtags, and bamboozles an average person online these days makes in a lifetime, your head will spin.
At Turn The Page we get asked that question a lot………….. and it is essential for any business to understand this growing marketing channel. Here is a two part post giving a basic outline of online marketing.
Google announces Google + Local which adds the user-generated reviews from Zagat to the circles of Google +.
After taking in four and a half years of data they found that there were over a quarter of a million visits from search engines vs about 3500 that came from their Yellow Pages ad.
It is important for local business owners and executives to correctly position their business for local search. There is a rush to take advantage of the opening local search provides by bigger companies looking to charge money for positioning that is not always ideal.
Are you keyword savvy? Good use of keywords is essential to being found on the internet.
