internet marketing FOR BUSINESSES BOTH LARGE & SMALL

Want to know what’s one of the hottest areas in local?  Medical marijuana dispensaries.  I read in today’s Denver Post that dispensaries are popping up everywhere. The license fee is only $3,000 and there is…

If local advertising companies aren’t already quaking in their boots with Google’s recent blitz of new enhancements in local– Place Pages, Favorite Places, Caffeine, ad extensions,

Let’s talk about one of our clients that owns a chain of pizza restaurants, but for the sake of privacy, we’ll call it “Sun Pizza”, or SP for short. They’re a small chain of specialty restaurants that use…

Let’s first address the size of the local online advertising market, then show why these masses will have a good shot at finding success in 2010, but haven’t before. If you don’t like…

Tricky question, so let me answer it this way:

To measure penetration, we need both the numerator (number of businesses that are using IYP, traditional YP, and BBB)– divided by the denominator ( number of locally-focused businesses).

For the…

Well, perhaps not traditional video games, such as Pac Man or Space Invaders– I’m talking about how every website is now incorporating game dynamics. But if you consider how Facebook, LinkedIn, FourSquare, MerchantCircle, Twitter, Farmville, or other sites operate, according to…

It’s all about finding quality people—that’s what Court Cunningham says is the biggest challenge for Yodle, the local lead gen of which he’s CEO.  You need skilled people to both bring in new clients and set up campaigns—for them,…

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Tonight, I had dinner with Dr. David Verebelyi, Chief of Laser Surgery for the Colorado Center for PhotoMedicine.  They do liposuction in Denver, laser hair removal, and…

I look at ads all day– it’s part of my job. I even go out of my way to click on ads to see what competitors are doing.  So rarely am I surprised. But today I saw this:

  Yes, it’s…