Kudos to the search engines for dropping a great business right in your lap! “Huh?” you say. “What?” you ask. Well, if you read my blog post Google Goes Loco, Oops, I Mean Local on All Searches you’ll know that since April of 2009 Google has been serving local results with its search results. You see from its own research Google has discovered that 70% of its searches is done with local intent. That means 70% of the time people are searching Google, they are looking for products or services from “local” businesses. Since Google wants to stay on top as the #1 Search Engine, the people at Google decided that they better make provisions for local business search results…so voila, Local Search was born. By the way, Bing and Yahoo followed suit with their own local search results, as well.

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Sorry for the dramatic title…I don’t like it when they’re used to trick or manipulate me, but I’m totally serious about this. I read a blog post yesterday by Chris Rempel and in one post he laid out a very clear and simple way starting an online business that would begin to make you money [...]

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Google just announced that it is providing local search results on all of its searches. Is your website primed to take advantage of this new Google Local Search feature? Google announced on April 6, 2009, that it is now providing “local content” on all of its search results, according to its official blog. In a [...]

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Daily I’m contacted by women (and men) about the best online business for them to start. As I tell each and every one of them, it depends…it depends on their interests, their skills, their time. It’s a very personal decision on what might be the best online business match for them. However, having said that, [...]

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Susan on December 16th, 2008

Are you using WordPress and looking for the best WordPress plugins? Look no further! We have the list you’re looking for! Received a tweet regarding a post on Andy Beal’s Marketing Pilgrim – 21 Awesome WordPress Plugins That I Selfishly Kept to Myself Until Today. It was a very good collection of top plugins that [...]

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