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Getting Local Leads Online

Last night I participated in direct sales trainer Deb Bixler’s famously free and popular Speakers in the Park summer teleclass series. We discussed some ideas and strategies for getting the word out about your business when you want to attract local leads right in your own backyard.  We had 59 people on the call and [...]

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Cathy Kurt Aesthetics – Santa Rosa, CA

Hi everyone! As part of my Mind in Business class from Productive Learning and Leisure, I had the privilege of interviewing several local Sonoma County small businesses to share with you here! Today I am featuring Cathy Kurt. Cathy specializes in making you look and feel beautiful and healthy from the outside in! Enjoy the [...]

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Social Media Conference – Sonoma County, CA

Hi everyone! I will be speaking on three topics at this upcoming social media conference. I will be conducting workshops on Facebook Fan Pages, Social Media Netiquette, and a round table discussion about Going Local – Using the internet to find local leads.
If you know someone in the San Francisco [...]

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Local Search Engines

Here is some advice that will help you gain new customers and clients right in your backyard. Just make sure you have a presence on Yahoo, Google and Bing LOCAL:
local.yahoo.com
local.google.com
local.bing.com
Each of the three major search engines have local business listings where you can create a complete profile that outlines your business description, location, web addresses, [...]

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Newspaper Announcements for Your Business

An easy way to get publicity for your business is a newspaper Announcement. These are little blurbs that go into your newspaper’s business section where you’ll see so and so is the new CEO of such and such company. We’ve all seen those. They have them in the regular paper and also business newspapers, chamber [...]

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Search Engines Like Meetup Links

I’m a co-author of a book coming out this month and I’ve been marketing it a little bit online in order to collect pre-orders. One thing I am doing is organizing a book study Meetup around each chapter of the book. This is going to give me the opportunity to facilitate discussions around my area [...]

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