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How to claim your business on Google Maps

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Just show me how >> Last week I wrote about the new Foursquare 3.0 updates and all of the cool goodness business owners can take advantage of to attract and keep customers at their location, but if you're new to location-based services like Foursquare, Yelp, Facebook Places and even Google Maps you might be wondering how to get started with managing your business on these websites. The first and most-important step is to claim your business! It's free, it's easy, and before you know it you'll be up and running which lets people check-in and review to their hearts content. Let's get started with Google Maps

The Social World Comes Together During Natural Disasters

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First and foremost I would like to say that our thoughts are with the people of Japan and other areas that have been affected by this morning's earthquake and tsunami.

3 Ways Realtors Can Spread The Word For New Properties Online

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If you didn't catch my last two posts on rural realtors' use of the web for marketing, please check them out:

Mobile Web Marketing Tactics That Realtors Should Use

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If you caught my post yesterday, you learned that I think Real Estate Agents' websites can really use some work. Today, I want to go over what I consider to be some missed opportunities in the mobile realm of web marketing by realtors in rural areas.

3 Web Development Needs of Rural Real Estate Agents

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Say Hello to Foursquare 3.0

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Foursquare, the popular socially-aware check-in game has moved to version 3.0 this week, and that means there are loads of cool new features to keep both users and merchants happy. If you haven't investigated Foursquare as an inbound marketing platform, and certainly if you've never tried the app out for yourself, now's the time!

What Will Google Buy Next?

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If you aren't aware, Google likes to buy things. A lot of things. Whether or not it is to eliminate the competition or to actually better their products, some people believe that these acquisitions go against the Google motto, "don't be evil". In the past I can say I would have agreed. Not entirely in a bad way, (I still love you Google) but there were times I thought their purchasing was somewhat unethical.

MailChimp for Small Businesses Part 6

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Did you successfully send out the first email blast for your small business? If you don't feel like you are ready, please take a look at the first 6 parts of the series:

Is Your Small Business Only Using The Media In Social Media?

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Welcome to our blog's 200th post! I'm very excited to be the 200th post writer (fist pump!), and to have had the opportunity to write so many articles that I hope help your small businesses to be better web marketers!

Mobile Web Usage is Growing Faster than Google Expected

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Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, recently did a keynote in which he described the rate at which mobile device usage is growing, and moreover how folks are turning to the mobile web for information, entertainment and shopping faster than anyone at Google expected. There are certain topics in the tech industry as it relates to small businesses that are "sometime soon" topics. What I mean by that is there are some awesome tools that a small business can apply now to jump ahead of the curve (and benefit greatly as a result), things like QR codes, location-based services and tablet computing devices like the iPad. Then there are more pertinent aspects of the web and technology that, if you haven't already explored or developed a strategy for you're missing the boat. The most obvious among these are establishing a brand on the most popular social networks, but now more than ever it's increasingly important to have a mobile strategy...after all, that's how your customers and prospects are trying ...