I feel like every Friday I am spending time griping about Google in some way as it relates to the local search market. Well, it seems that way because I…
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Frank Reed
Selling marketing to SMBs: No personal touch? No sale!
The SMB space is the biggest puzzle that the online world has been trying to solve and, with just a few exceptions, it has failed miserably to this point. We…
Read MoreInternet marketing grinders are winners
First of all, for you folks in New England that refer to a sub or a hoagy as a “grinder,” this is not about that. You can probably come up…
Read MoreIf it’s not Google, Twitter, or Facebook, no one cares
In case you didn’t know it already, I am the managing editor for the Marketing Pilgrim Internet Marketing blog. Every day part of my job is to find stories that…
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Local Internet marketing is too complex
No wonder local Internet marketing is a mystery to many SMB’s and even much larger businesses and organizations. Setting aside the fact that there are so many different channels, sites,…
Read MoreYellow Page industry sets up “Do not deliver” site
I have been pretty harsh on the Yellow Pages in the past. Most of my trouble comes from the fact that the medium just isn’t as effective across all verticals…
Read MoreThe internet industry races forward and leaves opportunity in the dust
There was a Simon and Garfunkel song called “Feeling Groovy” whose lyrics run, “Slow down, you move too fast, you’ve got to make the morning last, just kickin’ down the…
Read MoreGroupon’s competition isn’t LivingSocial. It’s Amazon.
This week LivingSocial, the leading Groupon daily deal competitor, ran a deal for $20 gift card on Amazon for $10. Simple math says that’s pretty sweet. I bought it. It…
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An open letter to Google on local marketing and people
We often sing the praises of Google for its role in the development of the modern day commercial Internet and really one of the only well-functioning areas of the current…
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Now’s the time for your business to think local
Recently, I have been talking about local Internet marketing and the rapid developments in the area. Well, as we start 2011, there is a strange sound in the local Internet…
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