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Free Webinar: 6 DIY Marketing Research Trends You Can Use to Build Your Brand Posted: 11 Aug 2010 02:54 PM PDT Thursday September 30th, 2010 9:00 AM PST Sign Up Here! Interactivity, collaboration and open source concepts are changing how we collect feedback.   Marketing research is evolving.  It's more than surveys and focus groups. It's more than those thousand dollar reports produced by Freedonia or The Conference Board.  Today, finding out what your customer is thinking is a hands-on process. SurveyAnalytics is proud to be a part of this free live webinar featuring panelists: Ivana Taylor, Marketing Strategist and Editor of DIYMarketers.com;  and Esther Rmah LaVielle, Senior Account Manager of SurveyAnalytics. In this fast paced session, we'll be exploring: -       6 of the top research trends that have influenced how we collect feedback -       Resources where you can see examples of these trends in action. -       Tools that you can use today to get started Register today to discover how your peers are leveraging insight into defined opportunities to innovate via today's technologies for tomorrow's research! Sign Up Here! About the Presenters: Ivana Taylor is the President and Chief Marketing Officer of Third Force (http://thirdforce.net), a strategic marketing firm that helps small to medium sized companies get and keep loyal, profitable customers regardless of price. She is the author of popular marketing blog called Strategy Stew (http://strategystew.com) where she dishes out marketing how-to's for small business owners and in-house marketers. Ivana is also an instructor with Cleveland State and the University of Akron and has created and co-written the Applied Marketing Management Certification Course which was voted best new Continuing Education Course for 2005. She is co-author of the book "Excel for Marketing Managers." Esther LaVielle is a Senior Account Manager at QuestionPro and Survey Analytics, which was started in 2002 in Seattle and is now one of the fastest growing private companies in the US. Prior to her adventure at QuestionPro she spent 3 years as a Qualitative Project Manager at the Gilmore Research Group. http://www.surveyanalytics.com

What You May Not Know About Local Search – But Need to Implement NOW Posted: 10 Aug 2010 05:56 PM PDT You don’t have to be an Search Engine or Marketing expert to understand the basic rule of marketing — it’s all about getting chosen.  But if your customers can’t find you – you won’t get chosen. Local Search Isn’t Just for Local Retailers At a local conference sponsored by GetListed.org I picked up the following lessons that I’d like to share with you. Local search is INDEXED.  This means that if you want to get found, you need to be listed.   Mike Blumenthal, and expert on local search said it best “Google is like a vacuum cleaner; it sucks in data and amplifies it.”  Please be sure to visitMike’s site for slides and details about the GetListed.org University. The Trend is Toward “Decision” Engine. Maryam Gholami, a product manager from Bing.com was there to explain exactly what “Decision Engine” meant.  Bing.com’s research showed that people were using search engines to decide on where to go and what to buy.  They also learned that not nearly enough businesses were listed in their data bases to make that effective.  ”Every small business needs to get to the Bing Local Listings Center and fill out a full profile. Post Reviews .  Every business should encourage their customers and clients to post reviews.  EVEN if you’re not a retail business.  Remember, local listings are indexed and searched.  Companies with a local listing, keyword rich description, reviews and pictures will give potential customers a more complete picture and show them that you are serious and REAL.  Another hint is to be sure to ask customers to rate you with the star ratings.  And don’t worry about bad reviews — they actually help you.  Would you really believe any company that had ALL positive reviews?! Post Pictures. Again, this isn’t just for the local folks to post pictures of their restaurants.  If you’re a consultant or business to business company, post pictures of your product or people using your service. Consultants, Freelancers, and Home Offices Need to Post an Address. There is no easy way to say this.  Search engines like real addresses.  They don’t like PO boxes.  Anita Campbell recommended going to a UPS store and getting a real address there (if you’re hesitant about posting your home address).  Another option is to use the address of a temporary office space – such as Office Space Co-Working which has locations all over Northeast Ohio.  Google wants to see a real address.  You will have to make the decision of whether the reward of being found is greater than the risk of being stalked. Use Social Media Creatively to Promote Your Local Business.  Matt McGee, the expert on local blogging and social media marketing for local small business was also on hand.  His big message was to get your content out there.  Your biggest defense against large corporate companies is to provide valuable content and lots of it to your local audience.  Use contests, Twitter and Facebook to run promotions.  (Check out Wildfire - an App that will get you started quickly and easily).  And check out the Matt’s plethora of slides from the GetListed.org University Presentation in Cleveland for ideas, resources and examples. Get Help. Anita Campbell from Small Business Trends was the perfect salve on the set of presentations with her advice to learn a little – but get help.   Learn enough to ask good questions, automate your social media as much as you can without sacrificing authenticity and get as much help as you need in those admin areas of running your search and social media marketing.  I loved her recommendation to look at virtual assistants for this task. If you were at all like me and thought that local search was just for local businesses – I hope that this article has opened your eyes to the marketing possibilities that are open to you whether you’re a local retailer or a national or international consultant.  Get your local search listing in order — TODAY. What’s been your experience with local search?  Got any tips?  We’d love to hear them!  Leave your tip or comment below! Get more information on the GetListed.org Local University Related articles : Searching Locally: Recap from O’Reilly Where 2.0 (ysearchblog.com) Making Local Search More Effective (wiredprworks.com) GetListed Local U Cleveland Wrap Up (blumenthals.com) GetListed Local University coming to Minneapolis – St. Paul (domainmacher.com) Google and Bing Representatives Among Presenters at Event for Minnesotan Small Business Owners (prweb.com) Google Introduces SMBs to Google Places (smallbiztrends.com) Google/Twitter Become More Local (blogs.praized.com) Search For the Best & Worst Local Businesses With Yelp (makeuseof.com) GetListed Local University – Twin Cities (blumenthals.com) Danny Sullivan – Tricky Issues With Local Search (itc.conversationsnetwork.org) Google Suggest Becomes More Local (techcrunch.com) Ohio Small Businesses: Get Local Customers Through Search Engines (smallbiztrends.com) Optimizing Your Business Listing for Local Search Supremacy (searchengineguide.com) Local marketing 101 at “Local University” (google-latlong.blogspot.com) Mobile Search is Local Search (blogs.praized.com)

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