Sentences with phrase «local business sites»

What's more surprising, maybe, is the decision to close the local business sites.

Not exact matches

Research from Ballihoo found that 63 percent of consumers who search for local businesses online are more likely to use businesses with information on social media sites.

Local businesses that have tested Facebook's Place Tips have seen an uptick in traffic on the social networking site.

Over the weekend, Cincinnati.com reported that SoMoLend, a crowdfunding site that distributes loans to local small businesses, was under investigation by Ohio's Division of Securities — i.e. the state's commerce regulators.

Lastly — at a panel in the afternoon Tristan Walker, Director of Business Development for FourSquare, Marci Weisler of Tipping Point Partners, Daniel Kim founder of Red Mango and Inc. blogger Howard Greenstein tackled the hotly controversial topic of leveraging daily deal sites and tapping into local marketing.

U.K. businesses that sell via Amazon.com's local site are up in arms over a software glitch late Friday that led to their items being sold for as little as a penny.

To give your local business the best chance of ranking for local search queries, focus most of your SEO efforts on keeping everything about your site locally - focused.

Both sites offered hyper - local, specialized business news online at a relatively steep price: $ 9 a week with discounts available for bulk buyers.

Mayer has purchased Palo Alto's oldest funeral home, Roller & Hapgood & Tinney, a 114 - year - old family - owned business, according to news reports which first appeared in local California news site Palo Alto Online.

AllNovaScotia, the original hyper - local Canadian business site, was a bootstrapped passion project.

While we have used daily deals sites once or twice for trying out local services, we haven't ran a deal on them for our business.

From restaurants to plumbers to corner retail stores, local small companies can see a nice increase in business if they receive positive recommendations on popular user - review sites like Yelp.

We interviewed Darnell Holloway, Yelp's manager of local business outreach, who offered these three steps for handling negative user reviews on the site:

In addition to utilizing social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, 30 Lines» Whaling recommends that small businesses introduce their own blogs as a means to pass along content that underscores the company's knowledge and expertise, with an emphasis on local information that directly affects customers.

You could apply for loans and grants through federal and local government programs for small businesses after checking the Small Business Administration's website or pursue crowdfunding through sites like Kickstarter or GoFundMe.

To achieve that, a consultant should add your business's city and state to your website's title tags and meta descriptions, and get your site listed on Bing, Google and Yahoo's local listings, which are online directories of businesses that cater to a specific geographical area.

Crime & Safety comprises one of seven categories on the site, with sections that connect users to local businesses (such as Classifieds) presenting the greatest opportunity for monetization, according to Nextdoor.

Too often small businesses think because it's on local review sites or their homepage or footer it doesn't also have to be clearly present on the About Us page.»

«The strength of the Yelp brand is drawing more users and local businesses to the site,» he says.

A discount site adds a charitable twist to online shopping, supporting both local businesses and nonprofit causes

The $ 928 million center was slated to start construction late last year at a 500 - acre site in the Derrydonnell Forest near a small town called Athenry, but groundbreaking was delayed after complaints about the building were filed to the local council, reported Business Insider.

Check your local business associations and look online for sites you like.

«It's become an essential site for local business owners, much in the same way TripAdvisor is in the travel space.»

Scvngr and LevelUp Seth Priebatsch, 22 Boston A location - aware app and a site that encourages loyalty to local businesses through discounts.

In some cases, you may be able to do this from the comfort of your home, but you can also do it at a local business, such as a music shop, or remotely through sites like Tutor.com.

Yelp faces other concerns: Though the company recently announced that customers had rated 1 million local businesses in less than three months — bringing the total number of reviews north of 10 million — the site's monthly unique visits are down 2.97 percent (to 24.4 million) compared to a year ago, according to Compete.com.

Anytime you have a positive interaction with a local business, provide a review on your site or offer to give a testimonial.

Your online reputation is made up of what you say about your contracting business (your digital footprint) on your website, social media, local directory listings, industry listings, etc., and what customers say about your business (digital shadow) on social media, review sites, and in person.

Veteran local business review site Yelp has signed on bankers Goldman Sachs and Citigroup to lead its initial public offering at a valuation between $ 1 and $ 2 billion, the Wall Street Journal is reporting.

Yelp, the reviews site for local businesses, is a common place for customers to talk about their experiences, and business owners often engage with people there.

Besides CMIT Anywhere, CMIT Solutions is launching private cloud solutions for small businesses that use local machines to keep the cloud on - site, which prevents a slow Internet connection from gumming up the system.

This would apply to people who run businesses out of their homes, operate local shops or sell their products exclusively on sites like eBay and Etsy.

The Hartford site, which is yet to be determined, will help the company reach the New England market and expand the local workforce to help customers compete in insurance, health care and manufacturing sectors that are increasingly establishing digital business models.

Top Rated Local ® aggregates ratings and reviews from verified review sites online and then ranks businesses based on their overall Rating Score ™.

Besides CMIT Anywhere, our premier cloud service, we're launching private cloud solutions for small businesses that use local machines to keep the cloud on site, which keeps the system from lagging because of a slow Internet connection.

Stacey is also the creator of the Daily Deals for Massive Profits Training Program, an online video training program that teaches small and local business owners how to use daily deal sites like Groupon to skyrocket their business growth and get massive profits.

Take the time to build new local citations in directories and review sites where your business isn't currently featured.

This also goes for other local listing sites, like Yelp, Facebook, Better Business Bureau, and more.

Kakao Corp, the main conglomerate of the Internet service provider for the popular South Korean programs for messaging KakaoTalk, has officially unveiled a new business plan, Cocoa 3.0 which contains plans to open Blockchainowej platform aimed at the broader Asian markets, reported local news site Yonhap News.

The goal of these businesses is to get people in the store, so they need to focus on getting listed in Google Local and on third - party review sites like Yelp.

In fact, even smaller search engines completely dwarf all the social media sites in terms of impact for local businesses.

As discussed above, «publishers» frequently references a broad group including local business websites, media and news sites, online directories, search engines, map platforms, blogs, retail websites, e-commerce sites, apps, video sites and social media pages.

Local directory style sites are great if your area has websites that list local busineLocal directory style sites are great if your area has websites that list local businelocal businesses.

5The results of any franchised business depend on many factors, including site selection, local economic conditions, your business acumen, management skill and experience.

Perhaps even more important is that links to your site and mentions of your business (aka «Local Citations») can help your site rank well in both «national» organic search as well as in the Google Places results (I still can't bring myself to say the «Google + Local» results).

In a disruption to only our firm or a building housing our firm, we will transfer our operations to a local site having access to back - up technology processing capabilities and expect to resume business within twenty - four hours.

These keywords are implemented throughout the website and included in any content that is published throughout the web on behalf of the business, whether it's a guest blog post, a company profile on an industry site, or a local directory submission.

You can use social review sites like Yelp and Google Places to get reviews of your business and to boost your local search results.

While Google says it improved their distance and location ranking parameters, some local businesses likely found it affected their number of web site referrals and leads.

-- ANOTHER UNIVERSE TO CONQUER — «Elon Musk, soccer guru want to bargain with Oakland for the Coliseum,» by SF Business Times» Riley McDermid: «Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk's company Tesla and soccer team owner and well - known local real estate investor Mark Hall would also like a swing at negotiating with Oakland and Alameda County for the rights to redevelop the Coliseum site.»