How to Get the Edge on Your
Local Business Competitors

"Why should I take my local business online? I just need to find more clients locally!" "I provide professional services, just in my local area. The internet is global. How will a website help prospective local clients to find my professional practice on the internet?"

These are some of the types of questions and concerns business owners raise, about having a website and marketing their local businesses on the internet.

If you have similar questions and concerns, we can help you find answers, and effective solutions!

Websites are Effective Marketing Tools

You need an effective marketing tool that will help you grow your business, right?

One of the benefits of a business website properly structured for effective local business marketing is its potential to attract new local clients via the internet.

Having a highly-ranked, visible website can help your business to attract more prospective clients using the internet. It can also put your website in the forefront of local search market trends.

Can Searchers Find Your Business Online?

Is your local business ready for online searchers from YOUR local area?

Right now, prospective local clients are searching through Google, and the other search engines, for answers to their questions and solutions to their problems... including information that YOU can provide.

But will they find YOUR business -- or just your local competitors?

You can check this out right now... The best way to see who those online searchers would find today, would be to do an online search too! You can use the search box or links provided below, to check current listings in the search engines.

Search for Local Businesses and Competitors

Just type in the name of your city, and main business description or occupation (results will open in a new window):

• Search.Yahoo.com
• Bing (formerly MSN Search and Windows Live)

All done?

That's targeted and effective marketing - delivered directly to your PC, in just a few seconds. That's how quickly a prospective client could find your small business online!

Now, a few points to review in those search results:

• Compare your online search results with the results of your traditional offline marketing methods. Does an advertisement in your local newspaper or printed Yellow Pages directory also give you such high marketing visibility, and targeted results?



• Check the first two pages (results 1 to 20) - that's as deep as most searchers will look, to find the information they need. So that's where results from your website should appear in the search engines, for your specific business search terms, to get potential clients to click through to your website to contact you.



• Were your major competitors listed in your search results? If they were, that's where those prospective clients would go today...

So those are just a few reasons to take your business online as soon as possible.

Then there's also the rapidly expanding local search technology offered by the major search engines, to consider as well... Find out how it affects your local business marketing.

Solutions to Take Your Business Online

On this site, you will also find:

• How a website and online marketing can help you grow YOUR small business.
• How to attract new local clients in your town or city to your business, using the internet.
• How to create business marketing campaigns with greeting cards and postcards, to build and maintain long-term customer relationships.
• How you could generate new revenue streams from your website.
• ... and much more!

Check out our sitemap, for a quick reference guide and easy navigation through the site, and to find more information and resources to help you build and market your local business online!

Need Answers Quickly?

We can also personally help you to get your local business online quickly -- just contact us, to discuss your specific business website and marketing needs!

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