Your business is being searched for; are you available?
We’d certainly like to think we are, wouldn’t we? The truth is, from now until the end of the year people are going to be very busy, and their thoughts are going to be running 90 mph.
If you want to catch their attention, you’d better have a plan.
I have a plan there’s still time to implement, and next year you won’t wait so long to get started!
(And it includes FREE mobile marketing!)
Listen, you’ve heard my arguments for listing your company with online directories. Now, if you’ve taken my advice, you have yourself a nice MerchantCircle account or at least claimed your own Google Places business listing.
Now make the most of it by offering a coupon for your services. You may not think there’s a special you can offer, but this time of year people are counting on it – you’d better decide how to package your services or products in an attractive manner that’s easy to consume. A coupon allows you to do that, and has additional SEO benefit.
MerchantCircle shares your coupon in their newsletter to your neighborhood and chosen cities. You can share it in your own MerchantCircle newsletter as well, and it will be shared yet again. You can even add email names to a list you additionally want your newsletter to be shared with. (Love this feature!)
Google Places (Maps) will make your information available on smart phones, work and home computers for those who are looking for your products or services (provided you’ve used researched keywords when you set up your listing).
Remember, anything that gets a potential customer to your website and keeps them there browsing from page to page is good for your SEO health. If your offer is appealing, they’ll want to know more about your services before they hire you. Naturally that encourages perusing your website. If your content is helpful, insightful and compelling, your visitor is more likely to read more before leaving.
By the way, if you’re completely in the dark about what your customers want, ask them. You won’t regret it.
For ideas to help you package your promotions, download your FREE copy of How to Package Your Products and Services to Incite Consumer Interest today.
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