Kennebunk, Maine (PRWEB) July 14, 2013 -- Local business owners often hire a firm such as My Local Leads to handle their online lead generation activities. These organizations may be fully fledges companies with different teams of people specializing in different fields. Or, those companies might be a single individual working on various different projects for their clients at once. It would be wise for the business owner of a local company to be familiar with what needs to be done in order to get the most effective results when beginning a new online marketing campaign. My Local Leads provides these tips as a sort of primer to the local business owner getting started with internet marketing.
Pay per Click or PPC is one key way of advertising online. Through Google, Yahoo, and other websites, business purchase advertising. There are all sorts of way to maximize the effectiveness of this advertising while minimizing the amount spent. For example, geographical focus for the advertisements is key when dealing with local search marketing. Another thing that business owners need to consider is the vast array of keywords and keyword phrases they have to choose from. There are keywords that are informative and keywords that are action oriented, for example. Then, there are those that help slim down the potential reach, but also better qualify customers.
Offsite marketing is another term that business owners may come across. Technically, PPC is one form of offsite marketing, as it takes place online, but not on the website owned by the company. However, other forms of offsite marketing exist, such as buying advertising on specific websites—a website for a trade or consumer online magazine is one key example. Another form of offsite marketing would be guest posts, where the company blog author writes and informative article in their field of expertise for someone else’s website, which refers back to the local company’s website.
Other forms of online advertising include joining business directories, social media marketing, and content marketing. Content marketing would include posting slideshow presentations, articles, videos, and other media around the web, each of which links back to the company website. There are certainly many pieces to the online advertising puzzle, especially when it comes to l ocal search marketing. Hiring a professional team like the crew at My Local Leads makes things easier and less expensive for the local business while providing business owner’s a wealth of information that would take them years to gather on their own.
Chris Moreno, My Local Leads, http://www.mylocalleads.com, (207) 332-3306, [email protected]
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