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14 Replies Last post: Apr 23, 2009 5:29 PM by cbostdorff

Info please....

Apr 20, 2009 9:22 PM

cbostdorff 5 posts since
Apr 20, 2009

Does anyone have any names to web pages I can go to to market my business, i am lost in the WEB :_

CJ

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LUCKIEST 7,935 posts since
Aug 6, 2007

1. Re: Info please.... Apr 20, 2009 10:00 PM

Info please, Welcome

Who are you?? Where are you?? What kind of business.

The more you share, the better we can help you

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phanio 483 posts since
Apr 7, 2009

2. Re: Info please.... Apr 21, 2009 8:20 AM

Are you marketing an online business or a local business? You should start with your own website if you don't already have one.

Business Money Today

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consultingbob 22 posts since
Apr 18, 2009

3. Re: Info please.... Apr 21, 2009 12:54 PM

If you are a traditional business, with a physical location (as opposed to a web-only business) a great place to get started is YellowBot.com. Just search for your listing there to see if they already have you. If they do, you can check the listing and submit a correction if any of the details are out of date/incorrect. If not, then you can submit your own listing to be included.

I've seen that most of their listings tend to be found and included in the top listings on Google quite regularly lately, and the customer reviews & recommendations can give you great exposure for local visitors.

Bob Parker
Complete Internet Consulting

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Akbar_pk 2 posts since
Apr 21, 2009

4. Re: Info please.... Apr 22, 2009 5:26 AM

HI,

If you need your own website then I can build an attractive website for just $500(10 pages).

Thanks

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nishfund 12 posts since
Oct 28, 2008

5. Re: Info please.... Apr 22, 2009 10:26 AM

PRWEB should be a great place to start. You should visit their web site and see what they have to offer.

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Howard 82 posts since
Jul 29, 2008

6. Re: Info please.... Apr 22, 2009 8:48 PM

Welcome! What type of industry are you in? If you're involved in a consumer facing type of business there is a website called City Search and you can pay a monthly fee to get listed.

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localshoppers 39 posts since
Apr 22, 2009

7. Re: Info please.... Apr 22, 2009 11:54 PM

There are many free local business directory that you should consider to list your business.

YellowPage.com
Superpages.com
Yahoo Local
Google Local
MerchantCircle.com

There are also many free local coupons sites other there. However, most of them don't optimized your local business and local promotions.

SmartLocalShopeprs.com is your free resource to post local coupons. They will optimize your local store page like no others. Local shoppers will find your local business and print your local coupons for FREE.

Let me know if you have any question about local coupons marketing. I can help you online and offline.

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cbostdorff 5 posts since
Apr 20, 2009

8. Re: Info please.... Apr 23, 2009 9:59 AM

Helllo, thank you for the replies. I don't need a website, I guess what I am looking for is a "portal", like the forums in which I can discuss with other business owners, Kind of along the same basis as social networking but for business.

Thanks,
Make it a great day...

CJ

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vnavguys 111 posts since
Apr 22, 2009

9. Re: Info please.... Apr 23, 2009 10:18 AM

in response to: cbostdorff

That could be a two week conversation. If you include your site domain, keywords your looking to promote and your basic plan, we could help embellish it. Learning this is a BIG project, so don't get overwhelmed.

Ken

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localshoppers 39 posts since
Apr 22, 2009

10. Re: Info please.... Apr 23, 2009 10:27 AM

in response to: cbostdorff

If you are looking for just a portal or social networking space, there are many free social networking sites out there.

1. You can either create a page or group on Facebook and invite your business friend to join.
2. Create a Ning.com social network and invite your business friends to join.
3. Create Yahoo Group and invite your business friends to join the mailing list style conversation.
4. Put up a web site and host the forum yourself.

I think the point I am trying to make is this. If you want to lead the conversations or community in your industry, Why not build the solid foundation at beginning? You will never know where it will take you to. You need to build your personal or business image for long term. Every efforts you put in should have a greater purpose for something good!

For example, 6 months later, your forum have over 500 business owners with so much going on. You will need to grow. You realized that your forum is host on the crappy hosting site with an ugly name and the advertise banners is making the hosting company fortune. It will end up cost you fortune to move and start over.

If you actually end up putting something up, please include me as well. I would love to hear your updates!

Thanks!

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consultingbob 22 posts since
Apr 18, 2009

11. Re: Info please.... Apr 23, 2009 12:02 PM

in response to: localshoppers

Hi LocalShoppers,

You should check out http://YellowBot.com - they include the content of ALL of those other sites in one place, plus their own unique reviews, pictures, vidoes and ratings as well. It's definitely my favorite local search and info site these days and I heard that they were even a finalist in the CNET Webware 100 this year.

Bob Parker
Complete Internet Consulting

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localshoppers 39 posts since
Apr 22, 2009

12. Re: Info please.... Apr 23, 2009 12:22 PM

in response to: consultingbob

Thanks for sharing.

I know that site for a long time. It's not much different than any other local business rating site. There are already too many local site out there.

Google Map, Yelp, Yahoo Local, City Search, YellowPages, SuperPages etc.

The information is overload. I guess this is not related to the current topic in this thread though.

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consultingbob 22 posts since
Apr 18, 2009

13. Re: Info please.... Apr 23, 2009 12:54 PM

in response to: localshoppers

It's not much different than any other local business rating site.

True, I just like them because the have the content from all the others, so it's all in one place. The others don't have anyone else's content.

I guess this is not related to the current topic in this thread though.

Yes and No

If we're talking about web-based businesses only, then no. If someone is a physical small business reading this, then it is absolutely applicable, because they will want to make sure their business is listed online in as many free places as possible so their customers can find them.

I agree the information is overloaded, which is why it's important to find a site that is relavent, organized and reliable for this type of thing. For example, you could go to someplace like Yelp, but can you rely on it when you hear all this stuff about them taking money to remove bad reviews of businesses? Or would you rather go to a site that has honest reviews/ratings? Heck, half the time these days when I'm looking for businesses on Google, it seems like the search results I do find are the listings from YellowBot anyway, so they must be doing something right.

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cbostdorff 5 posts since
Apr 20, 2009

14. Re: Info please.... Apr 23, 2009 5:29 PM

Thaks agian for all the information, i will check out the sites given. My site is sitesires.com. If you wanted to view it and give me feedback and then be able to establish more of an idea of what I am relating to, I would apperciate it. Again it is local and tying to be net based........

Thank You so much for the replies already!

CJ

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