My new project is NorthSanDiego.org. It’s going to be a community site for North San Diego County full of local residents, local businesses, start ups, bloggers, entrepreneurs, and really anyone else in the area.  The past few years and currently my clients have been small businesses with a low budget.  I have spent, and still do, time listening to the problems that these local small businesses go through. Now I am using that knowledge to come up with a solution and resource to be utilized. I enjoy helping people compete against the big guys anyway I can. This is where NorthSanDiego.org came...

How To – Creating A Yahoo Local Business Listing Yahoo Local is one of the many options out there to have your business listed to help with search results. By taking 10-20 minutes to complete all of the local listings for your businesses can really help people find your business and increase the overall traffic to your business. The other main sites are Google and Bing. Take a look through all of the steps and the slide show that will guide you along. There really isn’t any special tricks or tips as far as setting up the Yahoo listing. It’s pretty straight forward but as always if you...

How To Create Your Bing Business Listing Microsoft’s Search Engine Bing has a local business page. It’s called Bing Business Portal. Google still accounts for roughly 80-83% of the search results performed on the web. Yahoo and Bing will come up with the same search results and account for roughly 15% combined between them. However you still need to create a local page for your business through Yahoo.com and also through Bing. This will show you step by step instructions on how to create a Bing Business Page. Step1: Go to http://bing.com and type in the search bar “bing business...

Twitter Search Tips We are going to go into some Twitter Tips by using the advanced search option, Hootsuite, and a little trick on Bing to find tweets in a specific area. This social platform is great for so many uses! You can use it to strictly follow news and interesting articles to be able to sit down and get caught up right away, get weather / local / global news, participate in conversations or start your own using # tags (hashtags), customer service, retention, advertising (we will have a post soon on the advertising options), prospecting, sales, contests, keeping up with friends, and much much...