Put Your Local Business on the Map With Place Pins

You’ve hopefully discovered the advantages Pinterest has for your business. Whether you sell specialty products, food items, fitness equipment or homemade items, there’s a market of users ready to save the ideas you post and put them to work in their own lives. Pinterest has helped small businesses grow due to its innate capabilities. With…

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Google+ Now Offers Custom URLs

Google+ rolled out their custom URL program last week, to the delight of all of us at Local Fresh. Why are we so pleased? This means that Google+ can be so much easier to manage for our clients! A custom URL for the Google+ page of a small business makes it much easier to build…

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Blog Local: Connecting With Nearby Customers through Your Blog

As a small local business, or brick and mortar store, mass advertising and relying solely on foot traffic doesn’t make sense. Rather, building relationships within your community does. While tactics for doing this will vary depending on whether you run a restaurant, pet store, travel agent, or health clinic, one way to get your customers…

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Using Twitter Effectively for Local Business

There’s plenty of advice in the blogosphere and Twitterverse about building an audience on this microblogging platform, but many of the recommendations seem to be targeted to businesses with a large reach. How do you make Twitter work for you if you run a small, local business? Maybe you don’t want to interact with potentially…

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Online Marketing Tips for Small Budget Businesses

Some low budget businesses are put off by the prospect of spending a lot of money on marketing, but there are small steps that can be taken for big results, meaning you can reach potential customers without spending a fortune. Whilst in the past having a small budget for marketing may have meant not being…

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