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Why you MUST be at the top of the search Results
I’m asked time and time again why it’s so important to be at the top of the Google search results so I thought I’d let you see for yourself where visitors look on the search results and what they click … Continue reading
Posted in Find My Business, Internet Marketing
Tagged google places, internt marketing, local marketing, local marketing services, new zealand local marketing services, online marketing, top of google
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Google +1 Pages
Google +1 Pages, Does Your Business Need one? Google has recently announced that their Google Plus social network is now OK for businesses to join, using “Pages for Business”. Thinking of joining up? Think carefully before you commit to a … Continue reading
Posted in Social Media
Tagged +1, +1 for business, Google +1, Google +1 for business, google +1 Pages, Google Pages, Plus 1
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The Pro’s Common Ipad Con
The fear of theft is a common denominator that can be applied to all suggested business Ipad uses. For that reason, we’ve decided to round up our Ipad for business series on this negative note. However, it is positively simple … Continue reading
Posted in Find My Business
Tagged apps for business, ipad, ipad apps, ipad for business, ipad theft
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Improve Restaurant Profitability with the ipad Waitress!
So, Last but not least, how do you improve Restaurant Profitability with the ipad Waitress? Here, we address the implementation of the ipad as waiting staff. Imagine being seated at a restaurant and being handed an ipad. When you are … Continue reading
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Tagged ipad, ipad apps, ipad for business, ipad waitress, ipod apps for business, restaurant profitability
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Ipad Entertainment
Our penultimate point is the Ipad’s entertainment value. This Ipad application would be most usefully employed in any situation where the customer may be required to wait. Its a great investment as a differentiator keeping customers returning again and … Continue reading
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Tagged apps for business, entertainment, ipad, ipad apps, ipad for business
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The Ipad Expeditor
Over halfway through our 6 part series detailing the pros and cons of creative business implementations of the Ipad, we come to the Expeditor. Provide your sales staff with Ipads and help them process the sale of your products more … Continue reading
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Tagged apps for business, bottom line, business apps, ipad, ipad for business
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The Ipad As A Customer Database
The Ipad as a customer database is our third topic in the 6 part series. Any business that requires a new customer to sign in, fill out waivers and read liability forms can usefully employ the Ipad. Pros: Customer details … Continue reading
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Tagged apps for business, customer database, ipad, ipad for business
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The Ipad Presenter
The next in our 6 part series outlining the pros and cons business uses for Ipads. This time, the Ipad as a Presenter. This is a biggie – the Ipad is being put to considerable use during sales presentations and … Continue reading
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Tagged apps for business, business apps, ipad, ipad for business, ipad presentation
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The Ipad As A Fan-Base Builder
Small businesses have been busy proving the diverse worth of one of the fastest growing technology products – the Ipad. This is the first in a series outlining the pros and cons of the 6 uses to which it has … Continue reading
Posted in Social Media
Tagged facebook, local social media, social media for business, social media marketing, social networking
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Study Misses The Point Of Social Media
A recent Outbrain Study concluded that Social Media disappoints at driving traffic to our business websites because unless there is a free offer flashing in the subject line, who wants to leave the gossip to read a sales pitch? … Continue reading
Posted in Social Media
Tagged facebook, find my business, google, local social media, search engine optimisation, search results, seo, social media for business, social media marketing, social networking
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Revolutionising Search Results
Recent SEO discussion has revolved around Google’s new social network: Google +. However, it is still Google search that drives the majority of web traffic for most site owners and Google is currently testing a variety of further noteworthy search … Continue reading
Posted in Internet Marketing
Tagged google, internet marketing, page rank, search engine changes, seo
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Business Opportunities Rise Alongside Smartphones
PC sales are decelerating because consumers can now use more convenient, smaller gadgets to do the same things they previously switched on their PCs for. They can surf the Internet, store photos, send e-mails, play games and order consumables. Goldman … Continue reading
Posted in Mobile Marketing
Tagged handheld device, internet marketing, iphone, mobile apps., mobile marketing, pc, smartphone
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Use it or lose it – With technology comes the end of an era
Times really are changing; first Orewa College made the Ipad mandatory pupil equipment and now New Zealand Post plans to send its last ever international economy letter this coming October. Why? Because as NZ Post spokesman Michael Tull said, ‘The … Continue reading
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Tagged find my business, internet marketing, internet marketing services, mobile marketing, social media for business, social networking
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Is Google+ Going To Greatly Impact Search?
Those of us that believed Facebook had a stranglehold on the social networking scene may need to rethink. Indeed, Google+ really does appear to be sapping Facebook’s influence and value. Facebook is somewhat blinkered in assuming that social networking is … Continue reading
Posted in Internet Marketing, Social Media
Tagged +1, +1 button, google, Google's +1 button, search engine, seo, social media for business, social media marketing, social networking
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Seeing Double – Duplicate Content
When should a business worry about duplicate content? Surely, in order to avoid being slapped with a DMCA infringement notice for breaching online copyright, businesses rarely plagiarise other businesses site content…on purpose. The problem arises when for example the business … Continue reading
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Tagged dmca, duplicate content, google, internet marketing, search engine optimisation, seo
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Compulsory School Pupil Stationary Indicative of Future Business Customers
If it wasn’t already clear to businesses that the customers of the future will entirely computer literate, then the latest addition to Orewa College’s Year 8 (age 12) pupil stationary list says it all. If businesses are going to be … Continue reading
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Tagged find my business, internet marketing, mobile marketing, smartphone apps for business, social media marketing, video marketing
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How do you hang onto your slice of the cake?
The recent news that Vodafone NZ has lost 26,000 customers to new entrant 2degrees in the last quarter made us think about niches. Precisely, how to hang onto them. Until a couple of years ago, the hip young mobile … Continue reading
Posted in Social Media
Tagged social media, social media for business, social media marketing
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Can Your Emails Run The Spam Gauntlet?
Last week I received an airpoints competition email that claimed to be sent by a popular airline. Crammed with 1234//-12/1’s, the email address did not instil me with confidence so I promptly deleted it. However, in case it really was … Continue reading
Posted in Internet Marketing
Tagged email marketing, email spam, internet marketing, spam
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Give Your Business A Boost With A Mobile App.
Looking for a small thing to boost your small business? Discover mobile apps! The growing number of smartphone users appreciating the benefits of mobile apps should give smaller businesses pause for thought. Apps are increasingly emerging as one of the … Continue reading
Posted in Mobile Marketing
Tagged mobile apps., mobile marketing, mobile marketing news, smartphone, smartphone apps for business
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Own Brand Domain – Delightful Or Dumb?
Would you be willing and able to purchase your business its own domain? You still can’t purchase ‘.com,’ ‘.nz,’ or ‘.gov,’ but it is now possible to brand your own domain. Probably so as to avoid the paperwork resulting from … Continue reading
Foursquare – The ‘Friend’s A-Z’
Yet another smartphone application it would be great to see more New Zealand retailers making use of is ‘Foursquare.’ Never heard of it? The Foursquare developers describe it as, A location-based mobile platform that makes cities easier to use and … Continue reading
Posted in Find My Business, Mobile Marketing
Tagged facebook, foursquare, local social media, mobile marketing, smartphone apps for business, social media for business, social media marketing
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Living In Facebook – One Day We May Never Need To Log Out!
Experts believe that within another three years it won’t be a case of living with Facebook, instead it will be about us living IN Facebook. The largest social networking site in the world, it has over 700million users, so if … Continue reading
Posted in Social Media
Tagged facebook, local internet marketing, local social media, social media, social media for business, social media marketing
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Online Offers Produce Easy Sales.. But At What Price?
Online offers may produce easy sales, but they can have some hidden costs. On the lead up to the 2011 ski season, New Zealand’s largest ski destination, the North Island’s Mt Ruapehu teamed up with Tourism New Zealand and ran … Continue reading
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Tagged internet marketing, internet marketing services, online offers
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How Bing Can Bring Your Business Ker….Ching!
Microsoft and Facebook issued a joint challenge to Google … in the form of changes to Microsoft’s search engine, ‘Bing.’ Bing’s research concluded that almost all people seek advice from those that they trust before making a decision. As Mehdi … Continue reading
Posted in Social Media
Tagged bing, facebook, search results, seo, social media, social media for business
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Three Great Reasons For Mobile Marketing
Whilst wandering the streets lamenting my ability to locate a decent cup of coffee, I was told to get my nose out of my smartphone. There it was, a cafe situated right across the road. Hurrah. ‘You won’t believe this,’ … Continue reading
Posted in Mobile Marketing
Tagged internet marketing services, local marketing, mobile marketing, mobile marketing news
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Warm Welcome For Roost’s Latest Social Media Marketing Tool
A great communication tool Facebook may be, but for local and small business owners, Roost has announced a new Social Media Marketing tool specifically designed to allow you to communicate with the right ones! So who are the ‘right’ … Continue reading
Posted in Social Media
Tagged facebook, find my business, local marketing, local social media, social media, social media for business, social media marketing
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Going Viral With Video Marketing
No, going viral does not involve catching a disease, but Video Marketing can certainly be infectious for the viewer. Its also seductively addictive to those businesses whose marketing videos infect a multitude of viewers. Why? Because, a well executed video … Continue reading
The Magic Or Mayhem Of Mobile Marketing
The following really happened to my sports team whilst on tour last week and serves to illustrate the potential magic or mayhem of Mobile Marketing. A great team game is always followed by great team drinks and in the case … Continue reading
Posted in Mobile Marketing
Tagged google maps, google places, mobile marketing, mobile marketing news
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Facebook Face Recognition Software
Have you heard the latest about the Facebook Face Recognition Software? Facebook isn’t known for protecting your privacy and its latest photo-tagging feature is no different. Using facial recognition software, Facebook will soon group photos together and, wherever possible, when you … Continue reading
Posted in Social Media
Tagged face recognition software, facebook, facebook face recognition
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Mobile Marketing – Mobile Coupons
Mobile coupons are a favorite with both advertisers and consumers for clear reasons: Consumers don’t mind having their devices touched by commercial interests if they get a deal out of it. Advertisers know they have the user’s attention. Ever since … Continue reading
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Search Engine Optimisation – Quality
Search Engine Optimisation – Improving Website Quality If you want to improve your website rankings and increase the organic traffic from Google, then you must be aware of the recent Google’s Panda / Farmer update designed to weed out low … Continue reading
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Search Engine Optimisation for Retailers
Search Engine Optimisation for Retailers following Google’s Panda Update As many of you know, in February 2011 Google released it’s Panda algorithm update to try and reduce the impact of link farms and improve the quality of it’s search results. … Continue reading
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Video Marketing – Business Tips
Video Marketing Just as Facebook has become an incredibly popular place for brands to interact socially with their customers, YouTube offers a similar opportunity through video conversations. Video is an underused medium for marketing and yet is a considerably cheaper … Continue reading
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Social Media – Google’s +1 Button
Google’s +1, the Alternative to the Facebook ‘Like’? Nearly a year after Facebook’s ‘Like’ buttons became popular, Google has announced its own rival, the +1 button. (pronounced Plus One). Part of Google’s search engine, it allows you to “+1″ the … Continue reading
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Mobile Websites
Mobile Websites, How fast is your website on a mobile device? It’s been clear for some time now that Google counts a website’s speed as a factor in its search engine ranking algorithm. Now however, it’s also considering how fast … Continue reading
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Facebook Deals New Zealand
If you’ve read recently about Facebook Places, the next launch for small business was Facebook deals. As a business owner, Facebook is giving you the opportunity to offer special incentive deals, offers and coupons for you target market. These deals … Continue reading
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Facebook Places in New Zealand
Once again, Facebook proves it is out to crush Google. With the continual growth in user generated content (AKA Social Media), Facebook has responded to the needs of businesses and consumers alike by taking Google Maps ad socialising it. With … Continue reading
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What’s the most important page of your website?
What’s the most important page of your website? I’ve proven this time and time again. Look at your Google Analytics results and how often visitors look at your ‘About Us’ page. For most small businesses, even though one of the … Continue reading
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Online Advertising, Does it work?
You need to promote your products and services to increase sales. What’s the best way to do this? Does Online Advertising actually work? Current statistics show that people tend to conduct online searches for products after spotting an ad about … Continue reading
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How to Market Your Business on Facebook
New research suggests companies must rethink how they use Facebook marketing, or at least reconsider why their customers are on Facebook in the first place. Usually, when a marketing campaign on Facebook fails it’s because a company ignored one or more of the following Continue reading
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Social Media Marketing, is it really just for Youngsters?
For all you Business Owners who believe Social Media is just for the Y generation, read on… Continue reading
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Tagged local social media, social media, social media for business, social media marketing
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Local Internet Marketing – Unusual Google Search Results
When considering Local Internet Marketing, high Google search results are your goal. So, when they start showing unusual characteristics, you’re right to worry Continue reading
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Tagged local internet marketing, local search engine optimisation, local seo, search results
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Local SEO, What Do Your Keywords Actually Mean?
For Local SEO, what do your keywords actually mean to the search engines and your customers? When optimizing your website, social media presence or simply your Google Maps listing, keywords are the basis for everything. Continue reading
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Tagged keywords, local search engine optimisation, local seo
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Local Internet Marketing, What’s Your Page About?
When it comes to Local internet Marketing, how do search engines know what your website page is all… Continue reading
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Tagged internet marketing services, local internet marketing
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Mobile Marketing – How Big are Smartphones?
Smartphones are on the rise, in the first half of 2010, Mobile app downloads topped 3.8 billion Continue reading
Find My Business Launch
So, what is Find My Business? The brand was created by a Business Advisor following years of working with hundreds of small and medium sized businesses across Australia and New Zealand. Almost without exception, when it came to marketing their … Continue reading
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