by David Carleton | Oct 12, 2015 | San Diego Local Business Marketing Consultant
Google My Business is Google’s new platform for creating, managing, and monitoring business listings. It is a good first step for companies that are just getting started on the web; but it has also become the main local business marketing strategy for businesses that...
by David Carleton | Sep 14, 2015 | San Diego Local Business Marketing Consultant
Chances are, you’ve likely participated in electronic commerce over the past five years, even if you didn’t know it. For certain, at least someone you know has. Electronic commerce – or eCommerce or eTail or eBusiness, etc.) is simply online ordering from...
by David Carleton | Sep 7, 2015 | San Diego Local Business Marketing Consultant
Google Hangouts is a video chat platform that was released in 2013. Before the launch of Hangouts, Google had promoted many similar, but technologically distinct messaging services and platforms across its many products; most of which are now discontinued with the...
by David Carleton | Aug 9, 2015 | local business marketing consultant portland, San Diego Local Business Marketing Consultant
No matter what you sell, how high the retail price, what time of year or how bad the economy is, people are still buying almost everything – Houses, Cars, Boats, Insurance, Interior Design, etc. Are they buying as many as last year? Maybe not. Are they buying...
by David Carleton | Jul 20, 2015 | San Diego Local Business Marketing Consultant
What would you do if you walked into a store and smelled something horrible, saw flashing strobe lights, was literally mobbed by overbearing, commission-seeking salesmen and then couldn’t find anything you were looking for? Probably get the heck out of there as...
by David Carleton | Jul 13, 2015 | San Diego Local Business Marketing Consultant
Google AdWords is an advertising platform that positions ad copy at the top, bottom, or next to, the organic search results for a given search engine query. The placement and choice of the ads is dependent in part on a proprietary calculation of the relevance of the...
by David Carleton | Jun 22, 2015 | San Diego Local Business Marketing Consultant
Google Webmaster Tools is a free service offered by Google for website owners. Website owners can add their sites to this platform to get regular updates on important information such as indexing status, search queries, and search appearance. There are also tips...
by David Carleton | Jun 15, 2015 | San Diego Local Business Marketing Consultant
Have you ever gone to Yelp before visiting a restaurant in your area? Read a review on TripAdvisor before making vacation plans? How about checked out a mechanic on Google to read their reviews? Read Amazon’s customer reviews before buying a product? Unless you...
by David Carleton | Jun 8, 2015 | San Diego Local Business Marketing Consultant
Google AdSense is an advertising platform that enables content publishers to display text, video, image, or interactive media ads on their websites or other content hubs (such as blogs and YouTube). These ads are automatically targeted to the site’s audience and...
by David Carleton | Apr 27, 2015 | San Diego Local Business Marketing Consultant
The mobile revolution might have come in with a whisper instead of the anticipated bang, but one thing is for sure, there is no denying its presence. For any entity looking to stay competitive in today’s market, having a mobile website is a necessary local...