Blend Local Search Marketing

Local Contractors

admin — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:06:49 +0000

Are you a local tradesman or home improvement contractor?

Do you want local targeted work request for your services?

Do you want to save on marketing budgets and reduce your advertising costs?

Blend has teamed up with Service Magic to offer local home improvement contractors the opportunity to receive up to date work requests in their local area.

The benefits to you…

* You get a company that has been matching customers with businesses since 1998. The majority of which are private individuals and homeowners. However architects, shop owners, companies and public sector organisations also use the service to find local contractors.

* You only get work request tailored to your trade and location as specified in your profile.

* Total flexibility of how many work requests you accept.

* Make major savings in your marketing budget.

* 100% Free to register

* No commissions to pay.

Here is a list of Local tradesmen and home improvement contractors who can register to this service for free:

Heating – Ventilation – Air conditioning

Air conditioning, Ventilation, Boiler, Solar water heater, Geothermal heating (heat pump), Electric heating

Windows – Blinds – Doors

Windows (uPVC frame), Windows (timber frame), Awnings – Sunshades, Blinds, Shutters, Electric garage door

Kitchen – Bathroom – Bedroom

Kitchen fitting, Bathroom fitting, Bedroom fitting, Wardrobe fitting, Kitchen unit

Conversion – Extension

Home extension, Loft Conversion, Conservatory, Basement conversion

Refurbishment – Improvement

Home refurbishment / improvement, Shop refurbishment / improvement, , Office refurbishment / improvement

Painting – Decorating – Plastering

Painting (interior), Painting (varied), Painting (external walls), Suspended ceilings, Plastering

Electricity – Wiring

Electrical work, IT and network cabling, Solar panels

Flooring (carpet, tile, laminate, etc.)

Wood flooring / Parquet, Laminate flooring, Tiling / Tile

Other jobs

Architect (residential), Interior design (residential), Project manager, Scaffolding, Lightning protection, Swimming pool

Alarm – Security

Intruder alarm, CCTV, Intercom system, Fire / Smoke alarm, Alarm monitoring / Security

New build (house, block, garage, etc.)

Build a house, Build a timber frame house, Build a garage, Build a housing block (apartments, flats, etc.), Build an office block

Brickwork – Roofing – Demolition

Roofing (tiles, slate, zinc,…), Fascia / Soffit, Flat roof waterproofing, Brickwork / Masonry work, Roof work (repair, insulate, replace, clean, etc.)

Survey – EPC – Pest control

Asbestos survey, Homebuyer survey, Quantity surveyor

Patio – Drive – Paving

Paving, Drive laying, Garden decking, Patio

Plumbing – Drains

Plumbing, Drains, Septic tank, Utilities connections

Garden – Landscaping – Fencing

Gate automation, Tree surgery, Gate and electric gate, Fencing

Insulation – Dampness – Humidity

Damp proofing, Roof and loft insulation, Dampness / Humidity treatment

Remember it’s absolutely FREE to register and start receiving work request. You have nothing to loose and no commissions to pay.

If after the trial period you wish to order customer contact details they are offered to you from £5 to £29 each dependent on the different type of work request.

Local trade and contract professionals register here (Coming Soon). This registration form is for companies and trades people only.

If you wish to request a quote from a local tradesman, click FIND ME A LOCAL TRADESMAN OR PROFESSIONAL CONTRACTOR here and select the category of job you need doing. Your request will be prossesed and up to 5 tradesmen will contact you. No obligation.

Blend – The Business

admin — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 22:16:21 +0000

Blend Business

Blend is an Internet marketing company for small and medium sized business.

From their central London location the dedicated team (currently 3) works tirelessly to position your website at the top of page 1 of search engine results pages (SERP’s) in local search.

Blend combine ‘good practice’ SEO (search engine optimization) methods, social media and cutting edge Internet marketing strategies to achieve impressive results for all our clients throughout the UK and now, the USA.

We specialize in building ‘online real estate’ outside of your website. Basically a large number of mini sites that benefit you in many ways.

1) They provide relevant back links to your website that unlike directory submissions that are often annual and transient, you own these permanent links.

2) We target a greater number of keywords and phrases with each property and can customize each to a specific market.

3) Content is king! By having more content ‘out there’ than your competitors, you will be found more often. This establishes you as the expert in your field and in the eyes of an online searcher.

4) We use video in many different ways. One of the ways is to allow online prospects to get to know, like and trust you. Prospects who know, like and trust you will do business with you and refer their friends.

5) We optimize and promote your website and all the ‘online real estate’ so you’ll find that you will start to dominate SERP’s in local search for your keywords.

6) When you dominate the organic or natural SERP’s and have more than one listing on page one, you are pushing your competitors ‘off the page’. If they are not on page one they will not get any business from the search engines. That means more for you.

7) If you only rely on one source of online traffic you could lose it overnight as many have done recently when Google decided to change their Adsense terms. We spread our properties far and wide.

Feel free to contact Perry and the team at Blend if you would like any help or advice with websites, SEO or Internet marketing.

More services from Blend:

Customer Support & Consultancy

WordPress Website Hosting, Design & Build

Video Production

Local Search Blueprint Training Course

Competitor Analysis

Meet the Blend Team

Perry

Perry is the founder of Blend Local Search Marketing. He established the company in London 2009, prior to living briefly in South East Asia.

Perry is responsible for all the key decisions at Blend and relishes each new day and challenges with his experience and enthusiasm.

Perry was the founder of IMP Film Co. and is a serial Internet entrepreneur. He has 14 years experience in on/off line marketing that has seen him work with the biggest brand, in the hardest market in the world and many other house-hold brand names, too many to name here.

Likes: Cups of Tea.

Belle

Belle joined Blend as Perry’s assistant in May of 2010, after studying Civil Engineering. Belle is an expert in website design and blog management.

She is also an avid blogger, social bookmarker and link builder.

Likes: The beach.

Van

Van is the latest recruit to join Blend. He is another expert web builder with a great eye for design and functionality.

He tests all the new ‘techie stuff’ and splits his time between ‘playing with code’ and compiling competitor analysis reports.

Likes: Gadgets.

Local Search Marketing Services Press Release

admin — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 22:02:18 +0000

London, England (Press Release) 1 July 2010. It’s still a tough and uncertain time for trading in any business sector post election but small local businesses can now finally compete with the big companies and beat them at their own marketing game.

While top end grocers (TEG’s) are not content to dominate with their hyper stores and continue to pursue their growth with ‘Local’ and ‘Metro’ brands, Google now offer small and medium size businesses a golden opportunity to get seen where the customers are looking… and that’s on the net.

One London based internet marketing company is aiming to provide all the Internet marketing strategies these small companies need at affordable rates to dominate in online local search. Perry Stevens founded the company, Blend Local Search Marketing in 2009. Prior to establishing Blend, Perry worked in marketing with some of the biggest household brands in the world before running his own successful small business, IMP Film Co. a production company again in London.

Blend was born of the advertising shift from TV, radio and traditional print media to online, viral, social and local marketing. Small businesses are now able to claim and build their own real estate in the form of web properties and utilize the growing trend for social networking, video and map marketing to laser target new customers and elevate their company profiles to rock star status in local search.

‘It’s very important for business to claim their brand online. This means claiming a listing in Google local, registering websites and having accounts and profiles in all the major social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook and Youtube’. Perry continues ‘If you don’t claim your brand, there is a strong chance someone else will ‘hijack’ it and create all kinds of problems for you down the line’.

Blend Local Search Marketing is not an SEO company in the traditional sense. Blend build and optimize web properties and directory listings for small companies with or without a website. However they strongly recommend a website or Blog for maximum effect in local search results to stay ahead of their competition, help build their brand and create invaluable company awareness.

Blend offers three affordable packages to get any small business on the first page of Google in local search – Gold, Silver and Bronze.

Blend claim your business listings and then build and fully optimize each web property with videos, photos, keyword rich copy and use a whole suite of tools to rank you higher then your competition, using the keyword phrases your customers use to find you.

Every small business today should have a web presence and Blend’s ‘Local Map Marketing Service’ is the affordable first steps to be seen were the customers are searching and that’s online.

A reported 86% of all local searches are onlinewith 90% of these searches resulting in offline activity. 61% of this offline activity results in a purchase with 90% of these consumer purchases being made within a 20 mile locality of where people live or work. If you run a local company wouldn’t you want those customers coming to you? Your competition certainly would!

If your company isn’t seen on the first page of Google, the fact is you are not going to get any customers from online. Can your business afford to miss out on new customers, growth and sales?

The real beauty of investing in local and social marketing is three fold:

Firstly, it’s working for you 365 days a year all round the clock (sounds like the perfect employee!) and continues to grow and evolve over time.

Secondly is the invaluable dialogue you can have with your customers. You want them to be talking about your products and services so why not lead the discussion and build long lasting relationships with them?

Thirdly, most people like to do business with people they know. By stamping your personality all over your web properties, searches get to know you and long standing, trusting relationship are formed.

A strong Local Map Marketing strategy will raise your company profile above your competition, engage and inform your customers which in turn result in retaining old and creating new customers, more sales and a healthy ROI.

For more information on internet marketing for small business in the UK and the USA (you don’t have to be local to us to have a successful local search marketing campaign) contact Blend Local Search Marketing.

www.BlendLocalSearchMarketing.com

45 Bridge Meadows, London England SE14 5SU

T: 0207 635 0549

E: blendlsm @ googlemail.com

Perry Stevens – Founder of Blend Local Search Marketing.

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Blend Local Search Case Study #1

admin — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 21:26:42 +0000

In our first case study for Local Search Marketing by Blend, we are going to have a look at Perry’s Aquatic Centre.

Perry’s Aquatic Centre is a tropical, marine and coldwater fish shop in Lincolnshire. The business has been around for over 18 years but had no website.

Blend started by discussing with the owner what they wanted to achieve with an online presence and together decided on what search terms they wanted to be found by. We then build a Blog website that allowed the owners to manage content and communicate with their customers on a regular basis in the future.

In less than two weeks Blend had positioned Perry’s Aquatic Centre on Page 1 of Google and within three weeks had 7 out of 10 listings for the keyword search terms. A further 4 listings were recorded on Page 2 of Google.

The first new customer the website produced purchased goods from the centre with a ‘Print-off and Present’ voucher on the second weekend after the websites launch.

Blend also opened an affiliate account with Amazon and built an online store on the website. This generates a revenue stream of passive income for the owners. In other words they earn money for doing nothing. Amazon looks after all the sales and posts Perry’s Aquatic Centre a commission check every month. All they have to do is cash it.

Above The end-of-week 1 screen shots using the keywords ‘Aquatics Centre Lincoln’. The search term turns up 151,000 listings. Notice Perry’s Aquatic Centres website has yet to rank on Google Page 1 but directory listing are present.

Above At the end of week 3, Perry’s Aquatic Centre completely dominates Google Page One with 7 out of 10 local search listings including #1 and #2. There is also a map, directions and the company’s telephone number and full postal address.

It also has two video listings further down that catch the eye of the searcher. Also notice the #2 listing is indented. If you click on ‘show more results’ button another 5 pages of Perry’s Aquatic Centre are opened.

The methods we use to blend local search and market this company give the searcher rich content and relevant information on the business and the competitors are completely blown out of the water.

More Local Search Marketing Case Studies.

To skyrocket your business, generate more leads, gain new customers and make more sales contact Blend now.

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The End of Keyword Research.

admin — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 20:36:23 +0000

Dominate Page 1 of Google in Local Organic Search With a No Cost Website Analysis and Keyword Research Report from Blend.

These days it isn’t enough to be on Page 1 of Google, you need to completely dominate it!

If you share page 1 of Google with other competing businesses in your sector you still only get part of the market share. By completely dominating it you get the lions share.

Did you know that over 80% of website traffic is the result of search engines? If you want to increase the number of visitors to your website it is crucial that you have a top search engine position for the keywords your customers are using for search.

Most SEO experts optimize one static website. Blend creates multiple listings outside of your website to dominate Google Page 1 using keyword phrases your customers use when searching.

At No Cost to You, Blend will run a website analysis and keyword research report showing you exactly where your business is visible on the net. This will include the optimum keyword phrases your customers use to find you, monthly searches, cost per click (CPC), Local search competition and domination viability. Then we will email you our analysis report along with the recommendations of how we can market your company on the net, increase your ranking, improve your websites traffic dramatically, eliminate your online competition and produce a high ROI.

We exclusively provide our Local Search and Google Page 1 Domination tactics to only one company in its business sector. Don’t let it be your competition.

To Get Your No Cost Website Analysis & Keyword Research Report Today Complete the Form Below or follow this link to see how Google Page 1 Domination looks.

‘Get 12 months for the price of 10 with this exclusive offer’.

We look forward to running your report.

Perry Stevens – BLEND

This Offer is Now Closed

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Local Search Marketing – Case Study #2

admin — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:19:15 +0000

In the second case study for Local Search Marketing by Blend we are going to have a look at London Property Video Productions.

This is a new company that produce videos to promote the selling and rental of properties. Their service, already established in the USA and Asia is new to the UK market. A website was required to showcase their products and services B2B.

The keywords chosen were in a very competitive area producing nearly 64 million index listings. This makes it much harder to rank in Google or any other search engine.

A content rich site was constructed. A blend of SEO, vertical, local and social marketing techniques is used to rank the website. Within six weeks London Property Video Productions have established themselves in the front of their customer base by dominating Google page #1 and #2 with 8 Google page one listings and 6 page two listings.

Above Google Page 1 Domination with London Property Video Productions taking 8 out of 10 listings in a very competitive market place.

Above London Property Video Productions even have 6 index listings on Google Page 2 and note there are 63.8 million listing for this search term.

The methods we use to blend local search and market this company give the potential searcher rich content and relevant information on the business and its property video marketing services. Their competitors are simply not seen and are completely left out in the dark.

A website that ranks as well as the one above is a piece of company real estate commanding a high value and a tangible asset.

Back to Previous Local Search Case Study.

Contact Blend to skyrocket your business, generate more leads, gain new customers and make more sales now!

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Geo Loco- The Local Search Marketing Monster

admin — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:32:23 +0000

The Local Search Marketing Monster

Geo Loco – The Local Search Marketing Monster is the new face and blue furry body of Blend Local Search Marketing’s new 20 part online viral video campaign – The Geo Loco Show.

During the first seasons series of videos, all less than one minute in duration, Geo Loco answers the top 20 frequently asked questions about Local Search Marketing with a focus on small and medium sized businesses.

The GEO Loco Show

Season 1 Show 1

Fast Tube by Casper

In addition to the 20 viral videos, Geo Loco will feature in out-takes and blooper videos taken from the set of the two day shoot in London.

Perry Stevens explains further “The videos are fun but they do have a serious intent. The idea of the videos series is to introduce, educate and explain the benefits of local and social search marketing to small and medium sized business owners/managers in a non techie, entertaining and informative way”.

Geo Loco was born to be the alternative antidote to all the noise, slick presentations and so-called experts of Local Search Marketing. Of course behind the big blue hairy monster is Blend Local Search Marketing, a real company with real clients who have benefited from Blends Local Map Strategy and other online local search marketing solutions such as video, web 2.0 and social networks’.

Discover how your business can be get seen online, attract new customers and benefit from local search marketing using video and an arsenal of other tried and tested SEO and SEM strategies we use to dominate Google in SERP’s (search engine results pages).

25% and growing of all Internet traffic is from videos. Do you want to be in a dead end street staring at a wall or cruising down a super highway?

This is really a call to action. You’re online and watching video of a puppet. If you’re are watching it, you can bet your bottom dollar others are too. Now just imagine instead of watching a blue furry puppet you were watching a video that sells the benefits of your business, product or service.

Blend Local Search Marketing has a successful 20 X 20 Video Strategy that is designed to dominate in SERP’s and establish you as the Go-To business expert in your profession.

Here is what we do in 5 easy steps…

* We produce 20 videos.

* We host each video on 20 video sites

* We bookmark each video on each hosting site to 20 social bookmarking sites

* We submit each video on each site to 10 RSS feeds

* We Ping each and every video submittion.

You win big when Blend implement thier 20 X 20 Video Strategy. Here are just 7 amazing benifits…

1) 1000′s of high ranking and permanent back-links that you own pointing to your website

2) Each video is optimized with your keywords and phrases

3) Each video description is optimized with your keywords and phrases

4) Your videos pop up all over the place in organic search results.

5) Your videos get muliple listings in organic search results.

6) Your videos will dominate in Youtube Videos, Google Videos, Yahoo! Videos and many, many more.

7) All these ‘satelite’ videos give you more chances of being seen online and funnel traffic back to your website.

In a later post we will provide a case study so you can see for yourself how our video strategy dominates search results for our clients.

Thinking about starting to use online video to market your company?

* Do you want to establish yourself as the expert in your field?

* Want to dominate search results for your keywords?

* Do you want 1000′s of quality and permanent back-links that you own?

Don’t be a puppet, Contact Us Today.

Look out for Geo Loco – The Local Search Marketing Monster! Watch more videos and subscribe to The Geo Loco Show on Youtube.

The Geo Loco Show is recorded using Flip Video mino HD. Discover Flip Video Here

FYI - Inspiration for Geo Loco comes from Animal ‘The Muppets’, Mr. T. ‘The A Team’, Yoda ‘Star Wars’, Zig and Zag, Fraggle Rock, Motley Crue and of course Robert DeNiro.

Be Local. Be Social. Blend.

20 Benefits of Local Search Marketing

admin — Wed, 26 May 2010 19:57:52 +0000

The Blend Local Search Marketing Strategy is designed to elevate your on and offline business and services so you are recognized as the go-to authority in your profession.

We believe ‘Content is King’ and unlike the some SEO companies who only build links, we bring marketing strategies to the table. We produce content that not only provide those important links back to your site but engage with your prospects, presenting you in a way that they will know, like and trust you. People, who know like and trust you, want to do business with you and refer their family and friends.

Be Local. Be Social. Blend.

Here are 20 Benefits of the Blend Local Search Marketing Strategy

1) Full 360* Marketing Strategy

2) By dominating keywords and phrases with our strategy your competition gets outranked in page 1 search results as your content pushes them out.

3) If Google changes their algorithms your campaigns do not disappear overnight because the strategy is a multi layered blend of proven disciplines.

4) The traffic that arrives at your site can be monitored and the strategy can be tweaked accordingly.

5) We provide flexibility to your online marketing. So if you have news worthy story for instance, we can post a Press Release instead of an article.

6) The video content we produced is designed so people get to know, like and trust you.

7) We upload a high volume of video content because we know how to use it and it works.

a. The search engine love videos
b. 25% of all content viewed online is video

8) Search engines love consistency – we feed them with more content month after month.

9) Search engines love authority – we ensure you are the authority by volume and quality of content.

10) Your online marketing is working for you 24/7 365 days of the year. (The perfect employee).

11) The web properties we build for you are always there growing, bigger, deeper and stronger month after month, year upon year, unlike many links that are annual.

a. Google loves history

12) Exclusivity – we only work with one business in a profession in any one area.

13) You’re investing in long lasting real estate – a company asset.

14) Web property links have a high page rank value.

15) We work with your 20 best keywords and phrases including local search terms.

16) Flexibility.

17) We provide monthly reports and updates.

18) We are open and transparent in all we do for you.

19) We are real people who you can contact on a phone, Skype or IM. We can even sit down over a nice cup of tea!

20) Our success is built on your success.

Is local search marketing right for my business? I bet your competition is thinking the same thing!

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Affordable Internet Marketing for Small Businesses

admin — Tue, 18 May 2010 14:20:25 +0000

Blend Local Search Marketing – Press Release.

London, England (Press Release) 18 May 2010. It’s still a tough and uncertain time for trading in any business sector post election but small local businesses can now finally compete with the big companies and beat them at their own marketing game.

One London based internet marketing company is aiming to provide all the internet marketing strategies these small companies need at affordable rates to dominate in online local search. Perry Stevens founded the company, Blend Local Search Marketing in 2009. Prior to establishing Blend, Perry worked in marketing with some of the biggest household brands in the world before running his own successful small business, IMP Film Co. a production company again in London.

Blend was born of the advertising shift from TV, radio and traditional print media to online, viral, social and local marketing. Small businesses are now able to claim and build their own real estate in the form of web properties and utilize the growing trend for social networking, video and map marketing to lazer target new customers and elevate their company profiles to rock star status in local search.

Blend offers three affordable packages to get any small business on the first page of Google in local search – Gold, Silver and Bronze.

Every small business today should have a web presence and Blend’s ‘Local Map Marketing Service’ is the affordable first steps to be seen were the customers are searching and that’s online.

If your company isn’t seen on the first page of Google, the fact is you are not going to get any customers from online. Can your business afford to miss out on new customers, growth and sales?

The real beauty of investing in local and social marketing is three fold:

* Firstly, it’s working for you 365 days a year all round the clock (sounds like the perfect employee!) and continues to grow and evolve over time.

* Secondly is the invaluable dialogue you can have with your customers. You want them to be talking about your products and services so why not lead the discussion and build long lasting relationships with them?

* Thirdly, most people like to do business with people they know, like and trust. By stamping your personality all over your web properties, searches get to know you and long standing, trusting relationship are formed. These customers want to do business with you.

For more information on internet marketing for small business in the UK contact Blend Local Search Marketing.

www.BlendLocalSearchMarketing.com

45 Bridge Meadows, London England SE14 5SU

T: 0207 635 0549

E: blendlsm @ googlemail.com

Local & Social Search Blueprint

admin — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:37:00 +0000

The Local and Social Search Blueprint

Confucius said ‘Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he’ll eat for a lifetime’

At Blend we really believe that we have simply put together the strongest local search marketing packages available at the most affordable price and that your success is our success. We’ll take care of your online local search marketing while you do what you do best, running your business and capitalizing on your new customers.

However, we know how rocky the business landscape is at the moment. The thought of committing to an monthly marketing strategy is maybe out of your reach. Building and ranking highly in the Google Local Map 7 Pack and in organic local search, although an essential must today and very attractive, may not be financially viable for some small businesses at the moment. Maybe you have one resource you could use more effectively and iffeciantly… your staff!

Introducing… The Local and Social Search Blueprint

Do you have staff members with time on their hands?

Do you want your staff to retrain and learn new skills?

Do you want to utilize down time to promote your company and services online?

The Local and Social Search Blueprint is an essential investment in your staff and your business.

Blend Local Search Marketing Consultant Perry Stevens will visit your place of work and coach a small number of your key staff members on how to implement and effectively use Local and Social Search as an effective marketing solution for your business.

“During the two day course I’ll teach one on one or a small group of your workforce how to build and implement an effective online local search marketing stategy”.

The day starts with and will continue to focus on Google as they are by far and away the biggest search engine with around 65% of the market.

“We encourage a best practise approach and

record management from the start”.

The course is ‘hands on’ meaning we will be:

*Listing and optimizing your business in Google Local Maps

*Building a Facebook Group page

*Opening a Twitter profile and optimizing it

*Constructing Web 2.0 properties and adding relevant content

*Opening a Youtube Channel and uploading a video

*Starting a Flickr account

*Building a blog

Once we have built the web properties we look at how social bookmaking can help you achieve your goals, build links, drive traffic to your sites and customers to your business.

We will also look at the free tools and software available to maximise the exposure of your web properties and make an attention grabbing video.

While we encourage students to take notes throughout the course we also provide full course details, step by step instructions and resource notes at the end of the day in a PDF format.

The Local and Social Search Blueprint (2 Days) is a one time investment of £1497 for a lifetime of rewards.

YES I want to make that investment in my staff and my company by booking The Local and Social Search Blueprint in my workplace.

Please complete the form below or contact us on 0207 635 0549 Now.

“Those who take advantage of this offer sooner rather than later will make the greater returns on investment”.