STOP! DO NOT Read this Blog: Be Local, Be Vocal, Vocalyze

November 28, 2011 By

Be Local, Be Vocal, Vocalyze

DO NOT Read this blog… Vocalyze! Listen, we are always on the look out for new ways to amplify our marketing messages and those of our clients. Vocalyze does exactly that!

vocalyzeVocalzye is web-text-to-speech technology that creates a real-time audio stream of your blog. “It does what… it reads your blog?”  Yes, but it gets even better…

Vocalyze can be easily installed on a WordPress blog as a plugin. (Also available for Blogger and Tumblr) You can download the Vocalyze WP plugin from here. Once you’ve configured it and installed the Toucan button on your page you’re set and ready to go. Now anyone visiting your blog can click on the button and listen to your posts instead of reading them. This is an ideal solution when you’re multi-tasking, have site-impaired visitors to your blog or at the end of a long day, like me, have just very tired eyes!

Now listen up! This is where Vocalyze gets really interesting. It also comes as an App so you can listen to any website from your smart phone – iPhone & Android. It’s a Free download and you can grab it here for iPhone and here for Android. This wonderful App allows you to listen to your favorite websites or blog while you are commuting, walking the dog or like my business partner Lee, on the treadmill at the gym. It’s a great time management tool! There is also a Twitter integration feature in Vocalyze, so you could try adding your favorite comedian to your list for a few laughs.

The synthesized voice alternates between male and female and generally sounds pretty good… for a robot.

 

3 Ways to Listen to the Blend Blog with Vocalyze

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1)    On the home page of Blend Local Search Marketing you can locate the Vocalyze button above our optin box (See above). Click on the Toucan avatar and a new window will open. Now choose the blog post you would like to listen to while you type up that report. Alternatively find a second Vocalyze button in our footer. It looks like this:

Vocalyze

2)    Head to the Vocalyze website and create an account. From there you can compile your playlist. Add Blend Local Search Marketing and other favorites like Mashable, The Onion or the NYTimes Business. Easily share you favorites with friends and across your social media channels.

Vocalyze
Blend Local Search Marketing can be easily added to “My Favorites” from the “Featured Blogs” list on the mobile and through any web browser.

3)    To really leverage you’re Vocalyze listening experience download the Free App for iPhone or Android and listen to your favorite blog IE. Blend Local Search Marketing on the go. Wherever you are, you can access your playlist and listen to your content so you stay both productive and and up to date with the latest news and views from your favorite media channels.

VocalyzeHere is a quick video overview of Vocalyze.

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Anyway that’s enough from me. If you’re still reading this why don’t you go ahead, listen to it instead (and some of our other blog posts) and leave a comment below to tell us what you think of Vacalyze.

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Posted by Perry Stevens – Chief Operations Director of Blend local Search Marketing

Contact Us here.

 

Blend Local Search Marketing – Suite 57, 7 Rossetti Road, London SE16 3EY

 

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Blend Local Search Marketing News

May 2, 2011 By

Blend Local Search Marketing News

Today – Monday 2 May Blend Local Search Marketing launch their new look website and officially welcome their new Director to the company.

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Lee Bannister - New Business Director

Lee Bannister joins Blend Local Search Marketing as New Business Director and will be based in London, UK and Oslo, Norway. Lee’s new position will see him speaking at seminars and conferences across the UK and Europe while handling all new business related enquiries.

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Perry Stevens - Founder

Perry Stevens, founder of Blend Local Search Marketing has now taken up residence in Bangkok, Thailand and has assumed the position of Chief Operations Director of the company. Perry’s new role will allow him and his team to focus on all clients local search marketing, social media, video production and SEO from their new South East Asian base in one of the world’s most vibrant capital cities.

Blend Local Search Marketing – New Look Website

The new look website consolidates the key principals that Blend Local Search Marketing passionately believe in, what they can do for customers and what the customer can expect to achieve by investing in their Profit Systems for their businesses.

In a little over 18 months Blend Local Search Marketing have built a proven track record of what works, not only to get you to the top of Google in local search but to also dominate the search engines and convert new traffic to customers. All their clients without exception are not only bucking the economic downturn but actually achieving month on month growth, making bigger profits and employing new staff. That’s something we are immensely proud off.

Local Search Marketing Goes Global

Blend Local Search Marketing are now servicing clients on three continents with their local search and SEO tactics, proving that local really is the new global!

Feel free to look around the new look site, there’s a wealth of information in our blog that you can take and implement for your company benefit. Better still allow us to show you how we can help you achieve online success, convert more customers and bank bigger profits using proven local search marketing strategies.

You can contact Perry or Lee at Blend Local Search Marketing here.

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Blend Local Map Marketing Bronze Package

April 3, 2010 By

Blend Local Map Marketing Bronze Package

Blend BRONZE

The Blend Local Map Marketing Bronze Package is our entry level into local map marketing for your business.

We will first and for mostly claim your Google map listing before someone else does and customise it with your photos, videos and your company information. We will then ensure it is fully optimized with the correct keyword phrases your customers are using to find you.

We will then submit your information to 50 of the UK’s high ranking web directories. This will benefit your business in two ways.

1)      It will provide good Google juice back to your Google listing ranking you higher.

2)      It will provide your customers with over 50 more chances of finding you in organic local search

When we have completed you manual submissions we will bookmark your website with the top 10 social bookmarking sites.

As an opening price we are offering this investment to you at the incredibly low price. This will not last long. So take advantage of this today.

Click here to see everything you will get in the Blend Local Map Marketing Bronze Package.

FREE ‘The Top 10 Tips to Optimize Your Website’ with every enquiry. Yours to keep whatever you decide.

Remember to take advantage of this amazing opening offer by contacting us Now using the form below. It can’t last forever and it may be gone tomorrow!

Do you want to upgrade? Click here for our SILVER or Gold Package.

UPDATE: This service has now been modified and is know as BRONZE PROFIT SYSTEM

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Blend Local Map Marketing Silver Package

April 2, 2010 By

Blend Local Map Marketing Silver Package

Blend Local Map Marketing Silver Package

The Blend Local Map Marketing Silver Package is a fast track and affordable entry level web promotion service. First and foremost we will start by claiming your Google map listing before someone else does and customise it with your photos, videos and your company information. We will then ensure it is fully optimized with the correct keyword phrases your customers are using to find you.

Next we will produce your own video and build you a custom ‘channel’ on the largest search engine out there – Youtube. People love watching videos and Google favour them in searches. We will upload your video to your exclusive Youtube channel and fully optimize it with your logo, business bio, keyword phrases and links.

Your video will be syndicate it to 10 other video sharing platforms including Daily Motion and Yahoo! All of which will be fully optimized to provide an endless flow of ‘Google juice’ back to your website.

We will then build you a blog with optimized content; videos, photos and information about you, your business and your industry. With your own blog you can easily inform your customers of all your latest news, offers, products and services and start to create a regular dialogue and build strong relationships with them. Building relationships with your customers means customers for life.

Monthly there after we will maintain your web properties and invest in them further by building quality links or posting articles with links and social bookmarking everything.

This has a two fold effect of providing your website and listing with lots of juicy back links to maintain your page 1 position in local search. It also spreads your business reach all over the net generating targeted leads back to your website and listing.

Click here to see everything you will get in the Blend Local Map Marketing Silver Package.

Click here to upgrade to the new  Gold Profit System

Remember to take advantage of this amazing opening offer by contacting us now. It will not last forever and it may be gone tomorrow!

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Blend Local Map Marketing Service

March 31, 2010 By

Blend Local Search Marketing have created an affordable stategy for listing local businesses in the Google Local Map 7 Pack in organic local search page 1 results.

“Your business can feature in the Google Local Map 7 Pack in organic local search with or without a website!”

Google Local Listings have made internet marketing a level playing field for businesses. Now you can compete and beat the big corporations at their own game by implementing an inexpensive local search engine marketing solution. Those who take advantage of this opportunity sooner, rather than later will make the greater returns on investment.

Does your business show up in the Google Local Map 7 Pack? If not, read on to learn how your business can be listed in Google Local Maps in organic local search.

Blend Local Search Marketing have developed an affordable internet marketing strategy that gets your business visible where customers are searching; on the net and on Google Local Maps… it’s called Blend Local Map Marketing (BLMM)

Blend Local Map Marketing

Are you disillusioned with the ROI with your Yellow Pages advertising?

Are you confused by SEO and internet marketing information overload?

Are you paying a fortune for CPC (cost per click) Google Adwords?

“If you are serious about having your business in the Google Local Map 7 Pack and on page 1 of organic local search this is going to be the easiest business decision you have ever had to make”.

google local map 7 packType in any ‘service’ and a ‘city’ into Google i.e.  cycle shop Lincoln, restaurant Brighton or orthodontist Leeds. This is how your potential customers will find you. Do you want new customers to find you?

Google page 1 shows the same results for the local search. You’ll notice Google local maps have 7 spots (A to G) to the right of the map, below there are 10 organic listings and to the right (and sometimes above) are paid advertisements (CPC).

Here’s the thing… If you are not in the Google Local Map 7 Pack or page 1 of organic local search no one is going to find you. Page two is rarely looked at. The reality is if you are not on page one you are NEVER going to get any business from Google. However, one point to remember is that you don’t even need to have a website.

So why choose the Blend Local Map Marketing service for your effective local search engine marketing solutions? Well we really believe that we have simply put together the strongest local search marketing package available today at the most affordable price. Your success is our success.

Do you want more quality leads?

Do you want to get new customers and engage with existing ones?

Do you want to increase sales?

Get your business in the Google Local Map 7 Pack and be on the first page of organic local search and you will get more leads, engage with customers and skyrocket sales. Well, that’s exactly what we’ll do for you. We’ll get YOU seen in the right place, by the right people so you can convert these qualified leads into sales and build ongoing relationships with them.

Be Seen Where the People Look!

Online local search is the new Yellow Pages and a whole lot more. A whopping 86% of adults now use search engines such as Google to look up information, products and services from local businesses. A reported 80% of all income is spent within a few miles of their homes or place of work. A strategic internet marketing campaign is now imperative to the success of running a thriving business in today’s market and even more so as Google roll out Social Search.

“Someday is not a day of the week”.

Many small businesses have been slow to respond to this shift from traditional media, so NOW is the time to invest in Blend Local Map Marketing and beat your competition to the top spots.

Blend’s Unique Service.

Blend Local Map Marketing will create a customized business profile and optimize your listing for the highest possible ranking in the Google Local Map 7 Pack. We use the correct keyword phrases that your customers use to find you. This ensures that when a consumer uses the internet or a mobile devise and searches for YOUR business or service in YOUR location you WILL be found. 75% of searchers do business with listings they find on the first page. BLMM will ensure you are there.

Does Yellow Pages, cost per click and traditional print media advertising seem like you’re throwing good money away? With local search marketing you are actively investing in your business and building up online real estate, a real company asset.

Here’s Exactly What You Get

An optimized custom business listing in Google Local.

10 UK Business Listings including Bing, AOL and Ask.

10 social bookmarks

A 60 second slideshow video – optimised with 5 keyword phrases and submitted up to 10 video platforms

Your own fully optimized Youtube Channel

1 custom Twitter profile – optimised with 100 organic followers

1 Flickr or Photobucket profile – optimized and loaded with your photographs

1 Facebook Group Page – including all your videos, photos, links and business details.

1 Web 2.0 custom lens – fully optimized with your videos, photos, links and business details

1 Blog – including all videos, photos, links and business details.

Your top 20 keyword phrases

50 UK Business Directory listing submissions

100 Monthly hand built links across City Directories and Industry Specific Directories. Including – videos, photos, business details and links to your website

Monthly detailed reports emailed directly to you.

Here is a list to some of the directories we post to:

Yelp, Dmoz, Qype, HotfrogUK, Ufindus, Scoot, Smilelocal, Bizwiki, Wampit, Yellowpages, Freebusinnessdirectorylisting, Blueboomarang, UKsmallbusinnessdirectory, Business-directory-uk…

Your Bonus – We will set up something else for you. We don’t want to give all our secrets away here but this will give you more links, more customers and possibly another listings in organic results below the Google Local Map.

Blend Consultant - Perry StevensAllow me to introduce myself. My name is Perry (that’s me in the photo) I manage the team at Blend and you have my personal guarantee of the work we will be doing for you to get you in the Google Local Map 7 Pack and listed on page 1 of organic local search results. When you make your order you will get my direct line and Skype so you can have constant communicate with me so you know what we are doing for you. I’ll also give you ideas and advice (on and off line) how you can help improve your rankings.

The Winning Strategy

Blend Local Map Marketing comes in three packages Gold, Silver and Bronze. We recommend the Gold Package as it’s designed to give the best possible return on investment. The Silver Package is very good value for those on a tighter budget or in a market that has little online competition. The Bronze package allows you to claim your Google local listing before someone else does and creates your instant web footprint to be found by your customers.

Click here for your package elements and price plan.

Blend Local Map Marketing Gold Package

Blend Local Map Marketing Silver Package

Blend Local Map Marketing Bronze Package

Satisfaction is guaranteed. Your success is our success. We can’t get you on Google page 1 over-night; it takes time to move up the rankings. It will depend on the competitiveness of your market as to how long it will take to get you ranked on page 1 in local search. However with diligent SEO practise on our part and if you’re patient and trust the process you will eventually reach page one.

We do not insist on a monthly contract so if you are not satisfied with the service we provide you can cancel anytime. If at anytime you cancel the agreement we will discontinue our local search optimization service. It’s our goal to get you to page one of Google in local search so you can begin turning a search in to a sale. The sooner we start, the sooner your listing will show up.

Google can change their algorithms at any time so we may have to implement new optimisation tactics to achieve the same results. I would like to thank you for your business and rest assured the team at Blend are working on your behalf to help your business succeed beyond all expectations in these competitive and difficult times.

Read the ‘Think Local’ Report by Rachel Rosmarin at Forbes.
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