Exclusive for UK Businesses – Blend SMS Marketing

April 7, 2012 By admin Leave a Comment

Regular readers to this blog will know we have been working on a number of new projects, one being our new SMS marketing service – Blend SMS Marketing.

We quietly and successfully launched Blend SMS Marketing in the first week of April and it’s proving to be a big hit with the early adopters.

So What is Blend SMS Marketing?

Quite simply it is a text messaging service for UK business that allows them to send out individual and group SMS messages to their customers.

Their are no contracts, commitments or any software to download. You can sign up for your free account and take up our offer of 10 free texts and test it out for yourself in minutes.

Who is SMS Marketing for?

If you are a bar owner or restauranteur, imagine being able to send out a group text at the push of a button to alert your customers of today’s ‘special offer’ and fill your seats in next to no time.

Maybe you are a window cleaner and need a cost effective way to notify your customers of your next visit. You can with Blend SMS Marketing and all from your easy to manage desktop control panel.

Or if you need bums on seats, notify customers of ‘today’s deal’ or confirm appointments, the easiest and most cost effective way of reaching people today is text messaging as no one leaves home without their phone. In most cases SMS messages are opened and read within 20 seconds of being sent so there has never been a faster or direct way of connecting with your customers.

We are inviting our readers to try the Blend SMS Marketing service for free. If you are a business owner in the UK we have limited time offer where you can claim 10 free texts and try out our service at absolutely no cost to you. After the trail, you can invest as little as 5 pounds sterling to start your own text messaging campaign. You’ll soon discover it really is the lowest cost, high ROI direct marketing medium available today.

And please remember there are no contacts, commitment on your part or any software to download. It’s as easy as 1, 2, 3. Simply copy and paste or import your numbers, type your offer (e.g buy one and get one free when you show this text message” and press send. Yes it’s that easy! Click here to get started with SMS Marketing and claim your 10 Free texts today!

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

Tel: 0207 635 0549 Skype: BlendLSM

Blend SMS Marketing

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Are Business Directories a Good Source of Free Advertising?

December 7, 2011 By admin

Are Business Directories a Good Source of Free Advertising?

Here at Blend Local Search Marketing we are passionate about finding the best possible sources for advertising and marketing your business on the Internet. This is in order to increase you position in major search engine’s results, and ultimately to increase customer enquiries. So in this article written by Wampit guest blogger – James Stevens, we are going to focus on the world of free advertising and business directories and how they can benefit your company on the Internet.

The Internet has created many new and innovative ways for people to advertise and market their business for free. These range from producing and hosting a promotional video, through to participating and networking in forums to get your business known and trusted amongst your target market.

Business directories have been a popular source of free advertising over the last 10 years, i.e. free advertising sites that allow business owners to create a profile for their company that is then added to the directory (usually by category or keyword). These business directory profiles (advert listings) are then returned in search results on the site for people looking for a business, product or service.

Traditionally these business directories relied on people knowing about their service in order to search for and find businesses directly. However, in more recent times it’s a well published fact that about 80% of Internet searches are now actioned in the major search engines (Google / Yahoo / Bing), with Google taking about 80% of this proportion.

Today, the quality business directories have evolved with this trend by organising and serving their content in a search engine friendly format – they do this by:

- Creating a unique page for every advertiser, e.g. www.directory.com/your-co-name.html

- Internally linking to these pages via category and location structures, e.g. ‘Plumbers’ or ‘London’

- Submitting the unique page’s URL to search engines via XML Sitemaps (basically a file with a list of up to 50,000 URLs in)

This means the content that these sites own can now be crawled and indexed by major search engines more easily. So for example, when someone types ‘Plumber in London’ in Google then links to pages owned by the business directories that match this search entry have the potential to be displayed in Google’s search results.

The obvious benefit of this process is that the person looking for a business or service can land on an advert without knowing about that site or searching in it directly.

So Does This Mean I Should Advertise On All Business Directories?

Absolutely Not – basically like a lot of other free advertising services on the Internet, there are varying levels of quality and service. A few years ago it was a popular SEO strategy to list your business on as many sites as you could, in order to gain links to your site. However, this strategy has changed recently and even more so since the Google Panda updates earlier this year (changes to Google’s search in the pursuit of displaying quality results and relevancy) – so now it’s important to only associate your business website with quality and trusted free advertising services.

So What Are The Top Business Directories?

The best free advertising services are ones that are established, operate ethical and best practice processes, and are trusted by its users. The major search engines favour human-edited business directories, i.e. so the content it holds is of the highest quality.

The following sites are quality and human edited free advertising services based in the UK:

1. Yell

2. The Wampit Business Directory

3. My Local Services

4. FreeIndex

5. Thomson Local

You can read a full review of each one of these sites in a recent article on Squidoo naming the Top UK Business Directories.

In Conclusion

We recommend adverting your company on these quality sites, however, there are a few golden rules you must follow when actioning this marketing strategy:

1. Add well written content to each one describing your business / services

2. Don’t copy text from your website or other sites – unique content only

3. Link to your own website from the business profiles to make it easier for potential customers to visit your site

4. Keep the content up-to-date throughout the year, and add details about any special offers / discounts you’re running

It’s as simple as that, and should take you no longer than a couple of hours to get your site noticed on the best quality UK business directories.

Claim your Free business listing on Wampit – a leading global advertising service today!

About the Author: James Stevens works as freelance blogger and has a passion for all things business and Internet related. He’s recently worked with various business marketing companies – you can read his Google+ profile here. You can now list your business on Wampit in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia and EU.

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

November 28, 2011 By admin

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!

Vocalzye 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

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:

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.

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.

Here is a quick video overview of Vocalyze.

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

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

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Local Search Marketing Services Press Release

July 5, 2010 By admin

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

July 5, 2010 By admin

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 cold-water 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.

July 3, 2010 By admin

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 – Founder of BLEND Local Search Marketing

This Offer is Now Closed

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Local Search Marketing – Case Study #2

June 23, 2010 By admin

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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20 Benefits of Local Search Marketing

May 26, 2010 By admin

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

May 18, 2010 By admin

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

Suite 57, 16 Rossetti Road, London SE16

T: 0207 231 2432

E: Perry @ BlendLocalSearchMarketing . com

E: Lee @ BlendLocalSearchMarketing . com

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Local & Social Search Blueprint

April 28, 2010 By admin

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 Local Search Marketing 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 efficiently… 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 strategy”.

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 practice 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 contact us here or call us on 0207 231 2432 Now.

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

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Blend Local Map Marketing Gold Package

April 1, 2010 By admin

Blend Local Map Marketing Gold Package

Blend Local Map Marketing Gold is our premium package. 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 create video and 5 web properties, all of which will be fully optimized to provide an endless flow of ‘Google juice’ back to your website. We will also build a blog so you can inform your customers of all your latest news, offers and services.

Monthly there after we will maintain all your web properties and invest in them further by building quality links, 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 Gold Package.

Remember to take advantage of this amazing opening offer by contacting us now. It will not last forever and it may be gone tomorrow! Now closed! See our NEW Profit Systems.

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Blend Local Map Marketing Service

March 31, 2010 By admin

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)

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”.

Type 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.

Allow 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.

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Local Search For You.

March 11, 2010 By admin

Local Search Marketing is for you!

If you have a business with or without an online presence in the form of a website, you should be marketing where your customers are searching for products and services, and that’s on the net.

Google, CNN and AOl to name but three search engines have put their business model behind local search. Increasing numbers of consumers use a PC or mobile phone to find products or services. We call mobile phone users ‘Hyper Locals’. How can you harness the upward trend of local search for your company?

Blend Local Search Marketing can tailor a sustained online marketing campaign for your business whatever the size of the company or budget.

To emphasize the depth and scope of local search marketing we have produced a presentation video in two bite size chunks – Local Search Explained Parts 1 & 2. They can be viewed below.

Local SearchExplained Part 1-2

Local Search Explained Part 2-2

Can you afford to do it? Can you afford not to do it?

“Businesses that get in to local search sooner rather than later will get the greater returns on investment!”

You do what you do best – running your business!

Blend Local Search Marketing will tell the world about your business.

If you are serious about marketing your company online, finding new customers, skyrocketing sales and increasing profits with an excellent ROI, simply contact us here.

For more information about local search trends and figures follow these links.

Hyper-Local

Local Search Outpacing Regular Search

Local Search Outpaces Overall Online Search

Directory Marketing = 5* Google Juice for Local Search

March 2, 2010 By admin

The Next Big Thing in Local Search will Not Be Search Engines.

It will be online directories. Need confirmation? Try this little test. Go to your search engine of choice, Google, Yahoo or Bing etc. and type in a well known city name along with “restaurants” in the search box. Example “Brighton Restaurants”. A staggering 9 out of the first 10 generic results are for directories, not restaurants.

Why? Search engines realize that human powered directories with specialized knowledge can do a better job of leading users through the final phase of the search process. So specialized directory publishing will be the next big opportunity in online local search.

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It’s important to have your business listed in as many online directories as possible. There are literally thousands out there but submitting your contact details, opening times, Keyword rich bio, photographs, videos, voucher etc. is time consuming and tedious, besides your too busy doing what you do best, running your business.

Blend Local Search Marketing provide this service for you as part of our Google Page 1 Domination strategy. Building up over time, a network of authority directory pages in the correct and relevant directories for your business. These listings in turn provide strong back links directly to your website, create high search results in specific categories and locations and even top positioning on competitor listings. They are also 5* search engine optimisation Google juice and are also the intelligent integration of local search results.

Get Your Website Ranked High in The Search Engines
With a No Cost Website Analysis and Ranking Report! Contact Blend today!

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Blends Google Wave Open Invitations

December 1, 2009 By admin

We have had our signing up confirmed to Google Wave which will allow us to give early feedback on Google Wave.

Blend Local Search Marketing would like to extent an invitation to other online marketers to join the Beta Google Wave to improve the product and discuss ways to use the revolutionary tools to benefit our online businesses in Marketing, Sales, Lists and Local Search.

The idea is to create a group and start a wave of like minded individuals to really push this new tool and explore ways of getting ahead of the curve in the months to come to maximise sales and marketing businesses on the web.

If you don’t have Google Wave and would like to be invited to join in on the Beta testing, send your contact email to us with a short note describing your business and interest in Google Wave.

We will then invite you to join us in this new and exciting online revolution.

We look forward to seeing you on the other side.

For more information on Google Wave watch this long video here.

or this video here

If you want an invitation to join Google Wave contact us here at Blend Local Search Marketing.

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Do you want to be a Google Page 1 Rock Star?

October 30, 2009 By admin

A successful business is a visible business. Now days, being visible means being where your customers are looking and that is on Page 1 of Google – the largest search engine in the world!

Blend Local Search Marketing will make your business a Google Page 1 Rock Star in Local Search. Not only that, but we will blend your marketing exposure and completely dominate the top ten. (Not even The Beatles managed that!)

We promise to take your company website internet presence from…

PUB SINGER

is there anybody there?

To

ONE HIT WONDER

Do you remember this one?

To

X FACTOR

Here today, gone tomorrow!

To

Rock Star

Hello World!

Click here for more information about how Blend Local Search Marketing can skyrocket your business to the top of Google in Local Search!

Further information about Local Search Marketing can be found online here.

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Dominate Google Page 1 in Local Search

October 28, 2009 By admin

Are you happy with your internet presence?

Do you want to be No. 1 in Google searches?

Do you want to completely dominate page 1 of Google so your competitors don’t get a look in?

Here is the truth, Yellow Pages is dead! Everyone searches for products and services using the power of the internet with Google being the # 1 search engine of choice.

Take a look at your own business, how do you find products and services? You Google them, right?

Google use sophisticated algorithms and rewards its customers by giving them exactly what they want. We all search using keywords and keyword phrases i.e. London Property Videos.

How would you like to own page 1 of Google? Think about it… owning page one of Google effectively ‘shuts down’ your competition.

What would that mean to you in regards to new business, sales and the bottom line?

Do you want to boom your business?

Do you want to skyrocket your sales?

Do you want more 10, 100 or 1000’s of new customers?

Most consultants and SEO experts do only one thing. They optimize ONE static website for a client to get it on page one. This usually takes about a minimum of three months to see any results.

We are offering far more value and a higher return on investment. Our tactics will take over MULTIPLE page one rankings and eliminate almost all competition.

It’s like taking a magic marker to every yellow pages in every household or turning the lights out, locking the door and throwing away the key to your competitor’s premises. We can quite literally blow them out of the water!

With our SEO insider knowledge and the diverse cutting edge tools at our disposal, we can guarantee page 1 domination of Google for your business now and maintain that ownership for months and years to come.

By positioning your website at Google page number 1 and covering other multiple rankings makes your website virtual realty gold with a high value of its own.

Why Local Search?

According to a Piper Jaffray 2008 research paper, 30 percent of all queries contain a city, state or postcode.

With 2.6 billion local searches performed each month, the Internet has now surpassed print Yellow Pages and newspaper as a primary source for local consumer service information. The adoption of smart phones will only add to these numbers, currently 27 % of all mobile searches are for local information.

Blend use a verity of methods to dominate Google Page 1 in local search for small and medium sized businesses. We create a universal, local search, online presence to the companies we work with that give the searcher rich content and relevant information on the business and its services they seek.

Competitors are simply not seen and are completely left out in the dark.

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

Don’t delay – For more information on Local Search Marketing read our case study # 1 here and #2 here and contact Blend before your competitor does!

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