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Marketing Round Our Way

admin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:08:20 +0000

So the Yellow Pages has a new look!

I received a letter this morning from Yell informing me that the famous Yellow Pages directory has been redesigned to make it better.

Apparently they’ve split it into two distinct sections. Business paying advertisers will now appear at the front and general free listings are now in alphabetical order at the back. This means paid for ads will stand out.

Apparently their research suggests that the changes could increase usage by up to 12%. Their research as far as I could ascertain was in two small areas back in 2009.

Now I would suggest this research is already out of date. How have they’ve bucked the trend from online searches back to paper when all other research in this area points to online searches still growing at huge monthly increments and the traditional methods trailing off and bottoming out?

The compact size maybe easier to fit in the letter box but it’s just as easy as it ever was to drop in the recycling facility.

Congratulations to Wampit!

Meanwhile the online business directory Wampit celebrates it’s first year with 350,000 business listings and 60,000 unique monthly visitors to it’s site.

We’re on the Wampit Business Directory are you?

Home Based Business Opportunities

And finally if you are looking for opportunities to start a home based business or How To Make Money from home, check out the Cambridge Business Academy for advice and a wealth of resources.

The Blend Article Marketing Service also has had a great first week since launch. You too can find find easy to use Article, Link Building and Banner Adverting solutions here.

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Article Writing Service

admin — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 17:11:38 +0000

Don’t Have Time to Write Articles and/or Press Releases?

That’s OK, we can write them for you. We’ve made submitting articles to our privately owned domains simplicity itself. You can get started straight away for FREE here – Blend Article Marketing Service.

Of course you may not want to write an article or press release if you are pushed for time, don’t like writing or would rather pay a professional to do it for you.

Introducing our 10X10 Article Writing and Submission Service.

“There’s no better proven way to put your search engine optimization and link building efforts on auto-pilot and as well as attract thousands of visitors to your website every month than article marketing”.

Before we start to research and write your articles we firstly need to get some information from you such as topic, category, keywords and your website URL. Armed with this information our team of professional writers can then write a series of eye-catching articles for you.

Each unique, 400 – 500 word, well researched article is content rich and contains the optimum keywords and phrase density favoured by the search engines.

We ensure each article title is highly relevant to your industry to attract targeted and lucrative visitors to the article pages, and finally to your website. We also include 2 one way links pointing back to your website, one at the top and one at the bottom of the article, so readers can fast track over to your website or landing page.

We then release one article per month for 10 12 months* into our privatly owned article network. Each article is syndicated across our network at a rate of 10-20 sites a day. The links generated are STATIC one-way content rich inbound links to your website and will boost your search engine ranking safely and consistently over time.

We understand advanced search engine optimization tactics and have designed our technology to meet new rules and the ever-changing formulas of Google and other major search engines. You can be assured that our article marketing submission service and technology always has your best interest at heart.

Summary

*12 articles for the price of 10

*400 words per article

*Unique content – well researched

*Keyword optimized

*Submitted to our privately owned domains over a year (1 per month)

* Thousands of quality, static, one way, permanent back links

Price: A one off investment of £347

Discover more about our article marketing submission service. Click here – Article Marketing.

Start submitting your own articles and press releases right now. Click here – Blend Article Marketing Service.

Your comments and questions are welcome.

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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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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.

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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

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Blend Youtube Search Story

admin — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:26:14 +0000

Here is a great way to make a video to promote your business in 5 minutes flat.

Youtube Search Stories allows you to make a short video story using maps, news, web, images, music and much more to create your own viral.

Anyone can do this, so why not give it a go and then blast it around all your social network sites like Twitter, Myspace, Facebook and Flickr for all the world to see.

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Blend Local Map Marketing Gold Package

admin — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:32:24 +0000

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 using the form below. It will not last forever and it may be gone tomorrow! Now closed!

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