Sep 10
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Google Places
Ignore This Post…
If you’re on Page 1 of Google. If you’re not, you may want to read further…
Businesses on the first page get 95% of all the leads.
For every 100 people who look for your business
* 1st place gets 41 to 45 of them
* 2nd place gets 11 to 18
* 3rd place gets 7 to 15
* 4th through 9th gets 2 each
* and last place on page 1 gets 3 to 4
Wow! Last place and they’re still getting leads.
And we won’t even talk about PPC which is returning about 2 or 3…
Now if you’re not on page 1…
There are some things you can do. I’m breaking some rules here because I’m not supposed to tell you how to do this yourself.
I’m supposed to tell you…
- that you should work on your business and not in it.
- hire the right people for the right job so it gets done right and costs less in the long run.
- use the spare time you find from hiring experts to spend time with friends and family
- you hire accountants to do your accounting, lawyers to do your lawyering, marketers to do the marketing
This is the number 1 thing you should do:
Make sure your Google Places Listing is 100% filled out.
- complete your business listing in every directory you can find
- geo target with photos
- social bookmark each listing
- have others add your listing to their map
That should get you on your way to top listings. Do the same for Yahoo and Bing. (This doesn’t work if you’re in Canada),
UBL.org is a great resource (cheap too at $30US per year) to keep your listing alive and well in other directories around the net. (Once again, not available in Canada)
If you’re unsure on what to do, pick up my book or DVD here to get you going. (Click on the image)
| Book | Dvd |
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| $14.97 | $14.97 |
For the price of a few coffees, you could get that phone ringing pretty quickly.
Randy Stuppard is one of the most savvy business people that I know. He is known as "the guy who makes things happen."