Comments on: Small Town Chambers of Commerce, Mobilize Your Businesses and Showcase Your Town For Free On Google Place Pages http://ruraltourismmarketing.com/2010/02/small-town-chambers-of-commerce-mobilize-your-businesses-and-showcase-your-town-for-free-on-google-place-pages/ Effective Innovative rural tourism marketing advice and tips. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:00:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Google Buzz: One More Reason For Small Tourism Businesses to Appear on Google Place Pages | ruraltourismmarketing.com http://ruraltourismmarketing.com/2010/02/small-town-chambers-of-commerce-mobilize-your-businesses-and-showcase-your-town-for-free-on-google-place-pages/#comment-1144 Google Buzz: One More Reason For Small Tourism Businesses to Appear on Google Place Pages | ruraltourismmarketing.com Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:57:26 +0000 http://ruraltourismmarketing.com/?p=1384#comment-1144 [...] I posted recently about Google Local Business Listings and Place Pages, I noted that the reviews are aggregated from all over the [...] [...] I posted recently about Google Local Business Listings and Place Pages, I noted that the reviews are aggregated from all over the [...]

]]> By: Joanne Steele http://ruraltourismmarketing.com/2010/02/small-town-chambers-of-commerce-mobilize-your-businesses-and-showcase-your-town-for-free-on-google-place-pages/#comment-1141 Joanne Steele Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:12:24 +0000 http://ruraltourismmarketing.com/?p=1384#comment-1141 Thanks for the additional information Melih. The vital thing for most small town tourism businesses to remember is that it's all about their customer. Every business should take the time to set up and manage a local listing on the biggies. But what makes decisionmaking about the other 54+ sites manageable for the microbusinesses that my blog focuses on is Google Alerts. These little tourism businesses know their customer niche intimately, and can keep track of where their customers are showing up online. Those are the additional places where they need to add their information. For larger more diversified businesses, the services you talk about will be big time savers. Thanks for the additional information Melih. The vital thing for most small town tourism businesses to remember is that it’s all about their customer. Every business should take the time to set up and manage a local listing on the biggies. But what makes decisionmaking about the other 54+ sites manageable for the microbusinesses that my blog focuses on is Google Alerts. These little tourism businesses know their customer niche intimately, and can keep track of where their customers are showing up online. Those are the additional places where they need to add their information.
For larger more diversified businesses, the services you talk about will be big time savers.

]]> By: Joanne Steele http://ruraltourismmarketing.com/2010/02/small-town-chambers-of-commerce-mobilize-your-businesses-and-showcase-your-town-for-free-on-google-place-pages/#comment-1142 Joanne Steele Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:12:24 +0000 http://ruraltourismmarketing.com/?p=1384#comment-1142 Thanks for the additional information Melih. The vital thing for most small town tourism businesses to remember is that it's all about their customer. Every business should take the time to set up and manage a local listing on the biggies. But what makes decisionmaking about the other 54+ sites manageable for the microbusinesses that my blog focuses on is Google Alerts. These little tourism businesses know their customer niche intimately, and can keep track of where their customers are showing up online. Those are the additional places where they need to add their information. For larger more diversified businesses, the services you talk about will be big time savers. Thanks for the additional information Melih. The vital thing for most small town tourism businesses to remember is that it’s all about their customer. Every business should take the time to set up and manage a local listing on the biggies. But what makes decisionmaking about the other 54+ sites manageable for the microbusinesses that my blog focuses on is Google Alerts. These little tourism businesses know their customer niche intimately, and can keep track of where their customers are showing up online. Those are the additional places where they need to add their information.
For larger more diversified businesses, the services you talk about will be big time savers.

]]> By: Joanne Steele http://ruraltourismmarketing.com/2010/02/small-town-chambers-of-commerce-mobilize-your-businesses-and-showcase-your-town-for-free-on-google-place-pages/#comment-1143 Joanne Steele Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:12:24 +0000 http://ruraltourismmarketing.com/?p=1384#comment-1143 Thanks for the additional information Melih. The vital thing for most small town tourism businesses to remember is that it's all about their customer. Every business should take the time to set up and manage a local listing on the biggies. But what makes decisionmaking about the other 54+ sites manageable for the microbusinesses that my blog focuses on is Google Alerts. These little tourism businesses know their customer niche intimately, and can keep track of where their customers are showing up online. Those are the additional places where they need to add their information. For larger more diversified businesses, the services you talk about will be big time savers. Thanks for the additional information Melih. The vital thing for most small town tourism businesses to remember is that it’s all about their customer. Every business should take the time to set up and manage a local listing on the biggies. But what makes decisionmaking about the other 54+ sites manageable for the microbusinesses that my blog focuses on is Google Alerts. These little tourism businesses know their customer niche intimately, and can keep track of where their customers are showing up online. Those are the additional places where they need to add their information.
For larger more diversified businesses, the services you talk about will be big time savers.

]]> By: Melih Oztalay http://ruraltourismmarketing.com/2010/02/small-town-chambers-of-commerce-mobilize-your-businesses-and-showcase-your-town-for-free-on-google-place-pages/#comment-1140 Melih Oztalay Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:24:51 +0000 http://ruraltourismmarketing.com/?p=1384#comment-1140 Hello Joanne, I do agree that Google's local listing is something that a local business needs engage and embrace. The fact that it is free advertising and marketing to the local consumer is probably the first time that the Internet is actually become a benefit to the local business. What I am most concerned about are small and local businesses having to contend with multiple local listing websites when it comes to their local listing. Afterall, there are over 60 websites in four different categories specifically geared towards local listings. How can a local or small business have the time resources to cover this space. Even if you made a conscious decision to not manage all 60, there are well more than Google, Yahoo, Bing, and Ask. The space goes to Local.com (they went public), Yelp, Merchant Circle, and many others. Consumers will be the ones deciding which of these local listing websites they will go and post their experience through consumer reviews. This adds to the burden that no one single local listing website will do the trick. Something we recently read at KillerStartUps are companies that are offering a low cost service to update then manage these listings for companies. You can read about this at KillerStartUps here: http://www.killerstartups.com/Search/smartfindslocallisting-com-be-found-online It is a changing world and the local business will benefit. There will be some adjustment to this space needed. Good information from your post and hopefully this helps to raise the awareness of this marketing tool. Hello Joanne,

I do agree that Google’s local listing is something that a local business needs engage and embrace. The fact that it is free advertising and marketing to the local consumer is probably the first time that the Internet is actually become a benefit to the local business.

What I am most concerned about are small and local businesses having to contend with multiple local listing websites when it comes to their local listing.

Afterall, there are over 60 websites in four different categories specifically geared towards local listings. How can a local or small business have the time resources to cover this space.

Even if you made a conscious decision to not manage all 60, there are well more than Google, Yahoo, Bing, and Ask. The space goes to Local.com (they went public), Yelp, Merchant Circle, and many others.

Consumers will be the ones deciding which of these local listing websites they will go and post their experience through consumer reviews. This adds to the burden that no one single local listing website will do the trick.

Something we recently read at KillerStartUps are companies that are offering a low cost service to update then manage these listings for companies. You can read about this at KillerStartUps here:

http://www.killerstartups.com/Search/smartfindslocallisting-com-be-found-online

It is a changing world and the local business will benefit. There will be some adjustment to this space needed.

Good information from your post and hopefully this helps to raise the awareness of this marketing tool.

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