Studies show that as of 2010 80% of internet user us he web to search
for local businesses and only 30% of local businesses have a web
marketing plan. This presents a great opportunity for the local
businesses that are in the game. And this trend continues to increase.
More and more of your customers are jumping on their laptop or smart
phone to find your service.
In fact, for many people if they don’t find you on the web in the top
three positions and your website doesn’t look professional they will
write you off as a poor choice. And your business will suffer.
Local Online Marketing also has
substantial benefits over traditional advertising in ability to target
and measure results. TV, radio and print advertising use a “shot gun”
approach. You reach a lot of people but most of them are not interested
and many may not even be in your core customer demographic.
There are several types of local
search marketing but all of them will allow you to target
with much better precision than traditional methods. Not only that but
you can track, in very fine detail, the behavior of visitors to your
site allowing you to measure the results of your investment.
Bottom line; every dollar you spend on local web marketing will return
a better return than with traditional adverting and you will actually
be able to measure that return.