Using Yellow Pages for advertising is a very popular marketing strategy to get your business in front of lots of eyeballs. It’s a trusted resource used by many advertisers and consumers.  However the costs of placing an ad in Yellow Pages when compared with many other forms of advertising doesn’t really give you value for your investment. Combine that with the sometimes extended time it takes for your ad to be approved and sent live can be very frustrating. At first impression Yellow Pages seems a sound investment for your advertising. However, just by scratching the surface you’ll discover that it’s not a viable option for businesses with limited budgets that need to increase their exposure as quickly as possible. Especially when people no longer let their fingers do the walking, they turn to Google.

Money loves speed so wouldn’t it be easier to actually hire someone with experience to take care of your advertising for you?  They know exactly what they’re doing and can get you on the first page of Google in no time right?

There are many internet marketing consultants available for hire and they’re generally easy to find.  Most of them charge extortionate rates for doing the bare minimum of work. Sure they know the techniques for getting you on the first page of the search engines. However once you achieve this you’ll need to stay there and that invariably requires more work.  This in turn requires paying your internet marketing consultant more money. There has to be an easier and more cost-effective of doing things and luckily for you there is.

Google Places is a little-known online resource that allows you to get more exposure for your business, drive customers through your doors and increase your bottom line. It’s completely free (with no catches) and enables you to create your own business listing in no time at all.  As your business is advertised online by the most popular search engine on the planet you can guarantee maximum exposure 24 hours a day, even while you sleep!

As already discussed you don’t need to spend lots of money on a Yellow Pages Ad or an internet marketing consultant (although I wouldn’t complain if you hire me) to promote your business offline and on the world wide web. What’s more many business owners don’t even know Google Places exists so by placing your listing on there you’re immediately at an advantage over your competition.

To discover more about the huge advantages of advertising your business on Google Places and get access to a simple, step-by-step system to create and position your Google Places Ad for maximum effect then check out my new guide called ‘Google Places by Your Virtual Girl Friday’.

@Lollieshopping is a friend of mine so I thought I’d use her in this example, plus I will be interviewing her this week. PS hover over her username and follow her if your not. I am having fun using @Anywhere, but that’s another post…

Now look at the screen capture I did of her tweet, click on it if you can. Where you successful? Didn’t think so..

Test #2

My tweet, yes I am being a little sneaky here. The Link is my affiliate link for @VAClassroom. Not to mention you can click on my name and visit my Twitter profile (don’t do that yet, watch the video below first since it will take you away from my post :0) thank you)

One thing in the video below,  I didn’t mention when I was talking about the Tweet no longer being stationary in Twitter, but most of us know this already is that Tweets are indexed in Search Engines making this like the ultimate double dip. Yeah get that spoon and dive on in. So I really think this is going to be a great additional feature, showing up on websites and blogs all over the internet. Again, just incase I forget Thank You @RobinSloan for sharing your cool hack with us!

I have seen WordPress plugins that do this also, but as my friend @KimDoyal says “Plugins can slow down your Wordpess site, and if you don’t really need to use a plugin when code will do then why use it!” Not an exact quote but close enough. (By the way Kim is my WordPress Mentor)

PS @RobinSloan does not guarantee it will work everywhere so remember he says to use it at your own risk. :0) Short and sweet if it doesn’t work don’t look a gift horse in the mouth! Oh and that is me talking! Enjoy the video!

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