Thought I would share my “to do” list of topics, ideas and themes I am planning to blog about sometime soon:
http://www.steverubel.com/google-instant-makes-seo-irrelevant
Google Instant is not in SA yet, but I am sure it will get here soon …
The big question for small business owners five years ago was, “Should I use Google instead of yellow pages to attract new customers?” Now Google is commonly used by SMBs and that question gave way to a new one: “Do I need to be using social media?”
Social media is a much more complex issue than the Google versus yellow pages debate. With dozens of options, most small businesses can’t decide where to invest their limited time. Many become overwhelmed and end up doing nothing. So, what to do?
Join us for a Half Day Workshop on
Creating a FREE Web Presence for your business
TO BOOK CONTACT
sammi
limited space available
19th May 2010
10am – 2pm (refreshments and finger lunch included)
The Viper Lounge, Sea Breeze Centre, Table View
R500 per person – bring your own laptop, but not essential
Workshop Presenter:
Brian Currin, New Media Marketing Consultant
http://briancurrin.com
Embracing New Media Tools for maximum exposure.
Tips and Techniques for setting up:
Delegates will leave the workshop with the skills to start promoting themselves and their businesses online.
Join us for a Half Day Workshop on
Creating a FREE Web Presence for your business
TO BOOK CONTACT
limited space available
28th April 2010
10am – 2pm (refreshments and finger lunch included)
The Viper Lounge, Sea Breeze Centre, Table View
R500 per person – bring your own laptop, but not essential
Workshop Presenter:
Brian Currin, New Media Marketing Consultant
http://briancurrin.com
Embracing New Media Tools for maximum exposure.
Tips and Techniques for setting up:
Delegates will leave the workshop with the skills to start promoting themselves and their businesses online.
Feedback:
Thank you for the practical tips as well as the wonderful manner you engaged us as learners and all the questions we had got good clear answers. – Martin Myers Publicity
Your presentation was very professional but also in a way informal enough to make it comfortable. – Wim Dreyer, All-Aboard Tours
The workshop was very educational and I thoroughly enjoyed it. – Zoe B, Signature Style
If you are a musician, a band, a photographer, a fashion model, a caterer, a tourist guide, a guest house, a record shop … in fact any small business … here is what you need to create a presence on the internet to help your brand and your business grow.
And that’s it …
You don’t need:
You can always add these things later, as your brand and your business grows, but you really don’t need them to get started.
If you are in Cape Town, I can help you to get going and growing.
Contact brian@webmarketer.co.za
I am currently focusing on hands-on training and presenting half-day workshops on how to embrace social media tools and platforms to help grow your brand and business. Please see WebMarketer.co.za for more information.
From WordPress
We just turned on sitemap pings for all WordPress.com blogs. Now, immediately after you publish or delete a page or post, your WordPress.com blog sends a ping to Google, Bing, Yahoo! and Ask*. These immediate notifications help the major search engines receive your new content as quickly as possible (often within seconds), so your blog can show up in search results faster.
This is probably the question I get asked most from people who have put up websites and then sat back waiting for the world to find them.
“Why doesn’t my website show up in Google or other search engines?“
As much as we might like to think otherwise, the world is not looking for you specifically. If they were, they could just type your web address i.e. briancurrin.com directly into the address bar of their favourite browser and up would pop your website.
What people on the internet are looking for is solutions to their problems, and if your website offers the right solution, then it needs to appear on the first page of search results.
For example, I would like to have music people (musicians, studios, labels, shops) who live in Cape Town, and who are looking for help with online marketing, find me.
Search “online music marketing cape town” on Google and see the results.
And then search on Bing, another popular search engine.
Or Yahoo.
And try searching for “marketing south african music on the web”
So who are you talking to about your online marketing?
