Main Street Marketing Machines Review

Google Places/Hotpot Spotted in Vegas

Andrew Shotland — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 20:23:29 +0000

Hard to beat free wifi

Yellow Pages SEO After the Panda Update

Andrew Shotland — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 18:47:24 +0000

Contrary to popular belief, Pandas don’t just eat bamboo, they also eat local search sites. My post on Yellow Pages SEO in the Post-Panda World is now live on SEL.

The Best Models are Closed-Loop

Andrew Shotland — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:18:21 +0000

Listening to Neil Salvage, EVP of CityGrid Media, speaking at the Local Search Association Conference on selling marketing services to SMBs. The advantages of the closed loop model (OpenTable, Groupon, etc.) – The advertiser knows it’s working. QED.

Local Search Association News

Andrew Shotland — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:12:52 +0000

Did I say I was speaking at the Yellow Pages Association Conference this week? I meant the Local Search Association.

It’s Wafer Thin.

Andrew Shotland — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 04:48:13 +0000

Has to be one of the funniest scenes ever made.

Google Toe Tags Tags

Andrew Shotland — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 20:21:36 +0000

Just saw the news over at Greg’s blog and couldn’t resist…

OrangeSoda in the New York Times

Dan Garfield — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 21:22:27 +0000

Hey look at that! The New York Times did a little piece about our company and founder Jay Bean.

From the article

If you search the Internet for the word “blackberry,” the first result you are likely to find is the smartphone, not the fruit.

Similarly, the top result in a recent search for orange soda was not a soft drink, but OrangeSoda, a company based in American Fork, Utah, that creates online marketing campaigns for small- and medium-size businesses. OrangeSoda, which was founded in 2006 by Jay Bean, has 175 employees and 6,000 customers. Mr. Bean said that the company’s revenue was $19 million in 2010, and that he expected it to reach $32 million this year. But not all of his ventures have been successful. In 2005, he started a retail business that failed, but that helped him better understand the marketing needs of his small-business clients.

Read the rest at nytimes.com

See You At The YPA Conference in Vegas Next Week

Andrew Shotland — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 19:39:40 +0000

I’ll be running a session at the Yellow Pages Association 2011 conference on Tuesday morning on SEO for Local Directories in the Post-Panda World. I’ll be there both Monday and Tuesday so ping me if you are going to be there and want to hook up.

Conference info here.

Main Street Marketing Machines 2 – How To Build Links To Your Local Website For Five Dollars

Main Street Marketing Machines 2 — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 01:24:31 +0000

Main Street Marketing Machines 2 – How To Build Links To Your Local Website For Five Dollars

With all your posts researched, added, linked internally and externally, then categorized and tagged properly, the only thing you may still want to do is to drive some external links to them. You can do this through the video blast features of Traffic Geyser in Main Street Marketing Machines and Social Media Marketing Machines, or use another service like TubeMogul or HeySpread, but sometimes that still is not enough, and you need a little extra oomph to break onto page 1 of Google.

When you do, try going to Fiverr.com and buying links that will really benefit you. I give you two good strategies for this in the video below…

This is the twelevth in a series of videos I did to help one of my Main Street Marketing Machines mastermind members who was having a bit of trouble getting one of her client’s sites ranked.

This is a series of 12 videos, reviewing and making the necessary adjustments to get a local (or even global) wordpress site to rank for a business.

Spring has Sprung – Has Your Online Marketing?

Brandi Mensinger — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 20:38:18 +0000

Join the experts of OrangeSoda and learn all about essentials of online marketing. While you’re at it, receive a free website analysis and $200 of free advertising just for showing up!

It’s the time of year when green grass flourishes and fresh flowers blossom. So why not let your business grow with them? Join OrangeSoda’s experts to learn about online marketing essentials, from search engine optimization to social media and everything in between.

While you’re at it, receive a free website analysis and $200 of free advertising just for showing up!

And just like any other garden, space is limited, so register your business today and get going (and growing).

Check out all the details here:
Date: Tuesday, April 19
Price: FREE using discount code FIZZ
Location: Horizon Financial Event Center 9890 S 300 W Sandy, UT 84070
Sessions: 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. (pick your favorite)