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I’ve created the following video to help small business owners and entrepreneurs who are looking to get traffic to their website. In the video I’ve outlined 10 simple steps you can do right now in order to drive local prospects to your storefront. If you are not using the Internet to attract new business, then you’re missing out on a BIG opportunity:

There are a lot of resources available online that will help your website to show up when people search for local services on Google and Yahoo!. With most people now looking for local services online, creating an online presence is far more effective than a print listing, and it will only cost you a fraction of what you would spend on traditional advertising.

Resource 1: Register a domain name here.

Resource 2: Get a good hosting plan with 24/7 support, 99.9% uptime, website templates, and one-click setup here from JustHost for just $3.45/month.

Resource 3: Claim Your Local Business Listing at the 3 major search engines:

The Easy Way:

GetListed.org

Universal Business Listing

The Manual Way:

Yahoo! Local

Google Local Business Center

Bing Local

Resource 4: Google’s Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide

Resource 5: Install WordPress in a ‘blog’ directory of your website. You can get WordPress for free here.

Resource 6: Track website visits with Google Analytics.

Resource 7: Track all calls from your website to your business to measure the conversion of visitors to customers. You can use a virtual phone system like RingCentral.

Resource 8: Use Aweber to create an automated e-mail marketing system in an easy to use interface. The service is just $19.95 / month and makes e-mail distribution list management and marketing easy. Other alternatives include Infusionsoft and iContact

Should you need help setting this up, feel free to give us a call at 1-888-249-0213.