Showing posts with label Paul the Plumber. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paul the Plumber. Show all posts

Why Your Business Should Be On Local Directories

Are you looking for a relatively easy and cost effective way to get your business noticed online?  Local directory listing services may be for you.  Local directories are online listings sites like Google Local, Yelp, Kudzu, Merchant Circle, and our site whocanihire.com..

The benefit in placing your business or service on local directories are many, including:

  • You can push information out to the community that may be searching for your product or service.
  • Most directories allow for customer/client feedback
  • Most directories are free our incredibly reasonable
  • Many directories now host video and photos along with links to your website
We have found that the benefit of listing your business or service on multiple directories far outweigh the benefits of a "great" website that may have cost you hundreds if not thousands of dollars.  However, to achieve benefits of listing on local directories, they MUST be optimized.  Many services will place you on directories with name, number and a few tags categorizing your business or service. whocanihire's service goes way beyond what most of these groups offer.  

Our clients have benefited in the area of increased traffic, sales and community reputation by being fully optimized on multiple online local directories.  Our typical client is manually placed in over 70 hyper and local directories in addition to multiple social media sites.  Our clients include every type business from a one person cleaning company to a multi-million dollar development.

If you are interested in learning more, please contact us today.







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A Referral Driven Business

Good grief, just got off the phone with someone that said he doesn't need social media because his business is referral driven. Really? Social media is a referral driven business. If you can't understand that, contact us.



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Need a New Marketing Platform?


It is always nice to use something that is free, like social media marketing. Other marketing strategies can have real costs if they fail, but social media marketing is cheap and easy to change. You can improve your strategy by applying user feedback and learning from the mistakes of other social media marketers. This feedback, along with the tips you're about to read, will help you quickly attract customers to your site.

Try to learn from your past marketing experiences. Knowing what has worked and what hasn't will allow you to embrace strategies that work and avoid those that don't. If you do this, you'll know what works and doesn't work whenever you attempt to launch your campaign.

When developing your company's design for social networks, include more imagery than just your company logo. Many customers often want to know who is behind the product or service they use. It's important to share an appropriate family or a group employee photo now and then.

Watch traffic fluctuation with everything you do so that you can look at the results carefully. You should avoid jumping to conclusions when you have either a really good day or a bad one. Watch for trends on how your traffic flows.

You can gain a good Facebook audience by sending out an email to your contacts with a link to your page. Perhaps you have already developed your mailing list. Put it to work for you by including your Facebook link in materials you send to subscribers. This simplifies the process of finding your social media sites for your customers.

When you have found your target market, polished your products and gone to the right social media sites, it is easier to publish your content. Publishing your media is simply a matter of posting your content on social media sites like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube in methods that mean your target niche will come across it. Then, all you have to do is sit back and watch your profits grow.

About us, whocanihire is a simple, user friendly online directory and is ready for your companies or services listing.   We have worked with many companies looking to enhance their online presence through directories and social media.  As an example, The Mortgage Firm office located in Boynton Beach attributes 2-3 transactions per month based on their online presence.

 Join us today. Take the opportunity, get noticed.
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Social Media Marketing And You: How To Expand Your Business.

Social media marketing is everywhere these days, on PCs, laptops, tablets and smartphones along with traditional media promoting their social media sites.  You will not avoid it so you might as well use it to your advantage.  My hope is this article will try to help you avoid some of the common pitfalls of social media marketing and help make your plans become more effective.

Just like marketing with articles, you never want to put out low quality information that will ruin your brand’s (remember, individually you are also a brand) reputation.  Find out about different methods of advertising on social media sites before you begin. You have to remember that no two social sites are the same.  Learn a little bit about the differences between them. Perhaps one particular site reaches a majority of people and so is a worthwhile recipient of most of your efforts.

A great thing to remember before starting your social campaign is that things can get nasty on social media sites from time to time.  Be prepared to overcome or avoid any form of negativity. It is always a good thing to know that there are positive things to say about your company, but you also have to deal with complaints.  Do not ignore unhappy customers, but make an attempt to help them.

Create humorous content when possible.  Keep the humor appropriate, but use it when you can so that you can increase positive reader reaction.  When the things you post make someone laugh, they might share it with others.  This is a great way to create a word-of-mouth affect.


It is crucial that you keep your social media profiles updated and current.  Content goes stale quickly, which means you'll start hemorrhaging followers pretty quickly if you don't keep your profile updated.

Educate yourself on social networking itself.  Even if you use Facebook, Pinterest, LinkedIn or Twitter already, establishing a professional social media presence is very different from personal social media use.  Take the time to learn what has worked for other professionals.

Rome wasn't built in a day, and neither will a social media presence. You won't get 10,000 followers in the blink of an eye. It can happen, but it is not very likely your profiles will get attention that fast.   Provide good content, frequently update your page and interact with your visitors and in good time you will gain a substantial following.

Failure happens to everyone, but social media is unique in that failure can be turned into success at a relatively low cost in time or dollars. It will not cost a lot, if anything at all so you can experiment with all of your ideas without losing money. The article you just read gave you some basic strategies to use as you enter the social media marketing arena, but in order to really succeed, you need to figure out what works best for you on your own.
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Recent Review Of whocanihire.com


Website: http://www.whocanihire.com

An online presence is an opportunity today’s business can’t afford to miss. Your business has a name, street addresses and phone number, right?  A web presence made simple including important information is what whocanihire.com is about. It’s an online business directory plus more. No ads and no worries, just customers. Here’s why.

When Mr. Customer looks for your business online what will he find? An old outdated expensive website that seems like you’re closed or will he find nothing at all? Will he find updates, social media activity and you? An online identity is waiting and ready to welcome Mr. Customer and more.  Check out this YouTube video, see how it helped Paul the Plumber.

Studies show over eighty-eight percent of consumers do online research before making a purchase.  The easier it is for customers to find you online the easier it is to know, locate and call your business. A site on the web with a Google friendly profile, connected posts, tweets and social thingamajigs is a simple click away.

whocanihire is simple, user friendly and ready for your listing. Open your opportunity today at $49 per year - even Grandma approves.

Join us today. Take the opportunity, get noticed.


Written by Maria Snyder, CPA your source for small business social media consulting.
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