Welcome to Local Internet Marketing

Welcome to Local Internet Marketing

You finding my site tells me 2 things, firstly you are a local business owner or working for a local business and secondly, you want to find out more about what local internet marketing can do for your business?

Am I right?

You are still reading which is a good sign. There is now the chance for any local business, with a little get up and go, to take their share of local traffic using mobile and local Internet marketing techniques. 

Before I go on I need to put right a few misconceptions you properly have about marketing your business on the internet.

Getting my business online is going to cost a fortune?

No it doesn’t cost a fortune to get online now, a few years ago maybe but now you can get online for nothing if you choose, which I cover later on for FREE.

It will take a lot of work to get my business online?

The amount of work varies from business to business, it depends on the amount of competition there is and what type of business you are trying to get online. However it is estimated that 60% of the time it takes a business to get online is taken up by researching how to get a business online.

If you had access to that information in a structured and easy to understand format from the outset your business would be online in half the time it normal takes, Right? Well I cover all the ins and outs later on too for FREE.

My business is doing fine at the moment, I don’t need an online presence?

An online presence is not just for home/work based internet, it also covers smart phones, as the internet is now more freely available on the move it is changing the way people shop forever. When the internet came along many pundits predicted that websites selling directly to consumers would mean nobody would need to leave their house to shop again. A global marketplace of goods would kill the notion of local.

How wrong they were, due to advances on the internet, to our phones and to be true Google, local businesses are being given the chance to take their share of the local traffic and trust me, if you don’t take your share you can be pretty damn shore that your competition will. Here are some interesting stats:

• 97% of consumers now look online when researching products or services in their local area, (according to BIA and Kelsey group)

• 50% of smartphone owners have bought something on their mobile, an increase of 20% from nine months previously, with 11% of these smartphone shoppers making a purchase on a weekly basis (source: studies by eDigitalResearch and Portaltech, 2011)

• Mobile marketing is the fastest growing marketing trend in the world, so far this year mobile searches are up 500% than on last year.

I think it’s time to cover a little about myself. My name is Quentin Williams and I have been working with computers since the mid-90s and have been marketing online for the past 4 years. Back in 2006 I paid a web designer £2k to get my computer spares and repairs business online, by 2007 I had a beautiful website that hardly no one saw and as the web designer cleared stated after I had paid him, he was a designer not a marketer, I got well and truly screwed.

I had no choice but to start researching internet marketing (luck for me I enjoy learning) and within 2 years I had sold that business for a tidy profit, which allowed me to pursue my online career full time. Now I work from home creating information sites like this one, that’s why I knew the main reasons you were here, I created and marketed this site for local businesses like yours who want to learn about local internet marketing.