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Local Marketing

Your complete step-by-step guide to Local Marketing

This online course includes…

  • Introduction to the Internet Marketing Process
  • Your website is your hub of all activity
  • Targeted email marketing
  • Search engine optimization for local business
  • Google for small business
  • Video marketing for local business
  • Hybrid marketing strategies
  • Measuring the outcome

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SESSION 1- Introduction to the Internet Marketing Process
How can a local, bricks and mortar business leverage the power of the internet to create sales winning marketing solutions? This introduction will give you the solid foundation you need to build upon by examining the overall process of how successful internet marketing campaigns work. You’ll also learn some of the opportunities for local business to use the internet in different ways.

Learning points:

  • How to identify common internet marketing challenges for small business
  • What impact the evolution of local internet marketing has had for local business
  • How to start mapping an internet marketing process for your business
  • How a successful marketing strategy creates engagement with prospects and customer
  • How to leverage the power of a call to action in your marketing strategy
SESSION 2 – The Website is the Hub
In successful internet marketing, the website becomes the hub of the wheel. You will learn how to correctly position your website, and what attributes about a business website will allow it to function successfully.

Learning points:

  • Why most small business objectives for their website fail
  • How to develop a strong message to market match for your audience
  • How to enable a strong level of engagement between your prospective customers and your business
  • How to motivate your prospects to take action
  • How to decide whether to build and maintain your website yourself or hire outside
SESSION 3 – Targeted Email Marketing for Business
In this session, you will learn how building a marketing database is essential, and becomes one of the most important assets in your business. You will discover how to craft compelling messages that will move your audience to take action.

Learning points:

  • Why building a list is so important to your business
  • How to create a method to capture your prospect’s information
  • How to target the right message to the right audience for maximum effect
  • How to choose an email marketing service
  • How to measure the effectiveness of your email campaigns
SESSION 4 – Search Engine Optimization for Local Business
Showing up in a prominent position in a search engine search result is one of the most important internet marketing tactics that you can do. Discover some of the top factors in how search engines rank your site, and how to push your position higher in the results.

Learning points:

  • How to discover the top search terms your market is already using every day
  • How boost your site ranking for each of the search terms you target
  • What things on your website you might be doing to cause you to drop in rankings
  • How to build credibility and authority for your site from the search engine view
  • Who you need to develop relationships with in order to help build search ranking
SESSION 5 – Google for Business
Google isn’t just a search engine, it offers a variety of powerful tools to help small business owners promote and grow their online and offline presence. This Session will take a deeper look at some of these tools, and delve into the strategy for a local business to leverage each one.

Learning points:

  • How to effectively place ads on Google that you only pay for on a performance basis
  • How to integrate your business marketing information with Google Maps to build a comprehensive presence for people searching for businesses in your area
  • How to edge out the competition with other competitors also trying to use Maps
  • How to build a level of trust for your business and present prospects with other customer’s views of their own experience
  • How you as a small, medium, or large business can successfully leverage all of these tools Google offers
SESSION 6 – Video Marketing for Business
On the internet, content is king. And the king of all content is without question, video. This Session will uncover internet video as a strategy for local business to use as a way to build your presence in your market.

Learning points:

  • How video can help you build a base of loyal fans
  • How to produce video with inexpensive tools and without a lot of effort
  • How to use the same project management process that Hollywood producers use to create blockbuster films
  • How to craft a video that holds the attention of the viewer
  • Where to promote your video and how to drive traffic to your site as the result of people viewing it online
SESSION 7 – Hybrid Marketing for Business
The existence of the internet hasn’t eliminated other forms of marketing. In fact, it has expanded the use and effectiveness of different marketing tactics. In this Session, you will discover how to build a strategy that drives internet traffic from other, non-internet sources.

Learning points:

  • Ways to drive traffic to your website from offline channels
  • How to leverage your existing marketing efforts in the most effective fashion
  • How to tap into the explosion in mobile marketing
  • How to get your message in front of a prospective customer without competing with other offers
  • How to measure the ROI of your offline spending by integrating with online tools
SESSION 8 – Measuring the Outcome
The best part about the internet is the ability to track all of the information about so many aspects of the medium. In this Session you will learn how to track the behavior of your prospective customers, and how to build an effective continuous improvement strategy for your marketing based on hard numbers and not guessing.

Learning points:

  • How to design a marketing game plan with performance measurement built in from the beginning
  • How to standardize the work flow within your business to achieve consistent results
  • How to predict future prospective customer behavior by measuring their actions
  • How to build a powerful financial model that will help you make better marketing investment decisions
  • How to adapt your business based on the information you learn on an ongoing basis