Archive for January, 2010
GetListed Local University: Spokane is One Week Away
The first edition of GetListed.org Local University is just one week away, and I’m looking forward to helping kick off what I think will be a great series of seminars for small/local businesses. This first one is set for next Thursday, February 4th in Spokane. There’ll be two identical half-day seminars. I’ll be speaking about [...]
AT&T: Good Luck with Your Yelp Competitor
Does the world need another local business/reviews site? AT&T seems to think so. Forbes says the company is planning to launch a Yelp competitor soon at Buzz.com. If nothing else, it’ll have a great domain name going for it. But, a great domain or not, is any new site going to come along and even [...]
2010 SEMMY Finalists Announced
Finalists for the 2010 SEMMY Awards were announced this morning on www.semmys.org. Thanks to the 20+ judges who gave their time and energy to reading the nominees and selecting the articles that would make the finals. Public voting is open now in all 17 categories, and will remain open through end-of-day this Friday (January 29). [...]
Inc. Magazine Goes Deep on Yelp
Inc. Magazine has written what’s probably the deepest article/profile of Yelp that I’ve ever read. It touches all the points you’ve probably read before — how small business owners struggle with its power, how they struggle to deal with poor reviews, how Yelp users sometimes use the site as a tool for vengeance, how Yelp [...]
SBS Flashback: January 2009
For those of you who are new SBSM readers & subscribers, here’s a list of noteworthy posts you probably missed from one year ago. I try to put together a post like this each month to introduce new readers to old content that might be worth reading. Hey Google: Not Having an XML Sitemap is [...]
Alerts on Place Pages? I Want More From Google
Here’s the latest addition to Google’s Local Business Center: a tool to add alerts/updates to your Google Maps Place Page. The widget you see here is only available to businesses that have claimed their listing in the Local Business Center; this update window appears in the upper right of the “View Reports” page. It lets [...]
2010 SEMMY Nominations Announced (and they include me!)
Big sigh of relief and deep breath over here at McGee HQ. The 2010 SEMMY Award nominees have just been posted in 17 categories. You can see all the categories and nominees at www.semmys.org. That means my life returns to normal … until next week when it all starts up again. The judges will now [...]
Teaching at GetListed Local University
If you live in Eastern Washington, consider yourself invited to the first GetListed.org Local University event. It’s happening February 4th in Spokane, with two identical half-day seminars planned to teach small businesses how to increase visibility and do better business via local search. I’m one of a handful of speakers (can we call ourselves teachers [...]
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