Author: Nancy McCord

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Got 10 or More Locations for Google Places? Use the New Bulk Upload Option

Google just released a new Google Places bulk upload option for businesses that have 10 or more locations and want to upload their account using a spreadsheet. Once you use the verification tool for the first ten businesses, you won’t have to go through the verification process again.

This new bulk upload option is available for all account from a link in the Google Places interface. What this tool is not, is a way to scam Google Places with fictitious addresses. You’ll get nailed on that one, so don’t waste time trying.

Although this feature is not for every business owner, it will make it easier for larger businesses to manage their locations and perform updates quickly. You can view the tutorial from Google Places to see if this may be a tool perfect for your needs.

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Microsoft Updates Name to Bing

This was announced recently: “…Our small and medium business brand is changing from “Microsoft Advertising” to “Bing.”” Although it appears that the advertising product will still be called adCenter, it appears that Microsoft is working to brand itself more consistently with the Bing brand. There may be additional strategies at play such as differentiating Microsoft’s online presence from its software presence. As to that, only time will tell.

In the meantime understand that Bing is much more than advertising on the Bing.com search engine. Bing results and Bing advertising is shown on the Yahoo, Bing, and even the Facebook platform. Of additional importance just this past week was Bing’s announcement that throughout the summer they will be rolling out a very tight search integration with Facebook.

From the images released, it appears that when you will search on Bing in the future, Facebook friends faces and comments about a product or place will appear on the left sidebar of your Bing search results page.

All in all, both statements are big news and let us know that in the bigger schemes of search there is some serious consolidation happening behind the scenes between the key social players like Facebook and Microsoft now known as Bing.

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Doctor Recommended Website Launched

Website completed for Doctor RecommendedWe’ve just launched a new website this past week and wanted to have you take a peek. You can view the site online at www.DocRecommended.com.

This new website is built on a WordPress backbone and is the SEO front end for an e-commerce store that sells acne products and anti-aging skin care products.

The shopping cart was managed and set up by Medallion Fulfillment & Logistics which is the firm which is handling the shipping and order fulfillment for the site owner.  The store site feeds directly into Medallion’s advanced ordering system.

This brand new site was just launched last week and has already gotten kudos for the design, ease of use, and informative information.

We invite you to take a look and take the Doctor Recommended skin care product store for a test drive. To find out more about our web design services, we invite you to find out more details about what we do.

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New Twitter Advertising Set Up Services

We are rolling out this week our new services on Twitter advertising set up. You can view all the details on our Twitter Advertising page.

For $100 here’s what we do:

  1. Consult briefly with you to identify your selected service or products you would like to promote.
  2. Create a series of ten 140 character tweets on your Twitter account that link to a variety of your services or products.
  3. Monitor your account over the next week and select these specially created marketing tweets to be shown as your sponsored tweets in the Twitter advertising control panel as they appear online.
  4. Send you an executive snap shot report of Twitter activity at the end of your first month of activity that will show your all time click activity and new followers.

Please note: We cap our time for all set up services at 1.2 hours. Additional time may be purchased at $80 per hour.

Additional Twitter Services

Additional services such as landing page creation, creation of special white papers and downloads to be used in sponsored tweets are available at an extra charge. Please contact us for details.

Account updates after set up are billed at our hourly rate of $80 and can be scheduled or done on demand.

Our Recommendations to Get The Most Out of Twitter Advertising

  • Periodically update your promoted tweets to show new services and products as old updates will get stale and generate less activity over time.
  • Consider trying local metro regional markets if you don’t sell nationally. You’ll only get one targeting selection in your advertising account so consider trying several over time to see which give you the best results.
  • Consider driving traffic to a special Twitter landing page that contains a special offer or download in order to evaluate the success of your Twitter program beyond new followers and clicks.

Why don’t you contact us today to see if your Twitter account is eligible to show sponsored tweets on Twitter right now. Not all accounts may have this option yet so let us help you to check.