2009 December - Living The Dream Lifestyle

Location Location Location – Free local search marketing tools for local businesses

December 23, 2009 By Terence Chang Leave a Comment

In the past 13 months, I have spent tons of time working on local search marketing to help my local business friends get listed on major search engines. Inevitably, I was asked to offer consulting service to show local business owners how to do that themselves. This has become my side job.

Why is local search marketing so important?

If you read recent news, Google is trying to buy Yelp.com, the number one local review site, for $500 millions. As you may know already, Google Map, Google Earth are among many other Google services that are targeting local. Local oriented search in the past 2 years are also increasing dramatically. So It’s the right time to get local business listed and found. SEO is taking place in the local level as well.

There are many free resources and tools for local business to get found without spending a penny. For those local business who don’t want to deal with it and don’t know how to do it, I am more than happy to offer hourly consulting services.

So here you go!

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Filed Under: Business, Opportunity

Get the best out of Google Sites

December 22, 2009 By Terence Chang 2 Comments

Yesterday, I posted my experiments about using Google Sites for SEO and collaboration. Today, I have come to the conclusion. You can read my Google Sites Experiment here.

I have made my conclusion and I want to share with you why Google Sites is good for collaboration, but may not be a good SEO tools.

First of all, let’s face the facts.

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Filed Under: Progress

Experiment GEO location data Feed with Google Map and Google Sites

December 21, 2009 By Terence Chang 1 Comment

Over the weekend, I was putting together a Google Sites for me and my future partners to collaborate. I find Google Sites the best platform to accomplish the tasks. At mean time, I was discovering some great features on Google Sites. So I decided to give it a shot and put together an experiment.

My goal is to use Google site as an extra source for SEO and to boost exposures to my customers who are listed on my site. This is solely based on the GEO location each business has. So I submit the GEO location data feed to Google map and pull in the Google map into the Google Site. It works like a charm.

Weekend Confession – Plenty of opportunities

December 19, 2009 By Terence Chang Leave a Comment

In the past few days, there are few very exciting news to me. First of all, I am a big fan of Yelp.com, which is the number 1 local business review site. Recent news shows Google is thinking to acquire Yelp.com for $500 million dollars. Google is on their way to become the #1 source of everything local.

The second thing that excites me is the success of Groupon, which is very success in less than a year. Groupon is a web site that offer great daily deals in many cities. It’s all about group buying power locally.

So what does those news mean to me? What am I so exciting about?

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Filed Under: Weekend Confession

Back to consulting mode – Trade for a better future

December 11, 2009 By Terence Chang 4 Comments

I am so glad that I can keep up a new blog post in two days. I had long thinking in the past few months while setting a new goal for the new year. I decide my Next Move – Consulting – Branding – Marketing – Outsourcing – Investing. I am back in the consulting mode. This time, it’s not just doing custom programming for corporation, but I will also be helping other people to boost their web site ranking and traffic. I won’t call my self top notch SEO guru, but I have confidence to apply what I have learned in the past using my own project as testimonial.

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Filed Under: Progress

Next Move – Consulting – Branding – Marketing – Outsourcing – Investing

December 7, 2009 By Terence Chang 3 Comments

I have had enough practice to reach some great results in the local search marketing and optimization. It’s time to offer help to other local businesses who are seeking for inexpensive ways to get exposures and acquire more local shoppers to their door. Sending out flyers and direct mail are still workable options, but not ideally.

To have a better success, I can’t simply ignore the fact that people wants to know who I am, what I do and how I can become an example for other people to follow. I was thinking to hide behind the scene. Now I have to make changes.

Here are my next moves:

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Filed Under: Entrepreneur

Weekend Confession – Life is good and journey continues

December 7, 2009 By Terence Chang Leave a Comment

It’s been a while since my last post on this blog. In the past months, I have been working very hard on the project. It’s been a great learning experience in my life. Some stuff works, and some don’t.

I have lost some confidence on some project I am working and also gain on other projects. Only time will tell if I made good or wrong decision.

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