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Thursday, April 10, 2008

Small Business Finding Online Success

John Tuggle Success stories from small business owners are always great to hear. We recently came across this interview with John Tuggle, a MerchantCircle member, on search engine land. It's one of the most informative and inspiring I've read in awhile. In the interview John gives us a great shout-out: search engine land: Of all the things you're doing -- the blog, podcasts, YouTube, etc. -- what's working the best for you?

It's hard to say which one is working the best, because I get a lot of visitors to the site from each of those areas. If I had to pick one I would say YouTube. I've had about 40,000 views of all my videos in three months, and I get a lot of visitors that buy from YouTube. I've also used local online promotion, such as Yahoo!Local, Google Maps, MerchantCircle -- which gets fantastic Google rankings -- and a few others, as well. Learning marketing has been the best thing I've ever learned how to do. I see tons of talent go to waste because of the lack of how to get the word out about yourself.
The interview goes on to offer a ton of other tips on getting the most out of your blog, bookmarking, and of course, finding more customers. Sincerely, Kevin Community Relations

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3 Comments:

Blogger Phillip Santillan said...

Would love to take part in your services. Do you offer free listings?

Orlando Pool Service Company

5/03/2008 10:52:00 AM  
Blogger MerchantCircle Staff said...

Hey Phillip!
Yeah, just claim your listing and you can upload pictures, build coupons, blog, write newsletters, connect with other merchants ALL free of charge.
If you want us to build ads for you on Google or Yahoo or any of the search engines out there, we do that for you at cost.
thanks,
Kevin

5/05/2008 04:24:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

For small business the internet is best place. But your need to know the optimization or the use of social media network utalization. like the use of youtube, yahoo and book marking site for increasing your traffic.

9/02/2008 09:56:00 PM  

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