It seems everyone at the moment is offering discounts on their products or services. Why not? It’s a great way to get new customers for your business, especially in these tough economic times. You need the customers in order for your business to survive and customers are looking for the “best priced” products or services, to reduce the strain on their hip pocket.

If you have an AdWords campaign then Google has made it even easier to offer discounts to your target audience.

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Loads of business owners are frustrated these days. Reason being that their businesses in Google Maps are labeled as closed, while they are still working in a perfect manner!

One webmaster at the Google webmaster forum states that:

The search result from Google shows our office as closed (the exact phrase shown is “place closed”)
Can someone please point me how I can get this corrected? Our office is not closed.

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In a few weeks I will start my series of free Internet marketing seminars for the Morrisville, NC Chamber of Commerce. The three part series covers SEO (search engine optimization), blog marketing and social media marketing. The hope is to give the members of this great chamber something that helps them do more business and measure their success like never before.

Most local businesses, especially those that utilize their local chamber, tend to focus on the local aspect of their business exclusively. For some it makes great sense because their business truly is local. They have a store or a practice that has a specific geographic radius that generates the vast majority of their revenue. There are others, however, that need to expand their horizons because they can.

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