One of the great things about starting LocalTek a few years back was getting involved with regional and local government and community organizations and also with small businesses around the area. The more people I met the more I realized how much of a really bright and talented base of people we had in the Parkland area of Missouri...
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Over the past few years I have spent a considerable amount of time speaking to customers, colleagues, and anyone who would listen about both “tangible” and “intangible” results from online marketing including social media and search marketing.
Unfortunately to most people that own businesses or those that are...
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It’s tough love time. During the length of time we have been helping local businesses create a presence for their business online through either online advertising, websites, social media, or whatever service they required, our team has been educating the small business owner as they hear the common “But my brothers...
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Over the past few years LocalTek has continued to gain more and more customers with a mix of different services from local ads to a new website to web hosting. But one service that has grown more and more is SEO maintenance on a monthly and quarterly basis.
If you are in this industry that seems like an obvious thing, but in rural...
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Over the past couple years I have let my blog down, I have ignored it plain and simple. Infrequent posting to say the least and even worse, as the web evolved the look and functionality did not change.
I had good intentions, I would take a look at the traffic I was still getting to the site, which to be honest surprised me, and...
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In a world that is lead by real time information and search and reacting to friends posting links on social sites sometimes taking a longer view of what people could be interested in can pay off when developing a new website.
This past year when first working with the Castello Brothers on Grape.com there was planning that was done...
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As a company that works with local businesses on bringing them online and helping them with online advertising and local SEO we spend quite a bit of our effort on educating the customers.
This is quite rewarding and our team enjoys showing customers how taking advantage of how the customer uses the web everyday actually helps them...
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Earlier this week I had a few things come up that made me think about some of the failures of small businesses after they receive a new website or start a new social media presence on Facebook or Twitter. I got sidetracked and could not write the post but a very timely post by Mark Fulton at DotSauce.com fit nicely with my thoughts...
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