http://buzzonlinemedia.com Wed, 07 Jul 2010 04:53:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Maybe your business is down as well, just a bit.  All of our client traffic, mostly restaurants, is down on average between 8-10% the week of June 27 - 4th of July. http://buzzonlinemedia.com/2010/its-july-is-your-traffic-down/ You know, you're not supposed to write something like that on your "business blog".  It's supposed to be "snappy", "smart" and "business-ee".  But I've been telling my clients for two years to be themselves on their blogs, yet I find it hard to do here myself.  So to that end, ... http://buzzonlinemedia.com/2010/havent-been-here-in-awhile/ Buzz Online Media is currently looking for a Web Copy Writer.  This person has, what we think is the fun job of ghost writing Twitter accounts, helping formulate user review responses, manually track, monitor and respond to client content online (Citations, citations, citations!!!) and to generally interact with our clients ... http://buzzonlinemedia.com/2009/details-details-details/ The more hassle imposed for people to park and pay money for services via small business = bad. More hassle = bad for small business. More hassle imposed by city = bad...for small business...in my opinion. This article agrees: http://www.blockbeta.com/blog/2009/9/14/seattle-parking-meters-bad-for-small-business.html http://buzzonlinemedia.com/2009/increase-in-seattle-parking-meters-bad-for-small-business/ I love King 5. I'd love nothing more than to see them succeed. In representing my clients, I try and help them generate the most qualified traffic to their small businesses around the Puget Sound. Recently a few customers have pointed out that The Best of King ... http://buzzonlinemedia.com/2009/king-5-seattle-killing-me-with-their-login-website/ Wow.  Google Local / Google Maps just launched some AMAZING new stats for their local businesses.  It encapsulates far more activity consistent with what is actually going on, so now istead of seeing two numbers, and two numbers only we see graphs, historical data and other data points that although ... http://buzzonlinemedia.com/2009/new-google-local-stats/ Here is a great article - or should I say 'an article' - regarding the virtues of using video to engage customers here at Conversation Agent. Now, I should definitely be doing a video blog post here, but it's early in the morning, I've yet to shower (the virtues of having ... http://buzzonlinemedia.com/2009/local-business-and-the-video-opportunity-why-local-business-should-use-video/ It's amazing to me that so many restaurant owners get crazy mad at user reviews online yet do so little about them. I can understand.  Restaurant owners (and all local business owners) work so hard, day in and day out, on so many aspects of their business.  One thing they do ... http://buzzonlinemedia.com/2009/user-review-management/ Twitter Tips abound, some more obvious than others. One thing that I don't really get:  doing @replies with no indication of the previous or relevant aspect of the original "conversation" or comment. Be courteous and polite - be useful - include a brief summary or indication of what you are @replying to ... http://buzzonlinemedia.com/2009/twitter-tips-repliesinclude-a-piece-of-the-previous-conversation/ It is my opinion that Google Ad Words is a tremendously under utilized weapon in the "war on" great positioning on Google.  I'm not sure it's a "war on" but you understand what I'm saying, and if you don't...let me know in the comments.  Restaurants, bars, salons, hotels, shops, etc ... http://buzzonlinemedia.com/2009/google-ad-words-for-local-business/