If you love the internet and crave OrangeSoda, then this year’s Connected Marketing Week in San Francisco is the place to be. The event is an expansion of the popular Search Engine Strategies Conference focusing on “5 days of marketing education and conversation.” This year’s event will have thousands of marketing masterminds all under one roof, focused on nothing but the good stuff: search engine optimization, social media, email marketing, PPC management, keyword search, and so much more.
Tag Archives: local internet marketing
2010
Come Visit Us in San Francisco
2010
Six Local PPC Marketing Tips
Using PPC to turn a local online shopper into a customer can be daunting to a local business owner. Thankfully search engines have made competing locally much easier in the past few years. They’ve added several targeting options that help ensure only local audiences see the ads.Targeting locally can be done on a smaller budget because of reduced competition which translates into lower cost–unless you target New York or LA. I want to go over a few tips that can can help anyone get the most out of local ppc marketing.
Read On
2010
Your Website is Key for Consumer’s Local Purchasing Experience Online
A recent study by BIA/Kelsey and ConStat reveals key data concerning consumers’ online habits of researching products and services locally before purchasing. Here are two of the most noteworthy stats that I found: Read On
2008
Kelsey Group on the Local Search Engine Marketing Industry
The Kelsey Group recently blogged about the local business search marketing industry. As I’ll blog about in the next post, the local internet marketing market is growing even faster than expected. More local businesses are going online, shifting their marketing budgets, especially to paid search.
Here is some good news from search engine marketing companies that focus on small businesses:
- ReachLocal has a $305 million valuation based on a $55 million round of financing
- Privately funded OrangeSoda local internet marketing company signed on a new partner: “At the same time, Orem, Utah-based Orange Soda got on the map with Freedom Communications, the publisher of The Orange Country Register.” As we mentioned before, we also won an award as the top business in Utah County based on growth.
- New York-based Yodle got $12 million in funding this year.
- WebVisible, took in $12 million in new series B funding from Sutter Hill Ventures and Redpoint Ventures, an existing investor. WebVisible customers include AT&T, Earthlink and McClatchy.
- WebsiteBiz Internet marketing agency ranked as the 87th fastest growing private company in the Southeast region of the United States and is listed on Inc. Magazine’s 2007 Southeast 500.
Also, OrangeSoda’s CEO Jay Bean made the 2008 list of the vSpring Capital Top 100 Venture Entrepreneurs, also known as the v|100. vSpring is a venture capital group that provides early growth funding. Looks like they haven’t put the full list on their web site yet, so find it here.


