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Local Business Listings With Bing

When WebProNews headed to SMX West in Santa Clara, they caught up with Mikko Ollila, Senior Product Manager on Bing Local, to discuss a little bit about Bing's experience and intentions in local search.

Online Marketing Summit Highlights for the Small Business

This week, WebProNews has been in San Diego at the Online Marketing Summit, reporting on strategies and advice covered there by experts on the subject. Obviously, a great deal of what has been discussed at this event can be applied to small businesses. Branding Sometimes Means Being Human

Finding the Right Story to Connect with Customers

If you run a business, you have a story. If you've built that business yourself from the ground up, you likely have a compelling one. Even if you didn't, you still have a story to tell, and that story can be used in your marketing efforts to help convey your message, and ultimately attract the interest of customers. Do you have a story to market? Comment here.

Social Media Marketing About Goals, Just Like Any Other Marketing

If you're still trying to figure out ways in which you can use social media to help your business, perhaps you would do well to consider that marketing through social media is not necessarily that different than marketing in general. Rebecca Kelley the Director of Social Media at 10e20 recently discussed why it's not that different in an interview with WebProNews.

In Case You Missed These Twitter Nuggets

We cover a lot of Twitter-related storylines and tips at WebProNews, and they often reflect things that can be applied directly to small businesses. With that in mind, I often find such topics worth noting to our SmallBusinessNewz audience as well. There were a few Twitter-related articles we ran on WebProNews this week that you, the small business owner, might be able to take something out of. So here they are.

Finding Useful Online Business Resources

We talked before about using human-edited directories to acquire quality links, because they are bound to keep your link in the company of more relevant links than an automated directory would. They will be more likely to keep spam away from your link. We brought you the Small Business Directory, a human-edited directory dedicated to only indexing resources useful to small business owners.