Mobile Marketing: Yelp, Foursquare and Other Awesome Things

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I’ve said it before, and I’m sure I’ll say it many more times: Local, mobile and social are the future of advertising and marketing.

What does this mean? People search for local businesses all the time. Where’s a good thai restaurant nearby? Where’s the closest place to get my oil changed? These searches are being done at home, on laptops in coffee shops, from people’s iPhones. And as a business owner it’s important that you know what’s happening and adjust your marketing strategy accordingly.

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Mobile Marketing Q and A

There were a TON of great questions from the members-only chat and the public chat on this week’s live show! It started with questions about mobile marketing, then branched out to all kinds of interesting topics. Here are some of the answers you’ll get in this newest Q and A clip:

1. Should I focus on Yelp and Foursquare for local marketing?
2. What kind of smartphone should I get for mobile marketing?
3. Will Flash be a thing of the past since mobile phones can’t handle it?

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Twitter Down: Twitter Hacked & Possibly Offline

Just after reports of Twitter being hacked by the “Iranian Cyber Army” the website now appears to be completely offline. Attempts from several different locations have all resulted in various connection errors.

Previously when users visted the Twitter site they were presented with an image stating that the site had been hacked as some sort of protest over Iran. The hackers also provided the email address: [email protected] as a means of contacting them. This image began appearing 6 a.m. GMT today.

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Google’s URL Shortener

Google finally gets their fingers into the URL shortener pie.

There are numerous companies who create URL shortener tools. These are tools that take a long url and shorten it so that it fits into a character-limited field like Twitter or a status field in one of your other social networks. They help ensure that your social network messages don’t get cut off, give you more space to say what you want to say, make it easier to forward, share, retweet, etc. without cutting off bits of the long url.

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LIVE MARKETING BROADCAST: Tonight From Orange County California

Tonight you’ll really want to tune in LIVE to learn about buying and selling websites. How do you value a website? How do you find diamonds in the rough that you can buy for cheap and turn into money making businesses? I’ll show you when you tune in tonight!

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIANS: I’ve also got a very special announcement tonight for you. If you’ve ever wanted to sit down 1-on-1 with me to discus your business in person and get my help: you’ll want to tune in tonight and get a special sneak preview about this! and don’t worry… it will not cost you a dime!

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Driving Search Engine Listings, Traffic & Sales With Social Media Sites

This is a very time sensitive post: In just a little while I’m doing a no cost live webinar on how to drive traffic & get search engine listings using social media sites. This is a valuable tactic hardly anyone is using and I’m doing the training exclusively for people who sign up for my “early bird” list over on Business Inner Circle Elite at:

http://www.businessinnercircle.com/gold

If you go sign up now, You’ll still have time to get in. I’ll email everyone on the early bird list when I go live. I’ll also set up an archive of the live training and will email all “early birds” with the link.

Signing up to the early bird list doesn’t obligate you to buy anything. By signing up you’ll qualify to get your 50% off coupon when I put Business Inner Circle Elite on sale. In addition I’m giving away great training like this for no cost to everyone who signs up. Since you’re interested in learning this stuff, you’ll definitely want to sign up before you run out of time:

http://www.businessinnercircle.com/gold

I’ll see you on the live training!

9 Amazing Twitter Tools & Free Twitter Marketing Training

Just in case you missed the live training I did for everyone on the Business Inner Circle Elite “early bird” list, I’ve posted the archive video online. If you haven’t signed up for the early bird list, you’re really missing out. You’ll get first crack at getting a membership & I’ll give you a 50% off discount coupon. What are you waiting for? Sign up here:

Business Inner Circle Elite Online Marketing Training Early Bird List

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Twitter Marketing: Last Minute Free Ebook & Live Training

If you’re new to online marketing & haven’t quite figured out how to use Twitter.com (or you dont’ know what it is): I’ve got some good & bad news…

I’ll give you the good news first: In just a little while I’ll be live giving away an ebook that explains exactly how to get started on Twitter. This is designed for newer people who don’t want to hear about complicated marketing theory or a bunch of technical mumbo jumbo.

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Bill McIntosh’s Cinco De Mayo Online Marketing Party!

It’s Tuesday & you know what that means… It’s time for my to do my weekly live online marketing show! Since today is the 5th of May I’ve decided to turn my show into a fun filled live “Cinco De Mayo” party! You’ll want to bring some Corona & join me tonight for my live marketing show.

The show is live TONIGHT (Tuesday May 5thth at 6:30 PM Pacific Standard Time / 9:30 Eastern) Stop by for some good times. As usual, I’ll also answer your live questions about how to market any business online. When it’s time to tune in you’ll watch at any of these locations:

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Online Marketing: Can My Team Promote Your Website?

Before you read the rest of this post: I wanted to apologize for the delay in me getting this up on my blog. I meant to post this earlier, but I’ve been out of town at an online marketing seminar. So I really hope you didn’t wait until the last minute & miss out:

A few weeks ago I told you about a new online marketing service I launched where you can get my team to do all your search engine optimization & marketing for you. Well, it’s now officially sold out & all the spots are taken.

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