The Marketing Shop takes our custom ads tailored to your company and many other internet resources available to help customers find you. It's not so much about e-commerce as it is about getting people to your door. What we have now is a complicated world where people use many different sources of information to find local businesses. They're using the traditional mediums that they've always used, but now the internet has become a very powerful--and in many cases, [the] primary--resource for people.
If you are not showing up "on the map" then the future of your business may be in jeopardy. Like it or not, your customers, the ones right in your city are getting on-line and finding what they want. Either from you or someone else. Just look at these facts:
41% of consumers say they use a location in their search - "dentist in Chicago"
73% of all online activity is related to local content (Google)
66% of Americans use local search to find local businesses (Comscore)
54% of Americans have replaced phone books with internet and local search (Comscore)
82% local searchers follow up with call/walk in etc. (TMP / Comscore)
43% of search engine users are seeking a local merchant with the intent of buying offline
Why you need a launch page…
Listed in online maps - Google, Yahoo, Bing and others
Save money and have total reach of metro areas - No more multiple Yellow Page book advertising!
Many local search engine listing - You get found where your customers are looking
Complete coverage for your city
Add on additional cities where needed
You do not have to have a website
Add videos and images - whatever you want to show off!
