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Mobile Marketing Machines Preview

Mobile Marketing Machines has just been announced by Mike Koenigs and the great guys from Traffic Geyser.

Mike and the Traffic Geyser Team are the creators of Main Street marketing machines and Social Media Marketing Machines which unless you’ve been living under a rock were the biggest program launches of their kind.

Mobile Marketing Machines is due to launch in early December around the first week and I have no doubt there will be the usual dazzle and amazingly cool videos Mike and the gang produce and there’s no doubt it’ll create a high pitched fever among Internet Marketers.

Unless you’ve been living on another planet then you’ll know that Mobile Marketing is a MASSIVE opportunity for Local Marketers with Smart Phones selling over 115 Million units in Q3 of 2011.

Mobile marketing agencies are growing at astonishing rates which means Mobile marketing jobs are in very high demand and SMS Marketing is taking off like a rocket, not to mention Mobile Phone Apps for local business which in my opinion is the next big wave for Internet Marketing Consultants.

What is Mobile Marketing Machines all about?

Mobile Marketing Machines is a complete set of Tools, Applications and Coaching that are unique giving you a totally unfair advantage over the competition and Render Clients Completely helpless to resist your Services!

Mobile Marketing Machines is the FUTURE and THE ANSWER for many Local internet marketers and Offline Consultants because it addresses 3 Major challenges people have trying to launch their own Internet Marketing Consulting Business.

Addressing the Biggest Challenges for Local Marketing Consultants

Firstly Mobile Marketing Machines lets you tap into the FASTEST growing MULTI BILLION Dollar marketing channel on the planet and one that virtually ALL Businesses Must adopt or risk losing their shirt to the competition who DO adopt Mobile Marketing…

YOU will have a service to offer that can completely TRANSFORM the marketing, lead generation and sales process for unlimited number of local businesses… You will make them a LOT more money!

You will have the biggest challenge solved… GETTING CLIENTS (This is the biggest challenge for many of my students and most Local Marketers alike)!

Mobile Marketing Machines has what I believe to be the most POTENT and POWERFUL Client Getting system to date!

I’m talking having the most IRRESISTIBLE Offer that Potential Clients can’t say no to.

It’s About the Money!

Listen I’ve been a specialist Local Internet Marketer for 15 years and the KEY has always been to help the local business make more MONEY not just rank for a few keywords on Google.

Mobile Marketing Machines handles the complete customer getting, follow up and sales getting process that forces customers to buy MORE Stuff from your clients making them more money and you helping them build their business.

It also gives you a massive advantage to position yourself as THE GO TO GUY/GAL for Local Marketing which means tons MORE Referrals, new clients and much longer client retention!

Being closely involved by Personally Coaching and Training hundreds of students and marketers who joined Main Street Marketing Machines and Social Media Marketing Machines I can tell you Mobile Marketing Machines from what I have seen is a MONUMENTAL BREAKTHROUGH!

Huge Profit Center for Experienced Local Internet Marketers too…

While Mobile Marketing Machines is perfect for beginners or Newbies, if you’re a successful Offline Marketing Consultant doing other services like Google Places, Video Marketing and Local SEO services etc. then Mobile Marketing Machines will add a powerful Cashflow stream and profit center for your business.

Hands Down the Ultimate Business Building Money Making Bonus Anywhere!

After the huge success of our Coaching and Mentoring Bonuses for Main Street marketing machines and Social Media Marketing Machines  I will be offering an even Bigger and Better BONUS for Mobile Marketing Machines that will blow you away…

I can’t say much right now but…

TOP SECRET Project that literally shaves Months and Months off getting to that elusive SIX FIGURE Consulting Business.

NO ONE anywhere online has this Local Internet Marketing and Consulting system that YOU will get access to as part of our mobile marketing machines BONUS.

More on this to come!

Register HERE to get on the Mobile Marketing Machines Early Bird List and get a front row seat!

Watch out for our next update

Andy Kelly

Local Internet Marketing University is Open!

Local Internet Marketing University is OPEN TODAY and we are taking a limited number of early bird registrations!

Here’s the Scoop…

Local Internet Marketing University will be THE Ultimate place to learn how to be a Successful Offline Consultant and getting in on the Early Bird Invitation will guarantee you a host of Awesome bonuses and special privileges that NO-ONE else will get.

Here’s an example of just how BIG these bonuses are…

I will be picking people from the Early Bird group for Private One-on-One Mentoring Sessions!

I’m deadly serious when I say you will be able to replace many of those $3,000.00 plus courses with the quality and depth of training and coaching you’ll get from LIMU

My goal is to provide you with the most up to date and most comprehensive action plans, Strategies, Blueprints and Formulas that will directly turn into more money in your bank account!

NOTHING IS LEFT OUT

There will be NO excuses now because you will have everything you need to be successful as a Local Internet Marketer.

For example you will get access to the latest Full Blown Mobile Marketing Classroom, Google Places Domination Blueprint, Facebook Marketing Masterclass plus the complete Video Marketing Masterclass on how I built a 6 figure consulting business by offering video services to local clients.

This is just a small sample of the MUST-HAVE skill and knowledge you need to be successful these days with a LOT of competition out there in the Offline Consulting or Local Internet Marketing space.

I am literally pouring 15 years of Offline Consulting into every lesson and revealing everything I know about building a PROFITABLE Local Internet Marketing Business.

DON’T MISS this One Off Opportunity to get in the Early Bird group and be part of something very special and very profitable!

REGISTER HERE:

I’ve made it a total NO Brainer so you can get in for a trial for only $1

For those who are quick to take advantage and support Local Internet Marketing University I have some wicked bonuses and mind blowing surprises for you.

Yours for BIG Consulting Profits this year

- Andy

Google Place Pages updates, how to overcome them

Google Place Pages also Google Place listings underwent some major changes in the past couple of weeks, I already talked about these changes in one of my previous posts. What I didn’t tell you, was a way local internet marketers could salvage their clients’ businesses, so that changes made to Google Place pages doesn’t really affect them and their businesses. That’s what I have been doing for my clients since Google Place pages were “updated”. Basically what all local internet marketers need to do (including yours truly) is to make small changes to their clients’ website to avoid any loss in the number of customers.

Follow some Simple Steps to Restore Your Client’s Customers

Let’s first have a roundup of all things that have disappeared from your Google Place Pages:

• Your mentioned business timings
• Short owner description up to 200 characters
• Additional details

I know other things are missing too, such as third party reviews and citation sources, these are also very important. However, we first have to deal with the absence of the most basic information such as working hours and business descriptions, as no one would come near your client’s business if they don’t know what that they do exactly!

All you need to do is put the missing information from Google Place pages onto your client’s website.  As customers usually log onto the business’ website (even for the briefest) moment, before they switch their status from visitor to customer, hence these steps will work. So, here’s what local internet marketers should do for their clients:

Step# 1: Put your client’s business hours visibly on their homepage. This means put the timings in BOLD, HIGHLIGHTED or DIFFERENT COLORED FONT, so they really jump off from the page.

Step# 2: Incorporate your client’s short business description from their Google Place pages into the website in such a way that anyone who comes upon the page, knows instantly what your client does.

Step# 3: Paste all the additional details that your client had on their Google Place page onto their website. So that their customers still get to see those details. Although these steps might sound simple, however they have amazing potential. Test them out for your client to help them recover from the changes made to Google Place Listings.

-Mark. G

Google+ Business Profiles VS Facebook Pages

Facebook and Google+, these are the only two words that one hears these days. Which one is better? Which will trump the other as far as business goes? Once thing is for sure the news of Google+ launching its business profiles is both bitter and sweet for small business owners. It’s bitter because let’s face it; building up a new profile from scratch does take time. And it’s sweet because the potential that Google’s Place pages have for small businesses is much more than anything that Facebook has to offer.

Since its development in 1998, Google has come up with various products that help with one’s individual and business needs, and even though these products seemed disconnected once, they are now all being aligned together.

The Edge That Google+ Has Over Facebook:

1. Google+ has Search on Its Side:

That’s the biggest edge in my opinion, Google+ has Google search. Google just recently disabled “Realtime search” which used to show Tweets and a limited number of Facebook updates, as its contract with Twitter expired on the fourth of July. Naturally, Google isn’t really giddy to renew the contract because it aims to integrate its own Google+ live feed into Google search.

2. Google Has Effective Tools For Productivity and Communication:

Google has launched its business productivity suites, in recent years these consist of word processing tools and calendars. Meanwhile Facebook is claiming to kill the concept of email, without realizing that thousands of people every day check their email as soon as they wake up. Counted amongst these people are the 200 million Gmail users. The bottom line is that Google is much more insightful than Facebook has ever shown itself to be.

3. Google has Google Check Out:

Google has launched its “Check Out” service; which in theory could be linked to Google+ for businesses, which will make it possible for businesses to link its payment services to the database of products within the Google family, instead of sending users/shoppers to PayPal. Currently, Facebook pages offers small businesses ecommerce through third party tools such as TabJuice which cost around $20 per month.

Google and Google+ are truly shadowing Facebook as far as business profiles go.

-Mark G

Why the Change on Google Place Pages?

Everyone who has witnessed the advent of Google Earth, Google Chrome, Gmail Notifier or even Google+ knows that just like a magician up on stage, Google is always ready to pop something new out of its hat. Just last week, some important changes were made to Place pages which has prompted me to write this post in order to enlighten or let’s say urge you to get as many customer reviews as you can muster. Because let’s face it customer reviews are very important for your business, especially right now.

Google Place Pages Have Gotten a New Cleaner Look

The basic change made to Place Pages is that Google has simply stripped off anything that *it* deemed to be extra or redundant. Thus, go away all owner- provided descriptions, third party reviews from sites such as Yelp or Yahoo etc. along with the “more details” section where the business owner was able to provide discrete links to his website or give useful information to his clients.

The Red “Write a Review Button”

In place of all of this Google has added a red “write a review “button. The alleged reason for the changes to Place Pages has been to make practical Google’s long term vision of integrating information from Place pages into web search. All the while making a big deal of how businesses can truly have a different experience with the help of Google+ and other Google products and how this experience will be totally different from what all other regular profiles have to offer. This is their selling point and I have to agree it is excellent.

What do I think about all of this? Well, I simply think that Google is taking its *free goodies* (for example discrete links and photos in Local Listings) away from business owners. They are playing an aggressive game to make as much money as they can from their Local/Social space by advertising their upcoming Business profiles.

However, all the changes have thrown into sharp relief the fact that customer reviews are VERY important; Google’s more personalized approach to reviews as well as to web searches will change how people view businesses. All business owners need to pull their socks up and gather as many customer reviews as they can as this will truly make or break their business. Just remember as far as reviews go, “the local the better’. Keeping in mind Google’s aim of bringing you more personalized results when you search for local places, providing you reviews of people existing closest to you.

Asking your customers to write reviews has been made unavoidable now, if you need tips on how to urge your clients to write you reviews keep an eye out for my next post.

Google+ Business Pages, How Long Do We Have to Wait?

Google+, it has been a whole month since the new social network took the online world by storm, at present the network has around 20 million users who share over one billion items one day. Since its inception, a lot of talk has been going around about the arriving Google+ {Google Plus} business pages, the problem however is that they haven’t arrived yet and businesses big and small are slowly losing their patience.

One good thing that’s come of this long waiting period, however, is that we know that when Google+ business pages finally do start they are going to provide businesses with unimaginable potential to succeed. Google+ is so determined to only see business profiles on their site when they start them that they are currently deleting accounts of businesses that are set up as traditional users. The magic question is, what will these business profiles have in store for us?

Social networking profiles such as the ones available on Facebook have really been very successful for businesses. They help businesses maintain customer relationships, drive online traffic and enhance loyalty. This relatively long delay in starting up their business profiles makes us think that Google+ is really brewing a magical and impactful concoction for businesses.

Here’s What I Think Google+ Business Pages Will Have:

Obviously, the Google+ business pages will have traditional features of social media business pages such as application integration, linking ability, ecommerce abilities, photos and videos etc. I think Google+ business pages will have the best features of Facebook and Twitter pages along with some of Google’s own special ingredients.

The one thing that I’m sure of is that Google+ business profiles will have a great impact on search engine ratings. Also, it’s quite likely that Google+ social content will make a greater effect on SEO than Facebook and Twitter’s content. Other features of Google+ will also make it grab the edge over Facebook, let’s take “hangout” as an example; this feature is perfect for small business owners to set up webinars, conferencing and meetings.

I for one can’t wait for the start of Google+ business pages.

-Mark. G

4 Things You Need To Know About Google+ (Google Plus)

Trust Me You Want To Read This

For all of those, rolling their eyes right now…let me just say that this is not a Google+ sales post, whatever I tell you here will benefit you as a local internet marketer. I know, you’ve gotten all your social media needs down with Facebook and Twitter by your side! However, if you’re one of those lucky marketers who witnessed the transition from MySpace to Facebook, you know what I’m talking about, and the people who don’t should listen up closely.

Fortunately for you I have done immense amounts of research on Google+, so you virtually don’t need to do anything, just stick with me and find out facts about the amazing world of Google+

One thing is for sure, as far as online marketing, digital marketing and mobile marketing are concerned Google+ is definitely the biggest thing to hit 2011.

1. Google+ has an impact on Google search:

Of course Google wouldn’t really say this out loud (at the risk of creating a frenzy), but the simple fact is that Google gets its data from Google+, it gets no data from Facebook. So, as far as search-improvement activities are concerned, which would you choose?

2. Google+ is an Extension of  Gmail

No matter how many social networking sites emerge, email is still a very vital part of digital communications. What about SMS? Well, it could be awarded second place but that so by a far cry. Google+ is linked with Gmail with millions and billions of users. The extension from Gmail to Google+ just feels natural while an extension to Facebook and Twitter doesn’t.

3. Google+ is Developing Business Pages

Want to hear some good news? Google+ is now in the process of developing business pages. Now just imagine what immense power Google Places, Google Local and other Google products would have. The Google products that primarily seemed a little disjointed are now all aligning into one place to bring out one unified communications environment.

4. Google+ Lets It Members Combines both Business and Personal

Google+ offers its members circles to categorize their contacts into personal and business and then allows them to send messages to their contacts individually. So, basically you get to tell your business contacts what you’ve been up to professionally and tell your pals what drink you tried at the pub that day.

Excited? Want to know more about Google+, because I have plenty more where those come from…just be sure to check in tomorrow!

Helping your Achieve More in Local Marketing

-Mark G

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Get Technology on Your Side to Fuel Your Local Marketing Techniques

No one can deny the fact that technology has taken over mankind. Wherever we look we see some new gadget and gizmo being designed to make our lives better. Due to this advancement in technology, everyone expects more- be it your spouse or your boss. Same goes for your customers, they expect a lot from marketers- they don’t become happy with just anything, marketers need to provide them everything to make them happy.

The Story of an Unsuccessful Internet Marketer Who Turned Things Around!

Hi there fellow Local marketers, I’m Mark Greenwalt and Andy asked me to contribute to The Offline Goldmine community and share my story with you. Hopefully my experiences will help keep you motivated and realize the success you deserve!

I’ve learned a ton of valuable experiences and want to share many with you.

I guess you could say I was a classic failing internet marketer who turned to Offline Consulting and never looked back.

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I Was Sad and Miserable Budding Marketer Once!

No one is really prepared for what the online business world has in store for them when they first set foot onto their first online business venture. It’s after the .com world has hit you straight in the face do you really realize what you’ve gotten yourself into!

If you like me are one of those hundreds, scratch that thousands of people who had hopes of making it big online but failed, then stick around because you surely won’t regret it…marketers honor!

I came into the field of online business with almost no prior experience (well if you don’t count chatting up with my buddies every night talking about the immense opportunities in online businesses!). However, I was told by hundreds of so called experts on the internet that when it comes to online businesses you don’t really need a lot of experience to make money online.

Well, that isn’t entirely false but it sure is misleading! So, I took my mis-led self and tried to offer businesses with solutions as how to increase their traffic.

The IM Dream Starts to Fade (Quickly).

I wrote many SEO rich articles for various directories took a few website design courses and set up websites for them, doing social media marketing and everything, all in the hope of fulfilling my dreams to start getting these nice big Affiliate marketing checks that I see all the time.

I bought courses, eBooks, software tools you name it I was hooked but like so many budding Internet Entrepreneurs I wasn’t getting much traffic or making sales so there were NO Affiliate checks coming. (Panic)!

The PLR course I had invested in made it sound so easy to sell this already created product, “Just send traffic and you’ll make money” was the tag line, and I bought it.

The sad news is that everything I tried started back firing on me because let’s face it without ANY training everything just got too overwhelming too fast.

“Man This Internet Marketing thing is TOUGH!”

The Last Stand, It Was Crunch Time

I was literally on the employment Websites looking for a Day Job again (Urgh), when I saw a blog post about Internet marketing consulting.

This wasn’t something I had seen before or really contemplated in providing online marketing for local businesses, but it sure got my attention.

By this stage I had a decent amount of knowledge on Articles, basic SEO and WordPress plus some email experience, so I thought “Go For IT”

Into the Offline Consulting World I Go

Many of you who have embarked into Offline Consulting would know that getting your first Clients can be tough… Real tough.

To cut a long story short, I tried a number of ways to close my first deals but got mostly cool responses from local business owners plus a few rude remarks, and not being a super confident person this was really getting me down. “Great” I thought, can’t even succeed at this!

Here’s the kicker, I did end up getting a local client who was a little skeptical but I assured him we would see results.

My client eventually fired me when he just wasn’t seeing the results. And the $$$ signs that I used to see even in my dreams suddenly went *poof*.

I Could Mope Around For All Eternity, But I Didn’t!

Yes, my business had failed; yes I had lost precious months of my time, but I’m not that kind to cry over spilt milk. I had chosen to look at the bright side; the lesson I had learned-

“If you go scuba diving without the proper gear on, it’s likely that you WILL drown!”

So, I learned that even though I needed no prior local internet marketing experience or online experience so to say, to make bucks online. I still needed proper mentoring; this is where the offline goldmine and Andy’s mentoring comes in.

Believe and You can Achieve!

I Hit the Jack Pot

While reading everything I could find on Local internet marketing I came across Andy and the The Offline Goldmine, I saw the free video course that he was offering and to tell you the truth, it was THE Turning Point for me!

What Andy did is share some of his unique ways to attract Clients and manage the whole process of showing them the pain of staying where they are and how I was the solution to that pain.

Once the portfolio of clients started to grow the rest was fairly straight forward in getting the services done by outsourcing.

And today I can proudly say that his coaching taught me everything that I know about local internet marketing businesses. The course didn’t provide me with just “easy get rich schemes” it equipped me with all the necessary tools to help me decide which local businesses I should pursue, which marketing tools to use in different situations.

The course gave me the opportunity to learn directly from someone who had 15 years of online consulting experience, I was entrusted with the unique secret of the “Local Straight Line Formula”, which no one and I mean no one else teaches online!

Hope you get some insights and positive ideas from my story.

More to Come soon!

-Mark

How to add your Facebook Friends to Google+ (Google plus)

He is a really handy tip to help you get your Facebook friends into Google+ plus.

Google’s new social network called Google plus is literally taking the Internet by storm at the moment and growing faster than anything previously so it makes real sense to get involved as this will be a big part of local Internet marketing we are predicting.

Since Google and Facebook are not really playing nicely at the moment, there’s no simple one step way to import your Facebook friends into Google plus so in this video I go through and show you the way I came up with which works quite simply and easily.

if you want to learn more about Google plus and how this New social network will impact local Internet marketing and local clients then head over to local Internet marketing University where I will be revealing all of the latest strategies and ways to maximize Google plus is just one of the areas we will be covering.