11 Destinations Along The Buyer’s Journey

11 Essential Destinations Along The Buyer’s Journey Meet Your Customers Wherever They Are In The Journey Be Found: Is your brand  found wherever your prospects search? Be Evaluated: Do your website, content and online profiles address your prospects’ needs? Be...

Last Updated: June 25, 2019

Google My Business Short URLs Make It Easier For Contractors to Market

Drive More Customers To Your Listing With A Shorter Google My Business URL Google My Business now allows you to create a shorter URL, or short name, for your profile. You can use this shortened URL to direct people to...

Last Updated: June 24, 2019

14 Guerilla Marketing Strategies to Help Your Contractor Business Grow

Don’t Put All Your Marketing Spend Into Pay Per Click and Lead Buying You want your service contractor business to grow faster. You may think to yourself “Easy, I’ll just buy leads and use pay per click ads to gain...

Last Updated: May 23, 2019

Google Local Services Ads Rolling Out Nationwide

Sign Up For Local Services Ads Today & Be Found By More Customers!If you’re a service contractor who hasn’t signed up for Google’s Local Services Ads (LSA), the best time to do so is now! That’s because Google is currently...

Last Updated: May 8, 2019

Be More Likely to Show Up in Google Assistant Voice Searches

Use Local Services Ads & Be Google Guaranteed “OK, Google; How can I be found on a voice search?” In today’s bustling world, more and more searchers use Google Assistant voice search to find things they need. When someone in...

Last Updated: April 25, 2019

12 Cost-Effective Marketing Tactics for Service Professionals

There are literally 100s of different marketing tactics you can try to obtain new leads and get more business from current customers. After working with 1000s of clients over the last 20+ years, the collective team of marketing experts at...

Last Updated: April 19, 2019
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Start Using Nextdoor And Its Offers Feature Today For New Leads!

Nextdoor, the free private social network for local neighborhoods, recently released a tool called “Offers” that allows local businesses to post special discounts and promotions. It’s a new way to gain new, local customers and drive your local target audience...

Last Updated: April 12, 2019

The International Roundtable is now available for iOS and Android!

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Last Updated: April 8, 2019

4 Ways to Benefit from Social Media

Social Media Brings Your Brand to More People Social Media Marketing has become a necessity for most businesses, including local service contractors. Because so many people frequent Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Youtube each day, social media expands your brand awareness and...

Last Updated: April 2, 2019

5 Tips To Get the Most From Your Google My Business Account

If you’re a service contractor, you absolutely need to own and be active in your Google My Business (GMB) account to generate more leads. It’s free, easy and offers a bounty of SEO potential. Before we get into details, we...

Last Updated: March 28, 2019

Don’t Be Swayed By Flashy Marketing Materials

Understand Exactly What Your Marketing Company Does For You Local service contractors such as yourself are presented with a seemingly endless supply of businesses who say they can help you. This can make knowing who to trust difficult. When it...

Last Updated: March 27, 2019

8 Reasons Service Contractors Should Use Instagram Marketing In 2019

Instagram Marketing: Powerful Messaging To Expand Brand Awareness Instagram, the social networking app designed to share photos and videos, is not only for Generation Zers to share selfies and food pics. Your audience is there, too! Instagram marketing offers contractors...

Last Updated: March 19, 2019

Benefit From The Google Small Business Community

Gain Insight For Your Business Google is BETA testing a new project in certain cities that will make it easier for local small businesses to connect, engage and learn from one another. Google Small Business Community is a networking circle...

Last Updated: March 4, 2019

Learn How To Turn Customers into Lifetime Brand Advocates

Join LeadsNearby’s Session at AHR Expo, Presented by Women In HVACR Planning to attend the 2019 AHR Expo in Atlanta, GA? If so, make it a point to see LeadsNearby’s own Jessica Bermudez, Client Success Manager, give her talk entitled:...

Last Updated: January 11, 2019

Google PageSpeed Insight Update

If Your PageSpeed Score is in the Red, Don't Panic. Google recently released an update to its PageSpeed Insights tool in November 2018. Known as Version 5, this latest update expanded the number of testing metrics and now uses the...

Last Updated: December 14, 2018

3 Steps To A Strong Online Foundation

All Other Marketing Strategies Rely on These You’re bombarded with marketers telling you that they have the secret key to unlocking thousands of leads that will grow your business with a click of a button. While their programs sometimes hold...

Last Updated: November 19, 2018

9 Tips For Outstanding Customer Service On The Phone

Customer Service Skills Can Make or Break Your Business Missing calls because you’re busy? Maybe you answer in a rush and are short with your customer. It might not mean anything to you. Whether you booked a service or not,...

Last Updated: November 7, 2018

5+ Tips To Getting More Reviews

Research indicates that reviews influence nearly 82 percent of consumer purchases. That means four-fifths of people who need your services look at what others have said about you before they decide to invite you into their homes. Reviews present consumers with...

Last Updated: October 30, 2018

4 Evolutionary stages of Reputation Marketing

4-Evolutionary-stages-of-Reputation-Marketing As with most things, the Best Practices for Reputation Marketing (also known as reputation management, social proof or review marketing) have significantly evolved over the last decade. When your only marketing was Yellow pages, there was no need to...

Last Updated: October 26, 2018