So I spent an exciting Saturday night researching new methods for optimizing local search and found a site that gives you a local search ranking! Very exciting stuff for someone who makes his living in local search.

Getlisted.org has a simple interface that allows you to enter in your business name and your zip code.

So I plugged in my own information “Business Local Listings” and my zip code “33606″ and I got the following:

Here’s a quick video that I did with my friend Joe Malinowski last week. His website is Business Networking Life. On it I’m discussing some of the benefits of Feedburner for your blogs.

Kathy Perry, Marketing and Web Coach, was the speaker at the TWBAonline Tampa Meetup last Thursday and provided an interactive presentation using her unique Marketing Tree Matrix process that reveals gaps in your strategic communications. The presentation was designed to provide a tool that will help businesses identify specific areas that may need to be “pruned or nurtured” in order to increase overall marketing effectiveness. Kathy covered 5 critical areas of marketing – Sales, Customers, Off-line Marketing, On-line Marketing and Community – and the various marketing tactics that can be used in each of those areas.

Some of the highlights of Kathy’s presentation focused on improving strategic communications, identifying gaps in current marketing efforts, exploring new ways to get customers, and ideas on increasing customer satisfaction and retention while proactively educating customers.

You can check out Kathy’s website at: www.kathyperry.com

So I’ve been hearing a lot about Animoto at my networking events, but I didn’t really understand what it was about. So I shot over there about 30 minutes ago. Here’s how my 30 minutes went:

5 minutes – Read the brief instructions and register.
10 minutes – Choose and upload pics and music.
5 minutes – Compile the video.
5 minutes – Upload the video to Youtube.
5 minutes – Post this blog.

Here’s what I got.