Competition is tough for small businesses today. Unlike the earlier days, word-of-mouth was enough to earn credentials in the industry. Now, people are just more critical about their choices…what they eat, where they go for vacations and, yes, where they get their haircut. I believe internet visibility is now key especially with the boom of social media Four Square, Facebook Places, Twitter. Who has time for all of that? Taking the Local Search Business Listing Management step was one of the best decisions I’ve made in terms of marketing strategy. Getting seen is important and Business Local Listings does that for my salon. Can you believe we almost spent $6000 grand for TV advertising. The difference with Search is customers are looking for your products and service with commercials they can just Tivo past your Ad.
Lara Tucker, Owner, The Red Room Salon and Color Lab
Business Local Listings has created marketing dominance for anything to do with automotive repair searches on Google, Yahoo and Bing. The past week alone from their efforts I have 6 major jobs including repairs for: KIA, Mercedes, Volkswagen, Mini Cooper, Jaguar and Mazda. These totaled $20,000 not including all the minor bolt on jobs that we are doing, such as: replacing power steering, radiator, alternator, batteries, oil changes, cv joints, charge ac and brakes. All of those repairs are equal to $10,000 total billed for service and parts rendered. This all happened in one week. Everyday when I go to open the office I am stuck at the computer quoting jobs from email of the contact me tab on my website guysautoshop.com. I had to hire an office assistant to answer the phones because you can not sit in my store for more than two minutes with out the phone ringing asking for our rates to repair. BusinessLocalListings.com has given my single location auto shop a chance to compete with the big business chains.
Guy Skiver, Guy’s Automotive
We have been with Business Local Listings for more than 2 years and our salon has been on the top search results since then. When your searching “hair salon Tampa” on Google, you’ll see our company details and our official website on the map and multiple organic results on the first page. Social media and Local Search results are so confusing but extremely powerful tools when you are competing in the Mecca of Salon service in South Tampa.
Jesus Casanova, Owner, Salon Monaco Tampa
There are probably over a hundred auto repair shops in Brandon, Bloomingdale, Turkey Creek, Plant City, Valrico, Seffner, Dover, Mango, Fish Hawk and Riverview. So it’s going to take a little something extra to get customers to notice one auto shop. Investing on Business Local Lisitngs’ services has helped my shop grow and now customers can find us online since they’ve started working on our internet search results for Google. Business Local Lisitngs has even set up social media accounts for us so we are able to update our loyal customers with whatever’s new in the shop.
Rob Hight, Scott’s Automotive