September 8, 2006 Comments
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If you are a small business owner serving a local market and you aren't already giving serious thoughts to your plans for local online marketing, you need to get cracking. New forecasts from research group Borrell Associates says that paid search will remain the fastest growing local online advertising category. Local online advertising is expected to grow another 32% to $7.7 billion by 2007, paid local search is expected to account for almost a quarter of spending, making up about $1.8 billion.
Other estimates from the research:
Jennifer Laycock is the Editor of Search Engine Guide, an educational web site aimed at translating the search marketing world into something that small business owners can understand. Jennifer specializes in common sense search engine marketing, viral marketing and customer outreach via social media and blogs. A former search marketing consultant and in-house trainer, Jennifer’s clients have included companies like Verizon, American Greetings and Highlights for Children. Her primary clients now are a little girl named Elnora and a little boy named Emmitt.
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