Local Marketing Consultant - Sean Hakes

Dex One Promotes Clicks, You Shouldn’t!

Click, Click… Click, Click, Click… That’s the sound of your Dex One budget withering away to a bucketful of mostly useless clicks. Face it – Google’s cluttered and with a demand much more significant then the supply, click rates are through the roof. PPC Advertising is expensive and here’s why… The average website converts at [...]

Some of the Biggest Mistakes Home Improvement Contractors Make

Many home improvement contractors regardless of shape or seem to neglect their online sales opportunities and later ponder why their bottom line has flat lined. Here are a few tips to help you home improvement contractors turn a little success with your local internet advertising. Respond to Emails: I submitted a real life project to [...]

Liberty Bell Denver – Growth Services Review

I was somewhat excited yet skeptical about Liberty Bell‘s new Growth Service Bundling – how well does it work, and how powerful is it for small businesses? Because I am not on the market for outsourced SEO and Web Design, I find it fun to dig in and review other local businesses who offer SEO, [...]

4 Top Keyword Research Tools

Everyone has their favorite tools to help discover great quality keywords for both SEM and SEO, here are mine. Google Adwords: Keyword Tool WordTracker Keyword Suggest Tool by SEOBook.com Trillian Keyword Discovery There you have it, the best part is most are free!

BestContractors.com Progress Report – Review

Overview & Notes: FoundedĀ  by Mark Henninger / Information Ergonomics, Inc on Jan 24, 2006. Mark had a brilliant idea to connect home owners with pre-screened home improvement contractors / service professionals also known as SPs – sound too familiar? This marketing approach was very similar to the popular lead aggragator ServiceMagic except for one [...]