When do you hire a guide? If you want to go hunting for trophy elk, you need to hire someone like Northern Rockies Outfitters because they know how to find and track elk so that you are in a position to bag your trophy. If you want to go fishing for monster Lake Trout you hire someone like Captain Norm’s
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Online… respect is everything! What do I mean by that? If customers like your website, products or services, they talk about it. They will like and share your posts on Facebook and Twitter and mention it to their friends. That’s great and we all love ‘word of mouth’ advertising. but I’m talking about gaining Google’s respect. When the Google spider
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You advertise hoping to find new customers… Traditionally, that’s how the game is played. We advertise, promote, network and search for a constant stream of new customers to pay our bills and grow our business. We experiment, try new things, buy ad space in various publications and broadcast media; the quest for the best (and least expensive) source of new
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Mobile Spells Opportunity for Businesses Do you follow Mark Riffey’s blog? Mark is another local fellow who is plugged in to all things Internet and he always has a great perspective on what’s happening online with sound advice for businesses on how to leverage these trends. Mark and I have never met in person, but we sing most of the
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Social Media Marketing, Like it or hate it… Do you ever find yourself wondering about the huge investment in time you are investing in maintaining your Social Media marketing effort? Is it worth it? Is it (or will it ever be) a good ROI? The answer can be complex. If you know that you have acquired new customers from Facebook,
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It’s simple really…they can’t find it! Take a deep breath, your website may actually be okay… but if it isn’t attracting targeted traffic or generating leads – you might as well be selling magic fairy dust. Your website sucks because not enough people see it. We judge our websites on how well we THINK they’re producing for us. In other
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Facebook is great for keeping in touch with customers, but does the time you invest translate into the best ROI for attracting new customers? Improving your rank in search results just may be the most important thing you can do to grow your business. Why? Because people search online before making virtually any purchase. It doesn’t matter if you own
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One of my customers recently asked me, “What’s with the dog?” A fair question since the Flathead Guide has nothing to do with dogs or animals of any kind (save for listing such companies in our pages). Yes, I am partial to dogs; I’ve had at least 1 or more dogs at any given time for the past 30 years.
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Optimizing Your Flathead Guide Business Directory Listing This morning I received a comment from a fellow who had a great question about adding images to his Flathead Guide listing. He asked… I’m having some trouble making my photos display properly in the slideshow. They are stretched and out of proportion. What am I doing wrong? Thanks, and I love this
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Building a Better Mousetrap Ralph Waldo Emerson is credited with saying, “Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door“. That may have been true in Ralph’s time (mid 1800′s), but it is woefully out of date in 2013. On the Internet we are competing with hundreds of billions of pages and unless we get
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Tens of thousands of local people and millions of visitors come to the Flathead Valley to ski, hike, fish, camp, play and enjoy the natural splendor of NW Montana. They want to shop, find restaurants, lodging, nightspots and virtually every product and service available in the Flathead.
They use their smartphones to get information and search for everything they need or want to do. List your company in the Flathead Guide, the only smartphone-optimized directory for the Flathead Valley.
25% (or more) of the visitors to your main website are trying to view it on a smartphone. Add a mobile-ready option to your site and make your phone ring!
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