Social Media – Facebook

What we recommend is that small to medium sized businesses set up a Facebook business page and places page.

A Facebook business page is an incredibly powerful business networking tool. One of the best things about Facebook for business is its unbeatable potential for exposure. If used consistently and strategically, it will noticeably increase your company’s visibility.

Maybe you’re not into social media, or simply feel daunted by it because you understand only half of what goes on there. So you willingly choose to ignore it…big mistake. You’ve put yourself at a disadvantage and give your rivals the competitive edge. Can you really afford to do that? Don’t worry, that’s OK, we’re here to help.

The other component to Facebook is “Places”. It’s a recent addition. Following in the footsteps of services like Foursquare and Gowalla, the Facebook Places service provides businesses with a platform for marketing and promotion, and provides an opportunity to build customer loyalty.

Like current social location-based check-in services, Facebook Places lets people share where they are, see which friends are in the local area, and discover new places by following where others from their social network have checked in.

Having a place on Facebook creates more ways for you to promote and grow your business on Facebook. By giving your potential customers the ability to check in at your business, you give them the power to tell their friends about it.

A Place page shows you a map of where the Place is located, a list of friends who are currently checked in at the Place (if any), and a Friend Activity stream of other friends who have visited the Place in the past.

We’ll claim your Place, create or update your business page and seamlessly link your business page and your places page on Facebook for maximum results.

Then we can manage your Facebook presence for you or show you how to do it yourself with minimum effort.

Local Search

Being a local business in a fixed location, it’s more important for you to get found by potential customers using a location-based search phrase, like “bakeries in Philadelphia”.

But first you need to register your business for local search through Online Directories, such as YP.com (Yellow Pages online), Google Places and Yahoo Local, 2nd you need to get on the Review & Recommendation sites, like Google Reviews, Yelp, CitySearch and Angie‘s List and 3rd you need to manage what‘s being said about your business on those sites so people don‘t ruin your business with negative reviews. (Note: people are going to leave reviews on these sites whether you actively manage them or not.)

GoMobileSolutions.com can put a program in-place to get you registered with these directories and review sites and get positive reviews posted that are provided by your customers. We’ll clean up and manage your company’s reputation online, so you stop loosing business and gain more customers.

Mobile Web

If you haven’t noticed already, there’s a shift underway in the way consumers access information and make buying decisions. Here’s a few stats to help you understand:

1. Google has a separate index for mobile content.

Not only do they have a separate index for mobile content, but also it is fairly empty. Get onboard now and give Google Mobile the correct solution (your business) to serve up to local customers looking for what you sell.

2. Your regular website isn’t going to cut it.

On a mobile phone, there is a very limited amount of screen space. If you have ever had to side scroll to view something on a website, you realize how much of an inconvenience it is. This is magnified 100 times on a mobile device; you can‘t see or make sense of anything. You definitely need a separate mobile website.

3. 1/5 of Americans currently access the mobile web each day.

This percentage is skyrocketing every year. If you’re not representing yourself on the mobile web, your competition surely will take up the opportunity. And where will that leave you?

4. The Mobile web will overtake desktop and laptop PCs by 2014.

Not only will the mobile web inevitably overtake PCs, but also usage and adoption is growing at a much faster rate than the desktop did.

As you can see, in the very near future, the vast majority of visitors to your website will be on a mobile device. In 2011 alone the number of mobile web users increased 50%.

Need I say more?

Here’s what you can do about it — let GoMobileSolutions.com create your business a mobile website. We can even set it up so that when someone using a web enabled mobile phone tries to access your existing site, it will be detected and then they’ll be redirected to your mobile site.

See our Pricing to find out more.

Additional Services (Quoted As Needed)

SMS Text Marketing

Use texting campaigns to send marketing text messages to your customers, such as special deals and customer-only discounts for loyal customers.

Other Social Media

We can help your business get started marketing it’s services online using Social Media sites such as Google+, Twitter, Linkedin, YouTube, Blogs and more.

We can manage your social profiles & online presence to make sure you get the maximum value from social media without having to spend your time online, or we’ll show you how to manage it yourself using a short amount of time each day to increase your traffic & sales.

Website Update/Creation

We can update your existing website to give it a fresh new look or create an entirely new site that’s SEO optimized. Contact us to find out more.

Social Bookmarking

Social bookmarking is a powerful way of getting your site(s) indexed and also generating backlinks to your pages. Over time, these backlinks become increasingly powerful as many of the social bookmarking services are gathering a huge amount of PR (Page Rank) love from Google, Yahoo and Bing which filters down into your web pages. These high PR sites are called authority sites and help improve your search engine rankings.