Please join LSA and VendAsta Technologies for an exclusive webinar presentation next Thursday, May 9 from 2 pm – 3 pm EST.
In this webinar titled “Selling Social to Local Businesses: What Do They Need and How Do You Scale It,” VendAsta’s Alan Hunter-Willis, Strategic Business Development, will discuss social media’s role in local search. He will highlight the challenges small businesses face when going social, while showing how social can be used to get leads, build fans, and offer customer service. Finally, learn about VendAsta’s solutions that drive profitability, scalability, and sellable benefits for a publisher and/or agency’s social products.
VendAsta Technologies provides online reputation management, mobile site, and social marketing tools for IYP companies, newspaper groups, interactive agencies, CMRs, digital agencies, and national brands. Delivered through a white labelled Business Center or available via APIs, these tools offer online branding solutions that give advertisers a new stream of digital revenue while helping small and medium size businesses monitor, manage, and build stronger reputations.
We recently uploaded two webinar presentations to our YouTube channel that you might find interesting.
WebsiteAlive’s webinar discussed the importance of giving consumers the means to easily connect with local businesses via directory listings using live chat, e-mail lead, click-to-call or text/SMS.
Connect Now! – Connect and Capture Your Target Audience
geo.to’s webinar discussed the phenomenal increase in mobile local search, the primary wants and needs of mobile users, and the data that is reinforcing the importance of providing instant access to extremely accurate and timely location based information.
Mobilizing Locations to Drive and Measure Calls, Visits and Sales
For access to all of our past webinars and a look at what’s to come, visit http://bit.ly/LSAwebinars.
Please join LSA and WebsiteAlive for an exclusive webinar presentation this upcoming Thursday, April 25.
In this webinar, WebsiteAlive’s Managing Partner and CEO Adam J. Stass will discuss the importance of giving consumers the means to easily connect with local businesses via directory listings. Adam will discuss ConnectNow!, a solution that is intended to quickly connect consumers to companies via live chat, e-mail lead, click-to-call or text/SMS.
WebsiteAlive is a software developer and online communications provider. Since 2004, their live chat and click-to-call solutions have been used to meet and greet website visitors, answer questions, increase leads and close sales. Used by more than 11,000 web and mobile sites, WebsiteAlive’s solutions support Internet-based small, medium and large businesses and organizations.
Please join LSA and geo.to for an exclusive webinar presentation this upcoming Thursday, April 4.
In this webinar, geo.to will discuss the phenomenal increase in mobile local search, the primary wants and needs of mobile users, and the data that is reinforcing the importance of providing instant access to extremely accurate and timely location based information. Whether you are a single location business, a large brand with thousands of locations, a publisher, or an agency representing businesses, geo.to will explore tools you can use in traditional print, display and digital marketing to increase click through rates, conversions, calls, visits, sales, customer satisfaction and loyalty, including a new type of digital web presence for every business location.
geo.to is a mobile, local, social media technology platform company enabling businesses to make it easier and faster for customers to find, share and interact with their locations. geo.to specializes in providing an easy to use, special purpose mobile website for every location dedicated to helping customers instantly find, visit, call and share business locations when they are on the go and ready to buy.
During their webinar last week, Amdocs discussed current multimedia selling practices – what is working, what is not – and demonstrated some innovative capabilities to help the local search publishing industry enhance its value contribution to small and medium sized businesses. Check out their presentation below.
For access to all of our past webinars and a look at what’s to come, visit http://bit.ly/LSAwebinars.
Please join LSA and Amdocs for an exclusive webinar presentation this upcoming Thursday, March 21st.
In this webinar Amdocs will discuss the many multimedia selling practices being used today and will provide insight into what is working and what is not. They will also cover the value of getting the right sales tools into the right hands in order to increase customer satisfaction, increase sales productivity and decrease churn. Finally, Amdocs will offer a look into the day in the life of a multimedia sales person and how to overcome daily challenges using the right sales methodology and strategy.
Amdocs Advertising & Media is the market leader in software and services for the local media industry. With an extensive product portfolio and wide-range of proven services, Amdocs enables local advertising providers to leverage their natural resources to address the increasingly complex needs of small and medium sized businesses. With revenue of over $3.2 billion in 2012, Amdocs and its approximately 20,000 employees serve customers in more than 60 countries.
According to Cisco’s Visual Networking Index (VNI) Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast, “global mobile data traffic grew 70 percent in 2012.” With more people online via mobile devices, local businesses are faced with the challenge of connecting with their customers on this growing platform. The mobile advertising experts at VoodooVox and SkyBridge Mobile were each recently featured on our 2013 Webinar Series to share their insight on how local business can adapt to this change.
Mobile: How to Generate Calls (VoodooVox)
VoodooVox discussed the impact that mobile is having on consumer shopping patterns and how local businesses and national brands are taking advantage of this. Specifically, they discussed how to drive calls from mobile, based on costs per lead acquisition and key case studies.
Mobile Local Directories to Connect Biz & Consumers (SkyBridge Mobile)
SkyBridge Mobile discussed local mobile search and their MobiLocal Directory that connects consumers and businesses. They also discussed the impact of mobile on local businesses and the consumers that are connecting in local markets.
As we move into 2012, we’re preparing a schedule of webinars for the first quarter. We’d like our readers’ input on the subjects and presenters – whether from the Association, among its members, or elsewhere – that you would like us to feature.