Monday, July 7, 2008

Citysearch & MAJOR ONLINE REAL ESTATE

Let me share where I feel Citysearch is dynamic and competitors like DexOnline or YellowPages.com cannot compete with us. This is ONLINE REAL ESTATE.

I’ll give a comparison for McDonald’s. Every city has a McDonald’s in the city. However, you can also go outside that city and find many, many other McDonalds.
Right?
Right!

This is because Ray Kroc didn’t set McDonalds up for the BEST hamburgers. Mr. Kroc set McDonalds up for the BEST REAL ESTATE!

That’s what Citysearch will do you for! We will give you the BEST ONLINE REAL ESTATE. Let me explain how we do this…

With our Performance Package, your listing fee of $9.95 gets you listed on Citysearch, which receives 17-20 millions unique visitors each month, and exposed to where 90% of all major searches are occurring in your category locally. Citysearch has its own search engine optimization (SEO) team as does many of our prominent Internet YellowPages network of partners, such as MapQuest, AOL CityGuide/Local, InsiderPages, MerchantCircle, Local, and Superpages.

Why is this significant? This is significant because now not only have you increased your reach to be found on prominent IYPs, but now, your listings are coming up competitively on the major search engines. This is where that ONLINE REAL ESTATE is very important. You don’t only want your website coming up organically once and it may change if Google changes their requirements. You want it to come up several times on the first page by being on these prominent IYPs. Said another way, no matter where someone is reaching out to you, you are found because you are listed competitively.

Your listings, on say Google, should look like this:
www.yourorganicwebsitelisting.com (free traffic for you)
denver.citysearch.com
localkeyword.superpages.com
localkeyword.local.com
localkeyword.merchantcircle.com
localkeyword.insiderpages.com
cityguide.aol.com
localkeyword.mapquest.com

You can potentially have links like these at the top of each major search engine with ONE LISTING FEE OF $9.95 and not have to worry about when your contact information changes. When you update your Citysearch listing, your listing is updated within 7-60 days across each of our partners.

Can you see how that makes sense? If it makes sense to you know, it will make dollars for you later.

Again, there is no other company out there that is going to give you such a marketing mix with a flat rate, discounted cost per click (cpc). Are you ready to compete?

Call me and let's at a minimum discuss your online business needs - 1-866-462-8101!

Sunday, December 2, 2007

Let's get you listed - Kim Nelms - 866-462-8101

Citysearch is a part of the IAC.com or Interactive Corporation companies and have 11 years of experience serving local markets with city-guide directories and business reviews.

Citysearch reaches an audience of motivated consumers who are ready to buy or are researching a purchase. For example, we know they are motivated because they specifically asked for what is in front of them (“keywords in your local market…i.e., best restaurant in Burbank or fine dining in Burbank”…Any other reason why someone would do this?) Not only do we reach over 20 million people every month, we know how to engage them with strong content and good information to help them make an informed decision and better yet, we can influence that decision. In the end, if you take an audience of motivated buyers who are actively seeking a local good, service or business and give them strong, relevant and trusted content (advertiser, consumer and editorial alike) to help them make a decision you can then make a connection that can turn a potential customer into an actual customer.



Citysearch is a part of the IAC.com or Interactive Corporation companies and have 11 years of experience serving local markets with city-guide directories and business reviews. In this time, Citysearch has connected local businesses with consumers and influenced local consumers’ decisions on where to spend their time and money. Some of IAC’s other operating companies that you may be familiar with are Ask.com, Excite.com, MerchantCircle.com, InsiderPages.com, and 30 other brands.

Every month, over 20 million consumers across the country turn to Citysearch when making their buying decisions. In your local market, we influence hundreds of decisions every month! We work with a huge network of partners—Google, Yahoo, Ask.com, MSN and MerchantCircle to name a few—to get your business in front of as many online consumers as possible! Simple put—when you sign up with me, you partner with Citysearch to get your business exposed where 90% of all major searches are taking place—that’s pretty much the entire Internet marketplace!

In over 120 major markets, Citysearch has over 20 million unique visitors per month. We have also been recognized by Time Magazine as one of the Top 25 websites Americans cannot live without--
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1638266_1638253_1638256,00.html!

Think about when you pick up a Yellow Pages book—you have already decided to make a purchase and want to determine who to make the purchase with! Today, more and more people are making these buying decisions online, and I want to make sure they can choose you!

The way we do that is by making sure you stand out from your competition by allowing you to tell your story and sell yourself. We even have a team of professional editors and ad writers that will help you do that. We also have space for your customers to tell their story about their experience with you. One thing we have learned is consumers trust other consumers.

Finally, our goal is to make sure that these people who find you can walk in your door. This means a map in the hand, a coupon printed out to redeem, an online reservation booked or someone simple spending a few minutes to watch a video about what you have to offer. Videos are now available on your profile page—professionally produced or merchant generated. Here are some examples of videos that are featured right on your profile pages of some of our restaurant establishments: http://www.turnhere.com/co_CitySearch.aspx?filmname=ad_sf_luccas.

Your listing will be prominently featured and recommended online at http://citysearch.com. I would love to show you how to get featured and recommended in the next 3-5 business days. I look forward to speaking with you next week. Feel free to give me a call with any questions.

Regards,


Kimberly Nelms
Senior Inside Account Executive
P: 866-462-8101 F: 213-351-7064
E: knelms@citysearch.com


Citysearch
An operating business of IAC
1500 Riveredge Parkway NW, 2nd Floor
Atlanta, GA 30328-4642
www.citysearch.com

Thursday, September 6, 2007

Tracking The Traffic To Your Site - Google Analytics

If you're doing any type of online search marketing, a free analytics tool I highly recommend is http://google.com/analytics.

Easy to install and easy to read/interpret.

-Kim

Monday, August 20, 2007

Recommended SEO/SEM Reading

Duct Tape Marketing by John Jantsch
The Search by John Battelle
Waiting For Your Cat To Bark by Bryan Eisenberg

Boost Your Ads: A 3-Step Challenge (Not For The Meek) by Howard Kaplan

Sunday, August 12, 2007

Can Pay For Performance Help Network Marketers That Have Replicated Sites?

Yes, network marketers or direct sales representative can now get around the fact that they have replicated web sites which in most cases cannot be search engine optimized.

I recommend that a network marketer or direct sales representative create subject-specific web capture pages with autoresponder messages and then begin your pay for performance campaign.

A great source for both of these is http://marketingburst.kimnelms.com which gives a network marketer an unlimited about of web capture pages with great design and an unlimited amount of autoresponders.

I welcome MLMers/network marketers to give me a call so that I can show you how you can get targeted traffic to your website(s). I can also show you how to set up a cooperative with your team in order to grow your business.

-Kim

Thursday, August 9, 2007

Best of Citysearch Nightlife Sponsorship

Upcoming Nomination & Voting Period - August 30, 2007 to September 26, 2007

Date Released: 08/09/2007

The “Best of Citysearch 2007” is launching August 30th, and we have Exclusive sponsorship opportunities available. Just to let you know, Best of Citysearch Nightlife voting period will run August 30, 2007 to September 26, 2007.

The "Best of Citysearch 2007" is a comprehensive guide to the best of your city. Beginning August 30, Citysearch users will vote for the Best Bars & Nightlife in their cities from Best After-Work Bar to Best Dive Bar.

Citysearch users can vote for one of our editorial nominees, past winners or make their own write-in nomination. Best of Citysearch 2007 is alive with the voices of editors and users who know the streets and sidewalks of their city and are willing to pass along a bar tip or two.
As a 2007 Best of Citysearch Sponsor, your brand will be featured prominently throughout your market.

We will drive traffic to your market via an exclusive home page module as well as throughout our partner networks.

1) Increase Local and Online Exposure
2) Drive Web Transactions, Gift Certificate Sales, Product Sales
3) Drive Email Database Registrations w/ a Promotion
4) Highlight A New Service or Addition To Your Business 5) Drive New Clientele

Best of Citysearch Distribution Partners:
MSN City Guides
Yahoo! Local City Guides
Ticketmaster
Match.Com
Evite
Citysearch

If this is something that interests, you please respond to this e-mail, and I will contact you with more information about this Best of Citysearch 2007 exclusive opportunity.

Kim Nelms
Senior Account Executive
Toll: 866.462.8101
Fax: 213.351.7064
E: kimberly_nelms(at)citysearch.com

Citysearch (an operating business of IAC) A leading local search, directory and media company 1500 Riveredge Parkway NW 2nd Floor Atlanta, GA 30329-4642
http://www.citysearch.com/

A leading local search marketing service provider for independent and small-to-medium sized businesses. As your account manager, I work with you to enhance your business listing in order to get you more exposure on Citysearch, Ask.com, Google, Yahoo, InsiderPages.com, etc. I offer your company consolidated monthly local advertising exposure on Google and Yahoo through Search Engine Marketing.