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The use of mobile devices is increasingly growing. Tablets and smart phones have become state of the art technology around the globe. People are consuming video, audio, social media, games, news, books and periodicals on the run.

By the growing use and demand of mobile apps people become more dependent of them. Popular services like Facebook, Yelp, Foursquare, Groupon and other are using apps to stay in touch with their audience.

As their audience is actively using their apps when they are on the road the chance decrease that they separately open their browser to research on Google for products or serivces. They will use their location based services and the recently activated apps to discover, products, services, locations, deals and things they are interested in.

People are about three hours online on their mobile devices compared with one hour from their pc.

The more people research this way, the more the search engine research will decrease.

This trend is creating a growing demand for businesses to be visible in these services and their apps as well. Also to think about to produce own mobile apps to be and to stay connected to their audience.

What can a business do to participate from I call it “Mobile SEO”?

1st Register with all important location based services like Yelp, Foursquare, Neer, Loopt and SCVNGR. Engage here with your audience, build and customize these digital outposts.

2nd Be active in social media sites like Facebook, Linked, Twitter and others important to your audience.

3rd Jump start your mobile marketing the smart way. Collect the mobile phone numbers from your customers. Establish a database where you store all important information about them to later have the ability to custom tailor personalized messages to reach them the right and human way. Look out for a two SMS marketing software which enables you to do and to control your messages.

4th Get even smarter and develop your own mobile app for your audience. To get ideas look through the industries and get inspired how others have done it.

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Most companies think to get customers from all over the world but miss to focus on their local area, which is much easier than to try to get customers form the other side of the world.

The best and easiest way is to get your Google Places listing first. This is very easy and a great point to start your local marketing! Make your listing in Google Places.

To get found you will need to find the best long tail keywords and to include them into your published content. Research long taile keywords and include them into your content.

Did you build your Facebook fan page yet for your business? And how about LinkedIn, did you made your company profile there as well? A facebook fan page can helpy you to market your business to your local market.

Do you know Groupon? Groupon helps you to market direct to your local market, laser target! With coupons you can attract a lot of new cusomters to your business very effective.

Furthermore, there are local business related directories. Did you check your local directory? Just go to Google and type your city and local directory. Then you get all the directories releted to your city. When people research they go online first and when you are listed in your local directory than you can get found locally!

Did you register your business in Foursquare and Yelp? If not, hurry and register. Be active on Foursquare and you can attract custmomers locally as well.

Twitter, with Twitter you can communicate with your local audience as well. You can promote new coupons, products and event. Go out and register with Twitter.

How you can see, you have a ton of opportunities to take advantage of to grow your business in the local area before you reach out to the world. Just do your homework and go local first!

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