As a smart business owner, you know the importance of building your online presence. To put your business on the map, create free listings on Google Places and Yelp—both good sources for finding local businesses—and set up a Facebook page for your business.
The next step is to track your business online. It's almost impossible to find out what everyone is saying on all the major search engines about your company which is why you will probably need an SEO Expert and to find the funds to hire one for your business.
It's important to regularly monitor what people are saying about you, especially if you are using social media to promote your painting business. The whole point of using social media is to engage your customers, and prospective ones, in conversation.
Social networks have made word of mouth more powerful than ever. Customers, prospective customers, employees and competitors can all post their opinions for the world to see, impacting your business—positively or negatively—overnight. Monitoring and proactively managing your painting business's online reputation is critical to your success.
Ideally until you can hire an SEO Expert you can yourself online, at no cost find out what people are saying. Just click on the links below and follow the simple instructions on each of the sites to start seeing what is said or written about your company now.
Google Alerts
Sign up to receive daily emails telling you when and where your business was referenced anywhere on the Web. Enter your business name in quotes and in various spellings in the search parameters.
Twitter® Search
Lets you search Twitter for mentions of keywords or phrases, such as the name of your business, so you can read what is being said. Also, Twitter Sentiment will display all positive and negative tweets that contain your search term and create a pie chart showing you the ratio of good to bad tweets.
Social Searcher
Find out who's talking about your company or website (or your competition!) on Facebook®'s public pages.
These blog search engines will find mentions of your business in blog posts and links.
Use it to track conversations about your business on forums and message boards across the Web.
Social media can make or break a business. Tracking online conversations about your business gives you the opportunity to engage customers and address any issues before they become big problems.
If your business does not allow you to have the time to do this then it may be best to just hire an SEO expert and the way you can come up with funding is to contact Ed Rogers at Small Business Loans Depot and if you have at least 4 months in business and 3 months of verifiable revenue you can qualify for our bank statement loans and loans against equipment programs. Call 919-771-4177 for details.
