Local Marketing: How to compete
locally and turn clicks into customers.

6-Session Online Course – Get Started in 60 Seconds – Immediate Results or Your Money Back!

Today’s small business storefronts are radically different from even a few years ago. The Internet gives you the resources to compete against same-sized businesses and bigger ones as well. But positioning your business with an optimized website is just the beginning. This course takes you the rest of the way… John Souza, Founder and Chief Strategist, Social Media Marketing University

Our breakthrough local marketing program will help you learn how to leverage the power of the web to reach your preferred audience … even if you have no prior experience.

  • Learn the fundamentals of Internet Marketing to best promote your business…
  • Discover how to build a results-oriented website to drive local traffic…
  • Find out how to create targeted email campaigns to reach your ideal customers…
  • Learn how to improve your overall search engine optimization to get noticed locally…
  • Discover how to use video marketing to get your customers to act…
  • Find out how to employ the best hybrid marketing strategies to generate real results…
  • Learn how to measure the results of your efforts and optimize your campaigns…
  • And, much more…

The 8-Session Course Curriculum Includes:

Session 1: Introduction to the Internet Marketing Process

How can your local business leverage the power of the Internet to create winning sales and marketing solutions?

In this introductory session, you’ll examine the overall foundation upon which any successful internet marketing campaign is built. Then, you’ll begin to learn how to apply these essential building blocks to every aspect of your local marketing strategy.

Featured highlights include:

  • Learn about the most common Internet marketing challenges that local businesses like yours face today … and then how to overcome them!
  • Discover how the evolution of local Internet marketing has impacted local business and how you can take advantage of the lessons to be learned
  • Get equipped with the information you need to start mapping an Internet marketing strategy for your own business
  • Understand the critical elements needed in your successful marketing strategy, including – most importantly – how to create engagement with your prospects and customers
  • Find out the best ways to leverage the power of a call to action across all of your local marketing efforts

Session 2: The Website Is the Hub

In successful Internet marketing, your website becomes the hub of your success wheel. The choices you make on your site will affect every part of the way your business is perceived and engaged.

In this must-have session, you will learn how to correctly create, maintain and optimize your website for optimal success.

Featured highlights include:

  • Discover the main mistakes that most small businesses make with their websites and how to avoid them
  • Learn how to develop a strong and consistent site message to match communicate most effectively with your audience
  • Find out the best ways to create a strong level of engagement between your prospects and your existing customers and your business
  • Learn the proven techniques for creating a site that motivate your prospects to take action
  • Get the information you need to be able to decide whether to build and maintain your website yourself or hire an outside provider

Session 3: Targeted Email Marketing for Business

Building a marketing database is essential to your success in the 21st century. In fact, it is one of the most important assets in your business.

In this session, you will learn how to take advantage of everything email marketing has to offer you – from building a high-quality list to creating compelling email messages that get your audience to take action.

Featured highlights include:

  • Learn why building a list is so important to your business
  • Find out how to create a winning method to capture your prospect’s information
  • Learn how to match the right message to the right audience for maximum effect
  • Get the inside scoop on how to choose the perfect email marketing service for your needs
  • Learn how to measure the effectiveness of your email campaigns and how to optimize accordingly

Session 4: Search Engine Optimization for Local Business

Showing up in a prominent position in a search engine search result is one of the most important Internet marketing tactics that any local business can do.

In this important session, first you’ll learn how search engines rank your site. Then, you’ll be equipped with the right tools, lessons, and resources todramatically boost your position in the search results.

Featured highlights include:

  • Learn how to uncover the top search terms your market is already using every day
  • Find out how boost your site ranking for each of the search terms you target
  • Discover what simple things on your website you might be inadvertently doing that is causing you to drop in the rankings
  • Find out how to build credibility and authority for your site from the search engine’s point of view
  • Learn who you need to develop relationships with in order to help build search ranking

Session 5: Google for Business

As you know, Google isn’t just a search engine. It also offers a variety of powerful tools to help small business owners promote and grow their online and offline presence.

In this critical session, you will learn which Google tools to use and how to use them for the biggest gains and best results.

Featured highlights include:

  • Learn how to effectively place ads on Google that you only pay for on a performance basis
  • Find out how to integrate your business marketing information with Google Maps to build a comprehensive presence for people searching for businesses in your area
  • Discover the best ways to edge out your competition using Google Maps
  • Learn how to build massive trust in your business with your present customers and new prospects
  • Uncover exactly how you as a small, medium, or large business can successfully leverage all of the tools Google offers for your ultimate benefit

Session 6: Video Marketing for Business

On the web, content is king. Video is the king of all content. It grabs attentions, ranks higher, drives action and pretty much outperforms all other media types. In other words, you need video to fuel your local marketing plan.

In this all-important session, you will learn how simple (and inexpensive) it can be to use video as a strategy for promoting your local business and increasing your presence in your market.

Featured highlights include:

    • Learn how to use video to build a base of loyal fans
    • Discover how easy it can be to produce video with inexpensive tools and without a lot of effort
    • Find out how to use the same project management process that Hollywood producers use to create blockbuster films for your own video marketing
    • Get equipped with the techniques you need to hold your viewer’s attention and get them to act
    • Learn the best places to promote your videos and how to make videos that drive traffic to your site

Session 7: Hybrid Marketing for Business

The Internet hasn’t killed all other forms of marketing. In fact, the web has expanded the use and effectiveness of a wide variety of traditional marketing tactics.

In this information-packed session, you will discover how to build a strategy that drives Internet traffic from other, non-internet sources.

Featured highlights include:

    • Learn powerful ways to drive traffic to your website from offline channels
    • Find out how best to leverage your existing marketing efforts in the most effective fashion
    • Discover exactly how to tap into mobile marketing for huge results
    • Learn how to get your message in front of a prospective customer without competing with other offers in the marketplace
    • Find out the most efficient and streamlined ways to measure the ROI of your offline spending by integrating with online tools

Session 8: Measuring the Outcome

The best part about the internet is the ability to track all of the information about so many aspects of the medium.

In this key session, you will learn how to track and analyze the behavior of your customers. Then, you’ll learn how to build a highly-effective continuous improvement strategy based on data rather than assumptions.

Featured highlights include:

    • Learn how to design a marketing game plan with performance measurement built in from the beginning
    • Find out how to standardize the work flow within your business to achieve consistent results
    • Discover the best way to predict future prospective customer behavior by measuring their actions
    • Find out how to build a powerful financial model that will help you make better marketing investment decisions
    • Learn how to adapt your business based on the information you learn on an ongoing basis

Everything you need in ONE course!

As you can quickly see, each session of our all-inclusive Local Marketing course gives you everything you need to make Facebook work overtime for you starting today.

Click the Enroll Now button to sign up for only $497, or take advantage of our Easy Three-Pay Plan with 3 payments of $165.67 each.

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YES! I want to enroll in the Local Marketing course right now! I understand when I order I will receive Instant Access to all 8 sessions including:

  • Session 1: Introduction to the Internet Marketing Process
  • Session 2: The Website Is the Hub
  • Session 3: Targeted Email Marketing for Business
  • Session 4: Search Engine Optimization for Local Business
  • Session 5: Google for Business
  • Session 6: Video Marketing for Business
  • Session 7: Hybrid Marketing for Business
  • Session 8: Measuring the Outcome
  • Full Access for 1 Full Year – including any updates and bonus training that is added!

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Who is Social Media Marketing University?

With well over 114,000 executives, entrepreneurs, business owners, marketing and social media professionals attending our training sessions over the past 4+ years, we have become known as the recognized leader in social media training and certification.

In addition to accolades from our students and clients we have been voted as one of the top social media services for businesses globally by Mashable, and SMMU was named a finalist in Forbes Magazine’s list of “America’s Most Promising Companies”. Most recently we were honored by About.com when we were chosen as the “People’s Choice Best Online Training Website”, in a competitive category with such esteemed competition as TEDTalks, MIT Open Courseware and Khan Academy.

Now, we don’t say that to brag or boast, but we do believe you should know that when you choose to learn with us you are joining the ranks of hundreds of thousands of people before you who have called SMMU “the gold standard” in social media training.

Across the Board Outstanding Credibility and Reputation

  • Winner of 2013 About.com People’s Choice Award for “Best Online Training Website” chosen over rigorous competitors like TEDTalks.
  • Recognized as One of Five Best Social Media Services for Small Businesses in the 4th Annual Mashable Awards in the “Best Social Media Service for Small Business” category
  • Awarded the 2012 International Business Award for Best Social Media Training Site
  • John Souza named “Social Media Marketer of the Year” by the 2011 Tech Marketing Awards by The Technology Association of Georgia (TAG)
  • and way too many more than we have room to list here…