thanks for sharing.

It’s great to get feedback on here from local businesses that are getting success from their online marketing. Too often we’re finding locally that businesses aren’t getting much from their website and, as a result, they are writing the internet off as not relevant for them, when more often than not it is their website and their internet marketing that isn’t right, not the internet itself.

We are on a mission to introduce all the local businesses that we know (as well as those that we don’t yet!) to the concept of blog sites and internet marketing so that they can benefit from the current Google search culture and make sure that their businesses are the ones that customers go to once they have done their online research.

And, it’s business people like you that will help us to convince business people that they need to do something different. As we’ve already discussed we’d like to get you on a webinar soon to talk about your experiences with your website and Aweber. Speak soon.

Over the last 4 years our offline sales from online first contact has increased from 30 to 75% (not counting the 'only' online sales from our webshop).

Local exposure is so important, like you say prospects are nowadays searching Google instead going through the Yellow Pages, and very easy to do in fact. You use WordPress, we use Typepad (various 'blog-sites') besides our static website and webshop. Other local businesses have set up Typepad blog-sites too with a little bit of help from me and immediately report increased interest from 'the web'.
When you then add an autoresponder program to it, like AWeber, the sky is truly the limit (as we've experience and are, even in these more dour times, experiencing).

Karin H. (Keep It Simple Sweetheart, specially in business)