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Today, June 1, 2015, marks LinkNow Media’s first day in our brand new office. After a hectic weekend of moving, setting up workstations, and cleaning up, we were all ready for business at 9 AM. However, getting our office up and running in time for the start of the work day doesn’t mean that we’re finished the move! Like any other business, changing the address of our company means we have a lot of work to do to clean up our online citations! What are citations? In the world of SEO, citations are one of the biggest factors that influence your local search rank. Citations are simply listings on other webpages that contain your business’s name, address, and phone number (NAP). Google and the other major search engines use your NAP to make sure that you are who you say you are and to figure out when to suggest your […]

***OUR MARKETING PACKAGES HAVE CHANGED SINCE WE WROTE THIS ARTICLE.*** Please check out our new packages here. Are you making the most of your website? Summer is just around the corner, and many businesses are getting ready to dive into their busy seasons. If you are gearing up to deal with a large influx of work, your website is probably the last thing on your mind. However, your busy season is the time when your online marketing efforts can have the biggest impact and attract the most business – your peak season happens when the most customers are looking for your services, and this means it’s also the time when the most people are searching online for businesses like yours. You want to make sure that all these potential customers find your website instead of your competitors’. If you’re a LinkNow Media customer, now is an excellent time to think […]

The last year has been a big one for LinkNow Media. We passed the milestone of 6,000 active clients (now coming up on 7,000!), we launched our new traffic building services, and we significantly expanded the size of our staff in order to keep up with the growth of our business. Now we have another big change coming – LinkNow Media has outgrown our current office space, and we’re going to be moving into a new one! Yep, just like this adorable and terrifying hermit crab, we’re going to be picking up and moving because we have run out of room to expand in our current location. To better serve our customers, we need to hire more support staff, and we are bursting at the seams in our current office. Our new office is just a few blocks away from our current place, here in Montreal. We’ll be packing up […]

Facebook is an excellent way for small businesses to connect and build loyalty with their customers, and it’s just as effective for promotion and reaching out to new potential customers. At this point, most people realize how effective Facebook can be as a promotional tool, and more and more small business Facebook pages are being created every day. However, if you are like most small business owners, you’re probably feeling lost – a majority of business owners feel like they can’t tell whether or not the time they spend working on their Facebook pages is actually helping them gain customers. If you’re feeling this way, don’t worry. We’re here to provide you with tips from small business social media experts that will help you make the most of your Facebook page. Follow the steps here, and you should see an increase in likes, engagement, click-throughs to your website, and sales. […]

We have already written several posts about the importance of social media in promoting your small business online, including a guide to getting started with the three most important social media sites: Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus. These websites are all excellent ways to connect and form relationships with your customers, build loyalty, and promote your business. However, if this is all you’re doing with these free tools, you are essentially just leaving money on the table. Once you’ve mastered the basics of interacting with your customers on Facebook and Twitter, you can exploit your social media presence in some very interesting ways. 1. Experiment with different types of content In our blog post explaining how to get started with social media, we suggested writing blog posts that you can then promote and share using your social media accounts. This is still a great option, but blog posts aren’t the […]