Lead generators for local automotive dealership stores are losing their effectiveness and are replaced by local business marketing tools on the web to reach local consumers using local business listings.

How Social Media Changed Branding. Are there any tactics we should use specifically for social media vs. traditional media? How do brands become memorable through social media? What makes a brand successful on social media?

Geographic Marketing is an important tool not only for local businesses looking to attract consumers through local business listings, but also for the large companies who host such local business listings for local business marketing to target local consumers geographically.

October 10, 2011 (Birmingham, MI): SmartFinds Marketing (http://www.SmartFindsmarketing.com ), an Internet Marketing [...]

Geographic web marketing as a solution for national multi-location stores and franchises from SmartFinds Marketing expands not only beyond Google, but also encompasses other elements that include Geo Tagging, Citation Marketing, QR Code Marketing, Consumer Rating and Reviews Management along with a Mobile Locations Finder mobile application.

Consumer ratings and reviews have become a very important part of local store marketing for national companies. This the new public relations and reputation management for any size business that reaches into social communities and mobile marketing.

Geographic marketing incorporates digital tools like local business listings, hyperlocal advertising, managing customer ratings and reviews. National companies with multiple store locations also have to consider managing the marketing for individual stores at the store level now-a-days and not just at the national level.

The Detroit Metropolitan CVB includes Melih Oztalay of SmartFinds Marketing As Guest Speaker On Customer Ratings and Reviews Management as part of Geographic Marketing for local business marketing.

Geographic Marketing requires ongoing marketing management of Google Places Listings as well local business listings in many other websites. SmartFinds Marketing can assist your multi-location national business with geographic marketing processes.

Geographic Marketing and Local business listing optimization is important for the local business for their optimized local business marketing to reach local consumers through optimized web searches, mobile searches, and mobile applications.