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Posted on Saturday, February 18, 2012 10:18 AM
Pillowtalk in Churchtown Half Price Sale Starts Friday 2nd March Open Mon - Sat 9.30 - 5.30 Free Parking at rear. Half Price on Kitchen Ware, Cushions, Bedding, Curtains, 6 Piece Oven Chef Casserole Set was £70 Now £30 20 Piece White Dinner Service was £66 Now £35 Free Twinpack Pillows when purchasing Any Size/Tog Quilts 142a Cambridge Road Churchtown Southport PR9 9RZ Tel 01704505100
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Posted on Sunday, February 12, 2012 3:01 PM
The Olympic Flame will pass through the borough on Friday, June 1, 2012, as the torch travels through Southport, Ainsdale, Formby and Crosby Promenade Sefton is one of more than a 1,000 villages, towns and cities announced by the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) through which the Olympic Flame will be carried by Torchbearers during the London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay. The 70 day Olympic Torch Relay, will start at Land’s End, Cornwall on May 19, 2012 where it will then travel an estimated 8,000 miles around the UK.
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Posted on Friday, December 02, 2011 9:05 AM
Dickension Day 2011 Sat 3rd December Formby village 10am - 4pm Variety of stalls offering christmas gifts, Santa's Grotto and Buddy the elf. Snow Globe and Batala Samba Band will be performing 1.30 at Formby Pool. Dick Whittingon Panto performed by Formby School of Dance & Perfoeming Arts. Display of old fashioned Bicycles. Also Marshside Brass Band, Southport Swords, Mr Fungus Balloon Modelling, Argemeols Clog Dances and Magic Show.
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Posted on Wednesday, November 02, 2011 8:16 AM
FORMBY FC FIREWORKS EXTRAVAGANZA Saturday November 5th Altcar Road World Championship fireworks display team, a fairground and Coronation Street star Andrew Lancel, (Frank Foster). Gates open at 4.30pm, and Andrew will be signing autographs and taking pictures between 5pm and 5.30pm Prices: £4 adults, £1 children. www.formbyfc.net
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Posted on Sunday, June 19, 2011 4:37 PM
Lancelots Chilrens Diabetic Club Southport, Formby and Ormskirk Support for children with Type 1 (Insulin dependent) diabetes and their families. Support, Holidays, Events and News.
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Posted on Friday, June 10, 2011 5:45 PM
How to Use Google Places For Local Business Marketing
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Todd_Temaat]Todd Temaat
Maximize Return, Minimize Cost Local business marketing can be challenging; especially if you don't have a large budget or if you live in a small town. As a small business, you need to maximize return and minimize your cost and time investment, so you naturally turn to online marketing and start looking for tips to help you make an effective website and drive traffic to it. There are tons of ways to drive traffic to your site and if you've done any research about online marketing strategy at all, you've seen that very few of the experts truly know anything about local business marketing. All of their tactics work well if your business is primarily online but need lots of modification to apply them to your offline local business.
Google Changes from Local Business Center to Google Places But one tactic that works better for local businesses than online businesses is Google Places or Google Local Business Center. Google has renamed their Local Business Center and added several new features within the last month to make this an even more attractive option. By claiming your listing and making sure all your information is correct, you can make sure your listing shows in Google's local listings every time someone searches for your product or service in your area.
Google Places has an improved customer help center compared to the local business center. This help center includes updated guides, more ways to contact Google if you're having problems, and information on all the new features. They've also added a help forum with designated "Top Contributors" that are able to answer your questions if you get stuck. At least that's what Google says...we'll have to see how it actually plays out in practice. In addition, they're offering improved training through more webinars. Now, if the past is any indication, the webinars will be mostly Power Point presentations with narration and no opportunity for interaction. But they also usually provide some great insights to local business marketing on Google if you have the time to attend or listen to the recordings. Listing Local Businesses Hasn't Changed...Much The basics of getting your company listed and working your way to the top of Google's local listings haven't changed. You still need to go into Google Places and claim your business (if it's already listed) or set it up if it isn't. When you set it up, remember that local business marketing success is...as they say in real estate...about three things: Location
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As you're entering information into your Google Places local business profile, always think about how you can add location specific information to your listing. For example, in your business name, you could add your town's name like this: Taylor's Dry Cleaning - Wichita's Leading 1 Hour Dry Cleaner. One of the new features in Google Places is an easier way for you to list the areas your serve. This will help, especially in larger cities or more competitive markets. By listing the names of the neighborhoods, subdivisions, and even zip codes you want to target, your listing will stand out above the other local businesses that haven't taken the time to update their Google local listings. At the end of the day, local search engine marketing is one of the most straight forward and cost effective ways to market a local business. By taking the time to set your listing up properly at Google first and then moving on to the other local search engines (Bing and Yahoo!), you'll help insure your customers find you when they look...then you just have to turn them into buyers when they call or visit. But you do that every day anyway, right? Remember, marketing an offline business on the internet is different than marketing an online business. And you don't have time to modify the methods all the online marketing "gurus" teach. Your
[http://www.winyourlocalmarket.com/634/5-step-plan-to-win-your-local-market/]local online marketing tips await you; including our exclusive FREE 5 Step Plan to Win Your Local Market. In it, we show you exactly create the perfect plan to use online marketing tactics to explode your offline business. Article Source: [http://EzineArticles.com/?How-to-Use-Google-Places-For-Local-Business-Marketing&id=4199669] How to Use Google Places For Local Business Marketing
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by Kate Manheaven: Posted on Sunday, June 05, 2011 10:19 AM
To most business owners, marketing their business is one of the most important and at the same time hardest things they have to face day to day in running their enterprise. With customers these days getting more and more cautious in items they buy, the more important it is to create unique and exceptionally attention-grabbing marketing campaigns. The common trend today is to go for digital marketing. After all, the technology is there and business life is so much easier with it. But why is it that print marketing is still the choice of many established business today?
When you think about it, marketing actually has a huge impact to business. It can either make or break a business. Business cards can help share your contact details; Brochure can help provide detailed description of your products or services; and post cards can help inform people the the latest about your business. With this in mind, it is crucial that effective and high quality marketing is important to the success of your business.
Print marketing can provide a lot of benefits and advantages that might not be seem obvious at first glance. Sure, it can produce exceptional short term results, but it can also build up, boost up, and keep up connections between your target market and your business. This is something exceptionally crucial to the future of your business.
Surely, you encounter the terms sales, profits, lead generation, competition, return on investment, and strategic planning all the time. They are all important to business. They all play a crucial role to your success. They are also all a result of marketing. So, how do you market your business? Why is it important to promote, and how much would it actually cost you to carry out a promotional campaign?
Print marketing is widely used in the business industry today for a good reason—it always works. For one, print marketing produces a lasting and good image to customers. It also conveys an effective message, helps you connect wit your customers, produce an emotional response from your prospects, and helps send out a strong call to action. Experts say that if you don’t show and tell people that you want what they need, they won’t even bother checking you out. If you don’t give them a reason to call you, they won’t do it.
You can use newspaper inserts to promote your products or services and increase awareness. You can also insert your business card in your brochure to generate leads. It is simply important that you create effective and striking business card templates to draw attention. These are both inexpensive and time-tested techniques of generating short term results and long lasting impact.
Menus and flyers are also effective. If you own a restaurant or pizza parlor, you can use these materials to promote your business. It’s important that you promote heavily because if you don’t, people will go to your competitions.
Don’t worry about the cost of these marketing materials as they are more affordable than ever. They can be produced at exceptionally low prices. Once you have your materials with you all you have to do to distribute them to your target customers.
You can’t really go wrong with print marketing. When done effectively, you will quickly realize the impact it has on your business and your self as well. About The Author
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