The Where 2 Get It team will be very busy traveling across North America in the month of June. Being an award-winning provider of local digital marketing solutions requires us to do just that: GET LOCAL! I mean, we could sit back and simply rely on technology to share our digital marketing solutions with the world. Heck, we’ve built some pretty amazing technology ourselves that would allow us to do that, but we prefer to get some boots on the ground and actually connect with our clients and industry colleagues. That’s why we’ll be hitting the east coast (Atlanta), the west coast (San Diego) and even Canada (Toronto) to talk local search and digital marketing!

SES Toronto: June 14th

On June 14th, our CEO Manish Patel will be visiting Toronto to speak at the SES Toronto Conference. Manish will be participating in a discussion with other location-based digital marketing professionals entitled: Putting Your Business on the Map: Effective Local Search Strategies.

Local search has become the go-to method for consumers to find the products, services and local businesses they want when they need them. Local landing pages, especially optimized for mobile, and a presence in local listings are no longer an option, but rather are a necessity, for retailers. Last Friday, Manish was a guest on Barry Moltz’s Business Insanity Talk Radio podcast in which he explained, “Consumers are loyal to convenience. They’re loyal to information. They’re loyal to expediency. They’re on the move and they want to get information fast.” Topics to be discussed in Manish’s SES Toronto panel will include:

• How a website alone does not get you into the local results

• How to optimize your Google listings for optimal presence and ranking

• What Facebook Graph Search means for local online search

Interactive Day San Diego: June 21st

Next, Where 2 Get It will be traveling to San Diego for IDSD, the premiere digital marketing and ad technology event on the West Coast where keynote speakers include the likes of Danny Gray of Google and Rand Fishkin CEO and co-founder of Moz.

Manish will be speaking alongside Peter Krasilovsky of BIA/Kelsey in a track entitled: Driving Local Leads, Loyalty & Commerce. Topics will include local advertising and how loyalty and offer programs have become the new lead generation, especially in mobile advertising. To understand the relevancy of these topics you need look no further than Foursquare’s recent announcement of paid promotions for local small business merchants. At Where 2 Get It, we believe that local search and advertising (generally on mobile devices) can lead to customer moments which are then amplified through social media (generally on mobile devices).

Franchise Consumer Marketing Conference: June 25th & 26th

To round out our June travels, several members of the Where 2 Get It team will be attending the Franchise Consumer Marketing Conference in Atlanta where we will be conducting live demos of our industry leading technology. We understand that a successful and sustainable digital marketing strategy requires a multi-pronged attack that incorporates elements of social, local and mobile technology. That’s exactly why we relish the opportunity to get in front of our industry colleagues and clients (current and potential) to demonstrate our award-winning tools, like our Business Locator, Local Social Manager and Review Monitor.

We encourage anyone attending the conference to contact us ahead of time so we can prepare a FREE competitive analysis for your business.

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