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5 free basic steps to increasing your online traffic and sales

5 free basic steps to increasing your online traffic and sales

By Forward Web 09 August, 2022

 

🤔 Do you feel like you need to step-up your online marketing for your business? Here are 5 basic steps every business with a physical location should and can take before doing anything else online (even before creating a website).
 
 
1. Claim Your Google My Business Listing: As part of Googles effort to provide its users with relevant and useful information. Google offers businesses with a physical location a place to list their business on Google Maps for free. After you’ve created or claimed your GMB Profile, you’ll want to make sure your profile is complete with the best pictures and information possible.
 
 

2. Sync your GMB Listing with Bing Places: Save your-self the hassle of creating and managing multiple profiles. Grab additional visitors from Bing by syncing your GMB listing with Bing Places.

 

 
3. Claim Your Yelp Business Page: Run a quick search on Yelp to see if your business already has a Yelp page. If yes, claim it and update with all of the best information like you did with GMB. If there is no Yelp page, leave this alone for now. Yelp is not good for every business and there is no point in creating extra work for yourself unless its going to bring value to your business.
 
 
4. Inventory Your Social Media: Go through all major social media platforms Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Linkedin and Youtube and check to see if your business has any pages you don’t have access to. Similar to yelp, not every social media platform is going to be good for your business. Remove whats un-necessary and keep only what you can frequently post to and maintain.
 
 
5. Check For Accuracy: Head back to Google/Bing and run some searches for you business. What comes up? Is it accurate? If no, get to work on ensuring the sources are corrected. If accurate, great. However the work is not done. Make a habit of checking at least monthly to ensure all information, photos..ect are remain accurate across all platforms.
 
 
🙌 Phew! That’s it. Granted, these are just some basics, there is much more you should and can do. Now one step closer to maximizing your online opportunities for your business.

💡 Need our help? We can make sure the basics are covered and then some. Just send us a message at https://forwardweb.net/

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Meet our core team members.

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Fernando D. Alfaro

FOUNDER / LEAD DEV

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Fernando D. Alfaro

FOUNDER / LEAD DEV

Husband, Brother, Son, Friend, father to our son Amadeus and various fur-babies, oh and business owner/entrepreneur.

What I love most about what we do here at Forward Web is the problem solving component. The internet is always changing and everything can always be improved (which keeps things exciting for me). My goal here at Forward Web is to create the most efficient web platforms possible, empowering the end user to either spend less time on the internet or to solve some form of inefficiencies that exist within the business through the web (think automation, but not necessarily limited to automation).

I have a deep fascination with A.I (Artificial Intelligence) and decentralized platforms. However outside of the internet I enjoy listening to music, working on various side projects and boxing (yes, boxing).

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Julia Alfaro

Creative / Accounts

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Julia Alfaro

Creative / Accounts

Helping people has always been a passion of mine. People are interesting to me. In fact, I believe that everyone is like a book because we all have a story to tell. I gain great satisfaction in knowing that I am able to make someone’s day, life or business a little better, even if it’s just by sharing a smile or a little positivity.

I strive to be a professional woman, I take pride in that. I am very hardworking, kind, intelligent and ambitious. I am a dreamer; I have very high hopes, dreams and goals. I am talented, creative and funny, with a great imagination! I am not perfect, I accept that, but I do tend to be a perfectionist (that can sometimes be a good thing or a bad thing). But in reality, I am a work in progress and I am learning to live life one day at a time.

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Branden Tobin

Customer Relations

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Branden Tobin

Customer Relations

Branden spent 7 years in the gaming industry as a quality assurance specialist and product design consultant. After becoming a
customer at Forward Web in 2013 and experiencing the great services and company values first hand. When the opportunity came up to help improve client experiences at Forward Web, Branden did not hesitate to get involved. “My goal is to help people, and in terms of the web, Forward web is the best place for me to do that”.

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Ankur Kavathiya

Project Manager

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Ankur Kavathiya

Project Manager

With a vast knowledge in IOS/Android app development, as well as various web applications. My experience allows me to ensure projects at Forward Web are on-time, as well as meeting various Quality Assurance checks.

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Ramani Chintan

Back-End Dev

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Ramani Chintan

Back-End Dev

I have over 6 years experience in web development. With Forward Web I primarily work on back-end development which includes the customization of various CMS or Shopping Cart platforms like Magento where I am able to use my experience and knowledge in PHP, JQuery and other relevant languages.

When im not working on projects with Forward Web, I enjoy spending time with my lovely wife Nidhi, married on 3/13/2019

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Nevin Davis

Systems

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Nevin Davis

Systems

I have a degree  in Computer Science and Engineering. I’m a redhat certified engineer with 8 years of experience as a server administrator. I’ve been working with Forward Web for close to 4 years now and I am primarily responsible for the securing and optimization of our network as well as general management of our dedicated servers.

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Franny Kenney

Media Specialist

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Franny Kenney

Media Specialist

California’s Central Valley based photographer; Frances (Franny) Kenney completed her Associate degree in Photography at Modesto Junior College in 2017. She is currently pursuing her bachelor’s degree in photography at California State University Sacramento and is on track to graduate in May of 2021. Franny is a licensed commercial drone operator. She is highly motivated and has a strong work ethic. Over the past three years Franny has been working and volunteering as a lab technician at the photo lab on the Modesto Junior College campus.

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Brandon Miltsch

Advisor

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Brandon Miltsch

Advisor

During my 15+ year marketing and sales career, I have gained unique expertise and achieved significant accomplishments for leadership brands in the technology and communications industries.

With a solid Oracle track record with both the Social and Marketing Cloud – along with over 15 years of digital agency experience and a successful sales record at NTT/Verio – BrandON brings a strong mix of expertise and business development skills to the Oracle team. BrandON has also been thrilled to speak at several engagements monthly internally and externally, further illustrating his passion and desire for Oracle executives to optimize and promote their “personal brands”, teaching Social Media and Networking skills. Outside of work, Brandon enjoys spending time with his wife Christina and their 5-year old son, Riley. He is also excited to announce the release his new book, Networking on üBER Steroids.

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