Business Owners, do you need to know where your small or medium business stands in Online Visibility? Are you already spending money on online advertising such as Internet Yellow Pages (IYP), Googles Adwords and Local Search marketing? AmIvisible service might help you in providing a better understanding. Your Internet Lead Generation capabilities (via SEM / SEO / Web 2.0 tools) are directly proportional to the online visibility of your business to the local community.

AmIvisible.org is a service for local business owners who are interested in understanding and improving their online visibility. The service shows how visible any given business is to potential customers, compared with its direct, local competitors. By covering millions of web pages on the leading search engines, yellow pages directories and popular local search sites, AmIvisible.org provides the most comprehensive analysis of local businesses’ online visibility.

AmIvisible is a unit of Palore (www.palore.com), the largest provider of SMBs (small and medium businesses) online information. Palore has been serving the SMB online advertising industry for the past four years, publishing reports on leading publications such as Search Engine Land and speaking regularly at industry conferences.

The service is available free of cost for businesses. If you are interested in improving your online visibility with SEM, SEO and Local Search experts, the service can also refer to experts and online marketing agencies in the respective fields.

The service is currently in beta testing in several US markets and will expand nationwide soon. Head to AmIvisible.org today and check out if your business shows up and how visible your business is on the internet.

A new Twitter like service, named Blippy, is in private launch. The tool provides the answers for the question “What are your friends buying?”, similar to “What is happening” in Twitter. Take a look at http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/11/blippy/ post on TechCrunch. With all the privacy and massive data breach issues around, will people share their specific purchase information on the web?

Here are the views on Blippy from Phil Kaplan aka Pud (founder):

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While this blog serves as a lead management resource center for small and medium sized businesses and marketing professionals, a dedicated blog has been launched by LeadPro247 lead distribution, tracking and management service providers to cater to the Insurance Lead management needs of Agents, Brokers and professionals. Insurance lead segment is one of the competitive areas in internet lead generation and agents have started using internet generated leads increasingly. The entire insurance lead generation and management domain has undergone a sea change in the past couple of years.

The blog is located at http://www.Insurance-Leads-Management.Com. The subjects covered in the resource center include Insurance lead generation, leveraging social media by agents, buying internet leads, evaluating third party lead companies and lead providers / vendors, assessing insurance lead quality, lead tracking best practices, lead delivery and tracking processes, drip emails (autoresponders) for lead nurturing and automatic follow-up, insurance lead tracking software tools, lead management tips, tricks and guidelines, automating routing of leads to insurance agents, and effective lead conversion methods.

The entire spectrum of the insurance industry is covered. Health, Life, Auto, Home, Commercial / Business, Annuities, Renters and other insurance lead management professionals can benefit from these resources. The insurance industry centric blog will be a great complementary tool in you are in the insurance service industry.

If you use videos for web lead generation on your web sites and blogs, and leverage YouTube as a medium, you got a big news. YouTube has announced that true High Definition (HD) videos at 1080p resolution will be supported. Currently the resolution is restricted to 720p. See their brief blog post on YouTube 1080p support.

Of course your video should have the 1080p resolution to playback in full HD. For those of you who have already posted videos in 1080p, the system will re-encode the video. If you are not in the game, it is high time to get into it and look for video cameras with HD support.

Regarding the video length, YouTube says that it should still be within 10 minutes. However, the file size will be much higher in the case of true HD video, so we can expect relaxation of file size limit soon.

Whether you are running a business or working for business, you just cannot ignore Social Media. Not anymore. It is not just about lead generation or sales growth. Social networking media combined with the web 2.0 tools and resources is becoming an ecosystem. Take look at the following brief video about social media and its impact on the consumers and businesses.

Lead Response Management is the process of responding to and managing the inquiries / sales leads in a timely, consistent fashion. While choosing and deploying a Sales Lead Collection, Tracking and Management software system will help you in the process, this alone will not result in lead conversion. The business lead management software is just a tool in the hands of a marketer which helps to capture leads from internet and other sources, route to sales reps, provide real time alerts and management the sales process. Lead Management includes lead response management phase.

Lead Tracking and Management Processes

In the era of Internet Lead Generation and sky high expectations from the consumers and prospects, it is essential to equip yourselves with resources and lead management processes for achieving a great sales conversion rate. Here is set of great resources on lead response management and allied areas, including research studies from MIT and Kellogg.

http://www.leadresponsemanagement.org/research

If you are converting the leads for your business, then effective lead response management is a critical phase of your marketing and sales process.

If you are an internet lead generation company and distribute the captured leads to the buyers, it is essential to deliver the prospect information to the end buyers in real time using a lead collection and distribution software system as the delay in response will result in lost customers.

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