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What are the differences between publishers and members?

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:23:00 GMT

SmartLocalShoppers.com is dedicated to help local people to survive the tough economy. Local people includes local residents, local business owners and people visit the local places.

Publisher:

A publisher is an owner or a manager of a business entity or organization. A publisher is one who will operate the local business advertisment, local marketing and to publish local business promotions and local discount coupons. A publisher is the contact and the representative of the local business. For more information about becoming local promotions publisher, visit publisher page for details.

Member:

A member is a local resident or a visitor to the current local area, who will be shopping for the goods they are looking for. A member is a local shoppers with desire to save money shop smarter. The membership for a local shoppers is always FREE. There are many benefits to register as a FREE member. For more information about the FREE membership, visito member page for details.

What is store security code?

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:52:00 GMT

Store security code is the secret identification code used to identify the store ownership over the phone. When calling SmartLocalShoppers.com customer service, store owners or store managers are rquired to provide the security code to identify the person who have access and are authorized to access the store information.

In order to protect the local business, SmartLocalShoppers.com will verify the store information before updating or modifying any information related to the store.

SmartLocalShoppers.com put the privacy and protection as number 1 priority. Prevent fraund and scam is very important to keep the local businesses running as they should. All un-authorized access or fraud will be report to the law enforcement and legal department.

What are Store Description?

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:53:00 GMT

Store description is the second most important information after store name. Store description should include the following inforamtion in detail.

Main products provided by the store
Main services provided by the store
Office hour
Special Offer that is always available

A good store description should include the main keyword used in Meta Keywords and Meta Description. However, don't over do the keywor stuffing, which is one of the top warning sign to major search engiens. Make sure you store description is easy to read. Try organize the description with line break. Write your description to your targeted local shoppers, not yourself. Think like customers!

What is precision local marketing?

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:41:00 GMT

Precision local marketing is one of the many unique features offered by SmartLocalShoppers.com to target the local shoppers based on local shoppers' GEO location. With precision local marketing technique, local shoppers can find the local coupons and local promotions in the nearby destination that local shoppers provide.

Precision local marketing is also seamlessly used conjunction with no boundary local marketing. In other words, local shoppers can search local promotions and local coupons for a remote destination prior to visit the local stores. With the add-on repuation marketing features, local businesses will be able to acquire more local shoppers.

For more inforamtion about how SmartLocalShoppers.com apply local marketing to local businesses online and offline, please visit our official local marketing blog.

What are Store Categories?

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:33:00 GMT

Store category is the easiest way to allow shopper to find the local store and local coupons in the right section. SmartLocalShoppers.com currently allows up to 3 categories per store. Category is also used to identify store information and will be optimized for search engine indexing as well.

Chose the most relevant categories for your local stores to increase the chance for your store to be found.