As a local business internet advertising expert, I get to work with frustrated small business owners everyday. With the current economy they are frustrated with the return on investment they are getting on their usual local business marketing efforts. Yellow pages advertising, newspaper ads and the same old networking functions are just not producing the types of results they used to. Here are some tips that are guaranteed to help you with your local business internet advertising plan.

Tip number one: Start or expand your social media efforts. Are you on twitter? Have you heard of Twitter? I would hope so. With being on Oprah, the cover of Time magazine and in newspapers all over the country, unless you have been living under a rock (which some small business owners have), then you have heard of this growing phenomena. With twitter applications you can target locally located people around you and offer coupons or incentives to get local folks to pay attention to you and purchase your products or services.

Tip number two: Create or alter your blog. Most of you reading this will already have a blog but did you know it is all about how you use it. Blogs are extremely effective for those looking to boost their local business internet advertising because you can target local terms such as localcityname and then your service or product. Example: if you are a Naples Diamonds company, blogging on Naples Diamonds would make a lot of sense and get you ranked much faster and possibly versus blogging just using the term diamonds.

As easy as those two tips sound, done daily you would dominate your area for your niche with these business online advertising tips.