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Marketing Your Asheville Business with Local Area Search

jeff@webasheville.com — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:16:49 +0000

Our local Internet marketing services are centered around driving high quality traffic to your site or storefront. Asheville’s customers are very Internet savvy and new smartphone technology has made local search marketing a necessary part of your search engine marketing strategy. Are you looking to shift your focus AWAY from traditional, poor return, expensive advertising to high return, highly trackable online marketing? Web Asheville can help. It’s not just enough to have a website anymore. Your website has to be more than an online brochure, you need to build a web presence that leverage every aspect of the online space, from Google Places, to all of the directory listings, Social Media, review sites like Yelp and much more.

Studies have shown that 86% of consumers who use search engines to find a local product or service follow up with a phone call or an in-store visit.

What is local search marketing?

Local SEO puts your business in the position so that customers find you quickly and easily. From iPhone searches to Google Voice searches, people in Asheville are using all of these means to find what they are looking for. If you are an Asheville Pet Store, and someone types “Asheville Pet Store” into Google, are you one of the top 5 listings? Did you know that the top 5 positions on Google gets 75% of the clicks for that page search terms? That is where we can help. Contact Us today for more information.

Search engines are the number one source for people looking to find products and services in the Asheville and Western North Carolina area. SuccessfulSearch Engine Optimization generates targeted leads to your website, and dramatically increases sales.

Web Asheville Launches New Site

jeff@webasheville.com — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:35:38 +0000

Web Asheville, a top Asheville WNC area web design firm, has launched a new website for 2012. After over six months of careful planning, design and integration, the website was launched to include improved visuals, using some of the highest quality graphics, a rotating homepage display, and easy to follow navigation.

“We’ve been carefully reviewing our website to ensure that it conveys speed, reliability, and performance, and we brought these elements which are so important to our customers to our website design,” Jeff Brown, CEO of Web Asheville said. “We’re proud to unveil our new site and welcome any feedback from current or future customers.”

Apple, Google, Facebook turn WNC Asheville Area into Tech Hub

jeff@webasheville.com — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 17:25:41 +0000

Apple’s new $1 billion dollar data center looms large on Google Earth, putting its Maiden, N.C., home on the map. From the roof to its sides, the 500,000-square-foot building is painted white to reflect the sun’s heat back into space.

It would be unfair to call Maiden, population 3,409, an unlikely place for a new data center. Large cloud providers are building monolithic facilities in areas that offer relatively low-cost land as well as abundant and somewhat inexpensive electricity. Western North Carolina, where Maiden is located, fits such a bill.

Google has already built a $600 million data center in Lenoir, N.C., less than an hour’s drive from Maiden. And Facebook is building a $450 million, 300,000 square foot data center in Forest City, N.C., just over an hour way.

When Google announced plans for its North Carolina data center in 2007, Scott Millar, president of the Catawba County Economic Development Corp., was hopeful that the decision would draw the curiosity and interest of other tech firms.

Now, Millar said, “I think the dynamics that brought Google are still in place for others.” The addition of an Apple data center has only increased interest in the area, he noted.

“Having the Apple brand in our community says to a lot of folks that if Apple’s investing here, then we can invest here,” said Millar.

It also has intangible benefits, particularly among young people who see the Apple logo and think, “Maybe there is a future for me here,” he said.

The region is appealing to data centers partly because it has a good electric grid. There’s a long legacy of furniture and textile manufacturing, both power-intensive industries.

Tax breaks help as well. Apple has received 10-year 50% break in real estate taxes and an 85% break in personal property taxes. The economic development effort also includes fast turnaround on permits, and for Apple, a building inspector was stationed on-site to help speed construction, said Millar.