What is the best way to market a local business online?

[Nahid Hasan]

-Sorry there aren't any shortcut automated ways to sale the services within local market, but there are some tactics which will help you to promote the services effectively.

-Find the effective keywords for your local business
-Place your local business to google and bing maps.
-Place your local business to various local business listing sites like yelp, yellow page etc.
-Create more and more citation to get SEO benefits.
-Yes Needs to work on forums, you will need to invest more time on the beginning but with the time, you will not need much time, 1-2 hours a day will be enough to promote.
-and find niche bloggers, with huge number of followers, and motivate them to post your services oriented articles on their blogs. Article needs to be non professional but effective. Few of these blogs will bring lots of traffics and leads.