Back in March of 2008, Time published an article titled How Google Earth Ate Our Town.  Big news for our “old coal mining town” of 78.000.  We had replaced San Francisco, the 13th largest city in the US as the capital of Google Earth. I’ll let you read the article, because I want to talk [...]

Small business and individuals are often faced, at least offline, with the daunting task of competing with big box stores.  More often than not, the small mom and pop shop gets squeezed out by a larger, competing business that offers similar (and often inferior, but not always) product at a much lower price. It’s a [...]

I want to use an example to explain why local search is important. I created a company, Acme Widgets Inc., that has an office in Nanaimo and an office in Courtenay. They each serve the surrounding areas, like the Comox Valley, and Ladysmith right through Lantzville. Acme wants to have a website so customers can [...]