Using Online Directories To Market Your Business | Eastern North Carolina Now

    When customers consider spending money in your town, they first go to their telephones and tablets – which draw from online directories – to make their decisions. Is your business ready to be found?

    Since basic listings are free, online directories provide a great opportunity for small businesses to look as professional as their big competitors.

    The Small Business Center at Beaufort County Community College will present a workshop, Marketing Your Business Using Free Online Directories, 2 to 5 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 4, in Room 828 of Building 8 on the BCCC campus.

    Instructor Martin Brossman will give attendees valuable tips and strategies for making the most of online directories like Google Local that enable businesses to be found when shoppers are searching from their desktop computers or mobile devices.

    This class will give participants the guidelines for establishing their listings in a way that improves search results and builds a stronger Internet presence.

    Brossman is a success coach, speaker, trainer and author who has been mastering the art of networking since 1982. He has offered training since 2006 to Small Business Centers and Chambers of Commerce across North Carolina. His computer skills have helped him create and teach new Internet communications such as blogging, podcasting and online networking.

    The workshop is co-sponsored by the Washington/Beaufort County Chamber of Commerce.

    It is offered free of charge, however, to ensure the adequate preparation of materials, pre-registration is requested.

    To pre-register, contact Eva Peartree at BCCC's Business and industry Services at 940-6375 at evap@beaufortccc.edu or Lentz Stowe, director of BCCC's Business and Industry Services, at 940-6306 or by email at lentzs@beaufortccc.edu.

    For more information about other services offered by BCCC's Business and Industry Services' Small Business Center, including targeted seminars for business owners, visit BCCC's Website at www.beaufortccc.edu/coned/contin.htm or contact Stowe or Lauren Dudley, customized training coordinator, at 252-940-6311 or by email at laurens@beaufortccc.edu.

    Beaufort County Community College is a public comprehensive community college committed to accessible and affordable quality education, effective teaching, relevant training, and lifelong learning opportunities for the people served by the College.