How Minden Marketing Companies Can Help You Dominate Webster Parish

Posted on October 23, 2014 by Antonio Coleman

There are not any marketing companies in Minden, La that are centered around helping you dominate your local market. To be honest, I’m the only Minden marketing company in this area that specializes in the actual process of building a business marketing from the ground up.

You see, I’m a native of Minden, La, so I understand the market from all angles. Most of the businesses in our little city need more help on growing their client and customer base. I’m here to help provide that help to the thousands of businesses in and around Webster Parish.

Here in our city of Minden, there just aren’t any well known marketing companies that have what it takes to grow businesses here. Yes, we have a few advertising places in town, but advertising is a waste of money if you don’t have the foundation setup and the right marketing plan behind it.

It’s pretty much like setting your money on fire, and watching it burn. Advertising in the newspaper is ok for the reason that you can pay to get some eye balls on your business. Sad truth about that is that most of the eye balls will not be targeted people. Over time you will just stop placing ads due to losing money.

There are a number of reasons why your advertising is not working in Minden, La, but for the most part the #1 reason is just the lack of having the right foundation setup. That foundation that I talk about all of time to my current clients, to hundreds of thousands of people who visit my website each year, is that you must have a website for your business no matter if you have the following:

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Snow cone Stand

Lawn care Service

Barber Shop

Beauty Shop

Donut Shop

Food Truck

Catering Businesses

and the list goes on and on..

These are just a few of hundreds, if not thousands, of businesses that people start that don’t even consider getting websites setup. Truth is that most people are just uneducated about having one, so they do without it. Not knowing that not having a website for your business, is like not having a car or mobile phone these days.

Heck, if you want to be able to compete and take your business to an all new level, it would be wise to consider getting one. If not, then you risk progressing in your business, which will later on down the road force you to close your doors.

How to Market in Minden, La

I’m one of those guys who will never send you on your way without helping in some way or another. First, I would like to say of the businesses in Minden, La is that, if you just need to talk about your business, then feel free to use the big “Free Consultation” form to the right side of the page. Just enter your contact information, and I will give you a call and we will see what needs to be done to get your business to the next level. So, contact me before your competitors do.

Next, I would like to leave you with something that I created for all of the businesses in the world. It basically took me about 2 months of hard work writing and formatting just to give this away for free. Over 5k businesses around the world have taken advantage of this free local marketing guide that I created.

This guide is called Antonio’s 31 Tips to Dominating Your Local Market. What I would like you all to do is get your free copy of it, which is 100% free. I put this together for everyone who has a business, and needs some form of marketing strategies to get the ball rolling. So take advantage of it, and start implementing some of them before the local competition beats you to the punch.

There are not any Minden marketing companies in our local city, but that should not stop you from seeking help locally. So as a local marketing consultant, I’m helping you when you call. Make today the day that you make that change of growing your business the smart and right way.

Warning: Shreveport – Bossier City Web Designers are Over Charging for Websites

Posted on October 23, 2014 by Antonio Coleman

I would like to say that over the years I’ve seen my share of thousands of websites. From the static websites, to the most well designed websites in the world. So you can say that I’ve been around the block when it comes to website, and can say that I’ve built hundreds of them over the years.

Saying this, I can easily tell anyone if they were over charged for a website that was created by some web designer. So being from North Louisiana and being located on the out skirts of Shreveport-Bossier City, I decided to do a little research on the local so called website design companies in this surrounding area.

Before getting into what I found when I completed my research, I would first like to say that my name is Antonio Coleman. The owner of the Coleman Marketing Group LLC, which is by my standards one of the top marketing businesses in the world. I say this due to the fact that I’ve worked with thousands of clients all over this world helping them dominate their local markets.

I specialize in…

SEO
Web Design
Email Marketing
Social Media
Reputation Management
Local Marketing
Product Launches
Writing Books
Video Marketing
and the list goes on and on to growing your business.

All of this stems from over 15 years of learning how to market by using the power of the internet. Now for this reason, I wanted to educate my fellow neighbors here in Shreveport -Bossier City on choosing the best web designers.

Shreveport – Bossier City Web Designers (Options)

Before I talk about how to choose the best Shreveport – Bossier City web design company, I first want to explain to you my findings when I did a little digging. I compiled a list of about 5 web design companies in the 30 mile radius of Shreveport-Bossier City.

Now I’m not going to name any of these companies, but if you do a little Google search, they should not be too hard to find. I took about 10 minutes each to look over their websites from top to bottom. I really didn’t care too much about their design because that’s not a factor when it comes to growing your business online.

I looked at the clients that they worked with that they setup websites for. So I looked, and looked some more and found out a lot about the certain clients that they were going after. Most of them were high dollar clients such as doctors, lawyers and dentists just to name a few.

These are the businesses that have lots of money to spend, so asking them about getting a website and them accepting it will mean big business for them. The sites that I saw on most of these websites are well over $1,000 to create. To be honest, I think that a lot of them were maybe over $2500 coming from how custom some of the design are.

Most of these sites included well in detail videos of the clients place of business, which I know for a fact that it’s expensive to make. Believe me, I know because I’ve being doing video for over 10 years now, and understand how much time goes into shooting and editing.

Overall, I saw that a lot of these sites took a bit of work to create, but not so much that it warrants spending thousands of dollars on…..and here is why.

The Hidden Truth about Websites

Mostly all of these websites looked good, well designed and pretty much all that you would ask for in a website..Right. Truth is that I’m an SEO guy and for those who don’t know what SEO stands for, “Search Engine Optimization.” This is nothing more than creating content in a form of a website, page, post or video to get ranked into the search engine for your targeted audience to find you.

Meaning…if someone searched for “Shreveport Dentists,” and your website is not optimized right like a good majority of the websites that I’ve seen, then you lose out on those potential clients. Hate to tell some of you that your websites are mainly useless unless you can get your whole entire website optimized for terms that people will be typing in locally to find your services.

Now, I would say that some sites were done correctly on about a 70% level. Meaning, there are still horrible issues that Google doesn’t like about your website that must be fixed if you want to gain more clients who are searching for your services online.

I have noticed that a big portion of these sites were done to please the eye, versus to help you get clients. It was their job to make the car look nice and clean, so that everyone can marvel over it. The issue is that, the car that people are looking at doesn’t even have an engine in it.

So, how would this nice looking car get me from point A to point B if it isn’t equipped with an engine. I try to wrap my head around that subject also when I see websites done in the matter of just making them look good.

Whether you know it or not, the search engines don’t see images, 3D graphs or videos. No matter how awesome your site is, if it’s not SEO optimized you pretty much just bought a car without an engine..if you get it.

Did They Over Charge You?

The simple answer is Yes and No. Reason behind this is because it’s their job to give you an excellent website for the money you spend. They want that site to pop when potential clients view it. So, in the form of you getting found in Shreveport through a Google search for:

“Shreveport Dentist”
“Shreveport Lawyer”
“Shreveport Tanning”

It’s pretty much not their job unless you go to someone who can build you an awesome, simple website that is search engine friendly. Basically, they over charge you in my mind because they sold you the car but kept the engine for safe keeping.

My recommendation is to find a Shreveport – Bossier City web designer who can pretty much do all of the necessary things to get your site looking good, and also in a position to capture thousands of people searching for your services in the Shreveport – Bossier City area. Just make sure that they do SEO and Web design, but if they don’t do both, think about going somewhere else, or you will just be wasting your money and time.

Don’t want to leave the great businesses of Shreveport – Bossier City empty handed, so here is a free copy of my 31 tips of dominating your local market in Shreveport-Bossier City.

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Posted on October 16, 2014October 16, 2014 by Antonio Coleman

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I’m Living in Minden, La, Broke, Hating My Job, and Frustrated

Posted on September 23, 2014 by Antonio Coleman

The title of this post hits home for a lot of people who live in my home town of Minden, La, and the surrounding areas such as, Shreveport and Bossier City, just to name a few.

Here on my website I usually talk about small business marketing, local marketing and just merely how to grow a business to the massive. But today, I wanted to open you guys eyes on a matter that really hurts to talk about, but I feel as though I’m the one to bring it to life.

What I’m really looking forward to, is how many times this will be shared on our social networks such, as Facebook and Twitter? I say this because every time I’m on there, I see us as people sharing crap that makes absolutely no sense at all.

We share and comment on things so that we can get it out to our friends, so that they can chime in on it to keep the discussion going. Besides that, I’m just looking forward to hearing what people have to say in the comment sections below. Hopefully, what I say hits home in a way that it wake us up, and we start doing better and wanting more out of life.

Hopefully, after you read this post, we will all start taking action getting ourselves out of what we call poverty. Just understand this..

We are all one or two pay checks away from being homeless..think about that for a moment.

The Story

I’m writing this for those people in Minden, La, but this can also be related to anyone in the world no matter the state, city or town. It’s just that I wanted to personally send this out to those that I know, and care about in a city that I’ve been in for the last 32 years.

Our city is no different than the other hundreds or so places that I have visited in my lifetime. I say that we have maybe 15k to 20k people at any given time living here. The history of Minden, La, began back in the 1800’s just as of a lot of local surrounding cites did back in those days.

Over the years, we have managed to grow into somewhat of a small city, and when you hear people from Homer, Sibley, and Cotton Valley say that they’re going to the city to do grocery shopping or something, they’re mostly speaking about Minden.

Even though we have a lot of big brands in town such as Wal-Mart, and a big number of the nation wide fast food places, we are really just an average place to live that has just enough here to keep people around.

We have some manufacturing and distributing businesses in town, such as Firebond and Coca-Cola. There are a number of the family owned places to work at that have been up town for too many years to name. So our city is an “OK” city to live in, but not the place to become successful.

Let Me Explain..

Oh yea, you can go to school here, graduate from high school, and be given three choices:

Go to college
Go to find a job
Start a business

Go to College

Lots of people go to college, and you won’t see them for a couple of years, and the next thing you know they’re right back here. Now, that can be for many reasons, but just know that they’re back here having to make tough decisions.

Most of them go and get crazy amounts of loans that at that time that seemed right, but honestly it’s a trap that will catch up with you in the long run. Now you’re back in good old Minden, La, and already in debt at the age of 21 looking for a job. Yea looking for a job in Minden. Crazy Huh

Let me ask you a question for a moment? Have you ever wondered why there are so many people in Minden, La that own businesses, and they’re not even a part of the American culture? Not saying that they are not American, just saying that a lot of people who are not considered Americans, own businesses not only in our city but all across America. Why is That?

First, you have to look at it on a level of government grants and loans that people can qualify for. If you have a business plan and so-called good credit, you can possibly get funding for a business. So the question is, why are there so many of us not owning these businesses in our city compared to others?

The answer is really simple if you take a moment to sit back and think about. We are taught here in America to go to school, which is college, and get a “GOOD JOB.” So, straight out of high school we go directly into debt by paying for school. At the end of the day, when you include books, loans, and just mere living, you can be into thousands of dollars of debt before you even walk across that stage. Sad Huh

Now as a college student you’re struggling, so you go out and do what..get a job

Got to find a job

Things I’m going to share will probably hit home to most of you, but heck believe me it has happened to all of us. So, living in Minden, La, the job market is 100% bad no matter which way you look at it. Here in a few I will break down the numbers, and you will see why a job in Minden is honestly a waste of time if you want to really be successful.

So you seek out a job, and maybe you find one that’s paying you on average, let’s say $400 a week. This is the medium of the number, and I understand some people make more or less but this is a good number to start from. When it comes to our local market of Minden, LA and the surrounding area, you can expect to see these numbers.

Now you’re working a full time job at 21, 22 or 23 years old. For some reason or another, you’re not in school anymore. This is usually the route for most people who didn’t finish school, but even if they do finish school what I’m about to explain stills hold truth. Basically, we are bringing home about let’s say $1,400 a month after taxes. Yea, you realize real quick that you’re working for yourself and some guy named Uncle Sam.

You have been working for a while, and at this point you still have decent credit. You’re making good money, so you go out and buy that brand new car.

Car – $350 monthly – on average

Insurance – $150 Monthly

That $1,400 now drops down to only $900 measly dollars a month, working full time for someone else. But wait, we ‘re young adults so we want to act, feel and live like so. Now we start listening to the broke people in our family about buying a house early, or we take the road of an apartment.

No matter which route you take on this one, you’re still losing at the end of the day. Why, that mortgage or that rent will run you in today’s market on a simple one bed apartment or house around $550 per month on average.

Home – $550

Wow, now my money drops down to $350. How in world am I going to live off of that crap? But wait I haven’t even included the following:

House Gas
Health Insurance
Dental Insurance
Lights
Gas
Cable
OMG (Food)
Student Loans
and just simply living

Hey, you only have $350 left to cover all of this, which is not even near bout possible. There is no way that you can make a living in Minden, or anywhere else with those numbers. But 98% percent of our family and friends live like this, pay check to pay check.

These numbers get even worse the less money you make. Please believe that even if you make a lot more, you’re still spending more so the struggle continues. Plus at the end of the day, you keep running around Minden hoping to find that next big job..Ha Ha Ha

You’re just wasting your time if you think you’re going to find that dream job. It’s not going to happen here due to the fact that the cost of living versus the paying scale evens out. Meaning, that what ever you make will continue to go out as you get your pay check due to wanting to live just like the neighbors down the road.

We have to get that new car, even if the old one that we have is paid off, because we have to show that we’re coming up in the world. Not wanting people to know that you’re struggling at the same time. All this starts from the day we graduate from high school, the years go by, and the next thing we know, we’re 30 years old broke, no job, and hating our job and frustrated.

At the end of the day, life just sucks you up and spits you out. Your credit is bad now because you’ve fallen behind on loans, student loans, car notes, and etc.. For the rest of your life living in Minden, La or even the surrounding areas, you’re doing what I call “Chasing a Ghost.”

You work and search until you find that dream job, but that dream job never comes. For one, the town that we live in, and because we were told wrong a long time ago. Someone told us go to school, get a good education, and get a good job. Yea, thats the way you do it. But, other people taught their kids to start businesses straight out of high school, from opening up Hotels, restaurants, convenience stores, and etc…

How are they able to do this you may ask? For one, they have some form of good credit because they came out the gate not being in debt like we are. So the opportunity to succeed for them becomes greater, and our success drops faster due to the fact we have crushed our credit over the years.

This why you see more and more businesses being owned by other people versus the everyday American.

Start a Business

In this section I’m looking to bring all of this home in hopes of you taking some action in your life today. MY goal is to only educate people on what to do, and how to do it if you don’t want to become that old person wishing that you would have made some tougher choices when you were young.

First, I would like to say that I love my home town of Minden, La, and I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else in the world. But, the truth is that if you think you’re going to make a good relaxing living here, then you’re crazy. The only people in Minden living well are those people who you are working for, and those who own businesses.

Realize that having a job is all good, and I’m a big believer in building your foundation first. What you have to do to get to where you want to be. You can have that job in Minden, but after work go out and create something on your own.

If you spend 8 hours making the business owners in Minden rich, then take another 8 hours making yourself wealthy. But, if you’re working 8 hours a day, struggling to pay bills, and trying to live like the Jones’s, then you’re a fool. If you love your job, you’re a fool. I say this because, how can you love something that you don’t even own? Those people can fire you in a heart beat, so make the effort to create something that you own, and I hope to help you with that.

You have to make some changes if you want to be happy with yourself. I can’t tell you how many people I talk to in Minden or the surrounding areas who are waiting for retirement, and can’t wait for that 401k to kick in. People are banking on social security to take care of them once they reach 65 and older.

That’s Crazy

Successful business owners care less about social security and 401k. Only poor broke people care about those big pay days, which honestly are just pennies. I’m 32 years old, and looking for success now, not 33 years down the road when I’m old, wrinkled up, and tired. Who does that?

I care about my people so much that I want to help, and those who live in Minden have to wake up and smell the roses. If you are tired of living check to check to check, then you must make an effort to change your life starting today.

For those of you who don’t know me, and from the class of 2001 of good old Minden High. Just wanted to say I played basketball, and had a pretty good time if I must say so. I met a lot of great people over the years, some good some bad. But no matter what, I love all people because in the business I’m in you have to.

So, from the moment I graduated from high school, I have been educating myself for years on marketing online and offline. I turned that knowledge into a business that I call the Coleman Marketing Group, LLC. I’ve helped thousands of people across the word to become successful by teaching. If you have a business, and it needs marketing, I’m the guy most people turn to online. Hundreds of people visit my website every single week to read my marketing materiel, and take advantage of my services.

I’m even one of the top writers for the #1 real estate website in the world, called BiggerPockets. Check me out.

Understand that knowledge is power in this world, and if you have it, then people will pay you for it. But, you first have to get off of your lazy butt and make something happen if you hate your job. It’s not going to get better. That boss is not going to all of a sudden start being your friend. Your raise will still be a piece of crap that’s pretty much disrespectful.

I’m willing to educate people on how to be successful even if you stay in our small town of Minden, La. Yes, people say all of the time that there are no jobs here, but I could care less because I’m not trying find another job in Minden. Stop thinking on the level of finding some income to take care of you. Take the approach of controlling your on world by making your own money.

Finally, I would like to say that I wish the best for the people of Minden, La. Teach your kids about business versus working for someone else if you want them to be successful. I take pride of owning something that no one can take away from me, which is a really good feeling.

My hope is that this gets shared all over social media just like the crazy videos that y’all share that has nothing to do with having success. We share things on social media that doesn’t add value to our lives, but we over look things that can change our lives.

Let me leave you with two audio books that changed my life forever, and the reason why I’m always working my ass off every single day to grow not only my business, but the clients and business owners I’m working with. I’m grinding every single day, not wasting a minute on dumb crap, not taking a day off because I need that success, and the only way to get it is by taking action.

Feel free to leave a comment, and share this with your family and friends. We all know some one who needs to read this, but it starts with us first.

Here are the two audio books…

Rich Dad Poor Dad

The Millionaire Next Door

How To Earn $1,000,000 Using Local Seo Marketing to Grow Your Business in 6 Months

Posted on September 17, 2014September 21, 2014 by Antonio Coleman

Every small business in the world would like to be able to grow their numbers while not breaking the bank. One of the angles that they first look at is advertising in newspapers, radio and maybe a little TV. Let’s just say that you’re a real estate company striving to gain some traction in your local market.

First, there are over 300+ real estate businesses in your city, so the market is already madly crowded. The question is, how do you separate yourself from the rest in terms of local marketing? How can I as a real estate broker put my brand out there for thousands if not millions to see?

Now, you can go out today, and hire some big fancy advertising/marketing firm to handle your marketing for you. They will charge you unbelievable amounts of money up front without helping you to gain one lead or client. So, before you even get started, you’re in the hole of no return where they’ve took a good bit of your money that could have gone towards something else.

This is the boat that most local small businesses swim in when wanting to start their marketing process. But thanks to me, you don’t have to go that route in a no win situation. Today, I just want to cover if you want to dominate your local market, then consider doing “Local SEO Marketing.”

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1,000,000

Can you truly make 1,000,000 dollars doing local SEO marketing for your business. Plus, those who may not know what I mean when it comes to local SEO marketing, this is when you create content for your website or any online profile sites that you’ve created.

Take this example of “Shreveport Real Estate”

If I’m a broker in Shreveport, and want to build my business from the online world out, then I would think about doing local SEO marketing. After doing some research, I found that over 1,600 people per month search that term, “Shreveport Real Estate.” Know that this term is broad, which can mean buyers and sellers. No matter what, it’s targeted to my business, and I must do some marketing to get me there.

So, let’s say that your company invests in real estate, besides just list properties. Having your business listed on the front page of the search engine for that term, will mean lots of targeted people that could get you to that million dollars.

What I’m about to explain can be for any business in any industry, which all of this local SEO marketing falls under the same category. All of it is based around creating awesome content using the right keywords, such as “Shreveport Real Estate,” and serving the search engines the value it needs to rank you accordingly.

The Process

What I would do if I was that real estate company or anyone looking to get more business locally from the internet, is create amazing content. To get some numbers on how many times people type in a keyword in Google, you must use Google Keyword Planner...it’s free to use.

First, write 5,000 words or more on that keyword that you’re trying to rank for…it could be “Atlanta Lawn care Services,” “Dallas Tattoo Shops,” or “Miami Car Wash.” No matter what you’re trying to rank for, just make sure that you write 5k or more words on that subject.

The reason that you want to do this is because I can guarantee you that no one in that industry has written that many words on one page on that subject. What this does from jump, is that it gets the attention of the search engines making them wonder how powerful that long copy of content is.

You can add this content to your website if you have one, or you can just blog about it on a free website from WordPress or Blogger. No matter what you do, “which I prefer your own site,” just make sure that you put your heart and soul into that content. I say this because, it will be read by thousands of people overtime.

That content will become what we call a lead magnet for people to come over to your website if they’re not already there. Once on your website, now it will have to work to close that visitor as a customer or client. But, that is a totally different topic that I won’t be covering today.

Second: Once that content is published on the internet, it’s now time to give it a little boost in the search engines. The way that you do that is by doing what we call “Local SEO Marketing.” If you want to make that 1,000,000 in your local market, this will be the step to take you over the edge.

I list this entire procedure in my 31 tips of dominating your local market guide. Today, I’m just going to give you the short version of it, which will give you the concept on how this works.

Moving Up The Rankings

Next thing you will have to do, is put in about an hour each day for anywhere from 30 to 120 days writing at least 1,000 words a day. Each piece of content that you write will need to be posted on websites like forums, guest posts, free blogs and profile sites.

The content you write just needs to be centered around that keyword that you’re trying to target. Plus, most importantly, you must link back to that 5k words post you wrote from day one using that same “keyword” that you’re targeting as your anchor text. If you do this consistently for the next 120 days, you will start to see that 5k post climb to the top of the search engines.

Now, there is no guarantee that your site will climb the rankings due to the fact that a lot of factors will depend on your local market and more. So, a little more detailed research will have to be done to know exactly how long it will take for your blog post to hit the top of the search engines.

So, after a few months or so, that company that decided to go after “Shreveport Real Estate,” should be somewhere on the front page getting thousands of visitors per month and easily on their way of making that 1,000,000 for that year.

All this stems from working just 1 hour a day. How amazing is that?

Comment Time: Think this is something you will try for your business?