ToyBox Consulting

Katoya Palmer Public relation, marketing, sales, and event management consulting.

A Seattle based boutique firm specializing in sales, marketing, public relations, event management / production, and advertising projects. It's my Business to appropriately facilitate your project of any scale with trust, professionalism, and a positive energy while implementing new tools for professional success. "Think out the box" with TBC creative direction, nurture a trusting bond, and reap long term results.

Offering Consulting and Project Management Services in the following: Sales Marketing Public Relations Image Consultant Social Media Management Professional Blogging Event Planning and Management Fundraising Writer (Press Releases, Reviews, Bios, etc) Business Development Concert and After Party Business Events Celebrity Booking

For over ten years I've focused on building of sales, management, customer relations, marketing and advertising related skills with an emphasis in non-profit, sports, small business, start-up, and entertainment industries. My major event production resume is steadily growing and expands into fine, performing and visual arts; fashion, and music events organized.

Specialties: Meetings facilitation, marketing strategy, personal events, public relations, community relations, concerts, celebrity booking, fundraiser, branding, reputation management.

Celebrity Booking projects: Jean Grae, Jagged Edge, Amber Rose, Rick Ross, Wale, Tasha Jones, Black Ice, Jagged Edge, Gyptian.

Direct booking responsibilities for Black Stax (Jace Ecaj, Silas Blak, Felicia Loud) and the Klyntel band.

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5 Ways To Get Your Website Ready For Local Search

1. Add geographical content

Adding geographic content to your site is one of the fist steps. This can include your physical address, directions with street and town names, maps, suburb names, and names of communities where you do work. It’s also a great idea to do keyword research with local terms to find the best phrases to localized phrases to add to your pages. Google Keyword Tool or Wordtracker can help you with this.

Geo meta tags are something worth investigating. Google continues to ignore them, but Bing has admitted they do use them to help determine business location. These tags go in the head section of a page and list the latitude and longitude of a business as well as city, state, and country.

The tags for my business are:

meta name=”geo.region” content=”US-MO” /
meta name=”geo.placename” content=”Kansas City” /
meta name=”geo.position” content=”39.040409;-94.598657″ /
meta name=”ICBM” content=”39.040409, -94.598657″ /

Here’s a great Geo Meta Tag tool that will create these for your business address.

2. Make your internal links and external anchor text local

One way to enhance the local nature of your onsite and offsite content is to add keywords in the internal links on your pages (links that send people to other pages within you site). A remodeling contractor that is showcasing kitchen and bath projects located in San Diego could have links to the project pages that would read “San Diego kitchens” and “San Diego baths” rather than simply “baths” or “kitchens.” You also want to add local keywords to the text used to link back to your site from places like LinkedIn or in article directories.

3. Explore the use of rich snippets

Google is busy creating some of its own HTML coding to help it find and display local content and using rich snippets you can help Google find geographic information, information about people in your business, and reviews of products and services.

Beyond improving the presentation of your pages in search results, rich snippets also help users find your website when it references a local place. By using structured markup to describe a business or organization mentioned on your page, you not only improve the Web by making it easier to recognize references to specific places, but also help Google surface your site in local search results.

Here’s a good tutorial for rich snippets and Google’s explanation of rich snippets for local search.

4. Become a community content resource

It’s become a good idea to add a blog or even use blog software to run you entire site. This format gives more flexibility when it comes to adding pages and content. Many businesses can create tremendous local content by adding features such as an event calendar or coverage of local happenings around town. It’s not too hard to find an angle that is relevant to your business, interests, or industry and then use it as a vehicle for producing local content. If you partner with local non-profits you might consider giving them coverage on your site.

5. Recruit some local contributors

One great marketing strategy is to develop a team of local strategic partners—other businesses that serve your same market. These partners should be looked at as a source of potential local content. Invite each member of your team to contribute to your blog. Create video interviews with team members and add directory pages with full local descriptions and ask that they link to these pages with local anchor text. Find relevant local bloggers using a tool like placeblogger to exchange links and content with.

Don’t forget to get your customers in the act too. Create video success stories and describe the local nature of these customers.

Take a little time over each week to knock out one of these tips and in a little over month your local site overhaul will be paying dividends.