While creating myself as a local expert for a couple of areas near Birmingham Michigan, I have been posting a lot on Localism and joining/posting on other sites like Topix, YourStreet and Associated Content. I ran across another website called Eventful. On this site, you can create a profile, back links to your website and/or blog and post events for your local market--and it has a page rank of 6.
I have been creating videos for a particular business in Rochester and created a venue on Eventful and have two posts attached to that business/venue - I also told this business about it so they can post there as well. I now network with businesses while providing something of value--a video and good placement in several high ranking sites. I just created a venue for Downtown Rochester Michigan. They are known as the City of Lights for Christmas and I posted the date of the official lighting and a link to the post about it on Localism.
When community sponsorships on Localism were introduced on ActiveRain, I started appreciating the vision of what it offers. Now I am seeing more and more sites that are taking things very local--and the opportunity to get out and talk to the local businesses in a powerful way to network. Another site I found is ShowMeLocal. It has page ranking - not as high as the others - but is another place to create a back link to your sites and promote your business.
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Thanks for the local heads up....what a great holiday present...See our blog -
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Now we can give the blogs more places...Happy holidays to you and yours !
thanks so much for the new sites. I have opened them in a new tab and will check them out. I am new to posting events and blogs to different sites other than active rain.
Excellent, I signed up for all those sites, but rarely have time to visit. Thanks for bringing them back and to the importance of them. I have noticed lots of places going local too.
Thank you for sharing this information. This is why I am on AR...to get "educated" by nice people like you! Have a great Thanksgiving week!
Happy Thanksgiving. I'll look at a couple of these sites.
It is never ending....
Ditto to all of the comments above, I love all of the new and rich information that I learn here on a daily basis. Thanks for sharing your secrets...
Thanks for the post, Cathy! This is something I was unaware of but will most definitely take a look at and put a plan of action together.
Hi Cathy;
I thank you for the post and the information links. Great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sally & David - Thanks for stopping by - glad you like the holiday present.
Sandy - I consider myself a "newbie" when it comes to a lot of this - thanks to the generous sharing of so many, we can all grow our internet presence.
Missy - I sign up for so many that it is hard to keep track. However, I am really seeing the emphasis to getting more and more local and developing a check list of where I place my news/events.
Thanks for sharing these insights -- am off to check same out. Appreciated.
Loren: I am always amazed by the "nice people" on ActiveRain and the unbelievable generosity.
Michael Caruso: Happy Thanksgiving to you as well.
Michael: You are welcome about sharing the secrets - it was really because of Bill Gassett (links I included) sharing his secrets that had me find these. I am very thankful for ActiveRain.
Kris: I always have a whole plan of action every time I log onto ActiveRain - I get so overwhelmed sometimes - never a dull moment in the Rain.
Cathy-Thanks for sharing these sites:) always something to learn on AR. Happy Thanksgiving
Anthony & Li: Glad they are useful.
Dona: There is definitely always something to learn - it is limitless. Happy Thanksgiving as well.
Hey Cathy - Have used Topix & Eventful before; will try the YourStreet and Associated Content this week. Thanks!
Good Morning Cathy, this is great info - thank you for sharing.
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/ is also a useful site for local events.