Local Online Advertising Gains Ground

Writing by Brick Marketing on Tuesday, 29 of January , 2008 at 9:58 pm

Local online advertising is rapidly gaining ground on regular online ads. According to WebPro News, we can expect to see a substantial increase in the amount of local online ads in the next few years, while general ads aren´t expected to increase much at all.

Local advertising will increase by 13 percent from 2007 to 2012,faster than online advertising as a whole, which will see 12 percent growth during the same period according to a JupiterResearch report, “US Online Local Advertising Forecast, 2007-2012.”

The difference may be just one percent, but that is pretty substantial, considering that local online advertising was virtually non-existent a few years ago. People were very resistant to searching online for local businesses. These day, however, it´s quite common to jump on the internet to find the nearest pizza place or to get directions via Google Maps to the local Barnes and Noble.

As I´ve said before on this blog, if you have a local business and aren´t using local online advertising, now is the time to jump in. Soon, everyone will be online, but for the moment, you have a chance to get ahead of the competition.

Category: Local Online Advertising

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