Hensco Technologies has continued the growth of their technology services business by offering quality services to small businesses throughout the region that help customers to have reliable communication and networking services.

With technology changing on a day to day basis it is always important to work with a company that has been involved in both legacy technology services as well as keeping an eye on the future. Hensco Technologies does this by keeping trained on new services such as VoIP and cloud based technology services.

Hensco Technologies has long been a partner of LocalTeks as we have worked together to provide web site and online marketing services to our joint customer bases.

Dennis Henson, Founder of Hensco Technologies, says “Our customers continue to ask us about exciting new technologies, based on this we have invested in training and products that will help our customers take advantage of technology in todays business environment.”

To find out more about Hensco Technologies you can visit their website at HenscoTech.com or call 573 756 9055

Account Executives will be responsible for driving new business through educating and helping customers understanding the shift of consumers and businesses online.

If you are a motivated, energetic, sales professional please contact us today by calling 800-647-2909 or using out contact form to email us today.

Skills Required:

Account Management

Lead Generation

Understanding of Social Media, Online Marketing, and General Internet Use

Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, and Excel

LocalTek is pleased to announce the launch of our latest customer, the City of Farmington, MO.  LocalTek worked with the Farmington city officials to migrate an extensive content rich website that had been used for the past years and move it into a website that is easy to use, and based on the most widely deployed content management system on the web to allow the city to easily add and update pages on the website. By basing the website on a widely deployed content management system, that is supported by thousands of programmers around the world, the city can be more efficient and provide information to the residents in a timely manner.

LocalTek will also be launching an upgraded social media presence on Facebook for the city by providing a landing page for their Facebook page which the city uses extensively for communicating with the residents of Farmington.

Grape.com and LocalTek are happy to announce the launch of the most complete winery tour and directory site on the web.

The Castello Brothers (Founders of CCIN.com) are leaders in the domain name investment space and own other online real estate such as Nashville.com, PalmSprings.com, and many more and have agreed to a business development arrangement for one of their leading properties, Grape.com. The Castello Brothers are renowned for their leadership in the online investment and development industry.

The winery vacation and tour planning site has a nationwide directory of wineries and will soon include a full nationwide database of hotels, golf courses, spas and hotels which will allow visitors to plan a full winery vacation without having to search across the web for the information.

The winery industry does not have an updated nationwide tourism site that is focused on providing an easy to use marketing tool to wineries across the US. Most sites that focus on directories of wineries are either hobby related or based on technology from the 1990′s. The Grape.com team felt it was time to bring a site to the web that allowed for interactions through social media, search engines, and reviews directly on the site.

The team has launched a presence on Facebook at Facebook.com/WineryTours.

Visit the site and review or add your favorite winery and take advantage of the resources to plan your next vacation at Grape.com.

LocalTek and Big River Telephone have continued to work with local business leaders to educate them on important business promotion topics such as local search engine optimization, content management systems, location based services, social media, web design and more.

As broadband internet continues to become more ubiquitous in rural areas it is important for all local businesses to promote their business properly online. It is no longer just a matter of having a website, it is important to make sure your website is found when people search for you online.

For more information on signing up for the free local business seminar visit the chamber of commerce website.

Or click here to download the form.

Here is a quick testimonial about local search and social media from the customer:

After a Localtek Account Manager met with the customer they decided it was time to move based on the continued growth of people searching locally for businesses in Google, Bing, and Yahoo.

Also, with over 500 million users on Facebook it was clear there would be a way to tap into the social networking world to promote their products and specials directly to those who were interested.

The preliminary results have been very exciting for the customer and proves that people are looking for your business and the longer you wait to do local search engine optimization on your web presence the more customers that will be missed.

The customer has received calls from customers who have searched and now found their website searching for the town and products the customer offers. Along with this daily there are several visitors who specifically searched for the business name. The question is before the website was there where did they go? Likely to a directory that provided little to no information on the businesses services and products.

Also, after less than 3 days they have 70+ Facebook fans with that growing everyday. With continued marketing of their website and Facebook page they will continue to grow this very targeted base of customers and interested readers.

People are searching on mobile phones, laptops, and social media sites for your business. Are you being found for all the search keywords your business needs?

With the growth in local search and the need for local search optimization Tim understood the importance of making sure his business was found online when people did a local search for his business and talks here of the results:

Traditional legacy media has come under fire during these difficult economic times with massive layoffs and corporate downsizing. With a consistently shrinking market share, newspapers and other forms of print media are closing their doors and causing their unemployed workers to seek jobs in an increasingly smaller job market. LocalTek aims to hire these former legacy media employees to expand the company’s thriving online presence.

“We feel that people who have experience in selling media would be a terrific asset to our company,” said Bruce Marler, founder of LocalTek.  “The unprecedented growth we’ve had has led to an immediate need to add more employees to our line up.”

The surge in local search has grown significantly over the past year and with the current economic downturn many people are looking to their own community for their needs and services. LocalTek has developed a strategic business plan catering to these needs and has provided their clients with websites that have substantially increased local traffic and customers to their client’s business.

LocalTek has discovered an economic solution in its business practice by reaching out to small businesses that were previously untapped by larger marketing companies. By providing cost-effective web development, local search & SEO, social media promotion, and targeted location based services that virtually any business can afford, LocalTek is providing a variety of small businesses the opportunity to compete competitively with the same resources used by large corporations.

LocalTek’s business model has met large success and the company has been featured in international news with its innovative community portal, Missouri.me, which serves over 1,000 communities in Missouri. Missouri.me offers visitors local information about news, businesses, weather, and classifieds in their community.

About LocalTek

LocalTek provides cost effective, locally targeted, online advertising, and website solutions for a variety of business types throughout the United States. LocalTek solutions are targeted at specific geographic areas, which allow businesses to focus on the customers they find most valuable.

Headquartered in Desloge, Missouri, LocalTek is rapidly expanding its service offering in over 20 markets nationwide. For additional information, please visit us at www.localtek.com.

Contact:

Bruce Marler

CEO, LocalTek, LLC

(573) 701 – 2414

info@localtek.com

Wednesday, April 7th

Dexter Chamber of Commerce

515 West Market Street, MO

9:00 – 11:00 A.M. and 1:30 – 3:30 P.M.

Space is limited, so pleaes visit: www.newwavecom.com/webadvantage and gain the advantage now!

Registration deadline is April 2nd, 2010.

Today people are much more likely to search for “Bonne Terre Restaurants” on Google before they pick up the print edition of the Yellow Pages. Along with this is the shift of people doing the exact same thing from their internet enabled mobile phone.

This trend is here to stay and is only going to accelerate with the rural broadband stimulus driving broadband access deeper into rural areas.

What do you do to be prepared?

It is not as simple as just having a website, you must have a website that has been properly setup to show up in Google or the other major search engines when someone searches for your business or the service or product you offer.

Most small businesses are not aware of this need, they are not aware that their website is now the primary way people will find information on them. The internet has become the phone book and your website has become your ad.

It is likely that even if you have a website it has not been properly optimized for local search and almost guaranteed if it was built more than a couple years ago it will not be setup in the proper way.

We at Localtek specialize in these services and our small business customers are proof positive that this works. Contact us today for a review of your website or quote for a website to help your business get online now.