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Many of the searches on Google are local searches. For a small portion of the expense of other advertising media, you can advertise for local customers with Google. There are times that this method will reach more customers than Yellow Page ads; you can trace your Google ads more easily and it is much more cost effective than mailers and fliers.

The Kelsey group reports that of the millions of internet searches 60 percent are local. Others estimate that it is as many as 75 percent, but even if the percentage was only 20 that is still a whole boatload of searches targeted at locals.

Whatever the number is, local search is undoubtedly the most untapped opportunity in PPC management.

You want to sell weight loss plans, MP3 downloads, high definition TVs, or mortgages nationwide on Google? You can do it, but you'd better strap on your gladiator helmet and prepare for a fight.

But if you're an accountant, plumber, painter, repair shop, or podiatrist, it's an easy victory. In most local markets, your internet competitors have no idea what they're doing.

This is a prime place for you to consult, with your neighbor businesses; setting up campaigns for them. Look at this: .

Hundreds of local businesses in your city spend upwards of $1,000 a month just on Yellow Pages ads, so these people are already spending money!

Yellow Pages sales persons help make people more aware of the online opportunities when they sell Internet Yellow Page listings. But that is Google or Yahoo ads.

Google and their ilk are so occupied with handling extant possibilities that the actuality of reps selling ppc on the streets is a distant prospect. (Though there are hints of a venture with Yellow Pages.)

In categories where mail order is impossible and you have to get it locally, the clicks are cheap. For example, rin Chicago, there are only six ads showing for the keyword "Brake Shop" and one of them is eBay. Nickel clicks, anyone?

Web savvy local advertisers are very rare, and this is not going to change any time soon. Running a retail store and running an online store are two entirely different things. So for local yokels, "In the land of the blind, the man with one eye gets to be king."

If you can accept the fact that many keywords will only produce a few local clicks a month, the return on investment (ROI) on what you do get is extraordinary.

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