The Roanoke Regional Small Business Development Center is hosting a free webinar on Google searches. “Find Your Customers, Competitors & Company Using Google Search” will be Thursday at 10:15 a.m. Information from the webinar will cover using Google to find marketing information that would be useful to small businesses. Click here to register.

Here is the press release from Roanoke Regional Small Business Development Center.

What made Google great was a simple algorithm (that looks complex!) that allowed websites to be democratically filtered to help people find the most relevant information in the shortest amount of time. Not being visual designers, Google’s first website was a simple design and it’s pretty much stayed that way with good reason; their ultimate strength is definitely function (your target audience’s search intent) over form.

Today, every small business owner has a plethora of marketing research data about their target audience, their industry, their competition, themselves, their staff and their companies at their fingertips. In this Webinar, W3 Consulting will present an overview of the basic to some advanced Google Search functions for finding marketing information on the Web. Following the overview, we’ll have a Q&A session with our favorite Google-ologist and the presenter, Ray Sidney-Smith.

The program begins at 10:15 AM ET sharp, so please arrive at least 15 minutes early to manage any technical issues before the Webinar begins.

Click here to register: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/771312121

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