LogoNav.com, The Touch Screen Internet Yellow Pages Blog

Now you can Join for FREE the LogoNav.com community of businesses who are taking advantage of advertising in our Internet Yellow Pages with their Logo.  There is no time limit on this offer, our tool was built to be easy and efficient to use and manage, and we want to pass that benefit on to consumers and businesses who want to advertise.

What is LogoNav.com?  LogoNav.com is an Internet Yellow Pages built for the iPad and similar Tablet PCs.  We designed the interface to be touch based, focusing on making it easy for consumers to look for businesses and businesses to sign up.  We do this through an intuitive user interface that makes the user experience extremely efficient.  We have been told by many that this was the easiest website they have ever used, and one in particular was a man in his 60s.

Things that cost rediculous amounts of money with the likes of the YellowPages.com and other directories, such as uploading your logo or having a microsite for your business, we offer for free.  We think these things are important to develop Brand recognition for business which is why we made it a default part of our system from the beginning.

Come and join the LogoNav.com community.  Just to give you a flavor of things in the pipeline, we are working on a favorites page that, for Tablet users, will be very exciting.  You’ll be able to tag your favorite local businesses through our directory and have a dedicated page to view those favorites and access their information at the touch of a finger.  Think of the iPad hanging in your kitchen on the wall.  You decide it is pizza night and instead of fingering through the old yellow pages paper book, you touch your iPad once to turn it on, a second time to pull up the LogoNav interface, and a third time to get to your favorites page.  Once there, click on the logo of the local Pizza joint, and you have immediate access to the information you need.  Heck, I fully expect the iPad to have calling features in it soon enough, so then you just touch the number and you would be calling from the iPad, using VOIP of course.  Isn’t this stuff fun!

Come and Join LogoNav.com for free and get your Business Logo on the top of your category page.

Don’t we all wish we were Apple sometimes.  They do a tremendous job of hyping their products, to the point of utter saturation.  That being stated, the numbers on the first day of Pre-order for the iPad were staggering.  For me, I’m planning on waiting until the second generation to get one, as I bought the first generation iPhone, and well, we know the story there.  I just hope I can hold off until then to get one…

Click here to read more on the number of iPads ordered on day 1 of Pre-ordering.

http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2010/03/13/day-1-estimate-120000-ipads-sold/#more-21386

Our vision has always been to have our tool available to the greater public through the use of touch screen devices.  As you can imagine, I just love it when I see articles such as this one talking about bringing touch everywhere…

It has been a while since we’ve posted anything, and there are reasons behind that.  We are trying to find our way in this place called the internet, with social media all around us, mobile tools getting better and better every day, at a time when people are still losing their jobs faster than they’re finding them.  We’ve been challenged with one way or another, go big or start small.  We already know the answer actually, since we tried one already and didn’t execute very well on that. 

This has been a learning process and we have come a long way.  We have talked with businesses and seen where the market has gone, witnessed a resurgence of a competitor to yellowpages.com in superpages.com which is good for us, and in general regrouped to now come away with something that we believe to have much more value than we originally had planned, and can offer something with such a low cost and easy access, that it will be hard to turn down.

Still, we have a ways to go to get the modified idea in place, thus we are planning on shutting down the functional site for an interim period to make those adjustments and relaunch in a reasonable amount of time.  We will keep everyone informed of our progress and look forward to providing that value on the front end in the shortest period of time possible.

All the best, Your LogoNav.com Team, soon to be Your ALocalTouch.com Team!

I read lost of articles, lots and lots of articles, from FSB, to Inc. to Entrepreneur.  I love them, they keep me inspired.  Occassionally I come across one that makes me think there is meaning to all of this.  I came across one just last Friday, albeit through another source online, TechCrunch.  Meant to post it then, but after all, it was Friday night!

Here’s a quote that I think resonates with all entrepreneurs:  “A few years ago, Max Levchin—of PayPal and Slide fame— told me there were two kinds of entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley: Those who work tirelessly and are great at execution, and those who are visionary and truly create new ideas—and sometimes new markets. ” Click here to read the full article. 

I’ve lived in the world of product development, and ideas are one thing, but to execute on those ideas is something entirely in itself.  There isjust something about coming up with a vision of how something could be, and then making that a reality.  Anyone can come up with an idea.  What separates success and failure is how you execute that idea!

Directory submission is a process of submitting your website to online web directories. This is method is almost used by all webmasters nowadays to make money online through their websites. Given below are some benefits of directory submissions.

Increase Your Backlinks

With directory submissions, your website will gain lots of backlinks. Generating backlinks is the major benefit of web directory submissions.

Sure Indexing In Search Engines

By creating backlinks, the search engine bots will find your website URL in the web directories and follow these links helping your website to get indexed in the search engines.

Regular Bot Visit

The search engine robots often visit all websites to update the site information for archiving. If a website has many backlinks, then those bots will visit your website on a more regular basis. This helps in ranking you website higher.

More Backlinks Will Generate More Traffic

Many people search for information that takes them to some web directories and your site being there, you just gain some extra visibility. More over, many people directly search for some interesting topics or sites listed in the web directories. So obviously the more links you have listed, more traffic your site will get.

Making Use of Anchor Text

Using a keyword as an anchor text and submitting it to the web directories will build good link popularity. A keyword based on your site theme can be used to hyperlink with the website URL to help generate backlink from the directories.

Niche Directory Submission

You get high quality appropriate backlink to your website when you submit your site to niche directories. Niche directories list only the relevant websites under the same category. This will help the users to exactly find sites of interest easily which in turn will send some traffic to your website.

Brand Popularity

Web directory submission helps you in creating an awareness and popularity for your website. More you submit your site to directories, more popularity you will gain.

Free Link Building Method

There are many free web directories available in the internet. You can submit your site free of cost in those directories. Anyhow it’s a time consuming process but you get backlinks free of cost. If you don’t have time to do these submissions, you can find a link building service provider to help you out with the submissions.

Find Link Exchange Partner

Web directories can be a great place for finding link exchange partners. You can find sites matching the category of your own site in those web directories and browse through those sites to see whether they have any link exchange programs. If they don’t show any link exchange program, you can contact the admin to see if you can strike a deal.

Logoworks by HP is presenting the chance to win a marketing makeover, valued at $2400, exclusively for American Express OPEN Cardmenbers.  You can enter up until August 31, 2009 for chances to win.  www.Logoworks.com/Sweepstakes

Very cool opportunity to revamp the look and feel of your website if you should win.  If not, you can always get an idea from them as to what it will take to do this for a fee, and a pretty low fee, for at least your logo anways.  After all, they have one of the coolest models for developing logos in the market, why do you think they were acquired by HP?  If you click here, we do get credit for referrals, and we’d appreciate any PR you throw our way.

We like to keep an eye out for topics that are important to our industry, that is the Local Search industry.  Yesterday, AOL announced they have purchased two local web startups that are focused on bringing value to the local communities.  The first company is Patch Media Corp. which provides news and information through a series of local community sites or “patches.”  The second company, Going, founded in 2006, offers young adults information on events and happenings in 30 U.S. cities.

This is pretty interesting for us considering we are offering a way to find local businesses by using a touch screen interface.  In other words, it is as easy as touching a screen with your finger to find a local business.

Here’s the link to the story about AOL if you are interested.

Happy Tails of Portland, Maine, is one of those businesses that you wish yo thought of, because it is just awesome.  Who wouldn’t want to hang out all day long and play with dogs.  Granted, there is a whole lot more to what they do there at Happy Tails, but what a dream job.  Happy Tails is a full service Dog Studio providing daycare, boarding, grooming, training.

I may be a bit biased considering we brought our dog, Noah, there and he, I think anyways, enjoyed his time while there.  You can tell when you walk into a business that the people who work there really love what they do, and what a refreshing feeling that is.

Now a bit on the business.  Happy Tails was founded in 2003 by Frank Billings and Emily Steele, and is committed to providing superior dog services with an emphasis on health, safety and professionalism. Happy Tails has grown due to the trusting and loyal relationships with its customers. Both Frank and Emily have a life-long history of animal care. They are interested in developing and supporting social responsibility in their community and are particularly inspired to help area animal charities in an effort to help those innocent creatures who are in need. Emily and Frank are pleased to share their stories with you and look forward to getting to know you and your dog soon.

If you are visiting Portland, ME and need a place to drop your dog, Happy Tails is the place to do it!