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Here are two (of many) FREE 411 services…

The first is a link to 1-800-GOOG411 which is a free information service for BUSINESS. There are plenty out there, but I find this one to be the easiest and most accurate. There is a video link on their page explaining the service.
http://www.google.com/goog411/

There is also a service for both business and residential 1-800-FREE411. Here is their webpage(no video) with all the info: http://www.free411.com/about/

Why pay $1-$2 for info when you can get it FREE???? FREE IS GOOD!!!!!!

If your name does not show up on a GOOGLE search...

DO YOU REALLY EXIST???

JUST GOOGLE IT is a well known command and we all know that GOOGLE has become a commonly used "verb". Just as you are "googling" others--you are being googled!!!

Internet search/research has become a recognized procedure in the hiring process, dating :-), product research, and checking out clients (and they are checking out you). Search has become part of our daily lives!!!

Marketing guru, Seth Godin authored a great blopgpost (2/28/09), PERSONAL BRANDING IN THE AGE OF GOOGLE. He talks about the delights and dangers of how you show up in a GOOGLE search.

William Arruda and Kirsten Dixson are two of the world’s leading personal branding experts, have written a manifesto on this same topic, entitled BRANDING YOURSELF IN BITS AND BYTES found on http://www.changethis.com/. They ask the tongue in cheek question, "Will GOOGLE change the way we name out kids?"

If you are interested in successfully increasing your "GQ" - Google Quotient - I highly recommend reading both of these posts!!! Also there is a MINDOPENING book by Jeff Jarvis, WHAT WOULD GOOGLE DO? (see my 1/26/09 post) which is an absolutely amazing read!!!!

What Would Google Do?

Jeff Jarvis' new book is out tomorrow.... I am heading to the bookstore first thing in the morning... Suggest you do the same....Check out his video from youtube.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfcWFvkcHVI