Local First Chicago Hosts Panel at Noble Tree Cafe:Using the Web to Help Your Small Business

Local First Chicago invited some web experts to chat about maximizing online tools in helping small businesses with conducting business online. I was happy to join a panel that included:

April Jervis - Local First Chicago
Brent Payne  - Tribune Company
Felicia Yonter -  Chitown Daily News
Tammy Green - Chicago Bites
Phil Tadros - Noble Tree Cafe and Metroproper

Thanks to Mark Smithivas for moderating (you'll see more of him on CTR as he will also be contributing articles) and to Phil Tadros for hosting us at Noble Tree. Some of the business owners had quite a bit to say in terms of the 'Yelp shakedown' a few of you emailed CTR about as well.

Here is the video of the chat, provided by George Hayman of Onsite TV

Comments

[David Thurman]

Good insight into web related matters and issues, especially the Yelp fiasco, which the Alley's owner is right on the mark with just the bad tactics that Yelp uses.

SEO Igloo has some rather interesting comments from a blog post she created.

http://www.solaswebdesign.net/wordpress/?p=220

Thanks again.

BTW found this via Twitter from Brent