Are you a small business based in Colorado? If so, we want you!

We are officially launching our Local Accelerator program to the Colorado public. Designed to accelerate online lead generation and sales for Colorado small businesses, this program promises to offer a complete Internet marketing makeover to one lucky local business every month!

The program combines fulfillment services with access to Kutenda’s Internet marketing tool-set and training to get your company successfully marketing online. We’ll be choosing one lucky company every month … Selected companies will receive over $9,000 in services at no cost and 3 months of free Kutenda access.

If you’re based in CO, submit your company here: http://kutenda.com/accelerator.html

According to new projections from Outsell, Inc., digital/online marketing will overtake print in 2010. Companies are projected to spend $119.6 billion on online and digital strategies. For small businesses, marketing online is a known challenge due to the intense learning curve, budgetary constrictions and the lack of available software. Kutenda has set out to change that with it’s Internet marketing tool-set for small businesses and the Local Accelerator program is making the extra leap locally by offering tools, services and training for free.

The Local Accelerator program includes all of the foundations for a comprehensive Internet marketing strategy that will drive leads and sales. We begin by creating a website or optimizing your existing website for lead generation and search engine rankings. Companies walk away with a list of campaigns, content and the tools, training and support to pick up where Kutenda’s fulfillment process ends.

Specifics include:

• Promotional landing pages with automated response emails
• A prospect-focused email marketing campaign designed to convert
• Customizable email templates
• A search advertising pay-per-click campaign
• Live local search listing
• Optimized keyword list for specific products / services
• A knowledge base of Internet marketing best practices

In order to qualify, companies must be based in Colorado. We’re accepting submissions at http://kutenda.com/accelerator.html via a short form. Each monthly winner will be contacted directly by Kutenda’s director of training, Alex Ross. We are allowing companies to resubmit monthly for another chance to win.

Submit your business today!

Suggestions for increasing your chances of being chosen:

1) cross your fingers

2) grab your rabbit-foot key chain

3)  send your intern on a hunt for the perfect four leaf clover

4) maybe eat a bowl of Lucky Charms… whatever it takes…

GOOD LUCK!

It’s always nice to get to know your neighbors — We here at Kutenda love doing just that! Our very own Online Marketing Coordinator, Emily Thompson, has a guest blog post on the Affinity Track Internet Promotion Blog! Affinity Track is located just around the corner from us here in Colorado.

Affinity Track focuses on providing quality search engine optimization and marketing services to their clients. By utilizing both organic SEO and effective paid search campaigns, they help businesses improve their performance online and get real results.

Emily’s guest post focuses on some of the key components needed to create a successful local online presence. From local listings to on-page techniques, the tips are designed to be bite-sized pieces to help you begin right away. Check out the post and get started with your local search campaign today!

Follow Emily on Twitter: @ekthompson

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Kutenda Exposed
Kutenda announced today that the team will celebrate the company’s first birthday with a free webinar, Kutenda Exposed. The live event will focus on exposing the inspiration behind Kutenda and CEO Mike Cooch’s journey to make an idea reality. Kutenda’s Internet marketing software will also be on display with a detailed demo of the entire toolset.

Join the Kutenda team next Tuesday, February 2nd at 1pm ET. Limited space – Register today.

During the webinar, Mike will discuss the challenges he faced marketing Everon, his first business, and how Kutenda evolved into a solution we’re now able to share with other small businesses.

We’ll also have Kutenda’s Director of online marketing, James Omdahl, on to discuss the power of Internet marketing and how you too can harness a seemingly unapproachable marketing practice.

Stay on for a live look inside the Kutenda toolset and a Q&A session with Mike Cooch, James Omdahl and our director of training, Alex Ross.

Reserve your spot on the webinar today and find out what we’ve been up to for the last year!
Register today!