If you have questions on building a local directory
or as a busines owner you have a question on how to own your business location's local search findability please
feel free to contact me at anytime.
For free email business advice, send
your questions, comments or ideas to gibolander@gmail.com . For issues that are of particular interest to the the community, we may publish (with your permission)
your questions along with our answers on this web site.
Currently serves as Director of Business Development
for Localeze, the leading provider of merchant content management services, which includes; collection, organization, validation
and distribution of merchant content. Having a complete focus on making local search more relevant, while giving local businesses
ownership of their local search findability. Localeze has over 100,000 merchant contributors, whose business content is stored
in a merchant repository of more the 16 million business records and distributed to more than 50 Local Search Properties and
Internet Yellow Pages Directories.
Prior to Localeze, Gib Olander was a Business
Development Director with iCrossing (named search marketing agency of the year 2005), where he educated Fortune 500 companies
on the positive results that can be achieved by creating smart content, strategic linking and a clean platform to improve
organic and paid search visibility.
Living in Chicago, IL for the past
13 years, Mr. Olander was involved in the launch of Chicago.Citysearch.com when Citysearch began its push for nationwide coverage
following the purchase of MSN's Sidewalk property. Early in Gib's career, he witnessed the power of the local advertising
market and its impact on local and regional businesses when he developed advertising campaigns as well as direct mail marketing
programs with The Ameritech Yellow Pages and Advo.
