A free lunch and learn event, Reach Customers Online with Google, is from noon to 1:30 p.m. Thursday at Alpena County Library, presented by Google support trainer Erin Bemis.
Participants will learn how customers find their business or organization online and how to promote their organization using Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Smart Campaigns in Google Ads.
Topics include: improving your website’s visibility in Google’s organic search results, on all devices; creating a free Google My Business listing; and advertising your business on Google. A light lunch will be provided.
Registration is required online at https://community.grow.google/s/event/a0r1E00000BvOY3. Call 989-356-6188.
Bemis has spent her career working for/with small businesses and nonprofits in a variety of roles. Her passion for small business began with her family-owned businesses.
After college she learned the ins and outs of nonprofits, eventually running a successful Chamber of Commerce and earning consecutive titles of Michigan Chamber of Commerce of the Year. She’s been a regional development director and national speaker with marketing and technology companies like Constant Contact and Google.