According to the free keyword research tool of SEOBook.com (an account on the site was specially opened to access the free keyword research tool and use it for this article), the U.S. city from where the most number of internet searches that include the phrase “internet marketing firm” is made is most probably the city of Dallas. The actual key phrase is “Dallas internet marketing firm”. According to the tool results, there are estimated 84 searches of that key phrase that are being made on Google every day. On Yahoo and Bing combined, the number is 35 daily, taking the overall daily estimate to 118. These statistics show that the companies in the city of Dallas, nicknamed “Big D”, acknowledge the importance of an internet marketing firm in the success of a business and are utilizing the services of some of them.
The importance of an internet marketing firm can be perhaps best comprehended with the above statistics due to the fact that Big D is the third-largest home to Fortune 500 companies. There are 10 of the U.S.’ largest corporations headquartered in Dallas. Atlanta shares that place with Big D.
The city of Dallas is the 9th largest U.S. city and 3rd largest Texan city. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States and the largest metropolitan area in the South. Big D is the largest economic center of the 12-county Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area as well.
In 2007-08, Dallas was made home to their headquarters by Comerica Bank and AT&T. Irving, a city located within Dallas County, has four Fortune 500s of its own, one of which is ExxonMobil, the most profitable company in the world and the second largest by revenue for 2008; the rest of the three are Kimberly-Clark, Fluor (engineering), and Commercial Metals. Also headquartered in the Metroplex are such companies as Southwest Airlines, American Airlines, RadioShack, Neiman Marcus, 7-Eleven, Brinker International, AMS Pictures, id Software, ENSCO Offshore Drilling, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Chuck E. Cheese's, Zales and Fossil. HP Enterprise Services, Frito Lay, Dr Pepper Snapple Group, and JCPenney have corporate headquarters in the northern suburb of Plano. It should be noted that several of these companies, besides the ones located throughout the DFW metroplex, comprise the Dallas Regional Chamber.
According to the Wikipedia article on Big D, “Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the world's largest breast cancer organization, was founded and is headquartered in Dallas.
Dallas is currently the third most popular destination for business travel in the United States, and the Dallas Convention Center is one of the largest and busiest convention centers in the country, at over 1,000,000 square feet (93,000 m2), and the world's single-largest column-free exhibit hall.”
Besides Big D’s big number of big businesses, there are more shopping centers per capita in Dallas than any other city in the United States.
The point that this article is trying to make is that if such successful businesses in Dallas are making most of internet marketing firms, small to medium-sized businesses in Dallas and elsewhere must also utilize the services of internet marketing firms.
An internet marketing firm can help a business witness significant increase in its sales. The good news is, there are some dynamic internet marketing firms that cater to small to medium-sizes businesses, and which means, if you run a similar sized business, you don’t have to spend a fortune to see increase in your sales. Just do some research on the internet and you’ll find a professional internet marketing firm that is suitable to your needs.
