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Search for Lolihanna Training Co., and the first result is the company's webpage, complete with phone number. Then come social media sites, stories about the company, business directory listings and even a YouTube video about the business.
Lolihanna is a small Anchorage-based business. Founder Andrea Schulze offers personal training, nutrition education and mental wellness to clients in-state as well as some Outside.
The company's web presence is largely due to help from Google's Get Your Business Online, or GYBO, program, said Lolihanna's Project Manager Alicia Busick.
"We saw a drastic increase in traffic," Busick said.
Google launched GYBO in 2012. It is a national program designed to help small businesses increase their web presence. GYRO provided an easy-to-create website that came with a custom domain name and free hosting for a year. In September, the company hosted an event in Anchorage to get things started locally - less than half of Alaska businesses have their own website - and has since provided the tools online for business owners to use at their convenience.
Busick saw an announcement about the GYBO initiative on the Anchorage Economic Development Corp.'s Facebook page last fall. She talked to Schulze, and got to work using the tools Google provided to build a website for Lolihanna.
Then the duo were selected as Google's...