^A rant: Being a small business is difficult in the land of big
   chain operations, multi-state service companies appearing to be
   local in nature. The "Wal-mart" model is a *very* difficult
   system to beat.

   To be findable on the Internet is tricky - nearly impossible for
   a small business. I opened http://free.naplesplus.us to help
   local Collier County small business owners to have a presence on
   the web, since I understand 100% the difficult of this task on
   your own. Affordable Trapping has and continues to do quite well
   in the face of this but...

   Lately, one of the biggest headaches in the local critter
   control / animal removal / nuisance wildlife business, has been
   three or four *large* companies targeting our local market. They
   do not come from the county, but they hire a local person to do
   the work, but charge insanely large amounts of money.

   They get away with it because they have advertising and
   marketing budgets that are through the roof. They can get their
   name out there, swaying search engines like Google and Bing to
   be a nuisance to local folks like us and, unfortunately, there's
   not a lot you can do except keep plugging away at it, fixing
   things, making it better and better.

   It's a headache - and something I work on more than anybody
   knows - but I really wish there wasn't such a huge advantage to
   large corporations over the entepreneurs and small business
   folks. It's been the complaint of the local hardware store
   (remember those?), the local 5 + 10 store (what's that!?), the
   local pharmacy (who?) - and so on. I'm all for local competition
   - I have no problem with that. That's the way things should be.
   I have no trouble if big corporations can offer lower prices
   even -

   But when the local company has the best prices, best service,
   best of everything but has to constantly fight against the large
   advertising budgets of companies who rip off the customers, poor
   service, obscenely high prices - *and* they're not even local on
   top it, that just grinds my gears. Not just for myself and our
   company but for every small business person here and across the
   globe.

   *rant mode off*^