The Long Beach Business Journal is a joke of a publication.
More of a Pennysaver that offers coupons and poorly written articles.
They solicit business to business saying that they provide you with both print exposure and online advertising. My IT guy look into the LBBJ's websites structure and according to him they do not have meta-tags, hyper links to individual clients pages and the site is poorly constructed. This is a publication that boasts about being an affordable means of advertising small and mid size companies to increase sales and exposure but can't even offer data on hits or traffic to their clients website. It is clear that advertising in the LBBJ is a waste of money and with the economy being the way it is to invest in advertising that does nothing is bad business. read more