Start right where you are and turn searches into customers for life!
Attract your most likely buyers starting right where you are!
Spend more time running your business and less time obsessing about
attracting new customers and keeping the good ones.
GET STARTED NOW!
90% of smartphone users in the United States use their phones to search for local businesses (comScore)
90% of smartphone users in the United States use their phones to search for local businesses (comScore)
- Are you visible in online searches to your most likely customers in your area?
- Are your online listings' accurate, consistent and up to date?
- Is your marketing competitive with Cooperate chains in your local area?
- Is your branding working offline and aligned with online for consistency?
- Are your online reviews and star rating acceptable and best ones on your website?
Start taking control today from right where you!
The offers Local First Marketing make are a no brainer - and it solves the most painful problem for businesses today, attracting and keeping customers consistently and cost effectively!
Local First Manchester Community Network
Manchester Locally Owned Businesses
HOW DO THEY FIND YOU?
HOW DO THEY FIND YOU?
Small local businesses face an increasingly uphill battle that threatens their long-term sustainability. The digital paradigm shift, use of voice search, GPS and Amazon's dominance brings new challenges. Technology is changing all the time but your time is valuable and your budget is limited. Getting found consistently in searches is critical to your sustainability. Don't let that be a barrier. It's about inbound marketing with a brand that aligns with your physical marketing on location that addresses the current search/shop behavior and differentiating from your competitors and big chains who have big budgets.
In a survey, 91% of consumers said they've turned to a business's competitor if the business’s listing didn't give good and accurate information and the website wasn’t optimized for mobile devices. 56% of on-the-go searches have local intent and 60% of consumers use mobile exclusively to make purchase decisions.
They go right to their phones, wherever they are and expect accurate and robust information with good reviews and easy access to buy. And if they go there, are you easily identified with aligned branding. Are they finding you or a competitor first?
Found it!
Found it!
So imagine it from a consumer's perspective. If they're on their phone searching for a place to shop or eat and click on "near me" or use voice search and they don't see what they want near the top of the page. Generally they just go to something near the top. Consider differentiating yourself as a locally owned business to be competitive with big chains.
Ok they find your restaurant business listing but it doesn't have the correct information. It's listing is under a different name, the address has changed, phone number is ok but there are no hours, menu (that they can read), pictures, specials, offers, online ordering, reservation link, branding that's aligned or good reviews.
Hmmmmm.... They look for a menu and don't find one on the listing so they click on the restaurant’s website only to find the menu is tiny and the site is difficult to navigate and without any online ordering function. It isn't mobile optimized and a voice search is inconsistent. They move on to the next restaurant.
WHERE DO YOU START?
WHERE DO YOU START?
Click this text to start editing. This block is great for showcasing a particular feature or aspect of your business. It could be a signature product, an image of your entire staff, an image or your physical location, etc. Double click the image to customize it.
The Local First Strategy
The Local First Strategy
We can take care of everything for you starting with your Local First Membership and continuing with your SEO audit and progress reporting to track local rankings, management of your reputation through review management, add 100s of citations that enhance your online visibility rank and see all other factors affecting your performance. This maximizes your local exposure by raising where you are positioned in search results. Your progress reports give us the ability to monitor your rankings in real time will put you ahead of lots of you're competition.
Claiming your listings and verifying consistency and accuracy is a big factor in determining your positioning. We automate the process where needed and submit verified listings where Google and others consistently monitor and determine search results. With your local brick and motor locations or service area area based businesses we seamlessly get your local business found online with real-time submissions to a combination of national, local and niche business directories in our Data Amplifier Network to earn citations of your choosing. That network distributes and publishes data to a specific audience but deeper than you could ever reach on your own to turn searches into customers for life.
Our network includes data aggregators, data accelerators like Apple Maps, Google, Yelp and Facebook, data enhancers like Chamber of Commerce, Judy’s Book and Superpages, GPS accelerators and a variety of vertical directories to create your score.
We score you on your presence, accuracy and consistency as to where your score is effected the most and how the searches are done. Voice search ranking factors are more important than ever so we make sure your local business is voice search-ready.
For Manchester businesses we offer a hyper-local Business Directory with your listing on your community website when you register. Your registration and and business listing you add identifies you as a local business for local consumers to choose Local First and see your offers and your advertisements. Registering grants you benefits in the Local Fist Community network that includes local offline to online advertising and group benefits. with your Community Membership.
When they search for you.
When they search for you.
If a business is not visible online, does it even exist? The Local citation sources we list you on helps increase the your business’ local online visibility, and therefore maximize your reach to a broader but targeted audience.
* Did you know that over 30% of clicks go to the top search result?
Get top billing when prospective customers search for local products and services. They generally choose from the top businesses that are displayed. Maximizing your results is what we do and is based on a number of factors we specialize in..
With your visibility progress reports you can see how your local business is scoring and how you stack up online and compared to where you were and where you're headed .Maximizing your online presence starts right here.
Local Business Pages on Google My Business, Bing and Yelp
Local Business Pages on Google My Business, Bing and Yelp
We submit to the most important search engine listings, including Yelp, Bing Places and Google My Business. Our services include creating, claiming and ongoing optimization of local business listings.
We make sure that the business’ NAP (name, address and phone number), hours of operation, photos, categories and other details are always accurate.
Local First Approach to Listing Management
Local First Approach to Listing Management
We use a hybrid approach to local listing management . This means that we use a combination of APIs and manual submissions to claim, create and optimize business listings.
As data partners with many of the directories in our Data Amplifier Network, we can submit and modify citations and listings simple, fast and in real time. A Real-Time Data Syndication Engine powers our technology.
Voice Search Readiness
Voice Search Readiness
We take local business into the future of local SEO: with voice search readiness. With our exclusive Data Amplifier Network, we make sure business is voice search-ready by distributing your information to data sources that submit to Siri, Alexa, Cortana, Bixby and the Google Voice Assistant.
GPS Navigation & Mapping Apps
GPS Navigation & Mapping Apps
We distribute local business’ information to the most important mapping apps, including Apple, Here, Waze and TomTom. This allows businesses to get found online through a GPS map.
Top Data Aggregators
Top Data Aggregators
No listing management package is complete without the top four players. We submit your information to the four major data aggregators: Infogroup, Acxiom, Localeze and Factual. Thanks to this, your client’s data will be distributed to a multitude of local search directories.