Have you ever wondered why you get website visitors but no enquiries?? Getting found is only half the job… I think sometimes people forget that bit. You do the work. You claim the Google profile, you sort the website, you get a few reviews in. And then you check your stats one evening and there…
A while back someone showed me their new website on a phone in a car park in Nottingham, absolutely delighted with it. And it was lovely – Proper photography, nice colours, the lot. They’d paid a fair bit for it and wanted to show it off. Then they asked why nobody was finding it… I…
‘Do you actually need a website these days?’ Someone asked me this recently, in the slightly defensive way people ask when they’ve already made their mind up… “I’ve got the Google profile, I’ve got a Facebook page, the phone rings. What’s a website going to do for me?” It’s a good question, and I don’t…
Quick answer: You can do every single thing I do, for free, and some of you absolutely should. A Google Business Profile costs nothing. Claiming your Bing and Apple Maps listings costs nothing. Asking for reviews costs nothing. There’s no secret and no gate. What it costs is about 15 hours to set up properly…
Here’s the quick answer to Becky Halls vs Merchynt: Merchynt is a Santa Monica company, and Paige is their AI agent that runs your Google Business Profile for $99 per business per month. It writes your posts, answers your reviews, handles citations and tracks whether ChatGPT and Perplexity mention you. Genuinely clever, and honestly cheap…
Most local businesses I talk to have had a go at their Google Business Profile. Maybe not finished it, but they’ve claimed it, stuck a photo on, tidied up the hours. Good. That’s the big one, and if you’ve done that you’re already ahead of plenty of your competition. Then I ask about Bing and…
You’ve probably done it yourself this week. Stood in a car park, thumbed “coffee near me” into your phone, and picked one of the first places that came up without a second thought. Nearly everyone does it but what really happens when someone searches “near me”?? Well that quick little search is one of the…
This one sounds boring… I’ll be honest now. But it’s one of the reasons a perfectly good local business ends up further down Google than the place round the corner that isn’t half as good. And it’s free to fix. So if you’ve asked yourself why your name, address and phone number have to match…
There are brilliant little businesses all over Nottinghamshire that are nearly invisible online. Here is what getting found actually means, and the three places people look.
People now ask ChatGPT and Gemini for AI recommendations instead of searching. How to make sure the AI names you, not the firm down the road.
