I made this after months of talking with local business owners: towing companies, salons, contractors, restaurants. My first plan was building them websites, and most of them weren't interested. They kept telling me the same thing instead: "I just want my phone to ring."
The same problems kept showing up:
- Their Google profile was only partly set up, with a few reviews and a couple of photos.
- Their website was outdated, or they didn't have one at all.
- When someone nearby searched for what they do, they weren't on the first page.
So we built SitePeek, an affordable marketing system that gets local businesses onto the first page of Google and brings in more calls. It does two things. Local SEO gets the business found: we build out the Google Business Profile and give them a free, modern website. Then conversion and lead follow-up turn those visitors into actual calls and customers.
With one early client, a towing company, tracked calls went from 37 to 54 and their Google Business Profile views nearly tripled, their best numbers since they've been in business. It's one business, so I see it as a real example, not a promise.
We launched on Kickstarter this week. It's all-or-nothing, with a $1,500 goal over 15 days, and rewards start at $25:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sitepeek/sitepeek-a-marketing-system-every-small-business-can-afford
For other makers: what's the most useful piece of feedback you got only after you stopped pitching and started listening?