Nobody in Your City Knows You Exist
You have been trading for eleven years and doing excellent work. Search for what you do in your own city and you are nowhere. Both are true at once.
7 articles on marketing — what breaks as businesses grow, why it happens, and what to do about it.
You have been trading for eleven years and doing excellent work. Search for what you do in your own city and you are nowhere. Both are true at once.
You paid for it, you like it, people compliment it. And it has generated four enquiries this year. Both things can be true.
Customers now ask ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews for recommendations. Being cited in those answers is a different discipline from ranking on page one.
Reach, impressions and followers can all rise while enquiries stay flat. The gap is almost always positioning and qualification, not budget.
Direct-to-customer removes the intermediary but adds operations. Farms that plan for that keep the margin; farms that do not lose it to logistics.
They are not better than you and they did not spend more. They filled in the parts of their listing you left blank, and they did it consistently.
If your competitor could put their name on your website and nothing would look wrong, you do not have positioning. You have a description.
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