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Be found nearby first: local marketing for busy owners
Digital marketing for local businesses that would rather be busy than famous
Maya Digital Services helps local businesses get found nearby: a complete map listing, steady reviews and a plain, fast website first, everything else after. Free guides, and a free scorecard that shows what to fix first.
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- Your radius: Local SEO, Websites and Reviews. Fix these first.
- Streets: the eight sections of the guides
- Places: the guides, each on its street
- Other businesses nearby
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The Local Scorecard
Twenty quick questions, a score for each area and your fixes in order, each linked to its guide. Free, no sign-up.
Guides in the order that pays
The map listing, reviews and website first; social media, email, ads and print once those are working.
Tools you can afford in year two
Software you can set up in an afternoon: fair renewal prices, monthly billing, no long contracts, usable on a phone.
The index
Guides
Every guide says which fix comes first, what it costs per month and at renewal, and when the free option is enough.
Streets 1–3
Start with Local SEO if customers can’t find you, Reviews if they find you and pick someone else, and Websites if they visit and don’t call.
- Local SEO Ave5 guidesA3–H3
Map listings and nearby searches: how a local business shows up when someone close by is looking, for owners who manage their own listings.
- Websites Way4 guidesG1–G5
A plain, fast website that turns a visit into a call or a booking, for local owners building, fixing or paying for their own site.
- Reviews St2 guidesF1–F5
Earning a steady run of reviews and answering them well, for local owners who want their star rating to match the work they do.
Further outStreets 4–8
- Social Media Blvd2 guidesA2–H2
Which platforms are worth a local business’s time and what to post there, for owners who want social media to stay a small part of the week.
- Email & SMS Ln1 guideE1–E5
Customer lists a business owns, by email and text message, for local owners who want their regulars to come back more often.
- Paid Ads Hwy2 guidesG5–H4
When paying for reach makes sense and where a small budget goes, for local owners who set up and run their own search, social and local ads.
- Branding & Print Rd2 guidesA5–H5
The look a customer recognizes from the van to the website, for local owners choosing a logo, signs, cards, menus and the print that brings people in.
- Marketing Tools Dr1 guideD1–D5
The software that runs a local business’s marketing and bookings, for owners who use it on a phone between jobs and pay for it every month.
The Local Scorecard
A score for how easily nearby customers find you, with your fixes in order
Answer twenty quick questions about your map listing, your reviews, your website and everywhere else customers look, and get a score for each area and a fix list that starts with what moves calls and bookings most.
Score your businessYour map listing
For a search like “plumber near me” or “nail salon in Dayton”, Google often shows a map and a few business profiles above the websites, and customers call, get directions and read reviews right there.
Your reviews
Your star rating and review count sit beside your name in the map results, and recent reviews are often what a customer reads before choosing who to call.
Your website
Many customers tap through from your listing to see your work, check what you charge and decide, often on a phone, and your site’s job is to turn that visit into a call or a booking.
Everywhere else customers look
Customers also find you on Apple Maps and Bing, in directories and on social media, and come back through their inbox; every place that shows an old number or a dead page sends someone elsewhere.
Who draws the map
Authors
A local marketing consultant who sets up listings, reviews and websites, and a paid ads specialist who works on small budgets. Each signs what they know.

Maya Rennick
Founder and lead author
Has set up listings, reviews and websites for salons, trades and cafés for eleven years, after starting out designing their menus.

Owen Petrakis
Paid ads writer
Has run search and social ads on small budgets for local businesses for nine years, and judges every one by the calls it brings in.