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You can make any business on earth impossible to ignore — except your own. And you've never let yourself say that out loud. You've said versions of it. "We're so busy with client work." "The cobbler's kids have no shoes." "We just haven't gotten around to our own marketing." Every agency owner has a polite cover story for it, and every one of them knows, at about 2am, that the cover story doesn't hold. You sell visibility for a living. Your own business doesn't have it. Here's the part that should take the weight off: this was never a character flaw, and it was never a skills gap. You can't read the label from inside the jar. The thing that makes you excellent at diagnosing other businesses — being outside them — is exactly what you don't have for your own. We call this Commodity Blindness. It has a structure, it has a diagnosis, and it has a fix. That's what this school exists to teach. How this room works 1. Introduce yourself below. Who you are, what you've built, and the honest version of where your own marketing sits. You'll find the comments unusually candid — that's on purpose, and it's protected. 2. Open Module 1 — The Problem. Twenty minutes. It names the blind spot precisely. Most members say it's the first time they've seen their situation described without being sold something in the same breath. 3. Then Module 2 — The System (the frames we use to fix it) and Module 3 — The Proof — a first-party audit of 100 independent agencies across 10 metros. I'll spoil one finding: 100 out of 100 had zero knowledge-graph entity. Not most. All of them. Including the market leaders. The full study is inside. 4. Show up during the week. Monday I teach. Tuesday we name what's actually in your way. Wednesday a member's story. Thursday a resource. Friday is community. Once a month we run the self-audit together and post scores — that one's become the ritual. What happens if you want more At some point the material will make you want to know where your business actually stands. When that happens, there's a short 15-minute call where we look at it together — no pitch theater, just the diagnosis. You'll see it mentioned around the group. There's no pressure attached to it, and the school is genuinely free either way.
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DIRECT HIT — Google Business Profile (today, Sep 23). Affects almost every member.
Someone can change your Google listing. You have four days. If you’ve ever opened Google and thought, “Wait… when did my hours change?” you’re not imagining things — and you’re not alone. What happened: Google clarified how suggested edits work on your Google Business Profile. When Google notifies you about a suggestion that needs your review (email or in-app), you have four days to accept or reject it. If you don’t respond, Google may publish it anyway — especially when it matches other public info, like what’s on your website. Google also says some edits can still go live without asking you first, when they meet policy rules. So this isn’t “Google stole your listing.” It’s Google trying to keep Maps accurate — and giving silence a deadline. Think of it like this: a customer walks up to the community board outside your shop and pins a new note about your hours. The city says you’ll get a call. If you don’t call back in four days, they may leave the note up because it matches your website. Helpful for shoppers. Easy to miss when you’re on a job. What’s underneath: your Google listing is often the first handshake a customer gets. Wrong phone number, wrong hours, wrong category — and the call goes somewhere else. Platforms will keep “helping” by filling gaps. Your job is to catch the help before it becomes the truth. Your Monday move (10 minutes): 1. Open your Google Business Profile on your phone. 2. Check notifications and any pending suggested edits. Accept what’s right. Reject what’s wrong. 3. Glance at hours, phone, website, and categories — fix anything you’d never say out loud to a customer. 4. Make sure the email tied to that profile is one you actually read. The platforms will keep making things “easier.” Your job is to know what customers see when they look you up — and to decide it on purpose. Sources: - Search Engine Roundtable — Google Business Profiles gives you four days to reject user suggested edits (Sep 23, 2026): https://www.seroundtable.com/google-business-profiles-4-days-42139.html - Google Business Profile Help — Understand what happens to your Business Profile edits: https://support.google.com/business/answer/3038311
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Hi Ya'll LOL
I wanted to post an intro post. I have my degree in Web Development and been in the SEO industry since 2017. I am excited to learn more about local marketing in this group and what is working verses the hype out in the wild. The internet can be a wild place sometimes.
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I have alot of the basics in place for this community, in about a week I will have 3 other projects closed out so I can focus on this community... I am going to be cleaning up the courses and getting all the supplemental information in and start getting a few workshops ready.
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Over 30 years in digital marketing and I haven't had a website in over ten years. Feast or famine roller coaster of tactics.
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