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Local Marketing 2026: Google My Business, SEO, Social Media

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Overview

Professional local business marketing with a Google Business profile, local SEO, Google map search (Google My Business)

What you'll learn:
  • #1 local marketing course on Udemy to promote your local business with most effective strategies and get clients
  • Master local SEO, and have your business show up in multiple places in Google's search result page
  • Stop wasting time and struggling with incorrectly chosen marketing strategies that aren't bringing clients
  • Create a Google Business profile and a Google Business account (formerly known as Google My Business profile)
  • Get personal help from the instructor if you have specific questions about your local business marketing
  • Local SEO: Have multiple listings of your business in Google's top-10 results
  • Leverage YouTube and other large websites to promote yourself locally
  • Use social media to promote your small business locally
  • Grow clients, revenue, and your whole business with a Google business listing
  • Create a highly converting website that gets lead to call you and become customers

Most effective strategies to promote a local business! Stop wasting your time on strategies that don't work and begin getting clients!


* OVER 4,000 DELIGHTED STUDENTS HAVE TAKEN THIS LOCALBUSINESSMARKETINGCOURSE


  • Made the course more actionable

  • More local SEOstrategies with Google My Business

  • Added full section on business card marketing

  • Added full section on flier marketing

This course is full of strategies to promote a local business.


WHYIMADETHISCOURSE


Small business owners usually struggle with promoting their business. The first thing people usually think of for promotion are Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, fliers and business cards to promote their businesses. Those are fine, but there are so many other marketing strategies for local businesses that are more effective. This course shows you those much more effective strategies.

In addition to the course lectures, you get my help and advice! Students are able to start discussions and message me with private questions. I answer 99% of questions within 24 hours. I love helping students who take my courses and I look forward to helping you.


INSTRUCTOR BACKGROUND


I've been an entrepreneur for 20+ years, have coached 1,000+ entrepreneurs in person, taught 900,000+ students, impacted millions of entrepreneurs worldwide creating 6 and 7-figure businesses in the process, and Iwould love to help you.


BONUSESINCLUDED


* Lots of extra freebies, downloadable worksheets, and exercises to make the course more interactive and valuable

* My list of 50 business-success skills after you complete the course

*Be entered to get chosen for my student of the month status and have your business featured


RESPONSIVEANDCARINGINSTRUCTOR: WORLD-CLASSSTUDENTSUPPORT


If you have questions, know that Iam here to help!Ianswer 99% of student questions within 24 hours. Many students tell me that other instructors don't respond. Well, I do because

1) I care about my students.

2) I feel a responsibility to make sure that students get their money's worth from the course.


CERTIFICATEOFCOMPLETIONWHENYOUFINISHTHECOURSE


When you complete 100% of the videos in this local SEOcourse, you will be emailed a certificate of completion by Udemy so you can show it as proof of your expertise and that you have completed a certain number of hours of instruction in local SEO and local business marketing.


MONEY-BACKGUARANTEE


The local SEO course comes with an unconditional, Udemy-backed, 30-day money-back guarantee. This is not just a guarantee, it's my personal promise to you that I will go out of my way to help you succeed with local marketing just like I'vedone for thousands of my other students.

Invest in your future. Enroll now.

Syllabus

  • Welcome to your local marketing journey
  • Google My Business Profile and the local 3-pack Google map rankings
  • How to set up your local small business website
  • First part of SEO: SEO introduction and keyword research
  • Second part of SEO: On-page SEO
  • Starting with creating backlinks for SEO (third part of SEO)
  • Citations to start the process of ranking your site higher on Google search
  • Off page SEO and link-building
  • Webmaster tools to check search performance and crawling & indexing status
  • Google Analytics 4
  • Creating your own promotional merchandise that also sells on Amazon and Etsy
  • Full Yelp setup and the model for working with other local directories
  • YouTube for local businesses
  • Social media marketing for your local small business
  • Twitter marketing
  • Business card marketing & business networking for your local business
  • Flyer marketing to help you promote your local small business
  • How to get referrals
  • Running local events and workshops to drive sales for your local business
  • Email marketing and autoresponder
  • Facebook ads and retargeting
  • Setting up a Facebook business page to run the ads
  • Finishing the Facebook ad setup and setting up the pixel and retargeting
  • Further resources

Taught by

Alex Genadinik

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