PlusUp Field Guide · Local business
5 reasons every local business should be using creators.
Awareness, your own voice, paid reach, competitive pressure and repeat visits: the case for creators when your customers live down the road.
Why local is different
Your audience is close. So should your content be.
A national brand buys attention and hopes some of it lands nearby. A local business doesn't have to. The people who matter already live, work and eat within a few miles of your door, and they're all in the same feeds every day.
Creators put you in those feeds as a person, not a logo. Add a little media behind the best of it and you're reaching the audience you actually share, at a cost a local budget can carry.
The old buy
TV and broad placements that cost a lot of money and reach everyone, including nobody nearby.
The local move
Creators plus a little bit of money a month, pointed at the audience you share.
The result
The most targeted way to hit your audience and drive the traffic through the door.
The five reasons
Five reasons. All of them true.
Each one stands on its own. Together they're the whole case for creators in a local market.
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Reason 01 · Awareness
It's the most efficient way to build brand awareness.
You no longer need TV ads that cost a lot of money. Creators, plus a little bit of money a month, can be the most targeted way to actually hit your audience and drive the traffic. A local business reaches its own neighborhood better with creators than with a broad buy nobody asked for.
- In practice
- + No TV budget
- + A little money a month
- + Audience you actually share
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Reason 02 · Your own voice
Become your own creator.
You want to become your own creator in order to drive it and tell the story every day of your brand. Make videos, tell stories, or build ads to tell your story. Nobody knows your shop, your staff or your regulars the way you do, and that's exactly the material creator content runs on.
- In practice
- + Make videos
- + Tell stories
- + Build your own ads
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Reason 03 · Reach
Paid media gives you reach.
You have to spend money in order to get the reach you need in most cases, and it's targeted. A good post finds the people who already follow you. A small buy finds the ones who don't, in the radius you pick, and it can be turned up for the weeks that matter most.
- In practice
- + Spend to be seen
- + Reach you choose
- + Turned up when it counts
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Reason 04 · Pressure
Your competitors are doing it.
Businesses that don't become creators will be eaten up by businesses that do. The one posting every week is the one customers remember on the day they decide, and every asset they make keeps working. Sitting this one out is a choice with a cost attached.
- In practice
- + Someone nearby already is
- + They get remembered first
- + Sitting it out costs you
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Reason 05 · Return visits
Extend the experience outside the shop.
Creator content extends the experience outside the shop with existing customers and helps bring them back. The visit doesn't end at the door: a story, a behind-the-scenes clip or a regular's video keeps the business in the feed until it's time to come back through it.
- In practice
- + Customers stay close
- + Between visits, still present
- + A reason to come back
Is this for you?
Built for businesses with a trade area.
- ✓ You serve a specific place, not a whole country
- ✓ Awareness is the problem, and TV is a costly solution
- ✓ Tell your story through your own voice
- ✓ You can put a little media money behind your best posts
- ✓ You want the customers you already have coming back on their own
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