Community Boards
The most effective way to advertise your local business.
When the people you know and trust are the ones promoting your business, you don't have to be good at advertising. You just have to be seen in the right locations.
See how a community board stacks up against billboards, Google ads and other local advertising.
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Why settle for ads that don't drive results?
Seen by the neighbors
Most people who walk into a local favorite live or work nearby. They're the same people who need a plumber, an accountant or a realtor.
Get seen every visit
Not a business-card-sized ad in the back of a free magazine. People read the Menu Specials or Event Bulletin in the middle of the board, and the six ads that support it, while they wait to be seated or wait for their order.
A win all around
The host, the advertisers and the guests share photos of the board. More people come in, support the host and see your ad.
How it works
- A local favorite hosts the board, with their name on top and a big space for their specials.
- The owner picks who belongs on it: the regulars that own businesses, the folks they buy from, the people they trust. I reach out to them, so the board is people the owner knows, not strangers.
- Six businesses get a spot for the year, one per trade. Only six, so nobody's ad ends up the size of a business card on a cocktail napkin. Professionally designed. The board has one QR code for today's specials and local deals, and every business on it gets its own listing page online.
- We deliver it at a board unveiling party, with all the advertisers together at the place. We snap pictures and tag everybody so the whole board gets shared.
Keep it local. Too much ad money goes to the big guys, or some firm out of town that siphons it right out of the community. A community board keeps it here.
Who comes in every week?
Who does your taxes?
Host a board
Got a restaurant, coffee shop, bakery, brewery or gym that stays busy? Tell me a little about it and I'll stop by. There's no cost to you, the board is paid for by the local businesses on it. You help pick who's on it.
Get your business on a board
If you'd rather do the work than talk about the work, this is for you. Tell me where you are and I'll show you what your ad would look like. A full year on a board costs less than a doughnut a day.
Rather read the details first? Get the advertiser info sheet.
Compare local advertising
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