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Why Choose Local?

Every business owner is well aware of the all of the benefits of choosing local. Most business owners can tell you that most of every dollar spent in their business goes back into the community. Small businesses sponsor local community teams, participate in local community events and hire local workers. It makes sense to choose local for so many reasons. So , why is it when we want to market to our local consumers; we are using international social media sites?

Maybe you are not aware of your community site, maybe you feel that something local wouldn’t provide you with the needed exposure. Maybe you can’t understand how a local social platform can grow your business faster and for a lot less than any other site available. Over the past two years, we have started a grassroots approach to growing our local economy. www.ShopBayofQuinte.ca is the central site for all of the community sites in the region. When a small business adds its profile for FREE to our site it is able to post its hours of operation, logo, business description, methods of payment, links to your website and collect online reviews. As well with a free profile, businesses are able to post to our site, Facebook and Twitter. Why would you want to do this? Well, every post that you make to Facebook and Twitter is contained in those platforms. The chances of someone seeing that post relies upon a few factors: the platforms algorithms, number of followers that you have, the number of engagements that you have and the time of day that you post. If you have 100 followers on Facebook, only 6 are guaranteed to see your post. The present algorithm is geared to show more family and friends. Facebook, since 2018 has been working towards having small businesses that are using their site, pay to have their businesses noticed. They will offer you a credit, show you that you were viewed by a certain amount of people but its a false sense of progress. Facebook fails to show how many people saw your post repeatedly and how many of those were already following your business. The credit was to get you hooked, buy more ads and over time decrease the reach. As a small business owner, your marketing dollar needs to be utilized properly. So what is the ROI for social media platforms? Would you believe -90%?

ShopBayofQuinte platform is unique in that every post made to our site is indexed by search engines. Any keywords used in your posts are able to be found in SERP (Search Engine results page). And we’re LOCAL. Listen to John Cairns from Earl & Angelos Steakhouse as to why he chose ShopBayofQuinte.ca.

We work at growing your social media followers while generating more and more traffic to your website. People always ask “how do you get found?” We grow our followers organically. We have been able to work with the algorithms of search engines to maximize our results and the results of our clients. Are you really interested? Or do you really just want to find something that grows your business? It works. It is difficult to explain and even harder to understand. Its like my car. I know where to put in the gas, oil and washer fluid. It drives well but I really don’t understand how it works. But I love the way it drives and can’t imagine life without it. We are able to build a digital strategy geared to your business, that will get you results and fits your budget.

Here is a brief description of all of the tools offered on ShopBayofQuinte;

A Full Featured Online Marketplace : Each business gets a full online store that can be set up and updated in just a few minutes. Customers can buy online or fill their cart and complete their purchase in store. Online payments are processed through PayPal with absolutely no extra fees from us.

Powerful Social Media Tools: Publish everywhere at once. Our social media tools let small businesses update all of their social networks simultaneously. You can even schedule posts weeks or months ahead of time, so you can get back to business faster.

Robust Business Profiles: Showcase more about your business in one convenient location. Our business profiles are packed full of features to help you reach new loyal customers.

Smart Coupons & Deals of the Day: Our tools let small businesses offer and display coupons throughout our ecosystem. They can also offer, track and redeem gift certificates completely through our platform. Local businesses love offering “daily deal” vouchers through our platform because they get to keep 100% of their sales.

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A Full Featured Online Marketplace : Each business gets a full online store that can be set up and updated in just a few minutes. Customers can buy online or fill their cart and complete their purchase in store. Online payments are processed through PayPal with absolutely no extra fees from us.

Powerful Social Media Tools: Publish everywhere at once. Our social media tools let small businesses update all of their social networks simultaneously. You can even schedule posts weeks or months ahead of time, so you can get back to business faster.

Robust Business Profiles: Showcase more about your business in one convenient location. Our business profiles are packed full of features to help you reach new loyal customers.

With ShopBayofQuinte.ca , you’ll never have to log into your website again. All of our custom-built sites can be updated directly from the ShopBayofQuinte interface, so you can publish to your ShopBayofQuinte.ca profile, social media, and your own website with a single click.