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Independent Local Businesses

Meet the founders behind great local businesses.

These local business owners refused to leave their dreams for someone else to build.

We tell their stories so more local people know who they are, what they do, and why they are different.

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You Deserve A Fair Shot

It's not fair how big companies buy their way to the top while local businesses have to earn it. The best local businesses often deliver higher quality at better prices. People just don't know they're there. Local Founders exists to help change that.

Why Founders Get Featured

  1. 1
    We drive traffic to your spotlight.

    We don't post and run. We publish your story, then promote it across our website and social media, and we pay to put it in front of people inside your own service area. Your face and your story, in the feeds of your future customers.

  2. 2
    You get an authority asset you can use anywhere.

    Link to your spotlight from your website and your Facebook page. When someone is deciding whether to hire you, your Local Founders Spotlight answers the question for them.

  3. 3
    Join a community that's got your back.

    Get featured and stand with us as we fight for local businesses together. We're all rooting for you.

How It Works

  1. 01

    Apply

    Let us know you're interested. We reply to all submissions.

  2. 02

    We talk

    If approved, we schedule a 1-hour, in-depth Zoom call to learn your story.

  3. 03

    We publish

    We write your spotlight and put it live on Local Founders.

  4. 04

    We promote

    We run ads (at our expense) targeting your service area to help promote your spotlight.

Lee Blue, Editor of Local Founders

Who's Behind Local Founders?

When we take local businesses from struggling to hiring, it changes a lot of lives for the better.

We do this in two ways. First, through our agency, which I've run since 2002, helping local businesses drive more traffic, pull more leads, and land more customers.

Second, through mentoring. Since 2018, I've personally coached hundreds of other marketing agency owners, so together we can help more local businesses than I could serve with just my agency. Over 16,000 agency owners follow me on YouTube.

Lee Blue, Editor of Local Founders

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