My Local Start
Grow Your Local Business Online
We’re your local team for digital marketing in Waynesville and beyond.
76% of consumers use Google to find local services.
We can help them find YOU, with online marketing services and local SEO tailored for small businesses in Western North Carolina.
Local Marketing Services
Search Engine Optimization
If your business isn’t showing up on the first page, you’re losing leads to someone else. Our flexible, tiered SEO plans are built to get you seen, outrank your competition, and bring in more customers.
Web Design
A beautiful website with no SEO is a billboard in your backyard. No one sees it. We design custom websites that look great and rank, so the right people find you and convert into leads.
Local Search & Maps Ranking
When someone nearby searches for what you do, your business should show up, not just your competitors. Google Maps and your website work together; we optimize both to make it stick.
Digital Marketing
We don’t advertise much. We don’t need to. Our clients across Western North Carolina and nationwide keep sending us their best contacts because the leads we deliver speak for themselves.
Who We Work With
Branding and online marketing for the businesses that keep our communities running
Your clients are already searching for a law firm, a plumber, or a med spa. We make sure they find yours first.
- Criminal law
- Criminal defense
- Divorce & family law
- Personal injury
- Workers’ compensation
- HVAC
- Interior design
- Cleaning services
- Solar
- Electricians
- Land services
- Flooring
- Roofing
- Plumbing
- Plastic and cosmetic surgeons
- Orthodontists
- Massage therapists
- Chiropractors
- Dentists
- Med spas
- Personal trainers
- Veterinarians
- CPAs
- Accountants
- Bookkeepers
- Tax professionals
- Music teachers
- Videographers
- Artists
- Local churches
- Local businesses
- Lifestyle consultants
- Photographers
- Nonprofits
- Schools
Your business deserves a brand that works as hard as you do
Your buyers don’t know you have a website. We fix that. With 27 years of SEO and design experience, we get your brand in front of the right people — at the top of search results and AI answers, right when they’re ready to buy.
27 years and counting
SEO and design experience
400+ websites
Built and optimized for local businesses
3-in-1
Branding, design, SEO, AI Marketing
100%
Local market focused
We’ll push a little. Nobody wins on Page 2.
YOU SAVE. Big results without the big-agency price tag.
We work for a one-time or a monthly fee. Talk to us. You’ll find a price that won’t break your budget.
As a local team of marketers, SEO consultants and web designers, we are able to offer our services at a lower price than larger agencies.
This means you can save a significant amount of money by partnering with us instead of working with an agency.
Turn local searches into real sales.
Get ahead of the competition with our local and organic SEO services.
FEATURED
The Always FREE Google Business Profile Optimization
Supercharge your local business with a
free Google Business Profile (GBP)
Google Business Profile, done right, can skyrocket your visibility in Google Maps, the go-to platform for customers seeking local businesses. Imagine your business appearing at the top of search results, attracting more customers and increasing foot traffic to your store, restaurant, or office.
Uncovering Waynesville’s Best
Our latest local Google Maps rankings for the WNC Community
Better web design. Better content. Better leads.
The formula that makes us one of the best in local marketing.
On the web, your website is your home and your virtual storefront. Our marketing team helps make it easy for customers to find and int eract with you there.
Let us build an amazing online search marketing strategy that will turn local visitors into customers!
Show off what you do online so more customers can find you.
Recent design and SEO work
Wellness by the Lake
Hold Fast Bookkeeping
Fresh Start Flooring
Presnell’s Produce & More
Stop overpaying
for digital marketing and SEO.
Are you paying a high five or six figures a month to rank locally?
Are you really paying for digital marketing that moves the needle, or just covering your marketing agency’s overhead?
At My Local Start, you pay for real work, not overhead. Many business owners come to us after spending too much on digital marketing or overseas hype that didn’t deliver. We get it. You need results, not reports.
We keep things simple with affordable online marketing plans, safe and secure website hosting, responsive customer service, and design that looks good and ranks well. You’ll get digital marketing and SEO that actually help your business grow, with clear work you can see and understand.
Go Local. Rank Local. That’s how we do business.
Hear from the businesses that chose My Local Start
“Super proud of you guys...This is why we have been partners with you for almost 20 years….we remain big fans of you and your team!”
- Dan Michaels, Brown Bag Marketing
Local Marketing Blog
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