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Your local business should be getting more customers.

MoreLocal builds the websites, search visibility, AI infrastructure, and automated systems that turn local attention into paying customers.

Led by Travis Avery — technology founder, operator, and business systems builder who has scaled software beyond $1M ARR and spent decades building and improving customer-facing businesses.

Book your free strategy call Text Travis · (312) 857-5009

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Get found. Get chosen. Get more customers.

Travis Avery, founder of MoreLocal, wearing a blue quarter-zip sweater

Dominate local recommendations

Just opening your doors each morning isn’t enough.

You unlock. You flip the sign. You wait. Meanwhile your next customer already asked Google — and now ChatGPT — who to trust. If you are not the answer they hear, you are closed even when you are open.

Dominate search engines. Dominate AI chat recommendations.

Strategy + Technology + Execution

Web Design
Local SEO
Answer Engine Optimization
AI Automation
Business Systems

Transformation

Your business is better than your website makes it look.

Your customers decide whether to trust you long before they call. We rebuild outdated local-business websites and digital systems so the experience finally matches the quality of the business behind it.

Old websiteOutdated digital presence
MoreLocal rebuildStrategic rebuild
Growth systemBetter growth infrastructure

See what changes

Before

Screenshot of the current Viet Traditional Nails Home page

HomeLive site today

After

HomeConcept redesign

Concept Redesign

Concept redesign shown for demonstration purposes. This is not presented as an actual client engagement or performance result.

Viet Traditional Nails

Nail salon

Audit of the live WordPress/Elementor site: phone-only booking, no prices, no local schema, and a Lighthouse mobile lab score of 68 with 6.2s LCP.

Problems identified

No meta description, Open Graph, robots.txt, or XML sitemap
Duplicate H1s on the homepage
Empty gallery alts and thin, templated titles on inner pages

Improvements to be made

Put hours, click-to-call, and a real online booking CTA on the first screen
Publish duration and prices in HTML on service pages — not brochure copy
Cut the Elementor/Jet CSS+JS stack (37 stylesheets today) so LCP can land under 2.5s
Add LocalBusiness schema, unique meta descriptions, a sitemap, and robots.txt
Replace the black-and-gold template hero with a distinctive Decatur identity
Make FAQs, gallery, and nav crawlable and accessible: named links, real alts, contrast
Answer walk-ins, groups, parking, and hours in clean markup machines can quote

Open the live redesign →

Before

Generic contractor template

After

Book

Dispatch-ready local system

MoreLocal Reimagining

Summit Mechanical

HVAC contractor

An emergency-ready contractor site that makes calling, booking, and service-area coverage unmistakable.

Problems identified

Phone number competing with slider noise
Service area implied, never stated
No after-hours path for emergency heat or cooling

Improvements made

Persistent click-to-call and emergency path
Service-area architecture for each offering
Faster page architecture and mobile-first UX

Open the live redesign →

Before

Stock-photo clinic site

After

Book

Trust-first practice site

Concept Redesign

Oak Ridge Dental

Dentist

A calm clinical site that answers insurance, new-patient, and appointment questions before the phone rings.

Problems identified

Insurance and new-patient info hidden in PDFs
Team and trust signals below a carousel
Contact form with no scheduling alternative

Improvements made

Structured service pages for high-intent treatments
Clear new-patient and insurance answers
Online booking plus phone, without friction

Open the live redesign →

See all transformations

The search shift

The way customers find local businesses is changing.

Google is no longer the only gatekeeper. Customers are increasingly asking AI assistants, answer engines, maps, voice assistants, and automated agents where to eat, shop, book, repair, visit, or buy.

If your business cannot be understood by machines, it becomes harder for people to discover it too.

MoreLocal prepares your business for both human customers and the agents increasingly acting on their behalf.

See if AI would recommend you →Check your AI readiness

01
Invisible information
If your services, pricing, location, expertise, and availability cannot be interpreted clearly, AI systems have less confidence recommending you.
02
Fragmented systems
Leads disappear when websites, calendars, inboxes, CRMs, and follow-up systems do not communicate.
03
Slow response
The business that answers first increasingly wins.

Services

One growth partner. Three critical systems.

High-converting websites

Build fast, modern websites designed around conversion rather than decoration.

Custom website design
Mobile-first UX
Conversion architecture
Online booking
Lead capture
Service pages
Location pages
Fast performance

Improve your website →

Local SEO + AEO

Make businesses easier to discover across traditional search and emerging AI answer engines.

Local SEO
Google Business Profile strategy
Location optimization
Schema markup
Service-area architecture
Content strategy
Entity optimization
Answer engine optimization

Get found everywhere →

AI + business automation

Connect fragmented tools and remove repetitive administrative work.

Workflow automation
Lead routing
AI assistants
CRM integration
Email automation
Missed-call workflows
Scheduling systems
Intake automation

Automate the busywork →

Pricing

Start where you are. Grow when you’re ready.

Fix the website. Build your visibility. Then turn on paid growth when you’re ready to accelerate. No giant retainers. No long contracts. No juggling five different vendors.

BUILD

Website Makeover

$300one-time

Turn your outdated website into a customer-generating asset.

Complete website redesign
Mobile-first conversion design
Homepage + core service pages
Contact and lead capture forms
Basic local SEO setup
AEO / AI-search readiness

GROW

Growth Partner

$149/month

We keep improving your website, visibility, and customer journey every month.

Everything in Website Makeover’s optimization framework, plus:

Managed website hosting
Ongoing website edits
Local SEO optimization
Google Business Profile guidance
Website conversion improvements
Monthly performance reporting

ACCELERATE

Fastest Growth

Customer Engine

$499/month + ad spend

Google ad spend is paid directly to Google and is separate from the management fee.

We put your business in front of customers already searching for what you sell.

Everything in Growth Partner, plus paid acquisition.

Full growth stack

Website + Search + AI + Paid Acquisition

Google Ads account setup
High-intent keyword research
Conversion tracking
Landing-page optimization
Monthly campaign optimization
Monthly performance summary

Best for businesses ready to invest roughly $750–$3,000+/month in Google ad spend.

01
Audit
Understand the customer journey, technology stack, online visibility, operations, and conversion leaks.
02
Architect
Design the website, information architecture, search strategy, and underlying customer systems.
03
Build + Automate
Implement the website, integrations, content, AI workflows, and automation.
04
Grow
Measure performance, remove friction, improve visibility, and continuously optimize.

No long-term contracts
Transparent pricing
Built for small businesses
One partner for web + growth

Founder

Built by an operator, not an agency sales team.

Travis Avery has spent more than 25 years figuring out what makes businesses grow — from banking and operations to software, customer experience, and technology.

He’s built and scaled SaaS companies, led distributed teams, improved struggling operations, and grew one software business beyond $1M in annual recurring revenue.

MoreLocal brings that experience to local businesses.

Not another website agency. Not another SEO vendor.

Travis helps local businesses build a stronger digital engine — better websites, better local visibility, smarter automation, and AI systems designed around one thing:

getting more customers through the door.

Because local businesses don’t need more technology.

They need technology that works.

25+ years of business leadership experience
Technology founder and operator
Built and scaled SaaS products beyond $1M ARR
Managed distributed teams
Hands-on improving customer-facing operations
Now implements practical AI and backend systems for SMBs

MoreLocal combines business experience with modern technology so owners do not have to coordinate a web designer, SEO consultant, automation freelancer, and AI consultant separately.

Work with Travis →

MoreLocal Insights

What local businesses need to know next.

Practical strategies for getting discovered, converting more customers, and preparing your business for AI-powered search.

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Your next customer is already looking.

Make sure they find you, trust you, and have an easy way to become a customer.

Book your free strategy call Text Travis · (312) 857-5009

Prefer to text? (312) 857-5009. Say who you are and what you do. Text is the fastest way to reach Travis.

Local Grows Here.

Your local business should be getting more customers.

Dominate local recommendations

Your business is better than your website makes it look.

Viet Traditional Nails

Summit Mechanical

Oak Ridge Dental

The way customers find local businesses is changing.

Invisible information

Fragmented systems

Slow response

One growth partner. Three critical systems.

High-converting websites

Local SEO + AEO

AI + business automation

Start where you are. Grow when you’re ready.

Audit

Architect

Build + Automate

Grow

Built by an operator, not an agency sales team.

What local businesses need to know next.

37 AI Mistakes Small Businesses Make (Before the Tech Even Matters)

7 Reasons Your Website Is Losing Customers Before They Ever Call

AEO vs. SEO: What Local Business Owners Actually Need to Know

Your next customer is already looking.