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My wife and I have a family mead brewery (we make mead, ciders and all sorts of liqueurs) — we’ve been working in Fort Langley for a little over two years. At first, we tried to promote ourselves only through social networks and word of mouth, but, as you know, it all works differently, and the reach isn’t the same when you only rely on Instagram. I found out about Local Business Directory by accident — one customer came and said: “I found you on Fraser Valley Local, you have great reviews.” I was like: “Where did you find you?!” — and he showed me the link. And I had no idea that we were added there automatically by some registry. From that moment on, I got into it, designed everything as it should be: rewrote the description — I didn’t just make it “mead brewery,” but wrote our story, where we get our honey from, how the fermented drink differs from the store-bought one, added photos from tastings, a video of us pouring it into barrels. This literally brought the card to life. Important: I put a link to our Fraser Valley Local page right in the Instagram header so that customers could leave reviews there. After a couple of weeks, likes and — most importantly — requests started pouring in. At first, there were 2-3 per week, and now there are 7-10 consistently, and most of them are from local searches. People say that they are looking for something close to home and trust the catalog precisely because of real reviews and simple design. My advice to you: add your products to the photo gallery, show the process, write mini-stories about each collection. And be sure to publish news. For example, we write “news from the bees” there every month — what’s fermenting in the barrels, what events will be, who won a mini-set for a review. This gives a constant presence in the feed, and people come back.