About Us

For a franchise to be found in local searches, generate leads, and attract customers, every location needs a meaningful online presence. You must utilize a franchise marketing agency that specializes in multi-location search engine marketing to ensure your business stays competitive in today’s landscape. That’s where we come in.

Local Brand Advisor, owned by Jessie Taylor and Chaz Edward, is a dedicated local marketing agency providing tailored strategies for your specific needs. We leverage proven tactics to craft a personalized local search marketing campaign for your franchise or chain.

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How Our Local Marketing Expertise Benefits Your Business

Your business needs more than an attractive website and social media account to be competitive online. To be successful, you need an enhanced online presence to increase brand visibility and relevance.

We are the agency you can trust to navigate the ever-changing digital landscape and produce results. Our hardworking, passionate team is highly resourceful and focuses on proven strategies, best practices, industry trends, and new online features to build your brand online.

What Our Clients Think

Consistent Success & Proven Results

Local Brand Advisor consistently helps local franchise and chain business owners improve their digital presence by providing quality marketing services at cost-effective prices. We have a proven track record of success, helping many franchises and regional brands reach better local prospects while increasing online visibility.

Versatile Team

We specialize in local listing management, optimization strategy, and local search marketing services for multi-site and franchise businesses, as well as regional brands. However, we do not limit our services to these industries. Our versatile team works with clients across a wide range of industries and localities to cater to any brand or business. Whatever service or product you provide, our team achieves the exposure your business deserves.

Data-Driven Strategies & Detailed Assessment

Because we believe the best franchise marketing strategy is built on thorough planning and research, a full brand assessment is conducted first. This is vital to your local marketing success. The assessment provides detailed insight into your business’s potential within your target area. Using this information, our team creates a thoughtful, data-driven campaign strategy to align with the trends in your area and industry.

In addition to proven success and in-depth planning, our team values every business, no matter the size. We take the time to learn the ins and outs of your unique goals and challenges, ensuring we cover all bases and identify all opportunities.

Why Choose Local Brand Advisor?

All-in-One Services

Our proven programs combine all necessary features into one package. No need to shop around for supplementary services, we provide everything you need for meaningful results.

Cost-Effective Solutions

We maximize your marketing budget with cost-effective strategies and solutions, including brand awareness planning and optimized local search campaigns.

Specialized, Dedicated Team

Our experts work directly with your team to develop tailored tactics and strategies. You will have a direct line of communication with our team, ensuring your business’s success.

In-Depth Understanding

With decades of experience in local marketing, our team understands the best optimization practices, as well as local consumer behavior and online culture.

Meet Our Team

Jessie began her career in local search as a member of the Google Maps team at Web 2.0 Ranker. She pushed ahead in Local Maps SEO until she was managing the GMB department and eight team members. After 6 years as GMB Project Manager, managing over 1,000 Google My Business SEO campaigns, Jessie now enjoys another challenge – Managing Director at Local Brand Advisor. Any of her time not spent helping business and agency owners with their local marketing is spent traveling and enjoying life to the fullest with her family. Jessie has written several case studies and white papers on local search, business listing management, and multi-location Google My Business strategies for franchises and chains and is an active SEO researcher.

Chaz Edward is a popular local marketing coach and writes and speaks extensively about local search and Google My Business ranking. First entering SEO in 2010, he has succeeded in ranking in some of the most competitive niches and locations, including for terms such as Los Angeles personal injury lawyer and Las Vegas locksmith. He is the founder of Web 20 Ranker. and an equity partner in Local Viking GMB Management Software with over 100,000 Google My Business locations managed. No matter the difficulty of your campaign, Chaz’s strategies present a roadmap to better local visibility. Chaz is the architect and strategist behind every Franchise Marketing System campaign and allows us to offer our industry-leading guarantee, We Will Increase Your Business’s Local Visibility…We Guarantee It!

Sophie is a digital marketing specialist, achieving massive growth for local clients, as well as multi-location national brands. From analysis and strategy to implementation, Sophie knows what needs to be done. Now, she leverages her knowledge to achieve exceptional results for Local Brand Advisor clients. Her wide range of industry experience, versatile skill set, and background in strategic communications offers a unique perspective that boosts online visibility, rankings, and traffic for our clients.

Before starting his agency in 2004, Michael primarily worked with small home service businesses helping them increase revenue and productivity through processes and systematization. Affordable Tuckpointing Pros, his last client before starting his agency, reached 1.2 million a year from 40k by the time he had left to start his own agency. Having a Passion for SEO and systematization, Michael scaled his own agency to high 6 figures before selling it in 2018 and now working directly with Chaz and the team.

Niki is in her sixth year as a project manager and search optimization specialist. She works directly with every client campaign to help ensure that Chaz’s local strategies are implemented by our team and the results of each campaign are working to improve our clients’ local visibility, leads, and calls. She is easily accessible to every client and is their personal liaison with the Local Brand Advisor team and the exceptional results we achieve for our clients.

Alex is a seasoned professional with 16 years of experience in digital marketing. In that time he built, ran and sold 2 successful agencies, built and ran a massive lead generation business and now brings all that expertise to the Local Brand Advisor team as the Client Success Manager.

Elod is a Web / Graphic Designer and also a Web Developer with over 7 years of experience specializing in WordPress development. He has assisted local, regional, and international companies enhance their online presence. Now he creates unique online and offline advertising materials, clean and modern digital designs, and constructs high-end websites that deliver the ultimate user experiences for Local Brand Advisor clients.

Ovidiu got his start with web design/development when he created his first WordPress blog at the age of 15. Slowly getting more familiar with HTML & CSS by experimenting with customizing his personal blog, he’d soon realize that building websites for a living seemed like a pretty nice idea. Fast forward to today and Ovidiu’s made a career out of his passion for building websites and more recently applying UX design principles to his work. In his free time, Ovidiu dabbles in creative writing and mobile photography.

Yuli came to us with 14 years of military service, which taught her invaluable skills like her attention to detail, solutions-oriented mindset, managerial skills, ability to thrive in challenging situations, and dedication to our clients’ success. She supports our SEO manager with campaign review, reporting, link mapping, and link strategy implementation. She is committed to achieving the best results for our clients and consistently goes above and beyond to deliver services and results we are proud to stand behind. Her hard-working attitude and attention to detail are huge assets to our agency and our clients’ campaigns.

Jack is a seasoned Content Editor with over 6 years of experience in the digital marketing industry. He began his career specializing in website optimization and has since expanded his expertise to include creating and editing quality content to drive online traffic. Jack possesses a deep understanding of the latest SEO trends and is dedicated to utilizing this knowledge to help businesses achieve their goals through effective SEO and content marketing strategies.