Is Your Local Business Recommended By AI?
AI is rapidly changing the way customers decide which local businesses they deal with. If ChatGPT, Google AI Overview or Gemini isn’t recommending YOUR business, that’s a PROBLEM. But we can FIX IT.
Don’t be left behind
Consumers are moving on from traditional search engines to AI Answer Engines. Don’t be left behind while your competitors get recommended to customers who are ready to buy. Get in now to gain a competitive advantage in getting more leads, clients and revenue through the top AI search engines. Its where customers are looking now – make sure they can find you there.
Stop Losing Customers. AI Search is Recommending Your COMPETITORS – Instead of You
Consumers are rapidly starting to use AI to get fast, authoritative recommendations to local service providers. They prefer the power of AI to save time and make finding the right service provider so much easier. Instead of having to evaluate and compare service providers for themselves, they just ask ChatGPT, Gemini, The Google AI, Grok, Claude, Perplexity and the other popular AI Search Engines.
The way consumers search for – and choose – local service providers has quickly changed over the last several months. This is because they now have free and easy access to consumer level AI search engines like Chat GPT, Gemini, Google AI, Grok, Claude and Perplexity. Its the biggest change in the history of online search – and its here to stay.
Now, even if a customer begins their search the “old fashioned” way by heading to Google, the ‘Google AI Overview’ immediately intercepts and answers the question before the user ever sees the blue links on the search results page. With an AI recommended result sitting right in front of them, that’s often as far as they go. Decision made.
Here’s what that looks like:
If You’re Not Being Recommended by AI, You Are Becoming Invisible to a Growing Percentage of the Market
This is the new reality. With Google featuring its AI Overview at the top of their search results page for most searches, most customers don’t even look at the rest of the Google page – their not looking at all the blue links because the AI overview saves them the time and effort, spitting out the “best answer” before they even have a chance to look at the result search results. What does this mean for your business? It means that even if you have good rankings in Google – even if you have held the #1 position for years… if you’re not in the AI Overview, its becoming increasingly likely that you’re not being seen.
Consumer trust for an AI answer now exceeds whatever may show up in regular search results
Consumers place a lot of trust AI’s ability to quickly make accurate assessments and refer them to the BEST CHOICE, based on AI’s vast access to information.
Moreover, research shows that customers who use AI in deciding who to do business with tend to be ready to make a purchase decision – rather than tire kickers who are merely shopping around or comparing quotes.
That’s why customers ask AI – they want to be taken directly to the RIGHT ANSWER instead of having to figure it all out for themselves.
These are the customers YOU need to be in front of. Actual BUYERS – not tire kickers.
If your business is still relying on traditional SEO strategies for customers to find you, you’re soon going to be left behind in this new AI-driven search world. AI optimization (also called AI SEO or to be most technically correct, GEO which stands for “generative engine optimization”) isn’t just a new trend; a historical shift is fundamentally changing the way consumers search.
Businesses that adapt to this now will gain a powerful competitive advantage in their local markets. Those that don’t pay attention to this now will be virtually invisible.
We Get Results: Case Study
The Home Stylists is a Winnipeg home staging company that we have very successfully positioned within every AI search engine and AI assistant. What does that mean? This local business is now highly recommended by the Google AI overview (top of the page on Google search, before the regular search results), as well as ChatGPT, Grok, Perplexity and Gemini when folks in Winnipeg ask which home staging company they should hire.
We’ve made sure that when Winnipeg home owners or Realtors ask AI who to choose for home staging in Winnipeg, The Home Stylists is recommended by each and every AI search engine. No matter where consumers look, this company is being recommended, while many of their competitors are never mentioned at all. Imagine the effect this has for this local business. Consumers place a vast amount of trust in an AI recommendation. When you’re business is recommended by AI, you’re not just being FOUND by the consumer, there is instant trust built in with that recommendation.
We’d love to have the opportunity to do this for YOUR local business.
“We are consistently recommended by every AI, including ChatGPT, the Google AI Overview, Gemini, Grok, and the rest when our target customers are wondering who they should hire. It not only helps clients find us – it gives them complete confidence that we are the very best choice. This is a powerful competitive edge that’s driving more clients, sales and revenue for our business!”
~ Winnipeg, MB
Be the Business AI Recommends
More and more consumers are looking to AI for fast, authoritative recommendations to local service providers. They prefer the power of AI to save time, instead of having to evaluate and compare service providers for themselves.
Many Business Owners Are Still Entirely Unaware of This Shift – OR What They Can Do About It
Business’s That Get in on the Ground Floor Now Have a Huge Advantage. AI-powered search engines like ChatGPT and Google AI Overview are starting to send real traffic and leads to businesses. Consumers trust AI’s ability to make accurate assessments and refer them to the BEST CHOICE, based on AI’s vast access to information. Data shows that customers who find you using AI tend to convert better than people who find you through normal search – in other words, they are more likely to be ready to move forward with you, as opposed to the “tire kickers” who just are shopping around.
Someone asking AI about which local business to use is typically are looking for a direct path to the best option. They place a lot of trust in what AI recommends
These are the customers YOU need to be in front of – buyers who are ready to transact, not tire kickers.
Get the Advantage. Stay Ahead of Your Competition
Has AI completely taken over how consumers find businesses? Not quite – at least not yet. But the growth is undeniable—and businesses who adapt early will have a huge advantage.
Right now a lot of businesses are completely blind to the shift that is occurring in how consumers are deciding on the businesses and service providers to do business with. That provides a rare and unique opportunity for the “early adopters” – the businesses who have tuned into this and move swiftly to secure their place as a business AI recommends. Unlike the search engines we’re accustomed to, AI doesn’t recommend a long list of options. That would be pointless and go against the entire purpose of AI. AI is about providing the BEST options – not all the options. For those, like the folks here at MoreCustomersAI, with the right background in computer science and expertise to understand how AI engines synthesize data and arrive at their recommendations, AI engines can be deliberately led to discover particular businesses that would otherwise go unnoticed by them, and they can be influenced to recommend certain businesses while others are being ignored. That doesn’t mean that anyone can get recommended – a shoddy operation is not going to be able to fool AI as AI uses too many data points to be fooled into making a business with a bad reputation. But for reputable businesses who need to be discovered by AI, and to rise to the top of the list as a company worth recommending, there are specific and complex systems and strategies that are used to not only get the attention of AI – but to get into their “good graces” as a business they will recommend. That’s where we come in.
If you wait until everyone else catches on, your competitors will already be far ahead.
This is historically the biggest change that has ever occurred in the way people find businesses online. In fact, its still so new that a lot of businesses are not even aware that it’s happening. But the growth is occurring rapidly and businesses that recognize this now, act on it swiftly, and adapt early will have a huge advantage. If you wait until everyone catches on, your competitors will have set their roots deeply into the AI engines and it will be hard to dislodge them.
That’s why now is the time to position your local business in AI search results—before EVERYONE begins actively trying to compete for those AI recommendations, which will make getting noticed by AI so much harder.
This truly is one of those “ground floor” opportunities that rarely comes along – almost like the early days of the internet, where ranking was easy, and many businesses who claimed the #1 spot of Google have been able to hold on to those rankings to the present day, due to age-related “authority”.
In very simplistic terms its the “first one in wins it” strategy. Or even more simply – the early birds get the worms!