Launched June 2026 · Local Growth
What Is Local Picked?
Get your business picked from search.
Local Picked is a product under Shared Myths Inc. built to help local businesses grow their presence online. It helps service businesses get picked from search by improving trust, visibility, Google Reviews, SEO, and AEO across the places customers already use to make decisions.
Why Local Picked Exists
Local businesses win or lose customers before the first phone call. When someone searches for a plumber, electrician, mover, landscaper, or contractor nearby, they compare map rankings, reviews, websites, and trust signals in seconds. If a business does not show up clearly, look credible, and appear active, it gets skipped.
Local Picked was launched to solve that visibility problem. The product gives local service businesses a practical way to build a trusted online presence, collect more Google Reviews, and stay visible where customers are already searching.
How The Product Helps
Local Picked combines review growth, Google Business Profile optimization, local SEO, website improvements, and ongoing visibility work into one managed system. The goal is simple: help businesses appear more trustworthy, rank higher locally, and convert more searchers into customers.
One core focus is Google Reviews. Local Picked uses personalized review requests and thoughtful follow-up systems to help businesses turn happy customers into fresh, visible proof. More reviews create trust, improve comparison against competitors, and support stronger local rankings.
Built For Search And AI Discovery
Search is changing. Customers still use Google Maps and local search, but they are also beginning to ask AI assistants for recommendations. Local Picked helps businesses prepare for both worlds by improving traditional SEO and answer engine optimization, or AEO.
That means strengthening the signals search engines and AI systems use to understand a business: accurate profiles, optimized websites, local schema, strong reviews, consistent content, and clear service-area information. The product is designed so business owners can stay focused on their customers while the visibility work runs in the background.
Who It Is For
Local Picked is built for local service businesses that depend on being found nearby: home services, trades, repair businesses, contractors, cleaners, moving companies, and other operators whose customers search before they call.
These businesses do not need abstract marketing reports. They need more people to find them, trust them, and choose them. Local Picked turns online presence into a repeatable growth system for getting picked first.
The Bigger Mission
Local businesses are often excellent at their craft but underrepresented online. Local Picked exists to close that gap with modern growth infrastructure that is simple, consistent, and practical.
The long-term mission is to help strong local businesses become easier to discover in the new search landscape, from Google Maps to AI-powered recommendations. When a business does great work, Local Picked helps make sure customers can find it.