The Local's Guide

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Introducing our newest Locals Guide: Emerald Shores Life 🏖️

We're thrilled to explore the vibrant community and lifestyle of Emerald Shores with our exclusive Local's Guide, tailored to empower a local 30A real estate agent to thrive in her community while giving back to its residents.🌟🔑

🏡💼 Join our waitlist now for early access and elevate your real estate business:
https://www.lakesinclairlife.com/locals-guide-academy

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Sharing community events is a great way to establish yourself as the community real estate expert.

Many residents either don’t know how to find events online or find it confusing to keep up with events happening in different parts of the community. That is where you come in.

Learn more:
https://www.localsguideacademy.com/resources/3-powerful-promotion-tips

Are you interested in creating a Local’s Guide Website for your community? Take our quiz to find out if it’s the right choice for you!

Our quiz will ask you a series of would you rather questions, so that you can get an accurate assessment of whether creating a Local’s Guide Website is the right choice for you.

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https://www.localsguideacademy.com/requiz

I feel like it goes without saying that having an “about me” on your website is incredibly important. However, oftentimes it’s overlooked.

The following six steps will walk you through how to write an “about me” which will let your readers learn more about you, your Local’s Guide, and establish your credibility.

➡️Introduce Yourself
➡️Your Why
➡️The Missing Thing
➡️The Local’s Guide
➡️Let Them Know More
➡️Wrap It Up

Head on over to our website for step by step details on writing your new "about me".

https://localsguideacademy.squarespace.com/resources/about-me

Do you want to create a beautiful printed guide to connect your community's businesses and residents? Perfect! We do too! Let us help you build your very own Local's Guide. 🎉

Take a peek at our 2022 book (it was our fourth edition!) 👇🏼
https://issuu.com/lakeo.../docs/issuu_edition_lol_guide_book

If you're ready to get the ball rolling on your Local's Guide call, text or email Holly at 770.274.9057 or [email protected]

We are so excited to be working with Katie from Washington County Chamber of Commerce Sandersville Georgia!

Here I am showing her our previous book with the City of Covington and deciding which layout and paper quality she wanted to use for their Local's Guide!

We can't wait to get this book into the community and to share the journey along with way!

If you are new to the online business world and don't have any idea how to build a website, we HIGHLY recommend you check out Squarespace.

Madi and I have several different websites with Squarespace and love the ease of designing, selling and managing the sites.

Learn more about why we recommend them to everyone:
https://www.localsguideacademy.com/blog/5-reasons-to-choose-squarespace

Happy Thanksgiving from Madi and I to you! We hope your day if full of family, fun and lots of delicious turkey.

Cheers to mom-entrepreneurs.

“Balance is not better time management, but better boundary management. Balance means making choices and enjoying those choices.” – Betsy Jacobsen

PS: I think I needed this today! :)

Not only does our family love the holidays, we LOVE sharing holiday events going on in our community with others.

If you would like to learn how we turn our event calendar into a sought after blog post, checkout 3 Powerful Promotion Tips to Get Your Community Events Visible.

https://www.localsguideacademy.com/blog/3-powerful-promotion-tips

Georgia’s Lake Country may be best known for its warm weather fun, but that doesn’t mean the fun stops when the nights get frosty and the fireplaces start being practical instead of just decorative!

There are already many local holiday shopping events you will not want to miss! Head over to our post, It's Beginning To Feel A Lot Like Christmas at Lake Oconee, to see the full list! 🎅🏻 🎄 🎁

Click the link below:

https://lakeoconeelife.com/insider/christmas

Here is a behind the scene photo taken during our most recent Lake Oconee Life photo shoots.

A day on Lake Oconee in two different wake boats. Our photographer and the third captain were following our boat while Brandon Lee did flips in the air on the wake board and my daughter Evan, received a professional wake surfing lesson from Brandon!

A good day was had by all! How do you spend your days at work?

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Olive is ready for Halloween! Share a photo of your cat in the comments below! 😻

Oh friend, you’re going to want to stop scrolling, because we’re about to blow your mind! You ready?

We created a resource at Lake Oconee, that the community LOVES and depends on, but you don’t need to take our word for it. Take it from one of our many website followers.

How can we help YOU get started promoting your community?

Warning: Unpopular opinion coming up!

Unlike our peers, Madi and I have a fresh take on how to create a Local Influencer business , and that’s exactly what we’d like to share with you today!

We believe you can become your community's sought after Local's Guide without sending hundreds of emails asking to create guest posts and pitching brands.

That’s why we teach people just like you to become your community's Local Influencer by turning your community's events, specials and local businesses into a 6-figure income!

It’s a little unconventional, but it’s what makes us unique and, quite frankly, our community loves and depends on our content!

Comment below with any questions!

Often times, people assume that the best part about our Local's Guide business must be being the first to know about events happening in our community or making a living working from home on my own terms.

While those are both true, and AMAZING perks of this job, I’d have to say that my very favorite thing is hearing from our local business owners how we helped double their business when things were not going well or how we helped them launch their new business with great success.

Madi and I wanted to share this inside look so you know just how much we love what we do.

Now tell us, what’s the best part about your job?

Local's Guide Academy added a button to help you learn more about them.

Would your community benefit from having one central event calendar?

I know ours needed one! We turned this need into a business.

Learn how we do it:
https://www.localsguideacademy.com/blog/local-guide

If I could take a snapshot of today’s agenda, it’d look a bit like this: writing course curriculum, recording videos, and building out our website. As a Local Influencer, I LIVE for days where I get to let my creative juices flow, creating content, with a little help from Olive Marie. What does your day look like?

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https://www.localsguideacademy.com/blog/about-me

Hi! I’m Madi, the oldest of Holly’s three daughters. I live in Augusta, Georgia with my husband, John, and our cat Olive. I attended Augusta University, where I received a Bachelor of Arts in Public Relations and a minor in Psychology.
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Being raised by a mother who was self-employed, I saw firsthand how important small businesses are and how pivotal they can be to both families and the community at large. I am passionate about promoting local businesses and events and look forward to helping others do the same in their own communities.
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There's more to the story, if you're interested in learning more head over to our website.
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I would really like to get to know you. What are you passionate about?

Are you ready to be your community's local influencer?
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Download our FREE guide to see if becoming a Local Influencer is right for you?
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3 simple steps to getting started today, but first you need to download.

Who else has the itch to travel?! The next chance we get, Lynward and I going to take 8-10 days and travel to Tuscany 🍷 to celebrate our 5th wedding anniversary two years later. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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What location is on your traveling bucket list? Drop an emoji hinting at your dream vacay and let’s see if I can guess the location! Ready, GO!

Recently, we were talking about why we started Local's Guide Academy. Perhaps surprisingly, what gave us the inspiration was so many people telling us we should franchise.
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We love our Local Guides, Lake Oconee Life, and Lake Sinclair Life, but franchising didn't feel right to us. Plus we know many people cannot invest $10,000 to $50,000 for a franchise fee. We think creating your own Local's Guide and connecting your community should be affordable and attainable.
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Like this post if you want to learn more about starting your own Local's Guide!

⁣You’ll never guess what we’ve been up to! We’ve been busy working on something special, and we’re more excited than a kid on Christmas! ⁣
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Allow us to present: Local's Guide Academy Signature Course! It’s like a dream come true, with 4 modules:⁣
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Landmark (SEO)⁣
Elevation (Social Media)⁣
Peak (Print)⁣
Show Me The Money!
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It feels amazing to finally be able to share this with you and we cannot wait until you give it a try. What else do you need to know? Ask us anything!

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Convinced? Visit our website to sign-up!

True or false: The only bad taco is the one you didn’t eat! If you said true, I’m with you… I love tacos. And if you said false, you’re pretty much crazy in my book, but don’t worry, I love you anyway! Now that you know how I feel, cast your vote below: tacos or no tacos?!
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PS: This is from the day my husband and I got engaged, it was at our Cinco de Mayo birthday party 💍🌮

⁣Calling all Local Influencers! Yes, I’m talking to YOU!  ⁣
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I see you referring local businesses. I see you promoting community events. I see you wanting to create something to serve your community. ⁣
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You are seen...and you are doing amazing things. Keep up the GREAT work! Tag a fellow Local Influencer that needs to hear this!⁣

How is your Thursday so far? Would it be even better if I shared a tip about how to convert your calendar into three high-traffic blog posts? Well, here it is! ⁣
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✔️ Week at a Glance⁣
✔️ Weekend Events⁣
✔️ What's Happening This Month⁣
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Have questions? Fire away!