How do you attract a local audience? You hire a local Vancouver marketing agency to write about events that locals are engaged with.
As a content writer for Immersion Creative, I dedicate a portion of our article output to writing about current events in the City of Vancouver.
For our client, Simmons Mattress Gallery, I write about concerts, the Vancouver Canucks, writer’s festivals, art institutions – anything that has a strong contemporary tie to Vancouver.
Our articles find their way into a variety of Google search results, attracting the most unlikely customers.
Two years ago, a piece I wrote on the Vancouver Canucks caught the eye of Brent Seabrook, a professional hockey player and B.C. native. Seabrook read the article and by chance, needed a new mattress. He bought one from the Simmons Coquitlam store a week later.
The story goes, that the mattress salesman didn’t recognize his name and refused to let the young man pay by cheque. In the end, his mother came to the store to pay by Visa.
Local health issues are another subject that is often searched for. I have written three blogs on the bed bug issue in Downtown Vancouver. The amount of hits these articles receive is incredible.
Narrowing the focus to current events increases the likelihood that locals will view your content.
Just for fun:
Type in Mattress Vancouver into your Google search bar. What company is at the top of the page?
Now, type in Mattress Vancouver Canucks. How many articles at the top of that list are connected with Simmons Mattress Gallery? All of them.
