Get found

Search results move depending on where the person searching is standing. You can be top of the list from your own office and invisible three miles away, and nothing on your screen will tell you.

Local Radar checks 441 points across a grid covering ten miles in every direction, and hands you a map. Green where you show up, red where you don't. One scan a week, on one search term you choose.

What it measures is your Google Business Profile, so you need one of those before it can tell you anything. That's the free Maps listing, and claiming it is worth doing whether you join or not.

Your profile carries your logo, sector, location, the services you offer, what you are looking for, your team, and a link to your site. It's public, so people who aren't members can reach it.

The practical effect is that first conversations start further along. Someone arrives already knowing what you do and whether you are a fit, and you skip the paragraph you have written a hundred times.

A signal is a short note about what you are doing right now. A job you have finished, a bit of kit you have bought, a service you have added. Tag it and it becomes findable.

You can choose to show your signals on your public profile, which means the page a buyer lands on reflects this month rather than whatever you wrote the week you joined. That's the difference between a profile and a shopfront.

We feature members across the network. Your story, your business, and what you are looking for right now.

You answer a short set of questions and it goes out. That's the whole job. New members find you later through the archive, so it keeps working long after the week it ran.

A rubric captures what you are trying to achieve, who you are talking to, what wins them over, what you would never claim, and what makes you wince. You build it once, for a blog post, landing page, LinkedIn post or sales email.

After that you have something concrete to hand a freelancer, a member of staff or an AI tool, instead of explaining your voice from scratch and being disappointed with what comes back. Ten a month.