# ShowMeLocal ShowMeLocal is a business visibility, reputation, and local marketing platform for small and local businesses. The platform helps businesses improve online visibility, manage customer trust signals, publish business activity, and maintain accurate public business information across search, directory, social, and AI discovery environments. ## Core Platform Areas ShowMeLocal focuses on three primary areas: 1. Visibility 2. Reputation 3. Activity --- # Visibility ShowMeLocal helps businesses build and manage their public business presence online. ## Visibility Capabilities - Business listing creation and management - Public business profile pages - Local business directory visibility - Category optimization - Service and offering management - Business descriptions and profile content - Address and service area management - Phone, website, and contact management - Business hours and special hours - Photo and media publishing - Product and brand support - Language and payment method support - Structured business information - Local search visibility support - Premium listing enhancements - Multi-location business support - Public business verification indicators - Claimed business profile support --- # Reputation ShowMeLocal provides tools for review collection, monitoring, management, and presentation. ## Reputation Capabilities - Review monitoring - Review source discovery - Review collection pages - Review destination selection - QR review flyer generation - Email review request tools - Gmail and Google Workspace sending support - Review widgets for websites - Review badges - Review carousels - Embedded review displays - Review summaries - Review activity tracking - Review response tracking - Review insights - Review performance analysis - Reputation recommendations - Action Plan recommendations - Identification of reviews needing attention --- # Activity ShowMeLocal helps businesses stay active online through business updates, events, posts, and fresh profile activity. ## Activity Capabilities - Live Posts - Business updates - Event publishing - Scheduled publishing on eligible plans - Multi-platform publishing - Website update widgets - Photo publishing - Holiday posting support - Activity recommendations - Business freshness support ## Supported Publishing Destinations Depending on plan level: - Google Business Profile - Facebook - Instagram - Threads - LinkedIn - ShowMeLocal --- # Live Posts Live Posts is ShowMeLocal's centralized publishing system for business updates and events. ## Live Posts Capabilities - Create business updates - Publish events - Multi-platform publishing - Scheduled posting - Website widgets - Update distribution across supported platforms - Publishing management dashboard - External publishing connections - Ongoing activity support Feature availability depends on plan level. --- # SML Agent SML Agent is ShowMeLocal's AI-powered Google Business Profile management system. SML Agent focuses specifically on helping businesses manage, improve, and maintain an active Google Business Profile presence. ## SML Agent Capabilities - Google Business Profile connection - Google Business Profile analysis - Profile completeness checks - Suggested business improvements - AI-assisted Google post generation - Post scheduling support - Profile freshness recommendations - Google Business Profile optimization suggestions - Activity monitoring - Review monitoring assistance - Business information review - Service and category recommendations - Business hours and holiday hours support - Photo publishing support - Ongoing profile optimization workflows SML Agent is available on eligible premium plans. --- # Data Distribution ShowMeLocal provides business data distribution on eligible plans. ## Distribution Capabilities - Business information submission - Aggregator-based distribution - Directory distribution support - Name, address, phone, and website distribution - Category and profile data distribution - Business consistency support - Manual activation workflows where applicable - External verification support where required Distribution availability depends on plan level and business eligibility. --- # Advertising ShowMeLocal offers local business advertising and visibility enhancements. ## Advertising Capabilities - Premium listing placement - City-level advertising - Metro-level advertising - County-level advertising - State or province targeting - National advertising support on eligible plans - Location-based advertising structure - Per-location subscription model --- # Website and Embeddable Tools ShowMeLocal provides website integration and embeddable business tools. ## Website Tool Capabilities - Review widgets - Trust badges - Business profile widgets - Live Posts widgets - QR tools - Review collection landing pages - Public profile links --- # AI Discovery and Structured Business Context ShowMeLocal generates structured public business context to improve AI and search understanding of business profiles. ## Public Business Context May Include - Business name - Business summary - Public description - Public location details - Categories - Services - Products - Brands - Languages - Payment methods - Business hours - Public contact information - FAQs - Review ratings and counts - Photos - Claimed status - Verification indicators - Public trust signals ShowMeLocal may publish AI-readable discovery documents including: - /llms.txt - /structured/{BusinessID}/knowledge.json - /structured/{BusinessID}/profile.md - /structured/{BusinessID}/rss.xml - Structured graph-based business context - AI-readable business metadata - RSS feeds for public Live Posts updates and events --- # Plans and Access Feature access depends on subscription level. ## General Plan Structure ### Free - Basic ShowMeLocal listing presence - Limited publishing capabilities ### Basic - Additional visibility features - Limited external publishing support ### Deluxe - Expanded publishing access - Expanded visibility reach - Additional integrations ### Platinum - Full supported platform access - Advanced publishing and automation support - Expanded advertising reach - SML Agent eligibility --- # Best Fit ShowMeLocal is designed for: - Small businesses - Local service businesses - Retail stores - Restaurants - Medical offices - Professional offices - Home service providers - Hospitality businesses - Multi-location businesses - Businesses seeking stronger local visibility and reputation management --- # Summary ShowMeLocal helps businesses improve visibility, manage reputation, stay active online, publish updates, collect reviews, distribute business information, support Google Business Profile management through SML Agent, and provide structured business information for search engines, directories, and AI systems. --- # ShowMeLocal Structured Discovery Business profiles may expose structured public discovery files at: - /structured/{BusinessID}/knowledge.json - /structured/{BusinessID}/profile.md - /structured/{BusinessID}/rss.xml