About A Greater Town

A Greater Town is a national marketing platform which features all things local.

A Greater Town allows individual users, businesses and agencies to make noise for their products, services and events alongside large-scale local content served by trusted partners.

It empowers local self-publishing, distribution of national listings in a community context, and hyperlocal networking built around marketing, with focus on art, culture, community, business and real estate.

A large-scale hyperlocal marketing portal, A Greater Town is currently a (location+category)centric posting site with 945,000+ registered users, mostly SMBs (we get hundreds of new ones every day)

In the near future, we'll be developing portals for every town which interconnect, not only to host postings, but also to engage the public in all other things hyperlocal, including events, news, networking, deals, weather, classifieds, municipal info, real estate listings & records, etc.

A Greater Town is a magnet for local organic search, and we have strong traction as a result of it. Our users testify to enhanced visibility in the search engines: Testimonials.


Operating since 2006, A Greater Town has grown to have a significant index of real estate listings, agents, brokers and short-term rentals throughout the US. As a hyperlocal marketplace and publisher of properties, businesses and events, A Greater Town serves as a search engine where consumers can access local information and listings as well as communicate with agents directly. All subscriber listings are displayed on A Greater Town at no charge, where agents can also claim their profiles, blog and publish directly, for free.

Examples include:
https://agreatertown.com/editors_picks/real+estate
https://agreatertown.com/author/producer-realty-llc-826

Three highlights of A Greater Town include:
- Simplicity & ease of use
- Strong search engine visibility
- Highly intentional leads


A Greater Town is building the digital infrastructure that connects commerce with community. Over the past several years, we've grown a network of more than 935,000 participating businesses and professionals, supported by over 5.9 million pages of local content. Most startups spend years trying to find users, we built the audience first. Today, we're focused on activating and monetizing that network through media, payment processing, sponsorships, strategic partnerships, and other recurring revenue opportunities. We're seeking strategic capital to accelerate activation of the platform and unlock its significant growth potential.

We currently host over 6,000,000 posts by more than 930,000 registered users, representing roughly 2,000,000 businesses, nonprofits, independent contractors and other entities, including SMBs, real estate agents, insurance agents, loan officers, marketing agencies and PR firms across America. We have attained the status of a trusted citations and local SEO resource, with 20,000 - 30,000 new submissions per month.

The benefits of being on A Greater Town are that we are like a signpost which points consumers who are looking for your product or service in your direction - like a street sign indicating your store is right around the corner.

Our links to your site, together with consistent citations (Name, Address, Phone) help your business to return in the search engines, since A Greater Town is widely considered as a trusted and reputable platform. Articles and other content posted on our site help you to be found for a wide variety of long tail keywords as well.

Top partners include Vrbo, Hotels.com, Expedia, NuOp, Agent Image, Restaurant.com, ZipRecruiter and MeetUp.com. Users include ListHub, ReachLocal, AdviceLocal, BrightLocal, Mass Marketing and thousands of other smaller agencies and SMBs.


Did you know that your agents and loan officers have 10X the reach of your company brand?

We have an especial focus on real estate, and have developed a personal branding and marketing platform within A Greater Town for real estate agents, insurance agents and loan officers, using real estate listings as the base, with automated distribution through Facebook and Twitter.

We help real estate agents and mortgage loan officers enjoy increased visibility in the search engines and social media, while connecting at the local level.

Now that so many real estate brokers, portals and technology companies are in the mortgage business, traditional lenders which lack an intrinsic connection to real estate media are at a distinct disadvantage. Our solutions could help level the playing field.

Rocket Mortgage has Rocket Homes. You could have A Greater Town, without the heavy lift, and cost of building and managing! (Unless you are Rocket Mortgage, in which case you could have both! : )

MLO Personal Name SEO: Branding, Reputation Management & Search

Mortgage Social Boost

Real Estate Content in A Greater Town


Currently a series of landing pages, A Greater Town is evolving into a hyperlocal social & business network, with marketing as its base.

A Greater Town is self-serve, users can post their marketing and PR material directly. They just need to join and follow the prompts.

If you would like to explore commercial applications of A Greater Town, such as listing syndication, sponsorship opportunities or local search engine visibility solutions, please reach out.




Overview

A Greater Town, a local marketing platform with national footprint, promotes and supports all things local, especially short term rentals, mortgage and real estate.

• Launched in 2006

• About 920,000 registered users, mostly SMBs and their agencies

• 2,000,000+ SMBs, nonprofits, independent contractors and other entities represented

• 5,000,000+ pageviews per year (40% rentals & real estate)

• 300,000 users / month

• 30,000 new signups / user revisions per month

• 1,700,000 short term rentals

• 1,100,000 real estate listings

• 700,000 real estate agents

• 60,000 real estate brokerages

• 500 MLS associations

• Domain Authority (DA) 50

• 400 - 1,000 short term rental bookings / month

• 30,000 - 90,000 click-throughs / month generated for Vrbo

• 1,200 real estate leads / month (when the feed is fully implemented)

• Partnerships include Realtor.com, Expedia, Vrbo, Hotels.com, RVshare, Mass Marketing, Restaurant.com, ZipRecruiter, Meetup.com, WebMax, NuOp, Landslo.

• Users include AdviceLocal, BrightLocal, ReachLocal, Whitespark, Local411, ListHub.


(all stats approximate - averaged over the past few years)

Organic Growth, August, 2012 - 2022




We started A Greater Town in 2006. At that time it was difficult to find websites where you could post and manage content for free. My inspiration was Craigslist, MySpace and Loopnet. Plus a local handout booklet entitled "May in Montclair" which features all the local businesses and shops in Montclair, NJ.

My thinking was if we could set up a pattern like Craigslist, together with the creative artistic energy that was MySpace at that time (it was really colorful, creative and amazing back then - I met so many incredible artistic people from around the world, and there was so much positive energy and vibes in the community) together with the self-posting of real estate and discovery of treasures I found in using Loopnet (I was a commercial real estate agent at that time) --- if you could somehow merge all that together with "May in Montclair" and make available to the SMBs of the world in a small-town look and feel, with emphasis on location (because I always remember restaurants I visited in the past best by what town they were in) that it could be a winner.

My developer was a real estate client of mine first, and got such a kick out of the fact that walking around town I seemed to know everybody, that he nicknamed me "Mayor." Later, when we started A Greater Town, I named my account "Mayor." So to this day, I am Mayor of A Greater Town. :)

We designed it for humans (not search engines) and Google rewarded us. Almost immediately we started getting top results in local search, and I knew we had a winner. Check out our testimonials, and links to important local marketing and citations sites that list A Greater Town as one of the best directories out there!

My sincere hope is that someday A Greater Town will be considered a gift for all humanity: instant hyperlocal free publishing with high Google visibility for SMBs, nonprofits, organizations, real estate agents, artists, poets, writers, musicians, and people of good intentions everywhere.


Drew Knapp
Founder
goodideaZS, LLC
69 North Fullerton Avenue
Montclair, NJ 07042

t. 973.783.3226
e. drew (at) agreatertown (dot) com

linkedin.com/in/drewknapp