The Shop LocalCompany Inc.
The Shop Local Company Inc. is a full-service marketing and advertising agency helping small and locally owned businesses get found, look their best, connect with customers, and grow.
A full-service agency built around how people actually search.
We work with businesses, municipalities, organizations, and communities throughout St. Albert, Morinville, Whitecourt, Edmonton, and surrounding areas, combining local marketing expertise with professional digital, creative, advertising, photography, and video services.
From modern, fast, functional websites optimized for our mobile-first world and Google Business Profiles to social media marketing, professional photography, video production, drone work, advertising, and local search visibility, we help businesses build a stronger presence wherever their customers are looking.
But there is another important part of what makes our approach different.
The local discovery ecosystem
We don't just market local. We power it.
The Shop Local Company powers the Shop St. Albert, Shop Whitecourt, Shop Morinville, and Shop Edmonton platforms, creating an established local discovery ecosystem designed to connect consumers with businesses in their own communities.
Because supporting local starts with something even more fundamental: People need to know you exist. But once they find you, what they see matters too. That's where we come in.
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Local intent
Local visibility is where shop local starts
There has always been a gap between wanting to support local and actually knowing where to shop local. A consumer may genuinely want to hire a local contractor, find an independent restaurant, discover a nearby retailer, book a local professional, or purchase from a locally owned company. The intent is already there. The challenge is visibility.
Today, people rarely drive around town hoping to stumble across the business they need. They reach for their phones and search, browse, watch, compare, read reviews, visit websites, explore Google Business Profiles, and check social media.
- “Home staging near me”
- “Restaurants in St. Albert”
- “Heavy-duty mechanic Whitecourt”
- “Accountant in Morinville”
- “Local marketing company Edmonton”
Capabilities
More than visibility. A complete local marketing partner.
Getting discovered is important, but discovery is only the beginning. Once someone finds your business, your website, photography, videos, social media presence, Google Business Profile, reviews, branding, and advertising all help shape what happens next. We help businesses build that complete presence.
The bigger purpose
When local businesses grow, communities benefit
Shop local is often presented as a feel-good message. For us, it is much more than that — it is an economic-development strategy. Visibility can lead to discovery. Discovery can lead to local spending. Local spending can contribute to the local multiplier effect. And the local multiplier effect can help build stronger communities.
How the local multiplier worksThe local
Multiplier Effect
- 01Local intent“I need this.”
- 02Discovery“Who offers this near me?”
- 03Local business found“I found a local business.”
- 04Chosen“That's who I'm going to choose.”
Local businesses deserve to be found.
And when they're found, they deserve to look their best. Whether you're an established business looking for greater visibility, a new company building its digital presence from the ground up, an organization that needs professional photography or video production, or a municipality interested in strengthening its local business ecosystem, we'd like to talk.
Get found. Look great. Connect locally. Grow.