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Marketing to help you get more customers

Get an online advantage. Connect with customers. Grow your business.

PinPoint Local offers the following services:

All-in-One Digital Marketing Platform

PinPoint Central includes Social Media, Reputation Management, Customer Communications and SEO in one dashboard.

Website Design and Development

Modern, professional and mobile responsive websites that are SEO ready.

Search Engine Optimization

Moving your business to the top of search engine results for the keywords that matter to your business.

Premium Hosting Services

Premium hosting services provide fast loading and peace of mind with 24/7 support.

Let’s conquer Digital Marketing together with PinPoint Central

  • We’ll set up your company with our "all in one" digital marketing platform
  • We’ll create custom social media posts and send them to your social media platforms
  • We’ll give you acess to our unique tool to seek and respond to reviews to manage your business reputation
  • We'll provide you with the means to keep in touch with your customers by email and/or text
  • We'll do Search Engine Optimization (SEO) activities that will improve your search ranking and help you get found
  • We'll provide landing pages for you that will help you to grow your customer list
  • We'll give you a monthly report detailing traffic to your Google Business Profile
  • We'll give you custom QR codes to get reviews and/or grow your email list

Let’s increase your relevance in the community, build close relationships with your customers and maintain an active presence in the marketplace

  • We'll create 2 social media posts per week, expertly curated by our team of social media writers
  • We’ll post weekly on social platforms such as Google, Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn to help you build a positive image for your brand online
  • Posts all designed to reflect your brand and your style
  • We’ll find the best hashtags for your business and add them to your posts, so your content is relevant in searches
  • Your social media will stay active and relevant while taking the burden off your shoulders

We will provide you with an intuitive, easy to use tool to completely manage your online reputation

  • PinPoint Central's unique review tool will help you conveniently seek and manage your business reviews
  • Reviews are critical to your business success. Use our review tool to get regular, frequent reviews to your Google Business Profile, Facebook Page, Yelp listing or Trip Advisor account.
  • Keep track of all reviews and respond promptly within our dashboard
  • Use our custom QR code to get on the spot reviews from your customers

We’ll help you get more customers and grow your business

  • PinPoint Central's search engine optimization services will help your business rank well in Google searches
  • We'll list your business on over 50 online business directories to get you more exposure.
  • We'll do backlinks and citations for your business each month.
  • We'll do onsite SEO on your website.
  • We'll give you a monthly report on traffic to your Google Business Profile so you can monitor your progress

Ready to learn more?

  • PinPoint Central is your all in one digital marketing tool. Let's simplify what it takes to run your business and free you up to focus on what you do best!

More customers are checking in to Bonnie’s business

“Our new website has increased our visitors and subsequently our revenue, a huge thank you to PinPoint Local.” Bonnie Carlin, Owner of Royal Palm Closet

Converting website visitors to clients in Martin’s business

“We are now on the first page of Google, and growing year over year thanks to PinPointLocal.” Martin Pahnke, SWFL Marketing Group

More customers are checking in to Kristina’s business

“Since PinPointLocal redesigned our website and put a SEO plan in place, our 100+ offices have been fully booked.” Kristina J, Twelve Twenty Two Offices
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Let’s build a website designed to bring you more customers

  • We build websites to be SEO-ready so that your customers can always find you on Google.
  • A fully-optimized and responsive mobile-friendly web design - so it looks great from phone to tablet to desktop.
  • Strategic Internal Link Placement and Strategic Outbound Site Links.
  • Built on a WordPress platform for fast performance and with load-time optimization.
  • Installation of WordPress plugins – so that your site will run fast.
  • Google map for directions to your office.

Let's get your business to the top of Google search results and get you found

  • We’ll help you grow your business by significantly increasing your web presence and attracting more relevant traffic to your website. We’ll do this by:
  • Including industry-specific keywords that set you apart from the competition and expand your visibility.
  • Referencing important keywords to boost your website's presence.
  • Creating and maintaining the website as an authority for the keywords targeted.
  • Creating effective business listings to ensure that you have top local rankings.
  • Creating valuable, detailed monthly reports on your site’s critical metrics.

Let’s ensure your online visitors have a fast and seamless experience so they visit often

  • We'll provide custom-managed hosting, personally managing every element of your website for you (security checks, coding updates, etc).
  • Super Fast Servers configured to deliver lighting-fast website load times and high search engine rankings.
  • Private server usage limitations ensuring your neighboring websites are high quality.
  • Stable and reliable servers stay online with multiple systems in place to ensure uptime.
  • High-security measures to safeguard your data including automated daily security updates.
  • 24/7 support. You’ll always have someone you can call.

How PinPoint Local works

Step 1

Identify your needs

Step 2

Propose a custom solution

Step 3

Execute the strategy, see results

Thames Valley Web Solutions

Carol Garagan - Owner

Hi, I’m Carol Garagan and I’m a local small business owner just like you.

With 20+ years’ experience in sales and marketing, economic research, writing and graphic design, I’ll utilize my experience – and that of my team – in web design and development, SEO, social media and inbound marketing to make sure your website connects your business to local customers to increase your sales and revenues.

I’m a teacher and motivator at heart, my true passion is helping fellow business owners move forward and succeed.

When I’m not working, I love to photograph and paint the beautiful landscape of Southwestern Ontario!

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Policy

PinPointLocal (“Company”, “PinPointLocal” or “We”) is a service provided by PinPointLocal, LLC. This Privacy Policy (this “Privacy Policy”) discloses the privacy practices for www.pinpointlocal.com.

Service Description
PinPointLocal is designed for local businesses to help them get more customers with websites that convert, SEO, hosting, Keyword Tracker, Online Reputation Managing, and Social Media Managing and more.

Eligibility.
Visitors under 18 years of age are not permitted to use and/or submit their Personal Information. We do not knowingly solicit or collect information from visitors under 18 years of age. We encourage parents and guardians to spend time online with their children and to participate and monitor the interactive activities of their children.

Privacy and Security
We understand the importance that our customers place on privacy and have designed this Privacy Policy to describe our information-gathering and dissemination practices. You agree to this Privacy Policy when you: 1) access or use PinPointLocal; and/or 2) agree to receive e-mail from us. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not use PinPointLocal.

Please note that we reserve the right to review and update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make any material changes to the Privacy Policy, we will notify you by means of a general notice on any of our sites prior to the change taking effect.

This Privacy Policy addresses the following:

  1. Information that we collect about you.
  2. Cookies and other tracking technology that we use.
  3. What we do with the information that we collect.
  4. With whom we share the information we collect.
  5. Our opt-out policy.
  6. Our policy on correcting and updating Personal Information and deactivation of your account.
  7. Privacy Shield.
  8. Miscellaneous.
 

INFORMATION THAT WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU
Information Provided by You Upon Registration and Making a Purchase. When you register for an account on PinPointLocal.com and/or purchase a product or service from us, we may collect the following information that allows us to identify you (“Personal Information“):

  1. Name
  2. E-mail address
  3. Name of your business
  4. Business phone number
  5. Business address
 

Information Provided When You Contact Us. We may collect Personal Information that you voluntarily provide to us when you contact us with a question or comment about our products and services.  We generally collect one or more of the following types of Personal Information when you contact us with a question or comment or request information from us about our products and services:

  1. Name
  2. E-mail address
  3. Business Name
  4. Phone Number
 

Passively Collected Information.
When you access PinPointLocal, we automatically collect your computer or device’s internet protocol (IP) address and other technical information about your computer or device and website usage, such as your browser type and version, time zone setting, and operating system and platform.  We also use cookies on PinPointLocal; for more information, please see the “Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies” section below.

Information Collected From Our Partners.
We may partner with third party websites to receive information about you and your business, such as name and contact information. This helps us to fulfill your service requests and/or to provide you with services that may be of interest to you.

Information Collected From Your Reviewers.
If you use our services to solicit reviews from your customers via email, or other forms of communication, including, but not limited to text messages, we will collect, on your behalf, the Personal Information and any other information provided in such reviews from your customers (“Reviewers”). We will use the information provided by Reviewers to provide services to you.  We have no direct relationship with Reviewers. You are responsible for ensuring that you have the appropriate consent for us to collect and process Reviewers’ information to provide our services. If you are a Reviewer and believe you have received an email from PinPointLocal on behalf of one of our customers, please contact that company directly with any questions.

COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES THAT WE USE
We and our service providers use cookies, beacons, embedded scripts and local shared objects in connection with PinPointLocal.

  • Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer or device when you visit our websites. Cookies allow a website to recognize a particular device or browser. The use of cookies is a standard practice among websites to collect information about visitors’ activities while using the website.
  • Beacons are small graphical images (also known as “pixel tags” or “clear GIFs”) that may be included on the PinPointLocal and typically work in conjunction with cookies to identify our users and user behavior.
  • An embedded script is programming code that is designed to collect information about your interactions with our app, such as the links you click on. The code is temporarily downloaded onto your computer or device from our web server or a third-party service provider, is active only while you are connected to PinPointLocal, and is deactivated or deleted thereafter.

The above technologies are used in analyzing trends, administering the PinPointLocal, services and products, tracking users’ movements around the PinPointLocal and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these companies on an individual as well as aggregated basis.

We use cookies to remember users’ settings, market products and services to users, and for authentication purposes. To manage the cookies that are placed on your computer, you may configure your internet browser to refuse, accept or delete cookies from PinPointLocal at any time.  The help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. Please note that if cookies are disabled or removed, not all features of the PinPointLocal will operate as intended.

Third-Party Analytics: We may also use service providers, such as Google Analytics, that may use cookies or other technologies to collect information about your online activities across this and other sites over time for non-advertising purposes such as those described above.  To learn more about how Google Analytics collects and processes data and the choices Google may offer to control these activities, you may visit http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/partners/.

WHAT WE DO WITH THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT

As examples of how we may use Personal Information that we collect, we use Personal Information in the following ways:

  • Information Provided by You Upon Registration and Making a Purchase. We may use this Personal Information to administer your access to the PinPointLocal, verify your identity, and provide our products or services to you.
  • Information Provided When You Contact Us. We may use this Personal Information to understand and respond to your question or comment.
  • General Uses. We may also use your Personal Information to improve and personalize your experience with us, and, with your consent where necessary, send you information about us and keep you informed of our other products and services that may be of interest to you.
  • Passively Collected Information. We use passively collected information to monitor and maintain the performance of the PinPointLocal, analyze trends, usage and activities in connection with our services, validate users and ensure their technological compatibility with users, and optimize our marketing efforts.
  • Aggregate data. We may use your Personal Information to create aggregate data which does not include any Personal Information, and which cannot be used to identify you. For example, aggregate data may include data that describes the general demographics, usage or other characteristics of a PinPointLocal We reserve the right to transfer and/or sell aggregate or group data about PinPointLocal users for lawful purposes.
  • Information Collected from Reviewers. We may use or share aggregated or de-identified information collected from Reviewers in our discretion, such as to provide analytics and benchmarking. We reserve the right to transfer and/or sell aggregate or de-identified data about Reviewers for lawful purposes.

EU Residents – International Transfers of Personal Information.  The Personal Information that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (“EEA“) in reliance on a variety of compliance mechanisms, including data processing agreements based on the EU Standard Contractual Clauses. It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff may be engaged in, among other things, the fulfillment of your order, the processing of your payment details and the provision of support services. By submitting your Personal Information, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

WITH WHOM WE SHARE THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We may share your Personal Information with third parties as described in this Privacy Policy or otherwise with your permission.  We reserve the right to transfer and/or sell other data, including aggregate or de-identified data derived from Personal Information, for lawful purposes in our discretion.

  • We may share Personal Information with affiliated businesses.
  • Service Providers. We, like many businesses, sometimes hire other companies (“Service Providers“) to perform certain business-related functions. Examples include mailing information, maintaining databases, processing credit card transactions, and hosting services. When we employ a Service Provider to perform a function of this nature, we provide it with the information that it needs to perform its specific function, which may include Personal Information and other information that you provide to us via the PinPointLocal. These companies are authorized to use your Personal Information only as necessary to provide these services to us.
  • Third Parties for Marketing and Other Purposes. We may share with selected third party partners, including for their direct marketing purposes (please see below for your choices related to this sharing).
  • Legal Requirements. We may disclose Personal Information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to (a) comply with a subpoena or similar legal obligation, (b) protect and defend our rights or property, (c) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of PinPointLocal or the public, (d) protect against legal liability, or (e) or as otherwise required or permitted by law.
  • Business Transfers. As we develop our business, we might sell or buy businesses or assets. In the event of a corporate sale, merger, reorganization, dissolution, total or partial sale of assets in bankruptcy or similar event, Personal Information may be part of the transferred assets.
  • Some of our pages utilize framing techniques to serve content to you from our partners while preserving the look and feel of PinPointLocal. When you interact with content from our partners displayed on PinPointLocal, please be aware that you are providing your Personal Information to these third parties and it will be governed by their respective privacy policies.
 

OUR OPT-OUT POLICY

Sharing with Third Parties for Marketing. As noted above, we may disclose your information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes.  If you would like to opt out of such disclosures, please contact us at info@pp1.pinpointlocalhosting.com.

Email Marketing. To stop receiving newsletters or marketing communications from us or to opt out of having your email address shared with third parties, please use the “unsubscribe” mechanism provided in the communication or send an e-mail to info@pp1.pinpointlocalhosting.com along with the information necessary for us to process your request.

Service-Related Announcements. We will also send you service-related email announcements on rare occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might send you an email. You do not have an option to opt out of these emails, which are not promotional in nature.

OUR POLICY ON CORRECTING AND UPDATING PERSONAL INFORMATION AND DEACTIVATING YOUR ACCOUNT

You may request to access, correct, update or delete your Personal Information, or deactivate your account, by emailing our Customer Support at info@pp1.pinpointlocalhosting.com with information necessary for us to process your request. We will respond to your request to access your Personal Information within 30 days. We may need to verify your identity before granting access to Personal Information in our custody or control.  Please see below regarding our retention policy.

MISCELLANEOUS

Other Websites. 
The PinPointLocal may contain links to third party owned and/or operated websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites. We suggest that you contact these third parties directly for information regarding their privacy, security and data collection and distribution policies prior to providing them with any information.

Blogs and Public Features PinPointLocal. 
Some of our pages offer publicly accessible blogs or community forums. You should be aware that any Personal Information you submit there can be read and collected by other users of these forums and could be used to send you unsolicited messages and for other purposes. Our blog is managed by a third party application that may require you to register to post a comment. We do not have access or control of the information posted to the blog. NONE OF THE INFORMATION THAT YOU PROVIDE USING THESE FEATURES IS PROTECTED BY THIS PRIVACY POLICY. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PERSONAL INFORMATION YOU CHOOSE TO SUBMIT IN THESE FORUMS OR THE USE THEREOF BY ANY THIRD PARTY. You will need to contact or log into the third party application if you want the Personal Information that was posted to the comments section removed. To learn how the third party application uses your information, please review their privacy policy.

Testimonials.
We may post customer testimonials on PinPointLocal which may contain Personal Information such as the customer’s name. We obtain the customer’s consent to post his/her Personal Information along with the testimonial, prior to posting the testimonial. If you want to remove your Personal Information that is being displayed on our sites under public pages, please send your request to info@pp1.pinpointlocalhosting.com.

Social Media Widgets.
Our websites may include social media features, such as the Facebook Like button and widgets such as the share this button or interactive mini-programs that run on the PinPointLocal website. These features may collect your IP address, which pages you are visiting on PinPointLocal, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on PinPointLocal. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing them.

Single Sign-On.
You can apply for an open position listed on our Careers page using sign-in services such as LinkedIn. This service will authenticate your identity and provide you the option to share certain Personal Information with us such as your name and email address to pre-populate our sign up form.  Services like LinkedIn give you the option to post information about your activities on the PinPointLocal to your profile page to share with others within your network.

Security and Retention. 
We take commercially reasonable steps to help protect Personal Information from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction. However, no Internet or e-mail transmission is ever fully secure or error free. In particular, e-mail sent to or from PinPointLocal may not be secure, and you should therefore take special care in deciding what information you send to us via e-mail. Please keep this in mind when disclosing any Personal Information to us or to any other party via the Internet. The security of your Personal Information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information (such as a credit card number) on our order forms or login credentials (such as username and password) on our platform login, we encrypt the transmission of that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL). Your Personal Information will be stored in the United States and will be subject to laws applicable in that country.  If you have any questions about security on PinPointLocal, you can contact us at info@pp1.pinpointlocalhosting.com. We may retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements.

Minors.
Visitors under 18 years of age are not permitted to use and/or submit their Personal Information on PinPointLocal. We do not knowingly solicit or collect information from visitors under 18 years of age. We encourage parents and guardians to spend time online with their children and to participate and monitor the interactive activities of their children.

Contacting Us.
Our “contact us” page contains e-mail links that allow you to contact us directly with any questions or comments that you may have. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please feel free to contact us at info@pp1.pinpointlocalhosting.com or at: PO Box 11222, Wilmington, NC 28404

Contact:
If you have any questions regarding these Terms, or your dealings with our web site, please contact us via the contact form above

910.338.0811 | info@pp1.pinpointlocalhosting.com

PO Box 11222, Wilmington, NC 28404

© 2020 PinPointLocal, LLC. All rights reserved.

Terms of Use

By accessing this web site, you are agreeing to be bound by these web site Terms and Conditions of Use, all applicable laws and regulations, and agree that you are responsible for compliance with any applicable local laws. If you do not agree with any of these terms, you are prohibited from using or accessing this site. The materials contained in this web site are protected by applicable copyright and trade mark law.

Intellectual Property Rights
All copyrights, trademarks, patents and other intellectual property rights in and on our website and all content and software located on the site shall remain the sole property of PinPointLocal LLC or its licensors. The use of our trademarks, content and intellectual property is forbidden without the express written consent from PinPointLocal LLC.

You must not:
* Republish material from our website without prior written consent.* Sell or rent material from our website.* Reproduce, duplicate, create derivative, copy or otherwise exploit material on our website for any purpose.* Redistribute any content from our website, including onto another website.

Acceptable Use:
You agree to use our website only for lawful purposes, and in a way that does not infringe the rights of, restrict or inhibit anyone else’s use and enjoyment of the website. Prohibited behavior includes harassing or causing distress or inconvenience to any other user, transmitting obscene or offensive content or disrupting the normal flow of dialogue within our website. You must not use our website to send unsolicited commercial communications. You must not use the content on our website for any marketing related purpose without our express written consent.

Restricted Access:
We may in the future need to restrict access to parts (or all) of our website and reserve full rights to do so. If, at any point, we provide you with a username and password for you to access restricted areas of our website, you must ensure that both your username and password are kept confidential.

Revisions:
PinPointLocal LLC may change these terms from time to time and so you should check these terms regularly. Your continued use of our website will be deemed acceptance of the updated or amended terms. If you do not agree to the changes, you should cease using our website immediately. If any of these terms are determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable, it shall be severed and deleted from these terms and the remaining terms shall survive and continue to be binding and enforceable.

Limitation of Liability:
THE MATERIALS AT THIS SITE ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY OF ANY KIND INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, NON INFRINGEMENT OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE. IN NO EVENT SHALL PinPointLocal, LLC OR ITS AGENTS OR OFFICERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF INFORMATION, INJURY OR DEATH) ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF OR INABILITY TO USE THE MATERIALS, EVEN IF PinPointLocal LLC HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH LOSS OR DAMAGES.

Contact:
If you have any questions regarding these Terms, or your dealings with our web site, please contact us via the contact form above.

910.338.0811 | info@pp1.pinpointlocalhosting.com

PO Box 11222, Wilmington, NC 28404

© 2020 PinPointLocal, LLC. All rights reserved.