Welcome to the 'Flathead Guide'

The Flathead Guide is the official Flathead Valley Business Directory™. Maybe you have seen us on Facebook or heard about us on the radio, but you're still not sure how the Flathead Guide can benefit your business. You have questions - this page explains everything.

What exactly is the Flathead Guide?

Smartphones and Tablet PCs are the new Internet access devices (and will soon surpass desktops and laptops) and your customers are searching for your products and services. Plus, those millions of visitors to the Flathead... they are not dragging their laptops with them when they visit; they now rely on their mobile devices.

Why list your business in the Flathead Guide?

Because you do business here in the Flathead!

• 94% of smartphone users search for local information
• 66% access the internet at least once daily from their smartphone
• You have a limited ad budget
• You don’t have time to play the social media game
• You are tired of empty promises by advertising sales people
• You don’t know who you can trust, or what is real and what is hype

You want more ready-to-buy customers

You already have a local customer base and like the rest of us, you are always trying to attract new business. Millions of visitors and hundreds of thousands of people in northwest Montana shop and do business in the Flathead Valley - and they are using their smartphones more than ever. We can help you attract more ready-to-buy customers!

• EXTREMELY IMPORTANT, if you advertise offline, be aware that 66% of Americans have performed a search on their mobile after seeing or hearing an offline ad (newspaper, radio, television, magazines, etc.).
  
• Usage of QR Codes is increasing daily. You’re seeing them everywhere; newspaper ads, in magazines, outdoor billboards, brochures, business cards and virtually all print media are using ‘QR Codes’.
  
• Do it for the link!  Strong 'LOCAL' backlinks pointing to your primary website are one of the best things you can do to boost your site in search results. Over time, it can mean the difference between being on page one of Google or page 120 - and NOBODY goes past page one.

The Flathead Guide is not advertising

Advertising and promotion are necessary to build your brand and create top-of-mind awareness, but today the world revolves around search. The Flathead Guide is about "Search Marketing". If you want to capture people’s attention you must be positioned better than your competitors in search results. The Flathead Guide is a tactical online marketing component for 2015 and beyond.

The problem with advertising is that you pay for a one-shot advertising campaign and who reads a two-day old newspaper? Whereas your Flathead Guide listing works for you 24 x 7 x 365 and it costs less than a fast food lunch.

Top 10 Reasons why the Flathead Guide is so valuable for your marketing efforts

1. It’s like having an additional stand-alone, mobile-friendly mini website for your business
2. 100% Search Engine Optimized
3. Hyper-Local to the Flathead area (unlike other resources like Yelp or FourSquare, etc.)
4. You can features photos and videos in your business listing
5. Include links to all your social sites like Facebook, Twitter, etc.
6. A Google map provides directions to your location
7. Your personal Control Panel – login anytime and update your listing, add coupons, special deals
8. Heavily promoted on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, YouTube and other online and offline resources
9. Promoted in local print advertising
10. In 2013, more people bought a smartphone than a PC
    Mobile is the new Internet access device.

Join other businesses like yours that see the value of being listed in the Flathead Guide!

Local companies you do business with, your friends and your competitors are listing with the Flathead Guide every day.  Here are just a few of our 'Featured Listings':

Gardner's RV • Valley Ford • J2 Office Products • Cafe Max • Withey’s Health Foods • Homewood Suites • Plumbing Inc. • Computer Doctor •  Great Northern Dental Care • Replay Sports • Beckman’s Fine Furnishings • Complete Restoration, LLC • Kalispell Foot & Ankle Clinic • Northern Rockies Outfitters • JMK Photography • Big Sky Electric • Custom Rifles • Cold Stone Creamery • Americas Best Value Inn • Montana Log Homes • Stillwater Spine & Sports Center • Essential Accounting • LouLa’s Café • Bob’s Appliance Repair • Flathead Lake Fishing Charter • and many, many more...

 Read what 'real' customers are saying about the Flathead Guide (see our testimonials).

How much does it cost to be listed?

Hold on to your hat…a basic listing is only $4.00 per month (paid annually).  You read that right, for about the cost of a gallon of gas each month, your company can be listed on the Flathead’s premier smartphone optimized business directory, the Flathead Guide – FOR ONE WHOLE YEAR!  Plus, for a few dollars more you can choose to ‘feature’ your listing in your business category and on the home page. Click here to add your business to the Flathead Guide. Or...

Check out our "Done 4 U" offer

You're busy, and you're not an SEO expert - (but Berni is). 
He will create and optimize your listing for $̶16̶5̶ ...FREE!

The Flathead Guide is now in our second year, and we want to maximize our growth.
The faster we grow it, the better we perform in search results - and that benefits you!

We will create your listing for you, optimize it for search and add the information that mobile visitors want to see - for a one-time fee of only $̶16̶5̶.̶0̶0̶ FREE.  All you need to do is open an account and add a few bits of information, or...

Just email us to make "Done 4 U" happen

We will create your account, SEO your listing and when all is completed, send you an invoice for your annual $4 mo. listing. Click here to send us your email

Your Flathead Guide listing is an essential piece of your marketing mix

The Flathead Guide is an "authority website", meaning that search engines place value on our links pointing to other sites (your listing). In addition to receiving Google's PR3 ranking, we have achieved significant milestones:

• YouTube Channel with over 620,000+ video views
• Pinterest Followers 1,800+ (one of the largest NW Montana Pinterest boards)
• Facebook Fans 1,100+ (and counting more every day)
• Twitter over 800+ (mostly local) followers
• Our network of related social sites drive significant traffic to the Flathead Guide

So, who created the Flathead Guide, and why should you trust me?

The Flathead Valley Business Directory™, DBA the Flathead Guide (Montana ID# A212832), was created and is maintained by Tom Heatherington, owner of The Webunet Group in Kalispell. My company has been publishing and marketing online since 1993.  My family lives here in the Flathead; this is our home and like you, our workplace. Learn more about the Webunet Group. The Flathead Guide is a Vietnam Veteran-Owned business.

Webunet is a consulting firm to small business specializing in SEO, SEM, SMM and online marketing. Our mission is to help our clients get more targeted buyers to their website. We focus on SEO best practices, creative copywriting and keyword utilization, video production, mobile web and content related link building. If you need help marketing your website, we should talk.