1. Visibility and Awareness: Showing up in local search results immediately establishes the business’s presence and existence in the area. This visibility can help build brand awareness and remind potential customers that the business is an option for the products or services they’re looking for.

2. Relevance and Proximity: Local search results prioritize businesses that are physically closest to the user’s search location. Appearing in these results signals to potential customers that the business is conveniently located and relevant to their geographic area.

3. Credibility and Legitimacy: Search engines like Google and Bing have strict criteria for including businesses in local search results. Being featured in these results lends credibility and legitimacy to the business, implying that it is a well-established and trustworthy option.

4. Meeting Immediate Needs: Local search results often include essential information like business hours, contact details, and even directions. This information can help potential customers quickly determine if the business meets their immediate needs, even before visiting the website or listing.

5. Competitive Advantage: With limited real estate in local search results, appearing prominently can give a business a competitive edge over others in the same industry or area that may not be as visible.

6. Attracting Foot Traffic: For brick-and-mortar businesses, appearing in local search results can directly influence foot traffic and walk-ins from nearby customers searching for relevant products or services.

7. Establishing Trust: Local search results often include customer reviews and ratings, which can help establish trust and credibility with potential customers before they even engage with the business directly.

8. Capturing Impulse Buyers: Local search results cater to users with high purchase intent, often searching for businesses while on-the-go or with immediate needs. Appearing in these results can help capture impulse buyers or customers looking to make a quick purchase decision.

9. Reinforcing Local Presence: For businesses with a strong local focus, appearing in local search results reinforces their commitment to serving the local community and can help build stronger connections with nearby customers.

10. Promotes Local Economy: Supporting local businesses is often a priority for many consumers. By appearing in local search results, businesses contribute to the promotion and growth of the local economy, fostering a sense of community and support among residents.

11. Facilitates Word-of-Mouth Marketing: Local search results serve as digital word-of-mouth referrals, especially when accompanied by positive reviews and ratings. Potential customers are more inclined to trust businesses recommended by their peers or endorsed by online communities, leading to increased foot traffic and sales.

Claim Your Unique URL For Your Store – It Never Changes at www.virtualstorefronts.com/YourBusiness

Up To 150 Keywords That Bring Shoppers To Your Shop From Our Local Search Engine and from many Google Search Results (up to 150 for 1 year; up to 225 words for 2 Year; up to 300 for 5 Year subscriptions)

Guaranteed One Year Renewal With Same URL

Hands-Free Ambassador Keyword Creation Included With Setup

Hands-Free Ambassador Storefront Setup Included With Setup

Hands-Free Storefront Preview Delivery For Approval by Text Message or Email (your choice)

Login Credentials For Virtualstorefronts.com So You Can Instantly Edit Your Business Profile Anytime With Admin Console (easier than editing a Facebook Page)

View Business Profile Changes With Admin Console – 24/7/365 Editing Access

View Full Page Preview With Admin Console

Featured Items Section – Up To 5 Items – Included

Highlights Blog Section – Up to 14 Photo and Text Items – Included

Customer Feedback Section – Up to 14 Photo and Text Items – Included

Up to 3 Hands-Free Weekly Automated Announcments delivered with your Approved Storefront

Up to 3 Posts Per Week To Your Town’s Live Feed – A Chronological Bulletin With No Comments To Respond To Includes Local-Only Businesses and Organizations Within A 5 mile radius Of Your Town Center.

Any Shopper Account In The World (Free To The Public) Can Follow Your Storefront Feed In Their “My Custom” Feed

Hands-Free Automated Posting Can Post Evergreen Posts At The Same Time Every Week

Every Storefront Post Is Also Posted In The Nationwide Live Feed Launching in September 2023 On The Home Page Of Virtualstorefronts.com

Membership to our Facebook Support Community Virtual Storefronts Facebook Group

$50 Referrals Through September 2023 With A Possible Extension: Each Referral To Virtual Storefronts Receives $50 Cash

Contact visit our support widget at the bottom right of this website to contact us or send email to support@virtualstorefronts.com or call or text (800) 559-7838 when you have questions or need help

Short Version:
We guarantee we make useful information available to Google, but we can’t guarantee Google will show it. For more information about what we promise to our customers, watch The Virtual Storefronts Promise on YouTube.

Longer Version:
Our vision and mission is to create a search environment in the United States in which shoppers can type what they are looking for locally in an online search and find all the local, independent, non-chain businesses that offer what they are looking for.

Our goal is to make downtown as searchable as Amazon or Walmart.

We are already achieving remarkable results in Google search with a small test group of 130 pilot businesses. Storefronts for businesses like yours are, right now, appearing in a mind-blowing 100,000+ search results every three months since Fall 2023, and growing.

By collaborating with Virtual Storefronts to create a voluntary, opt-in, data rich, resource for search engines to learn about your business, not only do you make your business more discoverable, but you make every Storefront on Virtual Storefronts a stronger, more authoritative web presence – harder and harder to ignore by big tech as we grow together.

By providing Google and other search engines with authentic, comprehensive data about your business, these search engines have the totally new opportunity to learn more about your business and small businesses across the country than these search engines have ever been able to learn before, more than any one website could ever accomplish alone.

Yet a variety of variables such as how competitive search terms are in in general; how competitive search terms are for your specific location; and how many other businesses in your location are competing online can affect your keyword ranking in search engines

If you are not satisfied with the Storefront that is delivered to you within 30 days from date of purchase, you can request a full refund. 

Email: support@virtualstorefronts.com for refunds.

Subject line: Money Back Guarantee

Body: Please include the email address and name used at time of purchase and the name of the business as it appears on Virtualstorefronts.com

Refunds via Stripe can take up to two weeks to complete.

Restaurants, Boutiques, Salons, Farmers Markets, Food Trucks, Art Galleries, Gift Shops, Sign Shops, Event Services, Mobile Services, Lawyers, Insurance Agents, Marketers, Cleaning, Landscaping and all other Retail and Professional Services
Any locally-owned, non-major franchise (12 or less locations) business that maintains regular hours and serves the public in a local area is qualified to create, maintain and communicate with the public with a Storefront on Virtualstorefronts.com. 

Nonprofits, Arts Organizations, Veterans Organizations, Churches, Social Service Organizations, Food Cupboards, Chambers of Commerce and other Economic Development Organizations
All are qualified and can use the Local Feed to communicate with the public locally.

Local government officials, School Departments, High School Athletic and Activity Departments, Town Rec Departments, Mayors, Police and Emergency Services and Other Municipal Departments
All can host a Storefront and communicate directly with the public with their Storefront Feed. Municipal and county services please contact support@virtualstorefronts.com for bundled solutions for every department in your town and in some cases, complimentary Storefront packages as needed.

If you are uncertain if your business or organization qualifies, take this 4 question quiz on our website to determine if you are eligible for a Storefront. Storefronts are determined eligible at the sole discretion of Uspace, the company that builds Virtual Storefronts. Any Storefront that violates the Terms of Service or Live Feed publishing terms of service can be unpublished at the sole discretion of Upsace.

We wish we could include all business owners, but the purpose of Virtual Storefronts is to provide a powerful nationwide marketing solution for businesses without access to nationwide chain store or franchise marketing. You must be accepted to host a Virtual Storefront.  

From Jan 2023 to June 2023, Virtualstorefronts.com started appearing from over 5,000 times per month to over 30,000 times per month. Google keeps coming back to us because our Merchant Ambassadors are creating high quality information about businesses Google has almost no information about – which means Google is crawling our Storefront pages to learn everything that is available locally.

Our content is all about unique local businesses. Chains aren’t for us. We have had to turn down a chain with dozens of locations worth about $10,000 a year in sales, because the space at Virtualstorefronts.com is 100% reserved for non-chain locally owned businesses like yours.

Not sure you’re qualified? You can take the one minute “Are You Main Street” 4 Question Quiz to determine if you’re eligible before checking out. If you are not accepted to host a Storefront and continue with checkout, thank you for your interest! You will receive a full refund.

Every Virtual Storefront will be assigned a dedicated profile URL when it is created. 

Your Virtual Storefront is the ‘home base’ for your business information and profile on Virtualstorefronts.com

You can request a specific URL like Virtualstorefronts.com/MyBusiness. Otherwise we create a Storefront automatically. For example Cups and Cones Cafe has the URL Virtualstorefronts.com/CupsConesCafe

Custom, dedicated URLs will be assigned on a first come first served basis.

Note: Your URL and the Virtualstorefronts.com URL are not case sensitive. We use capitalization only for legibility and emphasis.

Every Storefront is created by a Merchant Ambassador who is assigned to build and deliver your Storefront in about 7 days. Your Merchant Ambassador is currently delivering your Storefront to you by text message or email (you choose at signup). While we strive for a “Time To Launch” of 7 days, higher sales volume may increase delivery times in the future.

Your Subscription begins when we take your order and begin working on your Storefront.

We are currently developing our affiliate sales program in advance of our 2024 Nationwide product launch.

Sign up now to become and affiliate at our Affiliate Program Dashboard and we will keep you in the loop about our Nationwide launch and how you can make money sharing Virtual Storefronts with your business network.

You are invited to join our online Support Group at Facebook.com/groups/virtualstorefronts

Our payment provider Stripe is set up to email you a notification that your annual renewal is coming up at least 28 days before your card is charged including a reminder that you can cancel at that time. 

If you want to cancel at any time:

Please call or text (828) 414-4263 to make your request or email us:

Email: support@virtualstorefronts.com

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Body: Please include the name and email address you used to make your initial purchase. We will cancel your subscription within two weeks of receipt and you will not be billed for anything as soon as we receive your request.

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