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A small team that answers the phone

Hike Your Market helps local businesses get found on Google Maps and recommended by AI assistants. We are small on purpose: you deal with the people doing the work, not an account manager reading from a script.

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Why we started

Good local businesses were losing to worse ones online

We kept seeing the same thing: a business with happy customers and years of experience sitting below a competitor with a thinner reputation but a better-managed online presence. The customer never compares them fairly, because they only ever see the one that shows up first.

Then AI assistants arrived and made it starker. Ask ChatGPT for a plumber and you get one or two names in a sentence. There is no second page to scroll to. We built Hike Your Market to make sure our clients are the business that gets named.

Leadership

Meet your point of contact

Carlyn leads the day to day work on every account and is the person you talk to.

Carlyn Castaneda

Carlyn Castaneda

Operations and Client Success Manager

Carlyn keeps the work moving. She gets new clients set up, coordinates the monthly work across listings, content, and reporting, and is the person clients reach when they need something changed or explained.

How we work

What you can expect from us

Four things we hold to, whatever the plan.

Plain language

No jargon, no 80-page reports. You get a monthly summary you can read in five minutes and a clear list of what we did and what is next.

Local businesses only

We do not spread ourselves across every industry. We work with contractors, law firms, restaurants, beauty, pest control, and real estate.

Built for how people search now

Maps and listings still matter, and so does being named when someone asks ChatGPT or Gemini who to call. We work on both, because your customers use both.

No long contracts

We would rather keep clients because the work shows up in calls and bookings than because a contract says so.

Contact

Tell us what you need

Questions about pricing, a service, or whether this fits your business? Send a message and we will reply within one business day.

We reply within one business day. No spam, ever.