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Get Found First — The Newsletter

I'll Show You How to Get Found First.

Hey, I’m Steve Bouboulis, founder of The Branding Agency.

Every week I send the exact local SEO, AI search, and marketing tactics I use to get businesses to the top of Google — and now to ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews.

  • How to show up in AI search (ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews) before your competitors figure it out.
  • The local SEO moves that actually shift rankings in 2026 — not the recycled advice everyone repeats.
  • How to turn a website redesign into more leads instead of fewer.
  • Google Ads tactics that stop you from lighting budget on fire.
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50+ Charlotte businesses on page one
4.9 ★ rating, 16+ reviews
Charlotte-based since 2015
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Fair. Here's who's actually behind these emails.

The Branding Agency is a boutique Charlotte digital marketing team, founded in 2015. No account managers, no hand-offs to juniors — just senior specialists working directly on the work. We’ve helped 50+ Charlotte businesses reach page one, and we hold a 4.9-star rating across our Google reviews.

These emails aren’t theory. They’re the same plays we run for paying clients every day — written up in plain English so you can run them yourself.

Steve Bouboulis
Founder & SEO
Leads SEO and AI search strategy. Writes every issue of this newsletter personally.
Lior Mey-Tal
Google Ads
Engineers high-converting paid search campaigns that stop wasting spend.
Shane Miller
Front-End Engineer
Builds fast, responsive websites down to the last pixel — and built to rank.

What you'll actually get

Real tactics. Local context. No fluff.

A few of the things I break down for subscribers:

  • How to get your business cited inside AI answers — the new front page of search.
  • The schema, reviews, and directory moves that build local authority in 2026.
  • Why most website migrations tank traffic — and how to migrate without the drop.
  • How to find the keywords your competitors are quietly winning, and take them.
  • The Google Ads settings most agencies leave on autopilot (and waste your money on).

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What exactly is this?

My marketing newsletter for business owners. Each issue covers a real local SEO, AI search, web, or paid-ads tactic you can actually use — written and sent by me personally.
Nope. It’s free. Once in a while I’ll mention a tool I genuinely use — sometimes paid, sometimes free. Your call whether you use it.
Me — Steve Bouboulis, founder of The Branding Agency in Charlotte. Not a content team, not AI on autopilot.
Any business owner or marketer who wants to get found in search — local shops, service businesses, e-commerce, you name it. I run an agency, so some examples come from real client work, but the tactics apply no matter your market or where you’re based.
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