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SOCi SOCi is the marketing platform for multi-location brands.

SOCi is the marketing platform for multi-location brands, and one central place to scale marketing that’s brand directed, locally perfected, and data connected. We empower businesses like Ace Hardware, Sport Clips, and Anytime Fitness to scale marketing efforts across all digital channels in a way that's brand directed, locally perfected, and data connected. As one central place to scale marketing

, SOCi makes the impossible possible by enabling top brands and their locations to strengthen and scale their digital presence across limitless local search and social pages while protecting what matters most, their reputation. For more information on how SOCi can help fuel your localized marketing success - visit us at www.meetsoci.com or message us at [email protected].

09/02/2026

Local discovery isn't a straight line anymore. It's a Verification Loop.

SOCi's 2026 Local Discovery Index is here, our third annual study of 1,000+ U.S. consumers on how they find, evaluate, and choose local businesses.

The big finding: consumers discover a business in one place, verify it in another, and decide in a third, often within minutes, across search, social, AI, and reviews.

→ AI use for local discovery jumped from 9% to 52% in a year
→ 99% read reviews before a first visit
→ 63% walked away when they couldn't find an answer online

Winning isn't about one channel. It's about staying accurate and consistent everywhere the loop touches.

📥 Download the 2026 Local Discovery Index to learn more: https://tr.ee/83gvxP

Iced coffee. Budget. SOCi's Genius AI Agents that handle the work. That's the upgrade multi-location marketers actually ...
08/27/2026

Iced coffee. Budget. SOCi's Genius AI Agents that handle the work. That's the upgrade multi-location marketers actually deserve.

Who's getting tagged in this one?

08/25/2026

Your AI writing now has a secret tag 🔍

Anthropic is quietly watermarking everything Claude writes. Invisible, machine-readable, and it survives copy-paste. Even a quick spell check leaves a mark.

Panic? Nah. Google already said AI content is fine if it's actually good. Bad content tanks either way.

Write well, sleep fine.

New Local Memo is up, your weekly digital marketing download. Link in bio ✨

08/21/2026

Local discovery isn't a funnel anymore. It's a loop.

Consumers find you in one place, double-check you in another, and decide somewhere else, often within minutes.

We call it The Verification Loop. It happens because no single source is both complete and trustworthy. AI is fast but often wrong, reviews are honest but scattered, search shows everything but sorts nothing. So consumers keep cross-checking until they feel confident enough to act.

Which means there's no single channel to win. A break at any point hands the customer to a competitor who got it right.

Every stat above comes from our Local Discovery Index: three years of survey data on how U.S. consumers actually find and choose local businesses.

The full report drops September 2. Be in the room when we reveal it: https://tr.ee/2U8UVG

Is your restaurant brand invisible to AI? And why are some restaurant brands expanding while others are closing location...
08/20/2026

Is your restaurant brand invisible to AI? And why are some restaurant brands expanding while others are closing locations?

SOCi’s latest research points to one major difference: digital visibility.

Growing restaurant brands are:

✔ 6–7× more likely to appear in ChatGPT
✔ Driving 26× higher engagement
✔ Earning Yelp ratings a full star higher

If you’re a restaurant marketer, join us August 27 at 1 PM CT as we break down the data and share four practical ways to improve your brand’s visibility this quarter.

👉 Register free: https://www.soci.ai/closed-vs-open-restaurant-webinar/

Kinda chic to use SOCi Genius Agents. Running local marketing across hundreds of locations means thousands of reviews, l...
08/20/2026

Kinda chic to use SOCi Genius Agents.

Running local marketing across hundreds of locations means thousands of reviews, listings, and posts that all need attention (and a team that's stretched way too thin to keep up). So things slip. Reviews go unanswered. Listings go stale. Your best locations look neglected online.

That's the part we automate. Learn more at soci.ai

08/20/2026

For Denise Moore, VP of Marketing at First Montana Bank, managing local marketing across branch locations no longer means doing it all manually. 🙌

With SOCi Genius Agents, her team can:

✔️ Respond to reviews in the bank’s own voice
✔️ Surface hyper-relevant social content for specific local markets
✔️ Continuously learn and adapt to keep messaging on-brand

The result? Less manual work, more efficiency, and a local marketing strategy that keeps First Montana Bank visible, accurate, and growing.

🔗 Link in bio to read the full story!

If you're running marketing for 200 locations (or 2,000) you know the drill. Review queues that never empty. Listings th...
08/14/2026

If you're running marketing for 200 locations (or 2,000) you know the drill.

Review queues that never empty. Listings that quietly drift out of date. Local social calendars that fall to whoever has a spare hour that week.

The work isn't complicated. It's just endless.

Soci's Genius Agents flip that. Brand-trained agents that respond to reviews, publish local content, and keep listings accurate across every location.

Same brand standards. Same team. A lot less Sunday-night dread.

Learn more on soci.ai.

08/13/2026

LinkedIn added an "AI slop" button 👀

41% of long-form LinkedIn posts are fully AI-written. Highest of any platform tested.

Get flagged? No ban. Just a private heads-up in your dashboard.

The real question isn't AI or no AI. It's value or no value.

Would you flag a post as slop? 🚩

Full breakdown in this week's Local Memo, link in comments.

Get your ticket to the premier AI conference for multi-location marketers and get ready for 3 days of big ideas, AI inno...
08/12/2026

Get your ticket to the premier AI conference for multi-location marketers and get ready for 3 days of big ideas, AI innovation, hands-on learning, and meaningful connections all with poolside resort vibes at The Phoenician in Scottsdale. 🌴

SOCi's ReImagine 2026 is where the future of local marketing meets the ultimate desert escape.

🎟️ Secure your spot and get ready to ReImagine what’s possible: https://www.soci.ai/events/reimagine-2026/?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=osocial&utm_campaign=all-customers-reimagine-q3

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