Marketing for small town Iowa businesses

Marketing is number 12 on your to-do list. It is number 1 on ours.

You were going to take photos of the business today. Then somebody called in sick and now you are stuck behind the counter and it is another "I'll get to it tomorrow" day.

We handle the marketing so you can handle everything else on that list.

★★★★★ 5.0 on Google · 19 reviews
Built in Stuart, Iowa Serving rural Iowa Running since September 2021 Founded by someone who ran a Main Street business

This is the job. All of it. Every single day.

There is a place down the street doing the same thing you do. They are in the local paper, all over Facebook, making TikToks that somehow look effortless. Your brain feels like cement. Facebook? TikTok? Email newsletter? That little pointer thing on Google Maps? You do not even know where to start.

You are scared to ask for reviews. What if this was not the best cheeseburger they ever had? What if they write that down?

You post "save the date for something epic," check marketing off the list, and wonder later why nobody seemed to know anything was happening.

Why we exist

Marketing Main Street was built by someone who has been exactly where you are. Not in theory. Behind an actual bar, running an actual business, trying to figure out why customers did not know about the kitchen we had been running for two years.

(They did not know because we assumed everybody already knew. Turns out that is the most expensive assumption in small business.)

You should not be subsidizing someone else's office lease.

Here is what changes.

01The posts get written.

Consistently. In a voice that sounds like your business, not a corporate template.

02Google gets managed.

By someone who understands how it works and updates it when things change, not when your nephew has time.

03Events get promoted right.

Enough lead time, enough detail, enough repetition that people show up knowing what to expect.

04Reviews get collected.

Without you awkwardly asking a customer to pull out their phone while they are still chewing.

05You get your Tuesday nights back.

That one is the whole point.

What our clients are saying.

Real reviews from our Google profile. 5.0 stars across 19 reviews.

★★★★★

"Had the most teams in our Travel Tournament in 20 plus years! Up 35 percent from last year. 2nd best New Years Eve in 51 years! BIG THANK YOU to Nate's marketing efforts."

Terry, Stuart Bowl
★★★★★

"He excels at making posts that stand out from the rest of the herd... I have sent him quite a few referrals and he has helped all of them grow their business' exponentially."

Amanda Naberhaus-Schwantes
★★★★★

"Nate helped me get the back end of my website optimized for SEO and helped me drive out content ideas... What a weight lifted off of me to just have him manage that!"

Sherrie Nelson

What we do.

Enterprise tools for Main Street. A real plan built around your business, your budget, and your town.

Search visibility

Getting found on Google when people nearby are looking for what you offer.

Google Business Profile

Your listing, your reviews, your map presence, managed correctly and kept current.

Social media content

Posts that sound like you, show up consistently, and give people a reason to follow.

Video production

Promo videos that show your town and your business the way locals actually see them. Ask Stuart. We made eleven for them.

Watch the City of Stuart series →

Website builds and updates

Fast, clean, and built for the customer finding you on their phone at 9pm.

Marketing audits

A clear picture of where you stand, what is working, and what to fix first.

Strategy

A real plan built around your business, your budget, and your town.

Who we work with.

Some industries we know from the inside. Pick yours.

Lawn, landscape & outdoor

Our deepest bench: six outdoor companies across Iowa.

Contractors & home services

Work that sells itself, marketed so the phone actually rings.

Restaurants, bars & pubs

We owned a bar in this town for ten years. We know.

Entertainment & events

Venues, theatres, and events where the date does not move.

Legal & professional

They Google you before they call you. What they find decides.

Where we work.

Based in Stuart, working across small town Iowa and the Des Moines metro.

Adel · Menlo · Panora · Guthrie Center · Ankeny · Des Moines metro  and the town we call home.

You do not need a thousand-dollar tool. You need the right one.

The marketing problems most small businesses face do not require enterprise software subscriptions. They require someone who knows how to read the data, cut through the noise, and tell you what actually matters for your business in your town.

We built our own reporting and audit tools so the same insights available to big agencies are available to you, at a price that does not make you choose between marketing and making payroll.

$49 website audit
  • Accessibility and legal risk scan
  • Page speed with plain-English fixes
  • Every client gets these as part of the service
Run your audit at mainstreetaudit.com
Not sure about your Google listing? The Google Business Profile audit is free.

Ready to cross something off the list?

Most of our clients come through word of mouth. If you have heard our name or seen our content, you already have a pretty good idea of what we stand for. We would love to talk about your business.

Let's talk
Nate Westre, Marketing Main Street. Stuart, Iowa.