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Target Rocket 🚀 Local SEO and SMM for local businesses so search engines - and clients - find you first. You’re a business owner. But you’ve had enough. But how? How? Interested?

In fact, you’re a great business owner who offers a great service. But people on the internet can’t find your service so they send their money elsewhere – most likely to your competition. You want to offer your great service to the people on the other side of the computer screen. Welcome to Target Rocket. We’re not your mother’s web guys. Focused on local SEO and conversions, we turn websites into

number one sales guys for service businesses. We're a team of web designers, SEO experts and ad managers who are sold on making your company more money through quality leads from the world wide web. We do it by a science of tested tactics that get websites ranking well for location-specific keywords. We do it through targeted ads that reach the wallets of soon-to-be customers. And we do it by constantly reassessing, testing, and applying new techniques to ensure that our clients are number one (where is our foam finger?). Awesome – you’re one step ahead of your competition in harnessing the financial power that the internet brings to your payroll. Check out the hassle-free up front pricing or learn a bit of insight through our growing collection of client case studies (like how Katie’s Cars & Coffee's website saw a yearly increase of 40% web traffic for four years straight). We want you to be successful, and we want these websites to be successful - that's why this works. At Target Rocket, our mission is to effectively and cohesively integrate web design, ads, and local SEO to convert ready-to-buy customers into your long lasting (paying) clients.

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04/05/2026

Happy Easter or, should I say, 01001000 01100001 01110000 01110000 01111001 00100000 01000101 01100001 01110011 01110100 01100101 01110010

The GBB or the Good-Better-Best Strategy The Good Better or Best options is a strategy that works psychologically within...
03/30/2026

The GBB or the Good-Better-Best Strategy

The Good Better or Best options is a strategy that works psychologically within your customers in a few ways. You’ve probably heard of it by way of “tierd pricing” and we’ve all experienced it when we’ve driven up to the Chick Fil A drive thru and looked through the options where you can order a 6 count for X amount ooooor upgrade it to an 8 count for just a few dollars more and hit with a, “Want to make it a meal with a drink for just X?”

1. The Good Better Best strategy reduces decision fatigue (analysis paralysis). It’s hard to get overwhelmed when you only have three options that are similar but visually different.

2. It enhances perceived value, especially when you’re specific with the better and best options. People can see what they are getting (or what they aren’t) and justify the higher tier because they can see the difference

3. It maximizes your audience. You can now reach people at different price points that you wouldn’t normally reach when they have submit a quote before knowing a price.

So why does it work on the brain so well?

Price Anchoring: The “Best” option makes the “Better” option look like a bargain by comparison. Even if few people buy the “Best” tier, its presence increases the perceived value of the middle tier. You’d want to place your “Better” tier as your go-to because that’s what most folks will order. So, make it work for you and for them!

The Compromise Effect: Human beings are naturally wired to avoid extremes. We often shy away from the “cheapest” (fear of low quality) and the “most expensive” (fear of overspending), making the middle option the most comfortable choice.

Customer Segmentation: It allows you to serve different types of customers (the budget-conscious vs. the luxury buyers) with a single product line. While we are probably focusing on the “Better” tier, we can still get folks in at a lower price point (easier options) and higher price points (and they are willing to pay for the extras).

In 2006, a group of scientists ran a study in a coffee shop using a loyalty rewards card.To group A: they gave a card wi...
03/15/2026

In 2006, a group of scientists ran a study in a coffee shop using a loyalty rewards card.

To group A: they gave a card with 12 blank squares and 2 of them already filled in. Meaning, they were visually 2 steps closer to earning their first reward coffee.

To group B: they gave a card with only 10 blank squares with 0 filled in.

The loyalty rewards were literally the same. 12 squares with 2 already checked, meaning 10 more squares to go and the other set had only 10 squares total.

Each group had to earn the same number of rewards to get the free coffee.

The study showed that participants with the card that had 12 squares and 2 already checked in actually earned their reward faster than those with the card that had 10 blank squares.

This is “The Goal Gradient Effect.” This concept was coined in 1932 by Clark Hull who he figured out people work harder when they are closer to the goal.

Give your customers some “free” incentive to come back and watch them, well, come back.

Merry Christmas from your team at Target Rocket!
12/25/2025

Merry Christmas from your team at Target Rocket!

Instagram Update: > from 30 to 5Instagram has long been huge on the use of hashtags to categorize content from the creat...
12/01/2025

Instagram Update: > from 30 to 5

Instagram has long been huge on the use of hashtags to categorize content from the creators themselves. Listen, I know that I started running out of relatable hashtags around the number 20 mark and 30- heck, I was putting random ones like and .

The head of Instagram has been saying for a while now that the platform is going away from hashtags and, with the burst of Ai this year, it’s no longer needing the help of the end user to figure out what feeds your content belongs in.

So, what should be your new hashtag strategy? Super specific hashtags and well-rounded content. If you’re just makin’ posts about landscaping and using the hashtag “ ”- you might just end up in the feeds of anyone interested in landscaping or those who call themselves landscapes. Instead, focus on more specific hashtags like, “ ” or “ ”.

Make sure your captions are including your keywords vs putting them all in your hashtags and also use your the Locations feature to end up in local feeds of home owners around McLean.

While it feels we have lost an option, I promise you we’ve not. The bots are just takin’ over and now we don’t have to type meaningless hashtags over and over.

Reels Really are Here to StayToday, Instagram is rollin’ out their new Navigation Bar which will make Reels front and ce...
10/17/2025

Reels Really are Here to Stay

Today, Instagram is rollin’ out their new Navigation Bar which will make Reels front and center. This is Instagram’s push to rival its competitor, TikTok, which is primarily a video app.

You’ll be able to swipe between your camera and your Reels so it’s even easier to catch that action, well, in action!

Reels are short, formed videos that, according to a study done by Zebracat, get 22% more engagement than static photo posts! Reels recently got an upgrade to 3 minutes so you can pack in more education, info and updates into one post.

To help end-users adapt, Instagram rolled out a sister app called “Edits” where you can create your seamless video there and instantly port it over to Instagram to upload.

What we do know is that video marketing ain’t going anywhere and, if anything, is comin’ front row and center. Haven’t jumped into the world of video marketing yet? What’s holdin’ you back!?

✨How Ai can cost you Sales✨We all know how useful Ai can be, from crafting a caption for your latest project reveal to c...
10/15/2025

✨How Ai can cost you Sales✨

We all know how useful Ai can be, from crafting a caption for your latest project reveal to creating a flyer to share with your community groups of your upcomin’ event, it’s come a long way even in the short time it’s been available to us end-users.

Now Ai is everywhere. My Gmail account is constantly wanting me to use it and Canva has an awesome Ai feature that can help you edit colors and text- it’s literally everywhere.

The issue now is that Ai is *now available* to aaaaaall us end-users makin’ it a lot more noticeable to spot in the wild. First adapters were able to use it free and fancy because no one could spot the signs, but as more folks use Ai in their daily lives and businesses, these tells are becoming a lot more telling.

We were discussing a great email about the cost of Ai and it is a super interesting read and makes you think twice about relying fully on Ai for your small business.

The cost of using Ai can be more than you know. Ai loves a “—“ which probably won’t turn away potential buyers, but can tell you end user that you’ve left your posts and captions up to a robot.

The write-up goes on to say that even emojis that Ai uses can be an instant turn-off to potential clients and keep them scrollin’ onto bigger and better. Certain emojis scream Ai and can be an instant tell when they see your social media posts. Ai gravitates towards emojis like the ✨ Sparkle ✨ and the ✅ Green Check ✅ causing your end-users to instantly recognize the Ai coded post.

The random hashtags that Ai generates at the end of your Facebook Post are a huge tell. Things like “ ” and “ ” aren’t doing your posts any favors on reach, but are a dead giveaway that you’ve used Ai.

Use Ai to create a subject line for your monthly newsletters? Ai loves using words over and over and over to anyone who enters an inquiry. Ai loves using words like, “Navigating the landscape” and “Essential” which can instantly be a turn-off to potential readers and affect your open-rates.

Am I saying don’t use Ai? No- but insert yourself back into your business and use Ai as a starting point, not a landing pad.

Remember how we said you’d wanna be careful what you said in private Facebook Groups because even though it feels privat...
10/13/2025

Remember how we said you’d wanna be careful what you said in private Facebook Groups because even though it feels private- your posts can absolutely become public? Whether it’s a member who doesn’t like you or a family member of the person you’re posting about- nothing is private in the world of the online web.

Meta is makin’ a change where they are now asking to highlight private group member’s posts that have done particularly well to showcase to potential group members to get them to join.

Groups are the best thing Facebook has going for it right now, but, to avoid spam accounts, many group admins have turned their public groups to private makin’ it harder for new folks to wanna join a group. Someone happening upon “Western Prince William Chatter” can probably assume, from the name, that it’s a local group made up of locals who like to talk, but there are a lot more ambiguous names out there where you might not know what the group is about.

Now, when you click to a group to join, it’ll show you some highlighted posts that you can read through before joining the group. A way to familiarize yourself with the content before answering the group questions and requesting to join.

Right now- your name won’t show and it’ll just say “Group Member”, but it doesn’t say that will always be the case. You currently have the option to deny a post from being showcased, but who knows if that option will stay around or not.

So far, I have a local community group I admin that is giving me the option for this, and it’s pretty interesting. The posts it wants to show are the drama filled ones that get a lot of group engagement.

Think about this the next time you wanna join a group and talk about “I have this client who is the WORST at paying ontime” posts because those can come back to bite ya.

Just like anything with Meta, they are just testing this out and they can pull it at any time.

Update to Groups: Community Chats will be going away soonYou might run, mod or be in a group that has rolled out the cha...
08/11/2025

Update to Groups: Community Chats will be going away soon

You might run, mod or be in a group that has rolled out the chat feature which allows members of the groups to connect on a more real-time basis. These chats were created by admins and let members of the groups join in on them as they saw fit.

An example of one I was in was a Local Networking Group created a chat for folks who wanted to be involved in the in-person networking events with regards to setup, getting people signed in and so on and so forth. It was like a chapter of a broader book if you think about it.

The issue? You had to be part of that group to access that chat. The new rollout, “Communities on Messenger” will allow non-group members to be able to participate in chats. This is Meta’s effort to bolster Messengers platform as a stand-alone app in 2025 and to simplify how folks community on Meta’s apps.

Community Chats will be paused beginning August 29, 2025 and at a later date, deleted.

Instagram’s newest update is a similar feature that is on Snapchat and its location sharing.The new Instagram Map’s feat...
08/07/2025

Instagram’s newest update is a similar feature that is on Snapchat and its location sharing.

The new Instagram Map’s feature allows you to share your location with friends on the map.

You can choose to share your location (and it’s pretty precise) with the following:

-“Friends” (aka followers who follow you back)

-“Close Friends” (aka people who choose from your followers)

-“Only These Friends) (aka another subset of people you choose)

-“No One” (aka location sharing will be off)

Supposedly it isn’t turned on until you choose to turn it on, but some folks on TikTok said theirs was turned on automatically.

If you’re worried, double check by going into messages, clicking the Map and see if you have a red arrow through the right icon.

Happy 4th from your team here at Target Rocket!
07/04/2025

Happy 4th from your team here at Target Rocket!

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