North Dakota · Central and Mountain time
Marketing for North Dakota businesses that cover a lot of ground
When the next town is an hour away, people call the business they can find and trust online. We help that business be yours.
Find your plan in North Dakota
What it takes to get found in North Dakota.
North Dakota search runs through a handful of hubs. Fargo and West Fargo, with Moorhead across the river in Minnesota, form the biggest market, and Bismarck and Mandan, Grand Forks and Minot each pull in customers from a long way around. In the Bakken, Williston, Watford City and Dickinson see demand that rises and falls with oil activity. Most service businesses cover a wide radius, which makes a listing set up as a service area business, with pages for each town you drive to, the core of being found. Customers here read reviews, call, and expect a straight answer.
Regions we write pages for: the Red River Valley, Bismarck-Mandan, the Bakken, the Badlands.
When demand moves.
Winter is long and hard, so heating, plowing, block heaters, tire shops and towing stay busy from the first cold snap into spring. Spring flooding along the Red River can hit Fargo and Grand Forks some years. Planting and harvest pull farm customers away from everything else, while pheasant and waterfowl seasons bring hunters across the state in the fall. Summer is short and full of construction, lake trips and road work.
Businesses with a lot to gain in North Dakota.
Every one of our 171 industry plans works here. These six stand out.
Marketing a business in North Dakota.
Mind the Mountain time corner
Dickinson, Medora and the southwest corner of the state run on Mountain time while Fargo, Bismarck and Williston are on Central. A shop in Dickinson that takes calls from Bismarck is an hour behind its customers, which matters for when ads run and when someone picks up.
Fargo and Moorhead are one metro
Customers in Fargo, West Fargo and Moorhead treat the metro as one place, river or no river. If you work in Minnesota too, your listing, site and ads should say so and target it.
Plan ads around the oil cycle
Demand in the Bakken can change quickly with drilling activity. Monthly services on a 30-day agreement let you turn ad spend up or down without being stuck in a contract.
Is it worth advertising in a town as small as ours?
In a smaller North Dakota town, a few well-placed ads can cover your whole service area without a big budget. We set Google Ads to the towns and radius you serve, and you pay the ad budget straight to Google with no markup. Google Ads Management is $499 a month, and the weekly report shows the calls it brought.
Do you work with oil field service companies?
Yes. Oil field companies usually sell to operators and contractors rather than homeowners, so the website needs to show capability, safety and equipment clearly, and search targeting is narrow and specific. We can also help with recruiting pages, keeping in mind that Meta treats job ads as an employment Special Ad Category with limited targeting.
How do you work with us from a distance?
Distance does not change much. Everything runs over Google Meet and phone, starting with the free consultation. You can check the live dashboard of calls, form fills, bookings and website visits any time, and ad clients get a weekly report. Call 918-777-1011 if you would rather talk first.
Talk to us about your North Dakota business.
Book a free consultation on Google Meet. We will look at your website, your Google listing and who you are up against in your area, then tell you plainly what we would do and what it costs.
