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Free marketing tools for local businesses

Free tools

Free marketing tools for local businesses.

No signup, no catch — a handful of genuinely useful tools to see where your marketing stands and what to do next. Built by a studio that does this for a living; use them free, or have it done for you.

📊 The Reel Report Card

Grade your Instagram in 60 seconds — hooks, posting, on-camera, and where your bio link goes. Free, no signup, an honest score from your own answers.

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🎬 Content ideas for your niche

Not sure what to post? Six ready-to-film reel concepts for your industry — the hook, what to film, and the one thing to ask for.

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🪞 The Cost Mirror

What does doing your own marketing actually cost? Put in your own hours and hourly value; the math happens in front of you. Nothing saved.

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🧮 Does it pay for itself?

The honest ROI math: put in what one new customer is worth to you and see the break-even against the price. No invented numbers, no hype.

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⚡ Grade any website instantly

Paste any site and see it graded the way a customer's search does — does it load, is it secure, are your socials and email there. Sixty seconds, no signup.

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🔁 The Switch Concierge

Drowning in a complicated platform? See how to leave it in one afternoon — grade, import your contacts, and let your department assemble itself.

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📈 The niche playbooks

The exact source-verified plays that actually work in short-form video, by industry — expertise as gravity, not vibes.

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🏷️ Put your rank on your site

Ranked on The Index? Grab a live badge or a metro stat card — one copy-paste snippet, always current, links back to the public math.

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🎥 The Field Program

Film for local businesses in your city. We handle the clients, the editing, and the posting — you shoot. Apply in two minutes.

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Start with your free gradeSee how we'd run it for you

This report card is based only on the answers you gave — we did not access, scrape, or analyze your Instagram account.

McLaren Visuals is pre-revenue and just getting started — you would be one of the first founding clients.

Free and yours to keep, no obligation.

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