Get more customers
in Winnipeg.
Keep them coming back.

Grow your local business
with marketing, AI-powered automation, and customer loyalty strategies built to drive repeat revenue & save you time

THE MARKETING TRAP

How do you consistently get new
and returning customers
through your front door without completely bleeding advertising dollars?

Facebook and Google Ads can be expensive and complicated for small businesses.Most marketing agencies charge Fortune 500 prices that don't fit small business budgets.

You need a simple, automated system that brings customers back without the ongoing tech headaches.

Powerful Business Automation

Automated Customer Follow-up:

Stay top of mind effortlessly. We deploy automated text and email workflows that check in with your customers, turning one-time buyers into lifelong regulars on autopilot.

No More Missed Leads

When you are busy serving a customer or on the tools, our system instantly texts back missed callers from a dedicated virtual line. This ensures new inquiries never slip away to the competitor.

Stress-Free Growth Tracking

Forget trying to decode the confusing and exhausting charts from Facebook and Google. Our performance metrics are completely simplified. You know our systems work simply because your phone is ringing and local customers are walking through your door.

Social Media Marketing

Stop wasting time trying to manually track inquiries across multiple messaging apps such as Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. Our unified system changes the game by linking your active social media channels directly into a single automated customer database.The moment a client sends you a direct message, leaves a comment, or submits a form through your profile link, their details securely enter your private database hub. This lets you instantly trigger automated text-back replies and track every single customer inquiry from First Contact straight into your sales pipeline entirely on autopilot.

Raving Fan Newsletter

Keep your community engaged. We can handle creating and scheduling monthly educational updates that build trust and long-term customer retention.

Give your followers a frictionless path to consistently connect with your business. This simple all-in-one mobile landing page organizes your key digital touchpoints into one standalone link, letting customers easily tap to call, browse your services, or follow your active social profiles.

The Real Cost of
Doing Business

The Sunk Cost Truth

Think of it this way: on a slow Tuesday night, you have empty tables in your restaurant, but you still pay your staff to be there. The lights, the heat, or air conditioning are all running; cooking and serving staff are in the kitchen, and management is on duty. Your overhead is completely fixed, meaning those slow hours are actively draining your baseline profits.

Optimizing Idle Hours

Hit send on a single automated SMS broadcast, and your SOS message can instantly fill unbooked calendar gaps.

Turning your business mess into an unforgettable message

When I stand in the front of a room of business owners, I usually don't need a microphone. I stand up, hold the mic and say my name is Barb Swan that's Swan like the big white majestic bird. I learned how to command a room and capture an audience's attention through advanced pitch training directly with media legend Forbes Riley. One of the greatest lessons I took from that world is that you can take your biggest mess and turn it into your message.
Most independent business owners are sitting on a digital mess: confusing web links, missed customer phone calls and an unorganized email list. You didn't go into business to waste frustrating hours fighting with tech jazz, templates or back-end settings.
That is where I step in with years of real-world experience handling hyper-local magazine, advertising and creative media for Best Version Media. I help you clean up the noise.
Using sleek, affordable tools, I can build a simple mobile web hub for your brand that sits directly on your customers' smartphones with its own custom app shortcut icon, then entirely behind the scenes we hook up powerful automated systems that instantly text back your missed calls and send out custom newsletters to grow your customer retention hit. Send on a single automated SMS broadcast and your SOS message can instantly fill on book calendar gaps I handle the creative strategy and organize the tech from top to bottom so your business mess transforms into an elegant message that makes your phone ring. I'm also available for dynamic speaking engagements, workshops, and teaching local businesses how to blend creative media, human psychology, and simple automation to protect their fixed overhead and keep the team billable.

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A Note From a Fellow Winnipeg Entrepreneur & Messaging Expert:

"Hi, In case you are wondering
who I am and why you might consider
doing business with me...
I am an Honours Graduate in Commerce Industry Sales & Marketing
from Red River College.
I'm Barb Swan.
I was born and raised right here in Charleswood.
I lived in River Heights,
and for years,
I owned and operated Strokes of Genius,
a brick-and-mortar
decorating and art supply store located at the corner of Grant and Waverley.

It was a true
local family business.
My wonderful mom, Maureen Kaiser, and
my brother, Kelvin Swan,
frequently worked alongside me.
Standing together as a family behind
a commercial counter in Winnipeg,
I learned firsthand exactly
how hard independent owners work
to stay visible and
build genuine customer loyalty.

We three at Fort Whyte Interpretive Centre

In fact, our dedication to local business along with outstanding customer service
was recognized right here
in the community when we won the Excellence in Entrepreneurship
Award in 2000.

I’ve always been passionate
about breathing new life
into local businesses and
creating vibrant spaces
for neighbours to gather.
I even took on the challenge of purchasing
a
run-down bowling alley.
Over five intense years, I successfully rebuilt, rebranded, and transformed it into
Alley OoPs Fun & Games,
a beloved, thriving community fun spot featured across regional newspapers and magazines for its innovative family programming.

I actually built my businesses
around the principles of
legendary customer service.
To show you how powerful
those principles are,
the co-author of the
world-famous business book
'Raving Fans',
Sheldon Bowles,
physically walked into my shop
at Grant and Waverley,
experienced our service firsthand,
and later presented me with
a personally signed copy
stating that he was
one of my raving fans!

My first intro duction to AI happened around this time
I’ve always believed in the power of
paying it forward.
One day, I stepped up to help
international motivational speaker
and business icon
Forbes Riley
with a massive publishing challenge.
I ended up ghostwriting seven chapters
and editing multiple sections
for a monumental,
820-page
master business anthology
titled
'1 Habit for Entrepreneurial Success' alongside
Steven Samblis and Forbes Riley.
She was so blown away by the impact
of my words that she immediately tapped
me to become a Developmental Editor
for the global publishing company,
1 Habit Press.
In that role, I managed the intense task of compiling and editing the entire
'1 Habit to Thrive in a Post-Covid World' master volume — polishing content from
over 100 international authors in a single,
intense 6-day window.

I later carried that exact passion
for high-impact communication and
deep family roots into my work providing premium community print advertising
and targeted digital campaigns
on Facebook and Google.
My life has truly been shaped by
family, service, and community
a commitment featured on the cover of
a neighbourhood magazine alongside my Mom, now 91 and brother.In my consultations with local owners,
I frequently find that while they love the
power of premium marketing programs,
the structure or commitment
isn't always the right operational fit
for every business
at their current stage of growth.
It is simply one more
marketing expense
that their current monthly budget
wasn't ready to absorb.
I knew there had to be a high-value,
highly accessible alternative
for our local neighbourhood spots.

That search is what led me to align with
The Local Connexxions
a dedicated network of local
business people who genuinely enjoy supporting local businesses.
I chose to join this movement because
I deeply believe in
what they are trying to do,
and the way they are doing it
perfectly fits our ever-changing digital marketplace.

We're building this platform to give
our local independent brands
a cutting-edge, prestigious digital presence right on
our community's
phone screens,
completely bypassing heavy setup friction and clunky app store downloads."

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