Get more Minneapolis customers from Google and ChatGPT
Your Minneapolis customers live in many different neighborhoods, and 82,430 residents aged 5 and over speak a language other than English at home. We build your website and Google listing for the neighborhoods you serve and the languages your customers use, so Google and ChatGPT can read them and name you.
Most of our clients are in Metro Vancouver, where Licheo is based. The work is the same for a business in Minneapolis.
VanPlex, Vancouver, BC: VanPlex transforms Vancouver single-family lots into profitable multiplexes, pairing address-first feasibility data with a builder to developer team that carries each project from the first zoning check all the way to a finished, income-producing building.
MultiLiving, Greater Vancouver, BC: A marketplace built entirely around multiplex homes, duplexes, triplexes and fourplexes, bringing live MLS listings, market data and pre-sales together for buyers who want more than the detached-house option.
Icon Projects, Greater Vancouver & Fraser Valley, BC: A CHBA Master Residential Builder that designs and constructs custom homes and multiplexes across Greater Vancouver, building, as they like to say, for real life rather than for the magazine cover.
Jeff and Simon Ironworks, Metro Vancouver, BC: A CWB-certified welding and fabrication shop that designs, builds and installs structural steel, staircases, railings, gates and custom architectural metalwork for residential, commercial and industrial projects.
Vancouver Stairs, Metro Vancouver, BC: Custom mono-stringer stairs, floating staircases, commercial egress stairs and glass railings, fabricated and installed by a CWB-certified steel shop in Burnaby for homes and businesses across the region.
Vanhess Jewellery, Coquitlam, BC: A family-run studio crafting Canadian-made solid-gold jewellery, engagement rings, wedding bands and bespoke pieces, where each client sits directly with the jeweller through a five-step, hand-finished process.
What Licheo does for a Minneapolis business
A new website, live in two weeks. We move your site to our platform and keep your design and your pages. It loads fast on a phone, and every page shows a visitor how to call you or book.
A page for each service and each area. People often search for the job and the place together. We write one clear page for each service you offer and for each area you serve.
Your Google listing, kept correct. We set up your Google Business Profile, keep your hours, services and photos up to date, and help you ask happy customers for reviews.
Ready for ChatGPT and Google's AI answers. We write your services, your areas and the answers to your customers' common questions so that AI assistants can read them and name your business when someone asks.
A short report every month. You see how many people contacted you through your site and where they found you. Our AI agents do the daily work, and a person on our team checks every change.
Somali, Hmong and Spanish speakers need you too
Of the 402,591 Minneapolis residents aged 5 and over, 82,430 speak a language other than English at home, and 29,431 of them speak Spanish. The city table puts Somali and Hmong inside larger groups. The state table names them: across Minnesota, 92,166 people speak Amharic, Somali or another Afro-Asiatic language at home, and 71,667 speak Hmong.
A family that speaks Somali or Hmong at home is glad to find a clinic, a tax office or a driving school that can help in that language. If your team can, write it on your home page and in your Google listing, in the language itself. When one community brings you many customers, add a page for your main services in that language, written by a person who speaks it.
87 neighborhoods with names people use
The City's official map shows 87 neighborhoods, from Webber - Camden and Shingle Creek in the north to Armatage and Diamond Lake in the south. Residents say Longfellow, Whittier or Linden Hills when they tell you where they live, and those names are a good place to start your pages.
Write a page for each neighborhood where you work, and fill it with what only you can say: the jobs you did there, the time it takes you to arrive, the lake or the avenue near your shop. Keep your address and phone number written the same way on your site, your Google listing and every directory.
Fewer residents, so reviews carry more weight
Minneapolis had 428,579 residents on July 1, 2024, and 429,983 on April 1, 2020. Hennepin County lost residents in the same years. The number of people who could buy from you has stayed close to the same, and most of them already have a business they use.
What makes one of them try you? A person comparing two businesses reads what other customers wrote. In 2024 Hennepin County averaged 2,396 ambulatory health care locations and 2,462 restaurants and other eating places, so a person always has other choices. Ask each happy customer for a Google review, reply to every review, and keep your photos and opening hours current.
Minneapolis facts for business owners
Each fact links to the page where we read it.
Minneapolis had 428,579 residents on July 1, 2024. The Census Bureau's starting figure for April 1, 2020 was 429,983, so the city has 1,404 fewer residents. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2024 population estimates.
Of the 402,591 Minneapolis residents aged 5 and over, 82,430 speak a language other than English at home. 29,431 speak Spanish, 8,393 speak an Asian or Pacific Island language outside the groups the table names, and 27,894 speak a language the table groups as other and unspecified. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2023 5-year estimates, table C16001.
We write a page for each area you serve, for example:
Downtown West
North Loop
Marcy Holmes
Cedar Riverside
Whittier
Powderhorn Park
Longfellow
Seward
Linden Hills
Northeast Park
St. Paul
Bloomington
Edina
Richfield
How it starts
Run the free Get Found Check. Type your website address. In under a minute you see how your business shows up on Google and in AI answers, next to your competitors.
Talk with us. A short call about your services, the areas you serve and the customers you want more of.
We build, then keep working. Your new site is live in two weeks. After that, the work goes on every week.
Questions Minneapolis owners ask us
Why does a competitor's name come up before my Minneapolis business?
Because its website and Google listing answer the search more clearly, in most cases. Hennepin County averaged 44,151 private business locations in 2024, so a Minneapolis customer always sees other names. A page for the exact service, the neighborhood, correct hours and recent reviews all help. Our free Get Found Check shows, side by side, what that competitor has and you do not.
Do I need pages for Minneapolis neighborhoods like Longfellow or Whittier?
You need one for each neighborhood where you have customers. The City's map shows 87 neighborhoods in Minneapolis, and residents use those names. A useful page lists jobs you finished there, how long it takes you to arrive and how to book. Pages for places you never go send you calls you have to turn down.
Should my Minneapolis business have pages in Somali, Hmong or Spanish?
Yes, for your main services, when these communities are among your customers. 29,431 Minneapolis residents speak Spanish at home. Across Minnesota, 92,166 people speak Amharic, Somali or another Afro-Asiatic language and 71,667 speak Hmong. Ask a person who speaks the language to write each page, and list your team's languages in your Google listing.
I own a dental office in Minneapolis. How do new patients find me online?
They find you when your website and Google listing answer their questions clearly. Hennepin County averaged 469 offices of dentists in 2024, so a Minneapolis patient has choices. Show your dentists by name, the insurance you accept, what a first visit costs or how to ask, and real photos of your rooms. Then ask happy patients for reviews.
Can ChatGPT recommend my Minneapolis business to the people who ask it?
It can when it finds clear facts about you. ChatGPT, and the AI answers in Google, draw on your website, your Google listing, reviews and other pages that talk about your Minneapolis business. We write your services, neighborhoods, languages and answers to common questions in plain words, keep your details the same everywhere, and check each month whether ChatGPT names you.
Do I lose my current Minneapolis website if I work with you?
No. We copy your site onto our platform with its look, its pages and its web address, so Google keeps what it has learned about your Minneapolis business. Within two weeks the new version is online. Then we add what is missing, such as neighborhood pages and pages in other languages, and keep working on it every week.
How will I know whether the work brings more Minneapolis customers?
Once a month, a short report in plain language reaches you. It shows how many people called, wrote or booked through your website, and where each Minneapolis customer found you: Google search, Google Maps, ChatGPT or another site. You can set one month beside the next and ask us about any number you see.
What does the free Get Found Check show a Minneapolis business?
In under a minute, the Get Found Check reads your Minneapolis website and scores it with a letter grade. It shows how ready your site is for Google and for AI answers such as ChatGPT, lists the first fixes to make, and compares you with competitors in your field. There is no cost and no account to create.
Minneapolis is not growing. Can my business still get new customers online?
Yes. Minneapolis had 428,579 residents on July 1, 2024, 1,404 fewer than in April 2020, and those residents still search when they need a service. Your new customers will mostly be people who used another business before. A clear website, a complete Google listing and steady reviews give them a reason to try you.
See how your business shows up in Minneapolis
The Get Found Check is free and takes under a minute. It shows what customers see about you on Google and in AI answers, and what to fix first.