Sam Sarsten

How to Get ChatGPT to Recommend Your Clients

Sam Sarsten is the founder of Local SEO Academy who built his agency from $0 to over $400,000 in under three years by leveraging a repeatable local SEO growth plan. After experiencing the feast-or-famine cycle firsthand, Sam shifted his focus to building stable, recurring revenue through local SEO systems. Today, he helps other web designers turn one-off projects into predictable income by layering SEO retainers on top of their existing services. His work combines real-world agency experience with practical, dead-simple education.

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Learn how to get your clients recommended by AI tools like ChatGPT and Gemini, even though AI search still makes up a small portion of overall search volume. The goal for local businesses has not changed, they want to be recommended. Discover the three steps for getting recommended by AI: tracking the right prompts, pushing the right buttons, and checking their search foundation. Focusing on AI SEO for locally relevant prompts forces a focus on traditional SEO, which is typically good for clients. This approach provides a massive opportunity for web designers to sell high-ticket, ongoing local SEO services.