For local business owners

Be the local business everyone knows. In print, in search and in the feed.

Print, digital and full-service social media marketing, built with the City Lifestyle publisher in your city. We handle the design, the targeting and the reporting.

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How a City Lifestyle campaign is built, placed and measured.
Marketing solutions

Three ways to reach the same homes.
One conversation.

Print

The community magazine

Mailed every month to the most affluent homes in your market. It sits on the coffee table for weeks, and being in it makes your business look established in a way an ad platform cannot buy.

Digital

A presence on CityLifestyle.com

A business page and the articles written about you, living on a site with a multi-million monthly audience. Search engines and AI assistants index those pages, so customers find you when they go looking.

Real campaigns

Find a business like yours.

Eleven campaigns across health, home services, food, retail, auto, education and real estate. Pick your industry to see the creative that ran and the numbers exactly as they came back.

Client stories

Hear it from business owners like you.

Med spas, restaurants, schools, audiologists and senior care. Real City Lifestyle advertisers on what the partnership actually did for their business.

Every plan starts with a conversation with your local publisher, who builds it around your market, your goals and your budget.

Partnering with Portland City Lifestyle has been a game changer for our business, and the best marketing investment we have ever made. Since we launched print and social together, the phone rings more, and the calls are for higher-end projects. People see us in the magazine and then find us online.

Nate Nelson
Owner, Back Bay Builders, Portland ME
$350K to $750K
Project range he is now winning
Print and social
Running together since launch
Choose your investment

Flexible packages built for local businesses.

Guaranteed impressions at every level. The difference is how much of your market you reach.

Bronze

15,000+
Guaranteed impressions
Reach
Your immediate community.
Best for
Staying top of mind with the neighborhoods closest to you.
Most chosen

Silver

30,000+
Guaranteed impressions
Reach
Your wider service area.
Best for
Driving engagement from people who do not know you yet.

Gold

50,000+
Guaranteed impressions
Reach
The entire local market.
Best for
Becoming the name people think of first in your category.
Included in every package
Ad design by our creative team
Placement across Facebook and Instagram, plus Messenger, WhatsApp and Threads
Targeting mapped to our print distribution
A live performance dashboard
Monthly optimization

Every plan starts with a conversation with your local publisher, who builds it around your market, your goals and your budget.

The Local Marketing Playbook

Free marketing advice for local business owners.

Practical, step-by-step guides written for owners who run the business and the marketing.

Read the playbook
Common questions

Straight answers before you talk to anyone.

Services and cost

What marketing services does City Lifestyle offer local businesses?

Three, sold together or separately by the publisher in your market. Print advertising in the community magazine mailed to homes near you, a business page and articles on CityLifestyle.com, and full-service social media marketing across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp and Threads with guaranteed impressions. Design, targeting and reporting are handled for you in all three.

How much does it cost to advertise with City Lifestyle?

There is no single rate card. Cost depends on your market, the size of the audience mailed there and which mix of print, digital and social you choose. Your local publisher builds a plan around your goals and your budget.

What does City Lifestyle social media marketing include?

Everything from strategy through placement. We handle the creative design, the copy, the audience targeting and the paid placement, with guaranteed impressions. Ads run on Facebook and Instagram, and extend to Messenger, WhatsApp and Threads for additional reach. You do not run any of it yourself.

How campaigns work

Who will see my ads?

The same households the magazine already mails to. Our print distribution is mapped to affluent, high-intent neighborhoods, and we use that same geographic targeting for your digital ads, then layer in behavioral and interest-based targeting for your category.

How is this different from boosting my own posts?

Boosting reaches people who already follow you and buys short-term engagement. These campaigns are built to reach new high-value audiences, support retargeting and send traffic wherever you want it, whether that is your website, your City Lifestyle page or a booking form.

What if I already work with another agency?

That is fine. Co-branded campaigns are designed to complement what you are already running, not replace it. What we add is access to an engaged local audience and the credibility of appearing alongside an established community brand.

Results and tracking

How do I track campaign performance?

Through a personalized dashboard, available any time, showing impressions, clicks and click-through rate. You can also supply your own UTM links so City Lifestyle traffic and conversions show up in your analytics or CRM.

Why do you guarantee impressions instead of clicks?

Because cost per click and cost per impression pricing swings with auction dynamics, and a cheap click that does not convert is not worth much. Guaranteed visibility gives you a known quantity: consistent exposure to the right households, which is what builds recognition over time.

Will this help me show up in search and AI answers?

It can. Advertisers get a business page on CityLifestyle.com plus the articles your local magazine publishes about you. Those pages are indexed by search engines and read by AI assistants, so your business can surface when people nearby look for what you do.

Your city already knows the magazine.
Let it know you.

Tell us a little about your business and the City Lifestyle publisher in your market will follow up to build a plan around it.