August 7, 2025 • 5 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Something you should go Something you should know is brought
to you by Genesis gooldira dot com. That's also something
you should know. You can put your retirement plan. I'm
the gold Standard. Learn more and get a free gold
and Silver guide at Genesis gooldr dot com. Excited to
visit right now with Nate from the Local Best dot
com and the survey is going on now but not
(00:21):
for much longer. Monday is the final day to get
your votes in if you'd like to vote for a
local business to be the Local Best. And we've got
Nate joining us right now. Hello sir, how are you doing?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I'm doing great man, how are you doing?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
I'm doing fantastic And I encourage people to get their
votes in at thelocal beest dot com. The deadline is approaching.
It's Monday, and what time does everything wrap up for
voting Monday?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Voting closes eleven fifty nine on Monday, eleven fifty nine
pm Monday, August fourth, So you have the whole day Monday,
but as soon as it crack's midnight for Tuesday, it's
over with.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
So you've got today, you've got this weekend, you've got Monday.
You don't have a whole lot of time. And then
once the voting is done, then you guys get to
do the hard part. You get to go through and
crunch and numbers in tally, and then we all eventually
get to find out who the winners are.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Yeah, so, yeah, you're exactly right. So what happens every
year is we finalize the voting on August it's actually
the first Monday in August. Then we take about a
week John and we kind of throw out some bad ballots.
I want to make sure that all the votes are
coming from local people, check IP addresses and whatnot. And
then the actual published winners usually go on Thelocal beest
(01:31):
dot com about a week later. I'm gonna call it
August tenth ish somewhere in there, and there's yeah, over
two hundred categories. We're publishing the best places in town,
not because we say so, but because about eight thousand
people in Sioux Falls take the time to vote and
publish their results, and we give consumers in the area
a really quick guide of the best places to go
based on word of mouth.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
I love it Thelocal beest dot com and how long
have you guys been doing this survey? It's a bit now,
isn't it.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Yeah, this is our twenty first year. We started this
in the very first year was two thousand and five,
and we've been going, going every year and it's just
been it's been awesome. People embrace it. I think the
businesses really get fired up about it. And at the
end of the day, it's just something to give people
when they're trying to figure out where to go and
they want trusted opinions, and who better to give those opinions?
(02:18):
And consumers are slight themselves.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Right, And it doesn't take a long time. You go in,
you fill out the survey, you finish it, and if
you don't want to vote for everybody, you don't have to.
You can just pick and choose. How many categories do
you have? And Nate, do you have people who vote
in every single category?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yeah? They pick and choose and yeah, you're right. You
go to the local beest dot com and if you've
never voted before, there is some setup where we get
some demographic information front me because we want our data
and we want our study to be really, really good.
But once you've got that profile built, then each year
what you need to do is at least come back
in and log onto that profile and have activity in
(02:54):
your profile. And then if you didn't want to go
back in and change all your votes in the previous
year because you might not have had a change onion,
you don't have to. All those votes will roll over,
but you do have to have activity in your profile
to to to have those votes count. And you know,
really it depends. We do have some people that go
through and complete all two hundred of those. We have
a people that we have people that just do you know,
(03:15):
five or ten I think on average a consumer might
complete about twenty five thirty votes. Obviously there's got to
be there's going to be some that are a lot
more than that and a lot less. But we want
we want them coming back, and we want to make
it easy for him to do again.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
The website is Thelocalbest dot com. And you guys have
been doing this for a long long time. Do you
have many businesses who have been the Local Best every
single year you've been doing the survey?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yeah, So here's some here's some quick stats for you, John,
you might like this. I think the last time I look,
there's about twenty thousand businesses and zoo falls okay, and
I think about six hundred each year get voted Local Best,
so we're shaving off a pretty thin percentage right there.
And then there's about two hundred of those six hundred
that are number ones, obviously because we have about two
(03:59):
hundred two categories. But I think when I did some
math on this a while back, I think there's been
about thirty five or forty who have been number one
every single year since we started this. So that's that's
some pretty rare air.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I love that. Again, the deadline for voting is Monday
at midnight, but you don't have to wait till Monday.
You don't have to even wait till this weekend. Do
it today Thelocal Best dot com Nate, thank you for
your time.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Hey, buddy, I appreciate it, and thanks for the support.
Thanks for your airtime, and and best of luck for
you through this voting process too, because you're kind of
one of the guys too.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Man, absolutely, and we would love your vote. You can
vote for the John and Heidi Show for the best
radio program and Sunny Radio for the best radio station. Again,
do all of that either today or this weekend, or
at the very bare minimum, do it by Monday. The
voting deadline is Monday at midnight, so do it as
soon as you can. The website once again is the
(04:53):
local best dot com. Hey, someday you should know. Something
you should know is bra to you by Genesis gooldr
dot com. Put your retirement plan on the gold standard.
Get a free gold and Silver guide now at Genesis
goold r dot com
Something you should go Something you should know is brought
to you by Genesis gooldira dot com. That's also something
you should know. You can put your retirement plan. I'm
the gold Standard. Learn more and get a free gold
and Silver guide at Genesis gooldr dot com. Excited to
visit right now with Nate from the Local Best dot
com and the survey is going on now but not
(00:21):
for much longer. Monday is the final day to get
your votes in if you'd like to vote for a
local business to be the Local Best. And we've got
Nate joining us right now. Hello sir, how are you doing?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I'm doing great man, how are you doing?
Speaker 1 (00:33):
I'm doing fantastic And I encourage people to get their
votes in at thelocal beest dot com. The deadline is approaching.
It's Monday, and what time does everything wrap up for
voting Monday?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Voting closes eleven fifty nine on Monday, eleven fifty nine
pm Monday, August fourth, So you have the whole day Monday,
but as soon as it crack's midnight for Tuesday, it's
over with.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
So you've got today, you've got this weekend, you've got Monday.
You don't have a whole lot of time. And then
once the voting is done, then you guys get to
do the hard part. You get to go through and
crunch and numbers in tally, and then we all eventually
get to find out who the winners are.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Yeah, so, yeah, you're exactly right. So what happens every
year is we finalize the voting on August it's actually
the first Monday in August. Then we take about a
week John and we kind of throw out some bad ballots.
I want to make sure that all the votes are
coming from local people, check IP addresses and whatnot. And
then the actual published winners usually go on Thelocal beest
(01:31):
dot com about a week later. I'm gonna call it
August tenth ish somewhere in there, and there's yeah, over
two hundred categories. We're publishing the best places in town,
not because we say so, but because about eight thousand
people in Sioux Falls take the time to vote and
publish their results, and we give consumers in the area
a really quick guide of the best places to go
based on word of mouth.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
I love it Thelocal beest dot com and how long
have you guys been doing this survey? It's a bit now,
isn't it.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Yeah, this is our twenty first year. We started this
in the very first year was two thousand and five,
and we've been going, going every year and it's just
been it's been awesome. People embrace it. I think the
businesses really get fired up about it. And at the
end of the day, it's just something to give people
when they're trying to figure out where to go and
they want trusted opinions, and who better to give those opinions?
(02:18):
And consumers are slight themselves.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Right, And it doesn't take a long time. You go in,
you fill out the survey, you finish it, and if
you don't want to vote for everybody, you don't have to.
You can just pick and choose. How many categories do
you have? And Nate, do you have people who vote
in every single category?
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yeah? They pick and choose and yeah, you're right. You
go to the local beest dot com and if you've
never voted before, there is some setup where we get
some demographic information front me because we want our data
and we want our study to be really, really good.
But once you've got that profile built, then each year
what you need to do is at least come back
in and log onto that profile and have activity in
(02:54):
your profile. And then if you didn't want to go
back in and change all your votes in the previous
year because you might not have had a change onion,
you don't have to. All those votes will roll over,
but you do have to have activity in your profile
to to to have those votes count. And you know,
really it depends. We do have some people that go
through and complete all two hundred of those. We have
a people that we have people that just do you know,
(03:15):
five or ten I think on average a consumer might
complete about twenty five thirty votes. Obviously there's got to
be there's going to be some that are a lot
more than that and a lot less. But we want
we want them coming back, and we want to make
it easy for him to do again.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
The website is Thelocalbest dot com. And you guys have
been doing this for a long long time. Do you
have many businesses who have been the Local Best every
single year you've been doing the survey?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yeah, So here's some here's some quick stats for you, John,
you might like this. I think the last time I look,
there's about twenty thousand businesses and zoo falls okay, and
I think about six hundred each year get voted Local Best,
so we're shaving off a pretty thin percentage right there.
And then there's about two hundred of those six hundred
that are number ones, obviously because we have about two
(03:59):
hundred two categories. But I think when I did some
math on this a while back, I think there's been
about thirty five or forty who have been number one
every single year since we started this. So that's that's
some pretty rare air.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
I love that. Again, the deadline for voting is Monday
at midnight, but you don't have to wait till Monday.
You don't have to even wait till this weekend. Do
it today Thelocal Best dot com Nate, thank you for
your time.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Hey, buddy, I appreciate it, and thanks for the support.
Thanks for your airtime, and and best of luck for
you through this voting process too, because you're kind of
one of the guys too.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Man, absolutely, and we would love your vote. You can
vote for the John and Heidi Show for the best
radio program and Sunny Radio for the best radio station. Again,
do all of that either today or this weekend, or
at the very bare minimum, do it by Monday. The
voting deadline is Monday at midnight, so do it as
soon as you can. The website once again is the
(04:53):
local best dot com. Hey, someday you should know. Something
you should know is bra to you by Genesis gooldr
dot com. Put your retirement plan on the gold standard.
Get a free gold and Silver guide now at Genesis
goold r dot com
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