Local business video ads, every week, without losing your evening

What running a small shop actually looks like

A hairdresser, a carpenter, a florist, a wine merchant: you work with your hands, often alone or with one other person. You know you should be on social media. You post on a Monday, then the week gets away from you and the account stays silent for three weeks.

Ideas aren't the issue. There's always something to say: a Saturday slot that opened up, gift cards before Mother's Day, a new treatment, summer opening hours. The hard part is turning it into a video at night, after closing, with a phone and an editing app you never open.

For a local business, showing up regularly matters more than special effects. The point is to be there week after week, so that the day someone nearby needs a haircut or a made-to-measure shelf, your name comes to mind.

A small business video ad: what it replaces and what it doesn't

adkix reads your site or your Instagram, your promise, your colours and your logo, then generates shots in the style you pick. Nobody comes to your shop. The haircut on screen isn't one you did and the workshop isn't yours: these are images created for your brand.

So it replaces the announcement video, the one that never gets made for lack of time: what's new this week, the offer of the month, your trade explained in thirty seconds. It does not replace proof of your craft.

For a craftsperson or a salon, proof is the real work: a before and after of a real client who agreed to it, the finished piece in the actual home, today's window display. Film those on your phone. Alternate: an adkix video for the message, a real photo or clip to show what you do.

A promo video for local shops in four moves

1. Give your website or your handle

   No website? Your Instagram account is enough. adkix reads what you offer and your visual style from it.

2. Choose what to say

   The AI suggests a few angles based on what it read. Keep one, or ask for others.

3. Read and approve

   The style and the script go through you before anything is produced. Fix an address, an opening day, the name of a service.

4. Post or schedule

   You download the vertical MP4. On a monthly plan you can also schedule it to go out on your networks.

One video idea a week, by trade

Example: a hair salon that opens on Mondays

A made-up example, not a customer. A neighbourhood salon with two stylists decides to open on Mondays, the day almost every salon nearby is closed. Word needs to get out fast, and for several weeks in a row.

The manager gives the salon's Instagram handle, picks the angle 'the day everything is shut' and a soft style in the tones of the shopfront. She reads the script, fixes the hours and downloads the video that same evening. In the weeks after, she alternates it with real photos of cuts.

The script idea:

• On Mondays, Sofia finally had time. Her hairdresser didn't.
• Every shutter on the street was down.
• Here, Mondays are open. Book your slot.