AI search, SEO, social & paid media

Get found. Get trusted. Get customers.

Mention Group is a Milwaukee marketing agency for AI search (GEO), SEO, social media, and paid media. We study how your customers ask, search, scroll, and choose, then do the work that gets you found in all four places.

From travel and tourism to manufacturing, municipalities, events, professional services, and local businesses, we help organizations understand their market, sharpen their story, and turn visibility into action.

In the newsAs heard on WUWM 89.7 FM, Milwaukee’s NPR: our SmokeDar air-quality app. We build fast, with discoverability and accessibility baked in.

Discoverability means showing up where decisions now happen: AI answers, Google search, maps, reviews, social, and paid media.

Your visibility check▲ +15%
47%
Overall visibility, this month
AI answers34%
Google search & maps72%
Social41%
Paid reach58%
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Times cited in AI answers
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Gaps to close first
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Illustrative example. Your check uses your real data.

Where your customers decide now

Built for people. Readable by machines. Trusted by both.

What we do

Four places people decide whether you exist.

AI answers, search, social, and paid media. We do the research, the strategy, and the work, in all four.

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AI Search & GEO

Get cited in ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. Structured content, entity authority, and the signals engines trust.

How we do it
02

SEO & Local

Technical, content, authority, and maps. The foundation every AI answer is built on.

How we do it
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Social Media

Organic social, community, listening, and engagement. The craft Mention was built on.

How we do it
04

Paid Media

Google Ads, Meta, programmatic, and CTV. Capture the demand once you are found. With Mention Media.

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Also in the toolkit: market and competitor research, website strategy and conversion, reviews and reputation, and accessibility reviews with a specialist partner.

Start here

Start with a free visibility check.

Tell us your brand and we’ll show you where you’re missing in AI answers, search, maps, and social, and what to fix first.

Want the full picture? The Mention Report adds a scored benchmark, competitor comparison, gap analysis, and a 30/60/90 plan ranked by impact.

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What the check covers:

  • AI answers: who gets cited in your category, and whether it’s you
  • Search and maps: rankings, technical health, and the near-me moment
  • Social: where your buyers are, and whether you show up there
  • Reviews and reputation signals engines and people trust
  • Your own data, in plain language, yours to keep

See it for yourself

Which surface are you losing?

Pick where your buyers look. We’ll show the gap we most often find, and how we close it.

AI Answers

AI assistants name competitors and leave you out, or describe you on old positioning. We make your brand the cited source: structured content, entity authority, and the signals engines trust.

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“Mention updated our website so it shows up better in AI search, and this year we’re already hearing from more customers through places like Gemini.”
Beth Handle, Owner, Milwaukee Kayak Company

Check your visibility

Tell us a little and we’ll check how your brand shows up in AI answers, search, and social.

Results, documented

We do not theorize about AI search. We measure it.

We publish the AI Mention Report, a sourced, dated reading of who gets cited in AI answers, then bring the same rigor to your search, social, and paid work.

1.3M
reached launching Jurassic Journey USA from a cold start
60:1
peak campaign ROAS once demand was captured (with Mention Media)
2013
female-founded as a communications firm, now a discoverability practice
100/100
our own Google PageSpeed scores across the board, most sites land in the 30s to 50s, test yours

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Case studies

Real work, real outcomes.

A few of the brands and missions we’ve helped get found, get trusted, and grow.

Wisconsin Bike Federation

+150% traffic, 2× ridership

Search, content, and campaign work for Ride Across WI grew website traffic 150% and doubled ridership.

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Milwaukee Kayak Company

Found at the high-intent moment

Local SEO, reviews, and paid media built for seasonal demand, with a steady stream of new 5-star reviews.

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The Explorium Brewpub

Reputation at scale

Multi-location reputation management across three locations, with dozens of new 5-star Google reviews.

See the work ↗
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Why Mention

A partner, not a vendor.

We help founder-led companies, family businesses, nonprofits, and growth teams become easier to find, easier to trust, and easier to choose, with Fortune 500 discipline and boutique attention.

Evidence-led

We publish a sourced AI visibility benchmark and run that same methodology on you. Our research discipline comes from years working with Forrester research: we build white papers and benchmarks, not hunches.

Full-funnel, one roof

Marketing to get found and trusted, Media to capture demand. One accountable partner.

Easy to work with

A vetted bench for scale, no bloated retainers, right-sized engagements, and you always get your own data.

Senior & boutique

You work with the owner and a senior team. Small on purpose, deep on craft.

A plan you can act on

Every engagement starts with a visibility check and a 30/60/90 plan ranked by impact.

Proven range

Trusted by 100+ brands and missions since 2013, from the Milwaukee Bucks and Northwestern Mutual to local challengers.

See where you stand today

Be the brand AI mentions, Google ranks, and people share.

Then decide how far ahead you want to get.