ePlus Marketing, LLC

Based in St. Louis, Missouri, ePlus Marketing is a small consultancy operated around Patricia Hughes, working as an AI Marketing Strategist and Fractional CMO. It serves local service businesses, professional firms, and e-commerce companies, with client experience spanning more than 40 industries across St. Louis and nationwide. The agency positions its work around the shift from traditional search ranking toward Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), helping businesses become visible in AI-generated answers from tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity, rather than focusing solely on Google rankings. The core offering is a free GEO Readiness Score, an audit used as the starting point to assess how visible a business currently is to AI search engines and to identify what needs to change. Beyond the audit, services include fractional CMO leadership, marketing strategy development, search engine optimization, email marketing, social media marketing, and other digital marketing support. The stated approach emphasizes building a connected system covering attraction, conversion, retention, and leverage, rather than running isolated tactics such as ad campaigns or social posting in isolation. The agency frames its role as providing senior marketing strategy and direction that guides how other marketing activities and channels are prioritized and executed, informed by decades of general marketing experience combined with a specific focus on adapting strategy to AI-driven search behavior.