Am I in the wrong place? Not an IM Warrior.

I am not an internet marketer.

I am a professional addressing a local market, looking for insight into local SEO issues and opportunities for my own site. I sell nothing online. My site exists to make my phone ring.

I am branding myself in a way that is very much against the grain of my competitors, but hopefully on the front end of a trend. I don't know how else to break in to this fairly locked-up local market without a gargantuan budget and besides, I have a passion for this against-the-grain approach.

My impression so far from this and related venues is that the primary and almost exclusive focus is to serve businesses which provide value and accept payment exclusively online. In fact a significant slice of it seems to be people selling one another info on how to sell one another info.

No offense. The forum wouldn't be thriving if it didn't yield real value. If IMers can rise financially by lifting one another's bootstraps, there is nothing wrong with that.

But since I am not an Internet Marketer in the sense that my whole business and focus is online, is there another venue I should be trying instead?

Will I be unwelcome or in the way (or squandering valuable time) if I start spending time here, trying to tease out ideas for online marketing of my very not-online business? (and of course meanwhile trying to contribute feedback in any useful way I can, just to be a good citizen.)

Finally, if there is a region of this forum custom-tailored for people like me, one which I obviously have not found yet, please point me to it and accept my thanks.