Founder of LocalDominate
Markus Wimböck
One person is responsible for your project. That person is me.
I come from hotels: hotel management school, resort operations, then the digital and e-commerce side of a grand hotel in St. Moritz. With LocalDominate I plan, build and market brand, website and Google presence for hotels and local businesses as one project.
- Background
- Over seven years in hospitality and digital marketing
- Where
- Works remotely. Meetings by video.
- Languages
- German (native), English (fluent)
- Contact
- info@localdominate.org
What I bring from hotels
I worked in the business before I worked on its marketing.
A hotel sells the same rooms every day and has to be found, chosen and booked again each time. A restaurant, a practice or a workshop is in the same position. This is what the hotel years changed about how I work.
I learned the trade before the tools
Background
I trained in hotel management in Austria and later helped run a newly opened resort as deputy resort manager.
For you
I know that your project comes on top of a full working day. I prepare each decision so that it takes little of your time.
I have carried all the digital parts at once
Background
At a grand hotel in St. Moritz I was solely responsible for digital and e-commerce: search, the booking path, advertising, guest communication and reporting.
For you
I plan your website, your Google profile and your marketing as one project, because I have seen how each part depends on the others.
I read numbers like an operator
Background
Revenue reporting in the resort and automated reporting in the hotel were part of my job, not an extra.
For you
I judge a change by what it does for enquiries and bookings. You get a written list of what was changed and why.
I know both sides of the table
Background
I worked inside hotels and, as a freelance consultant, from the outside for hotels, tourism and e-commerce businesses.
For you
I know what an owner needs from a supplier: a fixed scope, a fixed price and one person who answers.
Career, newest first
From hotel school to my own studio.
The hotel stations are marked. They are places where I worked or trained, not clients of LocalDominate.
- Running today
- Hotel and hospitality station
Since 2025
09/2025 to today
Founder and product lead
Own travel-tech and web products, Remote
I plan, build and run my own products.
- Explore-Saudi.comTravel discovery platform for Saudi Arabia in five languages.
- Aurelian GrandMy own concept showcase of a fictional five-star hotel. A concept, not a client.
- LocalDominateThe growth studio you are reading about.
Since 2025
12/2025 to today
Director of Web & IT
DO GOOD International, a US non-profit, Remote
Responsible for web and IT of the organisation.
2023 to 2025
07/2023 to 10/2025
Hotel
Assistant Manager eCommerce & Digital Strategy
Grand Hotel des Bains Kempinski, St. Moritz, Switzerland
Solely responsible for digital and e-commerce: SEO, booking funnel, paid media, CRM and reporting automation.
2020 to 2023
09/2020 to 06/2023
Freelance consultant, digital marketing and e-commerce
Self-employed, Remote
Worked for hotels, tourism and e-commerce businesses in the German-speaking countries and in the Middle East and North Africa.
2019 to 2020
11/2019 to 03/2020
Resort
Deputy Resort Manager
VAYA Resort, Galtür, Austria
Operations, direct marketing and revenue reporting of a newly opened resort.
2017 to 2020
Founder of start-ups
DappList and Crypto Horse
Start-ups of my own in blockchain and AI.
2004 to 2006
Hotel school
Education in hotel management
Tourismusschulen Klessheim, Austria
Where it started: training in the hotel trade.
LocalDominate today
A growth studio run by one person.
LocalDominate plans, builds and markets your brand, your website and your Google presence as one project instead of four separate jobs. You can order the full project or start with one fixed-price offer.
- ApproachThe seven stepsHow strategy, brand, website and marketing run as one sequence, from diagnosis to scale.
- ServicesWhat you can orderThe full growth project and the fixed-price offers, each with scope, price and delivery time.
- WorkWhat exists so farThe projects, each labelled for what it is: client work, own product or concept.
How I work
Three principles, and what each one means for you.
Truth first
No invented numbers. A result is published only when it is documented.
For you
What you read here and in an offer is what you get. If I cannot show something yet, I say so.
One person on the project
From the first check to the hand-over, one person is responsible for your project.
For you
You explain your business once, and you always know who to ask.
AI for the routine, a person for the decision
AI is used for research and routine work. A person decides and edits what goes live.
For you
Nothing is published in your name that a person has not read and approved.
In every offer
Four commitments, in writing.
The principles above are how I work. These four points are what you get in writing before any work starts.
- 01
Scope and price in writing first
You get the exact scope and a fixed price in writing before any work starts. Nothing is billed that was not agreed.
- 02
Paid in two steps
Half when you place the order, half when you accept the agreed scope. One round of revisions is included.
- 03
Everything belongs to you
The website and the Google profile are yours. Ongoing care can be cancelled monthly.
- 04
No ranking promises
We do not promise positions or revenue. You get a written list of what we changed and why.
The 79 € Google Profile Quick-Fix is the exception: it is paid in full with the order and has no revision round.
Send me the link. I look at it myself.
Send the link to your Google profile or website. You get up to three concrete points to fix first, by email within two working days. No obligation.
- Meetings
- By video, in German or English