Fort Myers, FL. Guide to Florida has named Polaris Marketing Solutions a 2026 Best of Florida® Regional Winner in the Digital Marketing Firms category. We received the same honor in 2025, which makes us a back-to-back winner. The award is chosen by Guide to Florida’s readers and editors, and fewer than 10% of Florida businesses receive it.
We are grateful, and we want to be clear about who earned it: our clients and our team.
What the award is
The Best of Florida® Awards are presented every year by Guide to Florida. Winners are selected by public voting and the publication’s editors, not by paying for a spot. Polaris was recognized as a Regional Winner for Southwest Florida in the Digital Marketing Firms category in both 2025 and 2026.
You can read about last year’s win here, and Guide to Florida also ran a short Spotlight story on how we work.
Why the second one matters more
One award can be timing. Two in a row means the work is holding up.
Before Polaris, our founder Brian Basik owned a home-services company, hired a large agency, and got reports he could not use and a phone that did not ring. That experience is the reason Polaris runs the way it does: every client gets call tracking on every lead, and every month gets a plain-English report that shows where the money went and what came back.
“The first award told us we were on the right track. The second one tells us it wasn’t luck,” Basik said. “Our clients are contractors and local business owners who don’t have time to decode marketing reports. Winning two years in a row says the work is landing where it counts, in their phones and their schedules.”
What changed between the two awards
Since the 2025 award we have:
- Added call tracking and lead reporting for every client account, so results are measured in tracked calls and form fills, not just rankings.
- Expanded the team and the service list: local and national SEO, Google Ads and paid social, web design and hosting, and social media management.
- Launched Citadel Hardscape Marketing, a sister agency focused on hardscape and paver contractors.
- Kept a 5.0-star rating across 29 client reviews.
Thank you
“Winning this award in our third year was a testimony to the team. Winning it again in year four is a testimony to our clients, who trusted us enough to stick with us,” Basik added.
To every Southwest Florida business that has trusted us with its marketing: thank you. Your results are the reason we are on this list.
Want to see what a back-to-back winner can do for your phones?
If you run a home-service or local business in Fort Myers, Cape Coral, Naples, or anywhere in Southwest Florida and feel overlooked by your current marketing partner, let’s talk. Schedule a call at polarismarketingsolutions.com/contact-us or call 239-272-0937. Brian’s book, Cementing Success, is available on Amazon.
Polaris’s Guide to Florida profile: guidetoflorida.com/fort-myers/business-consulting/polaris-marketing-solutions