Three Steps to Local SEO Success

Are we a good fit for you?

► We’re not a big agency with lots of overhead and high priced projects to offer you.
► You won’t be working with a 24 yr old SEO specialist who’s been doing this for 6 months.
► You’ll work with a veteran Local SEO expert who’s been doing this since 2008.
► You will learn about Local SEO and be given some homework along the way as we determine the next best steps for your business.
► SEO will no longer be a mystery behind the curtain.
► We understand many underlying marketing & SEO principles from working with hundreds of different types of businesses – in numerous locations in the US & Canada.

If this sounds appealing, we might be a great fit to help grow your business.

We don’t price for our time. We price for value.

Our prices are not based on time spent on tasks in a month. Our approach is all about the value created for your business. Is what you are getting providing value? Can you see the potential long-term return on this SEO investment?

Sometimes it can take 10 minutes to fix some problem that will seriously boost your business visibility. But it took us 5 years of experience to know how to fix it.

Sometimes it can take 6 weeks battling with Google to get your business listing unsuspended. Sometimes Local SEO efforts require arduous research to uncover the best next steps for your unique situation. All of this happens behind the scene. Believe us when we say “you don’t wanna know”.

We’ve fixed an issue for one client in 20 minutes that led to #1 local rankings for the next 2 years! That 20 minutes resulted in hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue. We don’t price for our time. We price for value. And we certainly underpriced that one!

If you are more comfortable paying an hourly wage for SEO tasks to be completed and you expect a report at the end of the month for tasks completed, you are in the wrong place. We recommend you check out Upwork or Fiverr for less expensive hourly options.

Comfortably in your budget

If our pricing does not fit comfortably within your marketing budget – if the monthly fee is creating stress each month, this will likely not work out. If you are nervous about your monthly fee this will create pressure to see results, which often takes more time that you expect.

SEO can be the best investment in your future potential revenue. This increased revenue helps build your comfortable budget for SEO. That’s why many of our clients have been with us for years.

Many small business owners do not have a clear defined marketing budget. Getting clear on what you need to spend to increase your revenue is essential. Is your goal to increase sales by $100k this year? How much will you need to invest or spend to achieve that? What’s the best option to focus your budget on this year?

When can we expect to start seeing results?

This is the most common question from small business owners. There are multiple time-components baked into building a great web presence with SEO. SEO can’t turn on a lead-generating machine in Month 1. It takes time to build a web presence that generates leads. Why should Google start ranking your business ahead of your established competitors?

Ultimately, we do not control rankings – the big tech companies do. We all have to play their game by their rules. We can’t rank you on Google. Google ranks you. And for each effort we produce together can take days or weeks or months to take effect. Initial results may take 30-90 days but we never promise results since that’s not up to us. Also your situation will be unique. We’ll always help you to understand the challenges and opportunities you have.

We meet you where you’re at

Sometimes the best value for our clients is helping them to simply log in and better organize the management of their website or Google or Yelp listings. Other times, their website gets hacked or their Google Listing gets suspended. We’re good people to know if this happens.

And yes we meet with marketing teams on Zoom conference calls to determine content strategy, marketing budget allocations and even overall business strategy. Where you’re at is where we’ll meet you and our relationship will evolve as your business grows.

Move at your own speed

You might need 2 meetings this month. You might only need meetings once in a while. We have some clients that pay us just in case they need us. The value they are getting is that they feel confident knowing that we are on their team.

Do you have a deadline and need to meet twice this month? No problem. If you don’t have time or need for a meeting, we’ll spend that time working on your website or local SEO tasks.

If you have a healthy SEO budget and want to make progress faster we can handle a monthly budget of up to $2,000/month. If you need to pause, let us know! If you are ready to move on – we’ll help you find a better solution your business!

We’ll adapt to how your business is changing! This really came in handy when the pandemic started – every business was affected differently and we quickly responded to support all the ways our clients had to pivot their offerings.

No long-term contracts

We don’t offer legacy style long-term contracts. Our service is month-to-month with the intention that you are ready to make a long-term SEO investment in your business. Most businesses need help to build out their “foundational web presence” This takes time. Once that’s successful, we move on to more targeted content marketing & technical SEO.

We spend considerable time up-front researching your opportunities and onboarding your business onto various software platforms. So if you only have comfortable budget for a couple months – it really won’t be worth it for either of us.