Marketing for Local Businesses
Built specifically for UK local businesses that get paid in cash, card, or invoice. Not VC-funded startups, not e-commerce, not coaches.
7 paying UK clients · all in the trades · all on monthly plans
What's Actually Going On
Marketing for Local Businesses is one of the few things in marketing where the right answer has not changed much in five years. The hard bit of Local Business Marketing is doing the work consistently, not knowing what the work is. Your competitors with worse work and fewer years of experience are getting more calls than you. It is not because they are better. It is because Google shows them first.
Marketing for Local Businesses sits in the awkward spot for small business marketing decisions. The cheap Local Business Marketing options usually do not work, the expensive Local Business Marketing options usually feel like overkill. We try to be the middle for Local Business Marketing: real work, real reporting, no twelve-month contract.
What We Do About It
Local Business Marketing is one of the questions we get asked most often by trades and small business owners. Rather than write a generic answer, here is the specific version of Marketing for Local Businesses we run for our paying clients. We are your outsourced marketing department, except cheaper than one in-house hire and we actually deliver. Website, SEO, Google, reviews, missed-call recovery, content. One monthly fee, one report, one mobile number for everything.
Real Clients, Not Stock Photos
Local Business Marketing is one of the questions we get asked most often by trades and small business owners. Rather than write a generic answer, here is the specific version of Marketing for Local Businesses we run for our paying clients. Honest signal-to-noise: we charge real money to seven real UK businesses. We do not have free trials, partner programmes, affiliate links, or fake testimonials. Everything we do is paid for by people running their own trades businesses.
Next Step: A Free Audit
We're not going to chase you with five follow-up emails. Request the audit, read it, and if you want to talk you reply. If you don't, we don't pester. Promise.
The Three Things That Move the Needle
Local SEO and Google Business Profile
SEO done properly: we research the search terms your customers actually use (not the ones an SEO tool says you should target), optimise your site and Google profile for those terms, and check rankings every week so we can adjust if something stops working.
Missed-Call Text-Back
If you cannot answer the phone (because you are on a job), the system automatically texts the caller back within seconds. The reply reads something like 'Hi, can't pick up right now, on a job. What do you need? I'll be back to you within the hour.'. About a third of those texts turn into actual jobs that would otherwise have been lost.
Review Automation
The automation only asks customers we know are happy (most clients filter by job type before we send the trigger). If a customer was unhappy, we route them to a private feedback form instead so the public listing only collects positives.
What It Costs
Pricing in two lines: £199 once, then £199 every month. The website is yours to keep. The minimum is three months. After that, leave whenever, no notice period.
Setup
£199
One-off. Covers your website. Yours to keep forever.
Monthly
£199/mo
Less than £6.70 a day. One job from Google pays for the month.
What's included every month
- Website (included in setup fee)
- SEO management
- AEO management
- Google Business Profile management
- Website updates included
- Monthly performance report
- 4 blog posts per month
- Missed call text back
- Quote follow-up automation
- Review automation
Frequently Asked
What does it actually cost?
Two numbers, no surprises. £199 for the website itself (built and hosted by us, yours to keep). £199 a month after that for the management. Three months minimum.
What do you actually do every month?
We sort your Google Business Profile so it actually appears when locals search. We build you a website that loads fast on a phone. We get reviews coming in automatically after every job. We text customers back when you miss a call. And we send you a monthly report that shows what changed.
Do I need to do anything technical?
No. You do not need to do anything technical at any point. We handle the website, the Google profile, the SEO, the reviews, all of it. The only thing we ask for is information about your business and a few photos if you have them.
What if I already have a website?
Fine. We will migrate it over. The domain stays in your name. The content comes with it. The bits that work, we keep. The bits that do not, we replace.
How long until I see results?
Truthfully, we cannot put a number on it because every business is different. What we can tell you is what happened with our existing clients: most started seeing extra calls from Google within four to six weeks and meaningful ranking improvements by month three.
Can I cancel?
Three months is the minimum because that is how long it takes to do meaningful SEO work. After that you can leave whenever you want. Website yours, domain yours, no exit fees.
Get a Free Audit
Send us your business name and town. We'll send back a real audit of your Google listing, your website, and your top three local competitors. Same day, no sales call.