Pricing
What we charge, and why.
Most agencies won't put a price on a page, because the first question they want to ask is what your budget is. Here are ours. If they don't fit, we'll tell you in the first call rather than the third.
The thing we actually guarantee
We will not guarantee you page one. Nobody controls that, and you should walk out on anyone who says otherwise.
What we guarantee, in writing, is the work: a defined list of things we deliver every month, each of them countable and checkable by you without taking our word for anything. Miss any of it and you choose. We make it up the following month free, or you take a credit for that share of the fee.
And at month six, if we've delivered everything and your numbers haven't moved, we'll say so and you can walk away with no penalty. That clause is in every contract we write.
Two ways to work with us
The full build, or the search track.
Some businesses need everything built from scratch. Others already have the business running and just need to be found. Those are different jobs, so they're priced differently.
The full growth program.
Everything built and run for you: brand, website, your Hive, automations, ads, content and reporting, on a four-month engagement.
Month 1, The Setup
$4,000 one-time
Brand, website, your Hive (CRM), automations, Google Business Profile, and a 30-day content calendar, done for you.
Months 2-4, The Waggle
$3,500-$5,500 /mo
Monthly retainer, tier depends on the size and complexity of your business. Ad spend is separate, billed directly to the platform, never marked up.
À La Carte Services
Quoted per project
Just need a website, branding, print, or a single ad campaign? Each service is scoped and priced on its own. Ask and we'll send a number.
Recommended ad spend: at least $2,000/month per platform for meaningful data, billed straight to the platform, never marked up. We'll give you exact numbers for your business within 48 hours of a strategy call, never guessed on the spot.
The search track. Start with a diagnosis.
You already have a business that works. You need to be found. This route starts by finding out what's actually wrong, then fixes the measurement, then runs the work against a scorecard you can check.
Start here
Prominence Diagnostic
$950
one-time
Find out exactly why you're not in the map pack, before you commit to anything.
- Your business scored against the three competitors currently in the pack
- The single thing holding you back, named
- Two or three targets for the next 90 days
- A call to walk you through it
Credited in full against your first month if you start a plan within 30 days.
Required first step
Foundation
$3,500
one-time, 4 to 6 weeks
Every client on this track starts here. It fixes the measurement, so everything after it can be proven rather than claimed.
- Conversion tracking rebuilt so you can see which marketing actually produces calls
- Your business details found and corrected everywhere they appear online
- Technical crawl, what's broken and what's invisible to search
- The Prominence Diagnostic, included
- A baseline scorecard we report against from then on
Then a monthly plan.
Every one of these carries the written guarantee above, and a scorecard by the 5th that you can check line by line.
Most clients
Local Authority
$2,400
per month, 6-month term
One location, and most of your inquiries come from Google Maps.
- Building the five things Google's own patent says decide local ranking
- A review system built into how you already work
- Two pages a month, researched and measured before they're written
- A scorecard by the 5th, and a call to go through it
- The written guarantee above
Need leads now
Authority + Paid
$3,900
per month, plus ad spend
You need the phone to ring this month, not in six.
- Everything in Local Authority
- Google Ads, managed properly
- Microsoft Ads, where it's cheaper for the same click
- One number that matters: cost per qualified lead, across everything
Own the market
Market Leader
$6,500
per month, plus ad spend, 12-month term
Several locations, or one location determined to own a whole metro.
- Everything above
- Getting your business genuinely written about, not just linked to
- One real editorial placement every quarter
- Four pages a month
- We track how many people search for you by name, the number that lifts everything else
Just need the pages written?
Some businesses have the rest handled and need the words. We sell page work on its own, and every page goes through the same process. We check what people actually search for, check what you already rank for, and measure the finished page against the rest of your site before it ships.
| Pages | Price | Each | Typically |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $750 | $750 | A single rewrite, or a test before committing |
| 6 | $3,900 | $650 | One service line, or a county and its cities |
| 12 | $7,200 | $600 | A full service catalogue |
| 24 | $13,200 | $550 | A whole site's worth |
Includes the research, the writing, the measurement, and the finished HTML ready to paste. If we think a page you've asked for shouldn't exist, we'll tell you and we won't bill for it.
Smaller projects
One-off work, a redirect map, conversion tracking rebuilt, structured data, a site migration, is quoted as a fixed price before anything starts. You know the number in advance and it doesn't move.
We don't bill by the hour. You'd be paying for how long something takes us rather than what it's worth to you, and those are two very different numbers. Tell us what you need and we'll price the job.
Social Media Management Pricing
Pick the cadence your market needs.
Three managed packages across Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest. Every plan is done-for-you, on-brand, and built to feed the rest of your marketing. Prices are monthly ranges, scoped to your business on a quick call.
Starter
Consistent, on-brand presence to get the flywheel turning.
- Facebook, Instagram & Pinterest
- 3 posts per week (2 static graphics + 1 carousel)
- 8 static graphics per month
- 4 carousels per month
- 8 stories per month (supporting content)
- Monthly batch approval
- Monthly reporting
- 1 revision round per batch
Growth
More cadence, short-form video, and tighter feedback loops.
- Facebook, Instagram & Pinterest
- 5 posts per week (3 static + 1 carousel + 1 short video)
- 12 static graphics per month
- 4 carousels per month
- 4 short videos per month
- 1 long YouTube video per month (supporting content)
- 20 stories per month (supporting content)
- Bi-weekly approval
- Bi-weekly reporting
- 2 revision rounds per batch
Premium
A full-funnel content engine with weekly strategy.
- Facebook, Instagram & Pinterest
- 7 posts per week (3 static + 2 carousels + 2 short videos)
- 12 static graphics per month
- 8 carousels per month
- 8 short videos per month
- 2 long YouTube videos per month (supporting content)
- 30 stories per month (supporting content)
- Weekly approval
- Weekly reporting + monthly strategy call
- Unlimited revisions within batch cycle
Monthly pricing, one client per industry per market. Final scope is confirmed on a strategy call, no obligation.
Before you call
What we won't do.
Worth knowing before you call, because these come up in nearly every first conversation.
We won't guarantee rankings.
Nobody controls Google's results. Anyone promising you position one is either guessing or picking search terms nobody uses.
We won't build you forty near-identical town pages.
Google scores originality across your whole site, and thin location pages can drag the rest of it down. We'll build pages where you have something real to say and cover the rest properly from one strong regional page.
We won't sell you 'AI SEO'.
The independent benchmark on those tactics found close to zero gain and often harm. Doing the ordinary work well is what gets you quoted by AI search. We'll show you the study.
We won't mark up your ad spend.
It goes on your card, to your account, and you can see every dollar of it.
We won't hide a bad month.
If the numbers went down, that's the first thing in the report, in our own words, before you find it yourself.
Questions we get asked.
Why do I have to buy Foundation first?+
Because without it we'd be reporting on numbers we can't verify. Foundation fixes your tracking so that every month afterwards, what we tell you is checkable. Clients who skip this step end up in an argument about whether the work is working, and neither side can prove anything.
Is there a cheaper option?+
Below about $1,500 a month we can't deliver what we promise, so we'd rather say no than take the money and under-deliver. If that's your budget, buy a block of pages instead. It's real work with a real deliverable, and it doesn't pretend to be a full program.
How long before I see something?+
Paid ads produce leads within two weeks. Review counts and tracking improvements inside sixty days. Map pack movement usually three to six months. Competitive search terms four to eight. Anyone giving you a faster number for the map pack is guessing.
Why is your link work more expensive for fewer links?+
Google's own method combines links from related sources using a maximum rather than a sum. It's designed so one publisher can't vote fifty times. Fifty cheap links that share a footprint count for about as much as one. We earn the one that raises your ceiling and spend the rest where it's counted separately.
Do you use AI?+
Yes, and it's why you get more work for your money than you would have three years ago. What you're paying for is the judgment about which work is worth doing, the measurement that catches problems before they ship, and someone who'll tell you when the thing you asked for is a bad idea.
What happens at month six?+
We sit down with the scorecard. If we've delivered everything we promised and your numbers haven't moved, our diagnosis was wrong, and you can leave with no penalty or notice period. It's in the contract.
Start with the Diagnostic.
$950, credited against your first month if you go ahead. You'll know exactly where you stand and what's actually holding you back, whether or not you hire us for the rest.
Book the Diagnostic →Plans & Packages
We have plans and packages for every service. Yours gets built to fit.
Whether you want the full growth program or a single service, there's a plan for it. Exact pricing depends on your market, your goals, and what you actually need, so the fastest way to a real number is a quick call or the form. Tell us what you're after and we'll put a package together.
Check Your Market
See if your market is still open.
We take one business per industry, per market. Tell us your industry and city and we'll confirm availability, no pressure, no pitch.
Check your market
Tell us where you operate. We'll respond within one business day.
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We'll review availability and get back to you within one business day.