If you don't show up first, you don't show up at all.

We get Houston-area service businesses into the top of Google's map pack — and make sure the calls you earn never slip away. Home services, commercial and industrial, trades, contractors and suppliers.

Free 8-point Google Business Profile audit. No contract, no obligation, no sales pitch required.
FOUND FIRST. ANSWERED FIRST.
Top 3of the map pack takes the overwhelming majority of local clicks
~32%of local ranking weight sits in your Google Business Profile alone
1 minutereply time closes 35–50% of leads — an hour drops it to single digits
The problem

You're losing work twice — and you only notice one of them.

The first loss is invisible. Someone three miles away searches for exactly what you do, and three other companies show up above you. You never knew that customer existed. There's no missed call to point at, no voicemail, no lost quote — just silence that looks like a slow week.

The second loss you feel but shrug off. A lead does come in, you're on a ladder or out on a job site, and you call back four hours later. They already went with someone else. Speed decides that one, not price and not quality.

Most service businesses buy their customers

Google Local Services Ads run roughly $30–65 per lead. Google Ads land around $35–50. Every month you stop paying, the phone stops ringing.

Ranking is different. It takes four to nine months to build, and then the same leads cost a fraction of that. You stop renting your customers and start owning the channel.

Run the number on yourself

The second loss has a price tag. Most owners have never worked it out.

Take your own average job, and be honest about how many calls go to voicemail in a normal week. The arithmetic is unkind.

1

What one job is worth

Say $400 — a routine pool repair, a small haul-off, a service call. Use your own figure; most owners know it within fifty dollars.

2

What you miss in a week

Say six calls — you were under a truck, on a roof, or driving. Not negligence. Just the job.

3

What that adds up to

Six missed calls a week is 312 a year. At $400 a job that’s $124,800 of work that rang and got nothing. Close even half and you are still looking at $62,400.

That is not a promise about what we would make you. It is an estimate of what is already leaking, using your numbers and nothing else. Change the inputs and the figure moves — but for most service businesses it does not move toward zero.

The first loss — the customers who never found you at all — does not even show up in that math. There is no voicemail to count.

What we do

Get found. Then don't lose the call.

Two halves of one job. Most agencies sell you the first half and leave you to fumble the second.

Works the same whether you clean pools, haul containers, run an industrial services crew, or sell to contractors — anywhere the customer starts with a local search and the job goes to whoever answers first.

1

Google Business Profile, built right

Correct primary category — the single biggest ranking factor — plus services, service areas, a keyworded description, real photos from real jobs, and verification handled properly the first time. Service-area businesses get set up as service-area businesses, not as a fake storefront that gets suspended later and takes your rankings and reviews with it.

2

Local SEO that compounds

On-page work for the services and suburbs you actually want, consistent name-address-phone across the directories that matter, local links, and weekly Google Posts. Boring, cumulative, and it's what separates page one from page three.

3

Reviews, on purpose

Reviews are roughly a sixth of local ranking weight and close to all of your credibility. We build a simple ask-every-time system so the review count climbs steadily instead of arriving in one suspicious burst.

4

Lead response that doesn't sleep

Missed-call text-back, follow-up sequences, and a pipeline that shows who's a lead and who's a customer. When you can't pick up, the caller still gets an answer in seconds instead of choosing your competitor while you're on a roof.

How it works

Straightforward plans. Month to month.

No twelve-month lock-in. If we're not earning it, you should be able to leave — that's the whole discipline.

Starter

One profile, one service area. For the owner who just needs to finally show up.

  • Full Google Business Profile build & verification
  • Categories, services & service areas
  • Core citation cleanup
  • Monthly Google Posts
  • Monthly ranking report

Growth

Multiple services and suburbs, and you want the phone to ring more every month.

  • Everything in Starter
  • On-page SEO for your money services
  • Full citation build & local links
  • Weekly Google Posts
  • Review generation system
  • Missed-call text-back & follow-up
  • Monthly geo-grid ranking map

Website

No site, or a site that hurts more than it helps. Built to convert, not to win awards.

  • Fast, mobile-first site
  • Service & service-area pages
  • Local business schema markup
  • Click-to-call & quote request
  • Built to feed the Google profile

Setup is a one-time fee; management is monthly. Exact pricing depends on how many services and areas you're going after — we'll put real numbers in front of you after the free audit, before you commit to anything.

Start here — free

The 8-point Google audit

We run your business through the same eight checks we'd run on a paying client, and send you exactly where you're invisible. It's genuinely free and it's yours to keep — take it to another agency if you want.

  • Where you actually rank across your service area, not just from your own office
  • Whether your primary category is costing you the map pack
  • Profile completeness — the fields most owners never fill in
  • Review count and rating against the three companies beating you
  • Name, address and phone consistency across major directories
  • Whether your site backs up the profile or undercuts it
  • Photo and Google Post activity
  • The specific three competitors taking your calls, and why

Request your free audit

We'll send it back within two business days.

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