Local Business Growth
Showing up on the map.
Google Business Profile, local SEO, review generation and the directories that still drive real enquiries in your market.
Tracking wired up before anything goes live
How we think about it
For a business with a front door, most of the decision happens on a map listing and a phone screen before anyone visits. Hours that are wrong on a bank holiday, photos from two refits ago, and a review nobody answered cost more traffic than any ad spend recovers. This is the unglamorous maintenance that decides whether you appear in the local three-pack at all.
The listing work points at a site we built, so the hours, the phone number and the booking flow agree with each other everywhere they appear.
What this covers
The work, specifically.
- 01
Google Business Profile
Set up and optimised properly - categories, photos, services, posts and Q&A.
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Local SEO
Location pages, citations and consistency across every listing that mentions you.
- 03
Review generation
A system that asks at the right moment, and a process for responding to the bad ones.
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Local citations
Yell, Yelp, Bing Places, Apple Business Connect and the trade directories that matter in your sector.
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Map ranking
The proximity, prominence and relevance factors that decide the local pack.
Need Local Business Growth for something specific?
Tell us what you're trying to ship and we'll say plainly whether this is the right service for it — including when the answer is no.
How it runs
The same four steps, whatever we're building.
No account-manager relay. The lead on your project is someone who builds, and they stay on it from the first call to the last deploy.
Scope
A week of hard questions. We map what you actually need and say plainly which parts we'd cut.
Prototype
Something real in front of you early, not a document about it. Opinions get cheaper.
Build
Two-week cycles, a demo at the end of each. You see progress, not status reports.
Hand over
Documentation, a walkthrough, and the keys. Support if you want it — never as a hostage.
Questions
The things people ask before they enquire.
It depends on scope, but we will give you a number before you commit to anything. Most engagements start with a paid discovery — a fixed fee, a week or two — which ends in a written scope and a real budget. If the budget does not work, you leave with the scope document and no obligation to continue.
A typical first ship is around six weeks. Larger builds run in two-week cycles after that, each ending in a demo of something that actually runs. You will know within the first cycle whether the timeline is holding, rather than finding out near the deadline.
The people you meet. The lead on your project is someone who builds, and they stay on it from the first call to the last deploy. There is no account manager relaying messages between you and an unseen team.
You own everything — code, assets, accounts, domains. We hand over with documentation and a walkthrough, and your team can run it without calling us. If you would rather we stayed on for maintenance or a next phase, that is a separate agreement, not something buried in the original contract.
Yes. Most of our work is remote, and we keep a few hours of overlap with your working day for calls. Timezone has not been the hard part; unclear scope has.
Where it meets the others