SEO for small business owners who answer their own phone
SEO for small business owners with one location, a handful of staff and no marketing department. It is the majority of what we do, and it looks nothing like what a mainland agency sells to a company ten times the size.
- A senior strategist on your account, never a junior handoff
- Built for owners who are already doing three other jobs
- The free audit tells you the one thing to fix first
Small business SEO is
a smaller fight
You are not competing with everyone. You are competing with four or five businesses in your area for people already looking to buy, which is a far smaller fight than the industry usually makes it sound, and it is winnable on a small budget.
Three results get the calls
For most local searches the map pack sits above everything else, and the three businesses in it take the overwhelming share of the contacts.
Getting into those three is a different job from ranking a website, and for a small business it is almost always the higher-return one to do first.
What people actually type
- 1A competitorClaimed profile · reviews · ranking
- 2Another competitorClaimed profile · reviews · ranking
- 3Your businessThe position we go after first
What the work
looks like, in order
Four pieces, ordered by what tends to move first.
Your Google Business Profile
Categories, services, photos, hours, and posts. The fastest lever available to a local business and the one most often left half-finished.
A page per service
One page listing everything you do competes for none of it. Separate pages let each service answer the search that leads to it.
Reviews as a habit
A routine you can run from your phone between jobs, asking in a way that gets specific answers rather than a bare star rating.
Citations that agree
Your name, address, and phone number identical everywhere they appear. Dull work, and inconsistency quietly holds back rankings.
From invisible
to in the three
Four stages, in order. The audit comes first because there is no point guessing which of the six workstreams is the one holding you back.
You work with the same senior strategist the whole way, so nothing gets re-explained and nothing gets handed to a junior halfway through.
Real Hawaii businesses, real results
I actually understand what is happening now. That never used to be true.
We were invisible next to the big studios. Now people find us first when they search for yoga here.
Walk-ins, online orders, and catering all come through search now. That was not happening before.
Start with the audit,
not the invoice
You get a senior read on exactly where you stand in local search and what to fix first. No cost, no obligation, no sales script.
- Reviewed by a senior strategist, not a tool
- Written for your market specifically
- Back to you within two business days
Ready to get started?
Small Business questions, answered
01Can a small business afford SEO?
The honest answer is that it depends on your margin per customer, not on the size of your business.
- The maths: if one new customer a month covers the retainer, it works from month one.
- The timing: profile work can move within weeks, pages compound over 60 to 90 days.
- The test: the free audit shows the gap before you commit to anything.
For a trade where one job is worth several thousand dollars the arithmetic is easy. For a low-margin business it may not be, and we will say so. Start with the audit →
02How much of my time does this take?
About an hour at the start, then roughly thirty minutes a month.
- Up front: one call so we understand what you actually sell and to whom.
- Ongoing: a short monthly check-in and occasional answers about your trade.
- Not your job: writing, technical work, or anything requiring a login you do not have.
You know things about your work that no agency can invent. That knowledge is the only thing we genuinely need from you.
03Is this different from what a big agency sells?
Yes, mainly in what gets left out. Much of a large retainer goes on reporting layers and account management you do not need.
- You get: the strategist doing the work, directly.
- You skip: the account manager relaying messages between you and whoever is actually doing it.
Smaller does not mean less capable here. It means less of your money paying for the layers between you and the work.