A hand-written local marketing plan on a whiteboard with sticky notes

    Local Marketing Strategy

    for local service businesses in Vancouver WA and Portland OR

    A written order of work built from your real profile data — what to fix, in what order, and why each item matters more than the one below it.

    From $497 per month

    Do I need a plan before I start spending on marketing?

    You need to know what is broken first. Most local businesses lose answers to bad categories, a thin service list, and directory records that disagree about the phone number. Those cost nothing to fix and change what machines can say about you. Spending before that is paying to send people at a broken record.

    What this actually includes

    Local marketing strategy is a written document, not a service you run monthly here, listing every category, listing, and content fix in priority order, built from your real profile data, starting at $497 with nothing added on top.

    The deliverable is a document, and the document is yours. It opens with what is true right now: your categories, your service list, your hours, your service area, your review history, and how your name, address, and phone read across your largest directory records. Everything in it is copied from live data, not from a questionnaire.

    Next comes the order of work. Each item says what to change, which field or record it lives in, and why it sits where it does in the list. Category corrections come before photo work. Getting the phone number consistent comes before publishing posts. You can hand the whole list to your own team, to your current vendor, or back to us.

    The document also maps your market: who else holds the answers for your trade in your neighborhoods, which of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Mode, Grok, and Perplexity name your business today, and where the geo-grid shows you falling off. There is a short section on what not to bother with, because owners waste real money on work that cannot move anything until the record underneath it is right.

    We do not publish anything under this service. Nothing gets changed in your profile. If you want the work run, that is Local Marketing Agency Services.

    Who this is for

    It fits an owner with staff already publishing posts and replying to reviews who needs direction, not more hands, plus anyone comparing agency proposals who wants an independent list of what actually needs fixing before signing anything.

    Owners with an in-house person and no clear direction for them. An electrical contractor with an office manager who can publish posts and answer reviews does not need us doing that. They need somebody to say what to publish, in what order, and what to leave alone.

    It also fits an owner about to sign with another agency who wants an independent read first. Take the document into that meeting. If the agency's proposal does not touch the top three items, you learned something worth more than the fee.

    Med spa owners use this differently — usually before opening a second location, to see whether the existing record can carry two addresses without confusing the machines that read it.

    How it works

    The process opens with a free audit, delivered within 24 hours, followed by a working call about which jobs pay and what your team can realistically execute. You receive the plan, and it gets revisited monthly as work gets done.

    Start with the free audit. It is the raw data layer and it is delivered within 24 hours.

    Then a working session, on the phone, about the business rather than the marketing: which jobs pay, which ones you would rather not take, which neighborhoods your crews already cover, and what you can realistically execute in a month.

    The written plan follows. You get it in full, with the order of work at the front so nobody has to read forty pages to know what Monday looks like. Each month after that we review what actually got done and re-cut the order, because a list nobody executes is not a plan. Cancel any month.

    Serving Vancouver, Portland, and the Pacific Northwest

    Plans are written around specific streets and neighborhoods in Vancouver WA, Portland OR, Camas, Washougal, Orchards, Hazel Dell, Minnehaha, and Cascade Park, because a crew covering one corridor needs a different order of work than one covering another.

    Plans are written for the specific ground you cover: Vancouver WA, Portland OR, Camas, Washougal, Orchards, Hazel Dell, Minnehaha, Cascade Park, Ogden, Forest Ridge, Meadow Homes, Vancouver Heights, Evergreen Highlands, and Ellsworth Springs. A crew running Camas and Washougal has a different order of work than one running Hazel Dell. Operating since 2012 from Vancouver, WA 98664.

    Want the wider picture first? Start with the Marketing agency in Vancouver WA. You can also see the full picture from our marketing agency in Vancouver WA overview.

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    The free audit checks whether ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Mode, Grok, and Perplexity name your business, and where your listing data disagrees with itself. No card, no contract, and you keep the findings either way.

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    FREE AI Visibility Audit

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    Full-depth scan · Delivered within 24 hours

    • A block-by-block map of where you rank in your service area — your choice of radius
    • Whether six AI assistants — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Mode, Grok, and Perplexity — name you for the searches your customers use
    • A pass/fail scorecard on the profile signals that decide both
    • The three fixes worth doing first
    • Delivered within 24 hours — no card, no sales call
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    CitedLocal Visibility

    $497/month

    Flat rate · No contract · No setup fee

    • Everything in the free audit
    • Your Website Build, included — homepage and core pages live in month 1, service and location pages in months 2–3, built to match your Google Business Profile. No setup fee
    • Your profile managed daily — description, services, attributes and social links, plus posts, offers, images and videos published automatically
    • Website schema synced to your Google Business Profile — LocalBusiness, Service and FAQ markup matched to your listing, plus geotagged images, so your site and your profile describe one business
    • Automated review replies, review requests by SMS, email or WhatsApp, a QR code for in-person asks, bad reviews flagged instantly, and a full review backup
    • Monthly geo-grid heatmap with before-and-after comparison — refreshed every 30 days
    • Up to 10 keywords tracked, with a complete log of every action taken
    • AI visibility checked across six assistants — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Mode, Grok, and Perplexity
    • 40+ directories built in your name, with data aggregator distribution and duplicate protection — yours to keep
    • Automated account manager: automated progress updates, GBP change alerts, review and image reminders, monthly reports

    Scope: profile, website, listings, and tracking. Link building is not included — that's Dominance.

    Cancel anytime — month to month

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    $1,497/month + $2,500 one-time setup

    Visibility gets one business found. Dominance covers a metro.

    Today you pay $2,500 — your onboarding and baseline setup, one per location. One-time, non-refundable.

    Your first month of management is included

    On day 31, the $1,497/month begins — cancel any time

    Flat rate · No contract · Cancel anytime

    We do all the work — you answer the phones.

    • Everything in Visibility, plus:
    • Monthly listings check — we review your 40+ directory listings each month and submit corrections where your data has drifted
    • TrustLinks added monthly — new local and social directory listings placed in your name, never bought
    • Full-service managed execution (we handle everything)
    • Automated agent suite — profile posts and rank tracking, running daily without you
    • Priority support (24-hour response)
    • Up to 5 service areas per location
    • Multi-location — $1,497/month per location. Own several? We'll build you a package.

    Cancel anytime — month to month

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