A printed marketing roadmap document with quarterly steps on a conference table

    Marketing Audit & Roadmap

    for local service businesses in Vancouver WA and Portland OR

    One document that puts every marketing problem you have in order, so you stop doing the tenth thing before the first one.

    Free

    I am spending money in five places and cannot tell what is working. Where do I start?

    Start by writing down every channel, what it costs, and what you can actually trace back to it. Most owners find two line items that produce nothing and one that never got finished. Fix the thing every other channel depends on first — usually the business record — then judge the rest with a clean baseline.

    What this actually includes

    The roadmap inventories your profile, website, listings, review pattern, ads, and any leftover vendor charges, marks each item as working, costing money, or half-finished, then sequences fixes into ordered steps with effort noted beside each one.

    We inventory everything pointed at getting you calls. Your Google Business Profile, your website and the pages meant to earn work, your listing records, your review pattern over the last year, any ads running, any email or mailer going out, and whatever a previous vendor left behind and still bills for.

    Each item gets three notes: what it is doing, what it is costing, and whether it is finished. Half-finished is the most common finding. A site with no service pages. A profile with one category. A review request that was set up once and never went out again.

    Then it becomes a sequence. Step one, step two, step three, with the reason each sits where it does and what it depends on. Some steps are ten minutes and free. Some need a vendor. We mark which is which and put an honest effort estimate beside each.

    The presence check across ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Mode and other AI assistants sits inside the roadmap as context, so the ordering is not guesswork about what buyers see. We monitor AI presence and accuracy — we don't claim algorithm access.

    Who this is for

    Owners juggling several unrelated vendors from different years fit this best, especially anyone walking into a budget meeting who wants a sequenced document instead of three competing proposals and a guess about which one to trust.

    Owners in the middle of a mess. You bought a website in 2021, hired a social media person in 2023, still pay for a directory package somebody sold you over the phone, and none of it talks to anything else. You are not short of activity. You are short of order.

    HVAC companies coming out of a busy season use this well. The rush ends, there is finally a week to think, and the question is what to fix before next summer. This gives you the list.

    It also fits an owner planning a budget. Walking into a planning meeting with a sequenced document beats walking in with three vendor proposals and a feeling.

    This is not a diagnosis of one channel. If you only care about map placement, the Local Visibility Audit is faster and narrower.

    How it works

    Request it with no card and no contract, and it arrives in about 10 minutes built from public information plus a short list of what you currently pay for, then gets walked through on a call that flags what you can do yourself.

    Two things happen before you talk to anyone: it gets built, then it gets sent. No card, no contract, delivered in about 10 minutes. We start from public information, then ask you for a short list of what you currently pay for.

    You get the roadmap as a plain document. Numbered steps, dependencies noted, effort marked. Nothing in it is a projection about revenue.

    We walk it with you on a call and answer the obvious question on every line, which is whether you can do it yourself. Often the answer is yes.

    You keep the roadmap. Hand it to your team, hand it to another agency, or work it yourself. There is no obligation attached to it, and no contract to sign to receive it.

    Serving Vancouver, Portland, and the Pacific Northwest

    Roadmaps get built for owners across Vancouver, Portland, Camas, Washougal, Orchards, Hazel Dell, Minnehaha, and Cascade Park, with sequencing shaped by local seasonality, from a Vancouver, WA 98664 office that has worked this market since 2012.

    We build roadmaps for owners in Vancouver WA and Portland OR, plus Camas, Washougal, Orchards, Hazel Dell, Minnehaha, Cascade Park, Ogden, Forest Ridge, Meadow Homes, Vancouver Heights, Evergreen Highlands, and Ellsworth Springs. Local seasonality shapes the order — a roofing sequence in October looks nothing like one in April. Operating since 2012 from Vancouver, WA 98664.

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

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    Monthly Audit

    $29/month

    Full Four-Pillar audit with RPM-structured action plan. Monthly rechecks included. Self-serve—you make the fixes.

    • Full Four-Pillar audit — GBP, AI Visibility, Citations, and Website Match
    • Plain-English fix guidance for every pillar, ranked by impact
    • Website Match rechecked up to 4×/month
    • GBP and AI Visibility rescanned monthly
    • Self-serve — no managed work included

    Want us to take over? Upgrade to Visibility ($997/mo) or Dominance ($1,897/mo)

    Cancel anytime — month to month

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    Website, profile, listings, and tracking.

    • Google Business Profile managed daily — categories, services, attributes, posts, offers, and images
    • Monthly Four-Pillar visibility report
    • Website Match included — up to 4 scans per month
    • Website Build included — homepage and core pages in month 1, service and location pages in months 2–3
    • Website schema matched to your Google Business Profile
    • Automated review replies, requests, backup, and alerts
    • 40+ directories, built in your name — yours to keep.
    • Monthly geo-grid heatmap with before-and-after comparison
    • Up to 10 keywords tracked
    • Automated progress updates, GBP change alerts, review reminders, and monthly reports
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    Scope: profile, website, listings, and tracking. Link building is not included — that's Dominance.

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    First month included. 4+ locations: custom quote.

    Cover your metro.

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    Visibility gets one business found. Dominance covers a metro.

    Today you pay $2,500 — your one-time onboarding for 1-3 locations. Non-refundable.

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