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Your customers are searching within 12 miles. Be the result they tap.

BrightLead Marketing works with service businesses — the HVAC shops, roofers, plumbers, dentists and auto shops whose whole customer base lives inside a short drive. We fix the listing, build the pages, run the ads, and hand you a report you can check against your own accounts.

Transparent monthly reporting — raw numbers, dated, from your accounts
Month-to-month options on most scopes — no long lock-in
You own the ad account, the profile, the site and the data

Get Free Quote (877) 555-0134

Marketing services only. BrightLead is not a CPA firm, law firm, PEO or licensed financial advisor and gives no tax, legal or accounting advice. Rankings, traffic and leads are never guaranteed; pricing is illustrative and scope varies by engagement.

Marketing team reviewing local search performance together at a conference table

Start here — it’s free

The Free Local Marketing Audit Guide, plus the business-profile checklist

Before you hire anybody — us included — run the audit yourself. It takes about forty minutes, needs no special tools, and it walks you through the listing, the website, the ads and the phone nobody is answering after 5 p.m., so you can judge for yourself where the gaps are. It is a self-check, not a diagnosis, and it makes no promise about what changing any of it will do.

A 14-point self-audit, in order
Primary category, service radius, hours, review cadence, page speed, phone placement and tracking — each with the specific thing to look at and the answer that means “fix this first.”
The business-profile checklist
The fields most owners never fill in, the ones that quietly shrink your reach, and the two settings we most often find pointed at the wrong part of the state.
Questions to ask any agency
Who owns the ad account? What is the notice period? Can I see the raw search terms? If a vendor gets cagey on those three, you have learned something for free.

5Service lines under one roof

100%Of accounts stay in your name

30 daysTypical notice on month-to-month scopes

$0Cost of the audit guide and checklist

These figures describe how engagements and the free guide are structured, and are illustrative examples only. They are not performance claims. Nothing here promises rankings, traffic, calls, leads, revenue, return on ad spend or cost savings — outcomes vary by market, budget and business, and specific terms are set in a written agreement.

What we actually do

Five service lines, built for a service area you can drive across

No brand campaigns, no national e-commerce, no vanity impressions. Everything below points at the same outcome the owner cares about: the phone ringing from inside the service radius. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, certified by or a partner of any search engine, map platform, review site or advertising network.

Marketing specialist reviewing local search keyword research on a laptop screen

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Search visibility

Local SEO

Keyword work built around how people in your ZIP actually type — “emergency AC repair near me” at 9 p.m., not “residential HVAC services.” Then the unglamorous part: service-area pages that are not thin copies of each other, and listing data that says the same thing everywhere it appears.

Local keyword and competitor mapping
Service-area and location page structure
Name, address and phone consistency cleanup

Small-business owner checking a map listing for their shop on a mobile phone

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Map listings

Business profile optimization

The free business-profile listings that feed map results are the highest-leverage thing most service businesses ignore. Nearly every profile we open has the wrong primary category, a service radius drawn 40 miles too wide, and holiday hours from two winters ago.

Primary and secondary category review
Service radius, hours and holiday hours
Photo cadence, services list and Q&A

Campaign manager reviewing paid search performance charts on a desktop monitor

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Search ads

Paid search

Tightly themed campaigns, a negative-keyword list somebody actually maintains, call tracking wired up before launch, and geography drawn to your real 12-mile service radius instead of the whole Tulsa metro. Ad spend is paid by you, to the platform, from your own account.

Campaign build and negative-keyword hygiene
Call and form conversion tracking
Radius targeting, dayparting and budget pacing

Technician sending a follow-up message to a customer from a tablet after a service call

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Reputation

Review generation

A short follow-up flow that asks every finished job for a review, plus response templates so the owner is not staring at a one-star at 11 p.m. wondering what to type. No incentives, no gating, no filtering — you ask, the customer decides what to write.

Post-job review request sequences
Owner response templates, good and bad
No incentives and no review gating, ever

Web designer laying out a mobile-first service business page on a large screen

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Site build

Websites & landing pages

Fast mobile-first pages with the phone number where a thumb can reach it. Service pages that answer the question the search asked, forms that actually land in your inbox, and tracking installed in accounts that carry your name on them.

Mobile-first build with speed budgets
Service and location page architecture
Forms and tracking wired to your own accounts

Read this first

What we will not sell you

No guaranteed rankings, no promised lead counts, no purchased or filtered reviews, no traffic bought from somewhere it will never convert, and no invoice line that just says “ongoing optimization.” We also do not give tax, legal, accounting or HR advice — BrightLead is a marketing provider, not a CPA firm, law firm, PEO or licensed financial advisor, and it makes no representation about regulatory compliance in your industry.

Scope in writing before work starts
Ad budget paid by you, to the platform
Every number traceable to your own account

How the engagement works

Four steps from a free audit to a report you can argue with

Nothing here is automatic and nothing is guaranteed — it is simply the order that keeps money from going out the door before anyone knows what is working. Scroll, and the case walks the route.

Step 01
Grab the free audit guide
Enter your email and the Free Local Marketing Audit Guide plus the business-profile optimization checklist arrive in your inbox. Fourteen checks you can run tonight on your own listing — no call, no login, no cost.
Step 02
Baseline call and snapshot
A 30-minute call to see what you already have: the profile, the site, the ad account if there is one, and the search terms your customers in Fort Wayne or Sarasota are actually typing. You leave with a written baseline whether or not you hire us.
Step 03
Foundations first, then ads
Profile cleanup, listing consistency, on-page work and conversion tracking come before a dollar of ad spend. Turning on paid search over a broken listing and an untracked form is how budgets disappear without anyone learning anything.
Step 04
Report, adjust, repeat
One monthly report you can read in five minutes: calls and forms by source, what changed, what we would do next and why. Month-to-month options mean the report has to earn the next month rather than lean on a contract.

Get Free Quote (877) 555-0134

Owner of a local service business at the counter of their shop during business hours

Fit check

Who this is built for — and who it isn’t

We would rather lose the sale than take on work we cannot do well. Here is the honest cut.

Good fit
Single-location trades and practices
One shop, one number, a service radius you can drive across in half an hour. Think an HVAC company in Boise, a family dental practice in Des Moines, a garage door outfit in Spokane.
Good fit
Multi-van operations adding a second market
Four trucks in Charlotte and a plan to open in Greensboro. New service areas need their own pages, their own profile hygiene and their own ad geography — copying the first market rarely works.
Good fit
Owners who want to read the report themselves
If you want the search-term list, the pull dates and the account logins, you are going to like working here. That is the whole posture.
Poor fit
National e-commerce, brand campaigns, or anyone shopping for a guarantee
We do not run nationwide product catalogs or awareness buys, and we will not promise a position, a lead count, a revenue number or a return on ad spend. If a guarantee is the deciding factor, another vendor will say yes — and you should ask them how it is enforced.

Reporting transparency

One report a month. Every number checkable in your own login.

Marketing reporting has a bad reputation for good reasons: undated screenshots, metrics with no source, and a summary slide that quietly drops the bad month. Here is the whole contents of ours, and the things we refuse to put in it.

Monthly marketing performance report open on a laptop beside printed charts

Calls and form fills, by source
Pulled from your own call-tracking and analytics accounts, split by paid search, map listing and organic — with the raw numbers, not a rounded-up summary.
The search terms that triggered ads
The full query report, including the wasteful ones we added as negatives that month. If a term cost money and produced nothing, it appears in your report.
Profile views, calls and direction requests
What the map listing did, month over month, next to the profile changes we made — so you can tell which edits mattered and which were housekeeping.
Tracked ranking positions, with the pull date
Positions move by device, location and day. We stamp every pull with the date and the location it was checked from, because a screenshot with no date is not a metric.
Hours worked and what actually changed
A plain list of the work: pages published, negatives added, photos posted, citations corrected. No line item reading “ongoing optimization.”
What we would do next, and why
One short recommendation section with the reasoning attached, so you can disagree with it. Plenty of clients do, and the plan changes.

What never appears in a BrightLead report

A projected revenue figure. A promised return on ad spend. A “guaranteed” ranking position. A cost-savings estimate. A tax, accounting or compliance conclusion — we are not qualified to draw one and will tell you to ask your CPA or attorney. And no metric without the account it came from and the date it was pulled. If a number cannot survive you logging in and checking it, it does not belong in the report.

The terms, in plain English

You keep the keys

The three things that decide how painful it is to leave an agency are ownership, notice and data portability. Most contracts bury all three. Ours are the first thing we talk about.

Business owner signing in to their own advertising dashboard on a laptop

You own the accounts

The ad account, the analytics property, the business profile, the domain and the site all live in your name with you as owner or admin. We get access, not ownership. If we part ways on a Friday, nothing turns off on Saturday.

Calendar and notebook on a desk used to plan a monthly marketing schedule

Month-to-month options

Month-to-month engagements are available on most scopes, typically with 30 days of written notice — an illustrative example, since specific terms are set in the written agreement. Longer builds sometimes carry a defined project term, and we say so up front rather than in a footnote.

Files and reports being organized and handed over on an office desk

Your data leaves with you

Reports, keyword sets, page copy, tracking configuration and creative files are exported to you on request, in formats you can open without us. There is no proprietary dashboard holding your history hostage.

Pricing, and the line we will not cross

Every dollar figure on this page is an illustrative example, not a quote. Scope, deliverables, fees and notice periods vary by engagement and are set in a written agreement before any work begins. Advertising budget is separate, paid by you directly to the ad platform from an account in your name, and never marked up. BrightLead makes no promise or guarantee about rankings, traffic, calls, leads, revenue, return on ad spend, cost savings, tax treatment, audit results or regulatory compliance — and it does not provide tax, legal, accounting, investment or HR advice of any kind.

Owner notes

What clients say changed first

4.8 out of 5 · 2,600+ guide readers · illustrative demo figures

The first thing they did was open my profile and show me the primary category was wrong and my service area covered half the state. Nobody at the last agency had ever mentioned it, and I had been paying them for fourteen months.

Renata, ArizonaOwner, residential HVAC

I asked for the search-term report in month one and got the whole thing, including the queries that wasted money. That was new. I still do not love every number in it, but I can finally follow what happened.

Curtis, TennesseeOwner, roofing and gutters

Month-to-month was the reason I said yes. I have been burned by a twelve-month term before. Knowing the accounts were in my name and the files were mine made the decision take an afternoon instead of a month.

Alina, MichiganPractice manager, dental

BrightLead Marketing is a fictional demo brand. These testimonials are illustrative examples written for this demonstration page, not statements from real customers, and they describe process and communication rather than business results. Individual outcomes vary and are never guaranteed.

Straight answers

Before you give us your email

Do you guarantee first-page rankings or a set number of leads?

No, and neither should anyone else. Search results are ranked by systems we do not control, and they move with competition, seasonality, device, location and algorithm changes. Nothing on this page is a promise or guarantee of rankings, traffic, calls, leads, revenue, return on ad spend, cost savings or any other business outcome. What we commit to is defined scope, documented work and monthly reporting you can verify inside your own accounts. Results vary by market, budget, business and time frame.

What does an engagement cost?

Who owns the ad account, the business profile and the website?

Am I locked into a long contract?

Do you buy reviews or filter out the bad ones?

Is BrightLead an accountant, attorney, PEO or financial advisor?

What happens after I enter my email?

Last stop — still $0

Get the Free Local Marketing Audit Guide + business-profile checklist

One email, one download, and about an hour with your own listing, site and ads — enough to see for yourself where the gaps are. Run it yourself. Hire whoever you like afterward. No outcome is implied or guaranteed.

The 14-point self-audit, in priority order
The business-profile optimization checklist
The reporting questions to ask any agency

Get Free Quote (877) 555-0134

Your customers are searching within 12 miles. Be the result they tap.

Transparent monthly reporting — raw numbers, dated, from your accounts

Month-to-month options on most scopes — no long lock-in

You own the ad account, the profile, the site and the data

The Free Local Marketing Audit Guide, plus the business-profile checklist

A 14-point self-audit, in order

Primary category, service radius, hours, review cadence, page speed, phone placement and tracking — each with the specific thing to look at and the answer that means “fix this first.”

The business-profile checklist

The fields most owners never fill in, the ones that quietly shrink your reach, and the two settings we most often find pointed at the wrong part of the state.

Questions to ask any agency

Who owns the ad account? What is the notice period? Can I see the raw search terms? If a vendor gets cagey on those three, you have learned something for free.

Five service lines, built for a service area you can drive across

Who this is built for — and who it isn’t

We would rather lose the sale than take on work we cannot do well. Here is the honest cut.

Good fit

Single-location trades and practices

One shop, one number, a service radius you can drive across in half an hour. Think an HVAC company in Boise, a family dental practice in Des Moines, a garage door outfit in Spokane.

Good fit

Multi-van operations adding a second market

Four trucks in Charlotte and a plan to open in Greensboro. New service areas need their own pages, their own profile hygiene and their own ad geography — copying the first market rarely works.

Good fit

Owners who want to read the report themselves

If you want the search-term list, the pull dates and the account logins, you are going to like working here. That is the whole posture.

Poor fit

National e-commerce, brand campaigns, or anyone shopping for a guarantee

We do not run nationwide product catalogs or awareness buys, and we will not promise a position, a lead count, a revenue number or a return on ad spend. If a guarantee is the deciding factor, another vendor will say yes — and you should ask them how it is enforced.

Get the Free Local Marketing Audit Guide + business-profile checklist

The 14-point self-audit, in priority order

The business-profile optimization checklist

The reporting questions to ask any agency

Your customers are searching within 12 miles. Be the result they tap.

The Free Local Marketing Audit Guide, plus the business-profile checklist

A 14-point self-audit, in order

The business-profile checklist

Questions to ask any agency