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You get a reply from a person within one business day, not an automated sequence. Before that reply we will have looked at your site, run a couple of the searches your buyers would run, and checked who currently ranks for them — so the first response contains something specific rather than a request to book a call. If we think we can help, we will suggest a conversation and tell you roughly what an engagement would cost based on what we saw. If we think you would be better served elsewhere, or that the channel you asked about is not your actual constraint, we will say that instead. There is no drip campaign and nobody will chase you.

It is free and it is genuinely diagnostic, though we would be dishonest to pretend it is not also how we find clients. What makes it worth your time regardless is that you leave with information: which of your pages are competing with each other, whether your conversion tracking measures anything real, what your actual cost per qualified lead is as opposed to the platform-reported figure, and whether the auction economics in your category support paid media at your budget. You keep all of that whether or not you hire us. We would rather spend an hour establishing that we are not a fit than sign an engagement that fails in month four.

Start dates depend on current capacity — we take on fewer clients than a larger agency and there are periods when we are booked, in which case we will tell you rather than stretching. On results, the honest answer varies by channel and we will give you the specific version for your situation. Local SEO can show map pack movement within weeks. Paid media produces data within two weeks and reliable performance after the bidding learning period. Website and technical SEO operate on a three-to-six-month cycle before compounding is clearly visible, because indexing and ranking stabilisation take time regardless of execution quality. Month one is diagnosis and measurement, which produces analysis rather than visible movement.

Yes. The nine markets on this site are where we have done enough research to write about them honestly, but our address has no bearing on your rankings — Google weights your business location, not your agency's. For a market outside those nine, the difference is that our knowledge starts thinner and gets built collaboratively: we research the competitive set and run your buyers' searches, and you supply the local specifics that make neighbourhood and suburb content credible. That is actually how we work in most of our listed markets too. The only situation where we would decline on geography is a market where language or regulatory requirements are outside what we can competently handle.