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Call 502-727-2010. Prefer to write? Email [email protected].

  • ✓ Owned and run by Tony Short
  • ✓ Call 502-727-2010 or email [email protected]
  • ✓ Serving businesses around Louisville

What to have ready for the call

None of this is a requirement. If you can answer half of it, call. It just makes the first ten minutes more useful.

  • Your business name and what you do, in a sentence.
  • The town you work in, and roughly how far you'll drive for a job.
  • What you want: more calls, a better Google listing, a new website, or you're not sure.
  • Your website address, if you have one.
  • Whether you have a Google Business Profile, and whether you can log in to it.
  • Who built your website, and whether you have the login.
  • The best number to reach you.

That fifth and sixth item trip up a lot of owners. It's common for a website or a listing to be set up by a nephew, a former employee or a company that's no longer around, with the login nowhere to be found. Tell us if that's you. It's fixable, and it's better to know before anything else gets planned.

What happens on the call

  1. You tell us about the business.
  2. We look up your main service in your town, the way a customer would, and see where you show up.
  3. We tell you what we'd work on first.
  4. You decide. If it's not a fit, you keep what we found.

Step two sometimes happens while you're on the line. We'll search your service and your town on a phone, then search your business name, and say out loud what we see. You'll get a plain read: you're on the map, you're not, your hours look wrong, there are two listings for you.

Step three is a short list. One or two things to fix first, and why those. Not a forty-page audit.

Step four is yours. We talk through pricing on the call, so ask whatever you want to know. If it isn't a fit, or you'd rather think about it, that's fine too. No hard sell. You keep what we found.

Before you call: a two-minute look

If you've got two minutes, pick up your phone and try these. You don't need to do anything about what you see. It just gives us something to talk about.

  • Search your main service plus your town. Count how many businesses show up on the map before you do.
  • Search your own business name. Does the phone number on the listing ring where you want it to?
  • Tap your website from the listing. Can you find the phone number without zooming?

If you only do one, do the second. A wrong phone number on a listing is a quick fix, and every day it sits there is a call you never heard about.

Who we work with

Small and mid-sized businesses that get customers from people nearby, in the Louisville area. Think the shop, the office, the service van. And contractors, including roofers and HVAC companies, who mostly want the phone to ring.

If you sell only online to the whole country and nobody local ever finds you through a search, local SEO won't do much for you, and we'll tell you that on the call instead of taking the work.

Not sure you're the kind of business we mean? Call and describe what you do. It takes a minute to find out.

Want the detail first? Each of these pages covers one service: Google Business Profile optimization, local website design, HVAC contractor SEO and lead generation for contractors. The local SEO services page covers all five in one place.

Common reasons people call

If you're wondering whether your situation is worth a call, here are the usual ones. Yours doesn't have to match.

“The phone got quiet.”

Something changed, and nobody knows what. A competitor moved up, a listing got edited, a duplicate appeared, the website broke on phones. We start by looking at what a customer sees today.

“I moved, or changed numbers, or changed the name.”

Old details hang around for a long time on directories and map apps. Cleaning them up is dull work, and it's a common reason a business stays hard to find.

“I need a website, or mine is a mess.”

Tell us what you want the site to do. For most local businesses the answer is one thing: get the visitor to call.

“I'm a contractor and I just want calls.”

Fair. Say what trade you're in and what town you work in. We'll go over what kinds of calls come from where.

“Somebody left a bad review.”

Google decides what comes down, and only if it breaks Google's rules. What we can do is talk through how to reply, and how to ask more of your real customers for their opinion.

“Someone told me I need SEO.”

Maybe you do. Maybe you need a corrected phone number. Call and we'll say which.

Questions to ask any local SEO provider

Bring these to every call, ours included. Write the answers down. You'll compare them later and notice who dodged.

About the work

  • What will you actually change in the first month, in plain words?
  • Who will do the work, and can I talk to that person?
  • What would you look at first on my business, and why that?
  • What do you need from me, and how much of my time does it take?

About control

  • Who owns my website, my domain name and my Google Business Profile?
  • Will I have the logins to everything?
  • If we stop working together, what do I walk away with?

About results

  • Do you promise a ranking? If yes, how can you promise it?
  • What will you report, and can I check it myself?
  • Does the report mention phone calls?
  • Where do your reviews come from?

An answer like “it depends, let me look” beats a confident number from someone who hasn't looked. We'll answer all of these on the phone.

Email

You can email [email protected]. Say what you do, what town you're in and the best number to reach you. That's enough for us to take a look before we talk.

A few things make the first reply more useful:

  • Your website address and the name your business shows under on Google.
  • One sentence on what's not working, such as “the phone's slow since spring” or “the listing says closed when we're open.”
  • A time of day you usually pick up.

Keep it to that. Email isn't a secure channel, so don't send passwords, card numbers or account logins in a message. We'll never need them in the first email, and if we need access later we'll talk about how to do that safely.

How to reach us

Phone and email are the quickest. If you'd rather we reach out to you, there are short forms too.

Phone: 502-727-2010
Email: [email protected]

Which one? Call if you'd like a straight answer and a conversation. Email if you'd rather write it down, or you have something to point us at, like a link to your website or your listing.

Rather fill something out? Ask for a free Google checkup, or if you're in the trades, ask for a contractor listing check. Want to talk on a set day? Ask Tony to call you back. Booked calls are on Fridays and Saturdays. The forms ask for your name, business, town, phone and email, and every one lands in Tony's inbox. Our website is 4localseo.com.

We work with businesses around the Louisville area. Tell us your town on the call.

Questions about working together

Do I need to know what I want before I call?

No. Tell us what you do and what's bugging you, and we'll work out the rest together. Plenty of people start with “my phone isn't ringing like it used to” and that's a fine place to begin.

Can I call just to ask a question?

Yes. You don't need to be ready to hire anyone. A short honest conversation beats a long pitch, for you and for us.

Will you quote a price on the call?

We talk through pricing on the call. There are no prices on this site, so if cost is the first thing you want to know, ask it first.

What if I'm not sure I have a Google Business Profile?

Say so. Often the business has one that somebody set up years ago and nobody remembers. We can look it up during the call, and you can search your own business name on your phone while we talk.

Can I put my partner or office manager on the call?

Sure. If somebody else answers the phones or knows the website login, it helps to have them there.

Do you only work with contractors?

No. We work with small and mid-sized local businesses. Contractors, including roofers and HVAC companies, who mostly want the phone to ring, are a good fit too.

What if I already work with another marketing company?

Tell us. Calling to ask a question doesn't commit you to anything. We'll look at what's there and tell you straight what we see, including if it looks fine.

What happens to the information I give you?

We use it to talk with you about what you asked for, and if you hire us, to do the work. If you filled out a form, we may follow up by phone or email, and we'll stop when you tell us to. We don't sell it. The privacy page says it in plain English.

One more thing

If you'd like to read before you call, start with the about page. It covers who runs the company, what we won't do, and how to size up any agency. When you're ready, the number is above, and again below.

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