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For Local Businesses in Columbus

Turn Local Searches into Booked Jobs

A website that drives more leads. A Google listing that shows up first. Reviews that make you the trusted pick.

CBUS Concrete · $300K+ revenue added.
Wind Bender HVAC · +41% revenue YoY.
Donkey Dumpster · 9x return on marketing investment.

The 3 Things That Drive Local Business Growth

Three Factors Drive Local Growth. One System Multiplies Them.

Most local businesses miss at least one. We manage all three for you, plus the speed-to-lead multiplier that turns leads into booked jobs.

A website that turns visitors into calls

A nice-looking website alone turns 2 to 4% of visitors into calls. Add live Google reviews, real testimonials, and pages that answer the questions customers actually have, and it turns 10 to 15%. Same traffic, 3 to 5 times more calls.

Source: WordStream / LocaliQ

A Google Business Profile That Ranks in the top 3

44% of local searches lead to a click on one of the top 3 results in Google Maps. Optimizing your Google Business Profile is the single highest-return move in local marketing.

Source: BrightLocal Local Services Ads Click Study

Reviews that get you picked

97% of consumers read online reviews before choosing a local business. 68% won't consider any business rated below 4 stars. According to Harvard research, one extra star drives 5-9% more revenue.

Source: BrightLocal (2024), Harvard Business School (Luca, 2016)

The multiplier: your response time

Responding to a new lead in 5 minutes or less makes you 21 times more likely to win the job. Many local businesses take 24-48 hours. Our plans make sure that you're in touch with every lead immediately. Paired with the core fundamentals, you'll drive leads and calls consistently.

Source: Harvard Business Review (Oldroyd / MIT, 2011)

Home Services · Healthcare · Restaurants · Construction · Auto · Legal

Built for Local Businesses

We work with the businesses that make Columbus work – plumbers, HVAC, concrete, roofing, electricians, auto, junk removal, restaurants, medical practices, and more. We get you found on Google, turn more visitors into calls, and grow your revenue month over month.

Conversion-Optimized Websites

A website we build, host, and relentlessly optimize to turn each visitor into a warm, high-intent lead or call.

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The Ranking Engine

Monthly optimization of your Google Business Profile and local SEO so you rank higher on Google Maps, whether you have 15 reviews or 500.

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Review Kickstart + Velocity

A one-time catalyst to get your review count moving, plus ongoing automation that turns every completed job into a new review opportunity.

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The Content Engine

Fresh content that ranks across both traditional search and AI search, so you stay visible as search evolves.

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The Conversion Layer

Online booking, website chat, and optimized forms so customers can book without calling.

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The Nurture System

Automatic texts and emails that nurture new leads and bring past customers back.

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Research

Why a review from last week beats ten from last year

74% of consumers only trust reviews from the last 3 months. The reviews you earned in 2022 stopped earning their space last quarter. Every plan we run includes both a one-time catalyst to surface reviews from your past customers and ongoing automation that turns every completed job into a new review opportunity.

Source: BrightLocal (2024)

What Our Clients Say

What owners say after working with us.

Scalable helped me build a residential concrete brand from scratch. Our website, SEO, ads, CRM, automations, and more. We added over $300k in our first year.
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Colin Carter

Owner, CBUS Concrete

We were getting outspent by PE-backed HVAC chains. Cole's team built a positioning and ranking strategy that put us in front of every customer searching geothermal in our region. Revenue is up 41% year over year.
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Matt Near

Owner, Wind Bender HVAC

Twenty years in business, and Zealous Growth is the first marketing partner that actually delivered. The phone rings, the bookings come in, and I'm bringing them into all my other businesses.
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Ryan Gale

Owner, Donkey Dumpster

Ready to See What We'd Build for You?

Tell us about your business and we’ll send you an actionable 90-day plan and a new website design we’d build for you, no strings attached.

Why We Built These Plans

The Three Things Most Local Businesses Are Missing

A site that converts, a profile that ranks, reviews that earn trust. The plans below build all three plus the speed-to-lead multiplier that 23% of local businesses skip entirely.

Source: Harvard Business Review (Oldroyd / MIT, 2011).

Simple Pricing

Two plans. One promise.

We build and run the marketing system for you. You send us photos. That's it.

Monthly plans require a 6-month minimum commitment, then month-to-month.

Growth

Get your phone ringing with local customers who find you on Google.

$2,000 / month
You supply content, we execute.
1 Your Website

A conversion-optimized site we build, host, and maintain, with ongoing CRO so it keeps turning visitors into calls.

  • Full custom build, hosting, and maintenance included
  • Ongoing conversion rate optimization
  • Live Google rating and review count as a trust badge
  • Monthly updates with your newest photos, testimonials, and project gallery
2 The Ranking Engine

Ongoing Local SEO and Google Business Profile work so you rank higher on Google Maps, whether you have 15 reviews or 500.

  • Complete Google Business Profile audit and optimization at onboarding, managed ongoing
  • Citation management: your business info listed and synced across directory sites
  • Scheduled Google Business Profile posts from your photos
  • Monthly ranking and insights report
3 Web SEO & Organic Publishing

Ongoing website SEO plus fresh content that ranks on traditional search AND AI search.

  • On-page and technical SEO, managed ongoing
  • 2 optimized posts per month, written for your business and your customers
  • Optimization for ChatGPT, Claude, Google AI, and other AI tools so they recommend you when customers ask
  • Structured content, schema, and FAQ pages designed for AI citation
4 Reputation Management

Review Kickstart gets your review count moving in your first 90 days; Review Velocity keeps it climbing while protecting your rating.

  • Review Kickstart: we run your past customer list through our signature outreach flow
  • Review Velocity: automated review outreach for every completed job
  • Automated review responses on your behalf
  • Reputation protection: happy customers get a review link; unhappy customers get flagged to you first
90-Day Guarantee

20+ new Google reviews and measurable Google Maps rank improvement within 90 days, or we keep working for free until you hit it.

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Start with Growth
See what this costs à la carte
  • Web SEO & organic content (2 posts/mo)$1,000/mo
  • Website build, hosting, maintenance & CRO$750/mo
  • Local SEO & Google Business Profile (1 location)$500/mo
  • Review & reputation management$500/mo
À la carte total$2,750/mo — save 27%

What's not on that list: the hundreds of hours of agency expertise it takes to make these services actually work together. That's what we bring.

Add-ons

Pair with either plan when you're ready.

Google & Facebook Ads Management

Scoped to your spend

Capture the customers searching for you right now. Google Search, Google Local Service Ads, and Facebook ads, all tracked through to booked jobs.

  • Full campaign build, management, and optimization
  • Call tracking tied to booked jobs
  • Dedicated landing pages designed to convert
  • Monthly reporting with clear cost-per-booked-job numbers

Compare at: typical agency fees $1,500-5,000/mo plus 15-25% spend markup.

Additional Sub Brands

$750/moeach additional sub brand

Run a second brand, service line, or location under the same system: its own site presence, Google Business Profile, and local SEO, managed alongside your main brand.

  • Dedicated web presence for each sub brand
  • Separate Google Business Profile and local SEO management
  • Reviews and reputation managed per brand
  • Rolled into your existing reporting

Why we're built different

Most marketing tools make you the operator. You pay for software, then hire someone to run it, then hope it all works together.

We’re the operators. You keep running your business. We handle the website, the Google listing, the reviews, the content, the follow-up, the reporting. You just send us photos of the work you’re already doing.

And because we’ve done this specifically for local service businesses, we know exactly what generates calls, what’s a distraction, and what wastes a budget.

Frequently Asked Questions

The questions we hear most.

How quickly will I see results?

Reviews in 4-6 weeks. Automatic follow-up in the first month. Measurable increase in Google Maps ranking in 90 days.

What kind of website improvement is realistic?

Most local business websites convert 1 to 3% of visitors into leads. The best ones convert 11% or higher. Sites we’ve built typically start between 6 to 10% and increase with further optimizations.

How important are Google reviews really?

Reviews are how local buyers decide who to call. They look at the count, the average rating, and how recent the latest reviews are — all three matter. A business with five 4.9-star reviews from 2022 loses to a competitor with twenty 4.8-star reviews from this month.

Is there a long-term contract?

No long-term contracts. Our monthly plans have a 6-month initial commitment, then continue month-to-month. You can cancel anytime after the first 6 months. We also offer discounted annual plans, which is the closest thing to a commitment we have. Annual plans are paid upfront for the full term, and because we begin work immediately, we don’t offer prorates or refunds on time already covered.

How long does it take to launch my website?

Most websites go from kickoff to live in 5-7 business days. We handle design, SEO, content, and launch so you don’t have to.

Do I own my domain name?

Yes. Your domain is always yours. We simply manage the hosting and DNS configuration for you as part of the service.

What happens if I need changes to my site?

Every plan gives you a login so you can update content yourself: text, images, blog posts, and more. If you’d rather have us handle it, content updates and design tweaks are included in your monthly plan. That’s what ongoing partnership means.

How is this different from Wix or Squarespace?

Platforms like Wix and Squarespace lock you into their proprietary infrastructure. We build on WordPress so you own your site and can move it anywhere — and we run it on high-performance managed hosting.

What do I get before signing up?

A free marketing audit and a custom design preview of your new WordPress site — no commitment required.

Get My Free 90-Day Plan

Tell us about your business. We'll send back a comprehensive marketing audit, an actionable 90-day plan with the highest-impact changes first, and a new website design optimized to generate more leads and calls.

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