Every call that comes from your own Google ranking is yours alone. No shared leads. No bidding against 5 other contractors for the same job. No per-lead fees that go up every year.
Brian Egan, Founder
I do this work myself. No agency, no account managers.
If you've worked with HomeAdvisor, Angi, Thumbtack, or Yelp, you know what this looks like:
The real cost per booked job, after you factor in the dead leads and the price competition, can easily exceed $1,400. That's not marketing. That's a tax.
REAL CLIENTS. REAL GOOGLE DATA.
Every chart below is pulled live from Google Search Console for a current Echo Local client. The calls coming from these rankings are theirs alone, not shared with anyone.
Mr Green Turf Clean
Mr Green Turf Clean
Integrity Pro Washers
Integrity Pro Washers
Real Echo Local Client -- San Diego
Exterior cleaning company in San Diego. Tired of paying per lead. Now ranking page 1 and getting their own calls.
Josh runs Integrity Pro out of San Diego. Before working with Echo Local, he told us he had never had a single customer find him through his website. Eight weeks in, he is ranking page 1 in San Diego and the calls have started coming. None of them are shared with another contractor. None of them cost $50 per lead. They are his.
Real Client Testimonial
"I had a website for years and never got a single call from Google. Eight weeks with Echo Local and we are ranking page 1 in San Diego. The calls finally make sense."
Josh, Integrity Pro Washers (San Diego)
Brian Egan
Founder. Oceanside, CA. CSUSM finance grad.
I built Echo Local because home service businesses were getting ripped off by lead platforms and SEO agencies. The platforms charge per shared lead. The agencies charge $2,000 to $5,000 a month for vague reports. Both go away the second you stop paying.
I think about an SEO system the same way I think about a 401k. The work I do today should still be paying you back five years from now. That is the difference between renting visibility and owning it.
I only work with home service businesses, and I do the work myself. No account managers, no handoffs, no offshore contractor doing your content. If you have a question, you text me.
Free audit walkthrough. I review your site, GBP, and top 5 competitors live with you on a 20-minute call. No slides, no canned pitch.
No contracts. Month-to-month. Cancel anytime, no questions, no fees.
You see every metric I see. Live dashboard pulls from Google Search Console, Analytics, and your Business Profile. If a number goes down, you see it and you see what I am doing about it.
You talk to me, not an account manager. Text my cell. That is the support team.
Free SEO Audit Walkthrough
Drop your info below. I will text you within 24 hours to book a 20-minute walkthrough where we go through your Google Search Console, your GBP, and your top 5 competitors live. No slides. No sales pitch.
Lead platforms sell the same lead to 3 to 8 contractors. You fight on price, win less than half the time, and the leads stop the moment you stop paying. Echo Local builds your own search visibility. The calls that come in are yours, not shared with competitors. Once you rank, you rank, and the rankings do not go away when you stop paying.
Some movement in 30 days, real GBP impressions growth in 60, page 1 rankings starting around 60 to 90 days. The case study above is 8 to 10 weeks in. Anyone who promises faster than that is either lying or about to do something Google penalizes.
You probably should not. Most contractors I work with use Echo Local to replace the lead platform, not add to it. The math typically lines up where one or two booked jobs per month from your own ranking equals the per-lead fees you used to pay. Then everything else is upside.
Then you might not need me. The audit will tell you honestly. Sometimes a business is ranking for one or two terms but missing 80% of the searches their customers actually type. Sometimes they are ranking fine and just need a tune-up, not a full SEO program.
Week 1: I audit your site, your GBP, and your top 5 competitors. Send you a written report of what is broken. Week 2: technical fixes, schema markup, GBP optimization. Week 3: content infrastructure (service pages, location pages). Week 4: first round of new content pushed. By month 2 you start seeing impressions climb.
If you read this far, you are probably thinking about it. The walkthrough is free and there is no obligation. Worst case you get a clear picture of where you stand. Best case it starts a conversation that actually grows your business.