Akron, Ohio
Email, SEO, and Google Business Profile for Summit County small businesses. One person, three things, monthly — no three-team agency handoff.
Akron's marketing landscape is split between WordPress-and-SEO shops and larger creative agencies (Habel Media in Copley being one of the more recognizable). Both work for the right buyer. For an Akron small business that wants email campaigns that actually get opened, SEO that targets the queries that matter, and a Google Business Profile that gets noticed — without the agency markup or the three-team handoff — I run all three from the same desk.
That single-desk model matters. When your email campaign references a product, the SEO content reinforces it, and the GBP post mentions the same offer in the same week, the channels compound. When those three things happen at three different agencies, they drift. One desk keeps them coordinated.
I work with businesses across Summit County — downtown Akron up through Cuyahoga Falls and Stow, out to Hudson and Kent, and back through Copley. Service businesses, healthcare practices, professional services, restaurants. Email is universal. Local SEO is per-city. GBP is per-location.
Your Akron business gets a website, the software behind it, and the marketing that fills its calendar — all from the same person.
Hand-coded sites that load fast and rank on Google. Built around your Akron business, not a template.
See website plans →Mini-CRMs, dashboards, and bookkeeping automation built around how your business actually works.
See what I build →Email, SEO, and Google Business Profile — handled monthly by the same developer who built your site.
See marketing services →Real Numbers From a Recent Northeast Ohio Client
99.6%
Email deliverability rate
20.7%
Click-to-open rate — about 3× the industry average
+8,000
New subscribers in 2 months
Numbers from a Northeast Ohio client's email program after I took over from their previous agency. Organic list growth through website opt-ins. No purchased lists, no spam, no shortcuts. The same engine runs every client campaign I send.
Straight answers, before you have to ask on a call.
Marketing-led agencies are built around running campaigns and producing creative across a team. I'm a developer first — the technical infrastructure (email deliverability, schema markup, GBP API integration, analytics tracking) is the foundation, with the campaign work layered on top. For most Akron small businesses, my approach delivers more value per dollar because there's no agency markup and no three-team handoff.
Branded email campaigns I write, design, and send for you. Local SEO that targets the specific "service + Akron" queries that bring actual customers. Google Business Profile management — weekly posts, photo refreshes, every review answered, Q&A monitoring. Monthly report in plain English. List growth through website opt-ins. Compliance and deliverability handled.
Yes — pick what you need. Some Akron clients start with just GBP management because that's where their gap is. Others want email-only because they have a list they're not using. Most eventually do all three because the channels compound on each other, but there's no requirement to start there.
Email and GBP show results in the first month — opens, clicks, profile views, calls. SEO is slower; meaningful local-search ranking improvements typically take 3 to 6 months in the Summit County market. The combined approach starts paying back quickly on the email/GBP side while the SEO investment compounds for years.
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Free consultation. Tell me where the gap is — Google, email, foot traffic, all of it. I'll tell you what to fix first.