Cleveland, Ohio
Long-tail SEO, email, and GBP for Cleveland small businesses. The agencies chase enterprise retainers; I run the campaigns small businesses can afford.
Cleveland has serious marketing agencies — Sanctuary Marketing, Go Media, thunder::tech. They run campaigns for clients with $50K+ monthly retainers and dedicated marketing budgets. Excellent work. Wrong fit for most Cleveland small businesses.
I run digital marketing — email campaigns, SEO targeting the specific local queries your business serves, Google Business Profile optimization — at a price point that makes sense for a 5-person Lakewood practice, a Tremont restaurant, or a Strongsville HVAC company. Same skills the big agencies use. Different math.
SEO strategy for Cleveland specifically means long-tail and neighborhood-focused. You won't outrank a 20-year-old domain on "Cleveland dentist." You can win on "dentist in Tremont" or "Lakewood family dentist" or "Strongsville pediatric dentist." Each target is smaller but more winnable, and they add up.
Your Cleveland 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 Cleveland 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.
By focusing on what compounds for free — organic search, email to your existing list, and Google Business Profile — instead of paid ads that disappear the moment you stop spending. A Cleveland small business can get meaningful results from a monthly service that costs a fraction of what a Cleveland agency retainer runs.
Cleveland SERPs are crowded. You won't outrank a 20-year-old domain on a generic term any time soon. The realistic play is long-tail and neighborhood-specific — "dentist in Lakewood," "HVAC repair Strongsville," "wedding venue Cuyahoga County." Each target is smaller but more winnable, and the combined traffic adds up.
Yes — often the in-house marketer is great at the strategy and content side but doesn't have time for the deliverability infrastructure (email DNS, suppression handling, schema markup, GBP photo refreshes). I handle the technical layer so they can focus on the creative work.
Email shows results in the first send — open rates, click rates, replies, bookings. SEO is slower — meaningful local-search movement in Cleveland typically takes 3 to 6 months. I tell you that up front because the wrong answer kills trust. GBP optimization tends to move faster than full-site SEO.
Also serving Northeast Ohio
Free consultation. Tell me where the gap is — Google, email, foot traffic, all of it. I'll tell you what to fix first.