How much should a small business spend on marketing?

Work backwards from your numbers: average job value, close rate and how many jobs you want per month. For most local service businesses a workable starting ad budget is $1,000–$3,000/mo plus management, and we model it with you during the free audit.

What does a small business marketing consultant do?

Audits how you currently get customers, picks the two or three channels worth funding, fixes tracking and landing pages, and sets the follow-up process. Ours also runs the campaigns, so the advice and the results have the same owner.

Which digital marketing services work best for small business?

Paid search and Yelp for immediate lead flow, local SEO and reviews for cheaper leads over time, and follow-up automation to convert more of the leads you already get. Social and streaming come later, once the basics pay.

Do I have to sign a long-term contract?

No. The first thirty days are risk-free with no management fee, and ongoing packages are month-to-month starting at $555/mo.

Do you work with businesses outside Houston?

Yes. We are Houston-based and work with small businesses across the US remotely, including multi-location operators.

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Most agencies are built for companies with a marketing department. Small business owners do not have one — they have a phone, a calendar and a crew to keep busy. That changes what good marketing looks like: fewer channels, tighter tracking, faster response, and a number you can check without a dashboard tour.

Seraphim works as both the small business marketing consultant who decides what to do and the agency that executes it. You get one team accountable for cost per booked job instead of three vendors each reporting on their own slice.

What the engagement includes

Local paid search

Google Ads and Microsoft Advertising targeted to your service area, built around the searches that end in a call rather than the ones that inflate click volume.

Yelp and review demand

Premier Yelp partner campaigns plus review response management, for the categories where buyers start on Yelp instead of Google.

Local SEO and map pack

Google Business Profile optimization, service and city pages, citations and reviews so you show up when someone searches with intent nearby.

A site that converts

Fast, mobile-first pages with click-to-call, forms and booking built in — updated in days, not the weeks a typical dev queue takes.

Follow-up automation

Instant text and email response, quote nurture, review requests and rebooking through your CRM, plus Voice AI when calls go unanswered.

Owner-readable reporting

Monthly numbers in plain language: leads, cost per lead, booked jobs and which channel produced them.

How we work

Free audit

We look at your current spend, listings, site and response times and tell you where money is leaking before you commit anything.

Fix the basics

Tracking, Google Business Profile, landing pages and speed-to-lead usually beat more budget. Those come first.

30-day risk-free trial

We build and run your campaigns with no management fee for the first month. You pay only what goes to the ad platforms.

Scale what pays

Budget moves toward the channel producing booked revenue and comes out of the one that is not.

What small business marketing services should actually include

The list is shorter than most proposals suggest. A small business needs to be findable when someone is ready to buy, needs a page that makes calling easy, and needs to answer fast when a lead comes in. Everything else is optimization on top of those three.

That is why we start with paid search, local SEO and follow-up rather than a brand refresh. Brand work matters, but it rarely fills next week's calendar.

Findability: Google Ads, Yelp, Microsoft, map pack and service-area pages.
Conversion: fast landing pages, click-to-call, online booking, clear pricing signals.
Speed to lead: automated text-back in minutes and Voice AI for missed calls.
Proof: reviews requested automatically after every completed job.

Choosing a small business marketing consultant vs an agency

A consultant tells you what to change; an agency does the work on one channel. Small businesses usually get stuck in the gap — good advice nobody implements, or good execution aimed at the wrong channel.

Ask any firm you interview three questions: what number are you accountable for, do you execute or only advise, and do I keep the ad accounts if we part ways. Our answers are cost per booked job, we execute, and yes — the accounts, tracking and creative are always yours.

What it costs and what the credits cover

New clients start on a 30-day risk-free trial: no management fee for the first month, you pay only platform ad spend. After that, packages begin at $555/mo with no long-term contract.

As a Google Partner, Premier Yelp partner and BBB A+ accredited firm, we can also apply new-account spend credits and matched-spend programs where you qualify, which lowers the real cost of testing a channel. We confirm which apply during the audit, not after you sign.

Frequently asked questions

Let's look at your numbers first

A free strategy call: we review your channels, your cost per lead and your follow-up, and tell you where the next dollar should go — whether or not you hire us.

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