Independent consultant · Ohio · Works anywhere

Get found. Get chosen. Get back to work.

I help small and mid-size businesses fix the things that quietly cost them customers: broken listings, invisible map pins, slow websites, wasted ad spend, and marketing that AI assistants can't find. One person, plain pricing, and you own everything I touch.

Tell me what's not working See the services

Free 20-minute call. No pitch deck, no pressure, no drip campaign afterward.

You own everything

Accounts, domains, files, and passwords stay in your name from day one. Nothing is held hostage.

Price agreed before work starts

A written scope and a flat number. If something changes mid-job, we talk before it bills.

No lock-in, ever

Everything I build is documented so any future person, including you, can run it without me.

Services · What each one looks like on the job

Eight services, one goal: more of the right customers.

They run in a sequence, like a funnel. First people find you, then what they find actually works, then we grow it. Every card below includes a real-world example of the problem, the fix, and what moved.

01 Get found Most lost customers never reach your website. They're lost at the map pin.

Work order · GF-01Findability

Listing services

A full audit and cleanup of everywhere your business appears online: Google, Bing, Apple, Yelp, Facebook, industry directories. Duplicates removed, data corrected, one source of truth going forward.

The problem: A service company had four listings floating around, two with a phone number disconnected years ago. Callers got dead air and assumed they'd closed.
The fix: Claimed and merged every listing, corrected hours, phone, and categories, then locked down ownership so it stays fixed.
What moved: Every call now lands on a working line. No more "are you still open?"

Work order · GF-02Findability

Business listings management

Ongoing care for your Google Business Profile: photos, posts, services, Q&A, and review responses. This is the storefront most customers see before they ever visit yours.

The problem: A shop's profile had two blurry photos and no listed services. Competitors with weaker work looked better in search because their profiles were full.
The fix: Added service categories, fresh photos monthly, answered the unanswered questions sitting in public view, and set up review replies.
What moved: More direction requests and calls straight from the profile, before the website even loads.

Work order · GF-03Findability

Apple listings management

Claiming and managing your presence in Apple Business Connect, which feeds Apple Maps, Siri, and CarPlay. Roughly half of US phones are iPhones, and most businesses have never touched this.

The problem: A business's Apple Maps pin sat on the wrong side of the building, at a locked door. iPhone drivers using CarPlay arrived confused and some gave up.
The fix: Claimed the listing, moved the pin to the customer entrance, added photos, hours, and a "call" action, and set up showcases for current offers.
What moved: iPhone customers arrive at the right door, and the listing works for you instead of sitting unclaimed.

Work order · GF-04Findability

AI optimization

Making sure ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Google's AI results can find, understand, and recommend your business. Clean page structure, schema markup, and content written to answer real questions.

The problem: People started asking AI assistants "who does X near me?" A manufacturer with 100 years of expertise wasn't showing up because its pages never plainly said what it does.
The fix: Restructured key pages with schema markup and direct answers to the questions customers actually ask, so both search engines and AI models can cite them.
What moved: The business starts appearing in AI answers and rich results instead of being invisible in the fastest-growing way people search.

02 Get working Being found means nothing if what they find is slow, broken, or confusing.

Work order · GW-01Infrastructure

Website solutions

Fast, clean websites and rescues of slow or hostage ones. Hosting migrations, email deliverability fixes, and sites you can actually afford to run. Built lean, hosted cheap, owned by you.

The problem: A company's site lived on an agency's bloated platform: slow to load, expensive to host, and every small edit required a ticket and an invoice.
The fix: Rebuilt it as a fast, lightweight site on low-cost hosting, moved the domain and email into the owner's hands, and fixed the email authentication so messages stopped landing in spam.
What moved: Pages load in under a second, hosting costs a fraction of before, and quotes actually reach customer inboxes.

Work order · GW-02Growth

Advertising consulting

An honest audit of where your ad money goes, then targeting that matches how your real customers search. Sometimes the best advice is to spend less.

The problem: A local business was paying for clicks from three states away on broad keywords that would never turn into a customer walking through the door.
The fix: Tightened the geography, cut broad-match waste, added negative keywords, and pointed the remaining budget at searches with real local intent.
What moved: The same monthly budget produces calls from people who can actually become customers.

03 Get growing Once the leads arrive, the business behind them has to hold up.

Work order · GG-01Operations

Management consulting

Practical help with the systems behind the marketing: lead intake, follow-up, quoting, and the simple tools that keep opportunities from slipping through cracks. I ran my own company for 13 years; I've made these mistakes already so you don't have to.

The problem: Leads came in by phone, email, and Facebook, and lived in three different heads. Quotes went out a week late, and nobody knew which jobs were won or lost.
The fix: Set up one simple intake list, a quote template, and a follow-up rhythm the owner could run in ten minutes a day. No enterprise software, no subscriptions they'd never use.
What moved: Quotes go out within a day, and follow-ups happen on purpose instead of by accident.

Work order · GG-02Identity

Branding & design consulting

Getting your business to look like one business everywhere it appears: logo, colors, signage, truck, invoices, website, and social. Consistency is what makes a small company look established.

The problem: A company had three versions of its logo in the wild, a website in one color scheme, and trucks in another. Customers weren't sure the ads and the trucks were the same outfit.
The fix: Settled on one logo and one palette, produced a simple one-page brand guide, and rolled the look across the site, listings, and print materials.
What moved: Every touchpoint reinforces the same trustworthy company instead of diluting it.

How it works · Three steps, no maze

The whole process fits on a napkin.

You tell me what's not working

Use the form below or book a free 20-minute call. Describe the symptom in your own words: "the phone stopped ringing," "our map pin is wrong," "the site feels slow." That's enough to start.

I send a short plan and a flat price

Usually one page: what I found, what I'd fix, what it costs, and what you can expect. If I'm not the right fit, I'll say so and point you somewhere better.

We fix it, and you keep the keys

I do the work, document it plainly, and hand over every login and file. Stay on for monthly care if it's useful, or take it from here. Both are fine.

Questions · Straight answers

Things people usually ask first.

How much does this cost?

It depends on scope, but you'll always know the number before work starts. Listing cleanups and audits are typically a few hundred dollars flat. Websites and ongoing management are quoted per project. There are no surprise line items, and monthly work can be cancelled anytime.

Do I have to sign a contract?

You get a written scope so we both know what's included, but there's no long-term commitment. Ongoing work is month to month. If it stops being useful, you stop paying, and you keep everything.

What size business is this for?

Mostly small and mid-size businesses: shops, contractors, manufacturers, professional services. If you have a marketing department of fifteen people, you probably don't need me. If marketing is one of the nine hats you wear, you're exactly who this is for.

Why one person instead of an agency?

You talk to the person doing the work, decisions happen in one conversation, and there's no account-manager markup. I've been on both sides: I ran my own company for over a decade and I've untangled businesses from agency lock-in. My whole model is the opposite of that.

What is "AI optimization," really?

People increasingly ask ChatGPT, Claude, and Google's AI for recommendations instead of clicking through ten links. Those systems favor businesses whose websites plainly state what they do, where, and for whom, with clean structure and schema markup behind the scenes. I make your site legible to them, using the same honest content that helps human visitors too.

Have a question that's not here? The assistant in the corner can answer general questions right now, honestly, including "is this even the right service for me?"

Contact · The only call to action on this page

Tell me what's not working.

One form, read by one person. I reply within one business day with either a straight answer or a few questions. No newsletter signup, no sales sequence, no "just circling back."

Prefer email? geoff@geoffclarkco.com