CLAIM
Week one
Your Google Business Profile rebuilt properly. It is 32% of local ranking weight — more than your website, more than your reviews — and most trades filled it in once and never touched it again.
$1,000 to Build It.
$197 a Month After That.
No long-term contract, no setup games, no "call for a quote". Year one is $3,364 all in.
What the Monthly Covers
Everything That Keeps
It Working
- Website hosted, maintained and secured
- One Google Business Profile post every week — 52 a year
- A monthly report, emailed
- Email list building on autopilot, CASL-compliant
- Automatic maintenance and rebooking reminders
- Ongoing lead monitoring
The weekly Google Business Profile post is the part most people underestimate. It is fifty-two touches a year on the asset carrying thirty-two percent of local ranking weight — the one almost every trade set up once and never returned to.
The Comparison
What Everyone Else
Charges for This
Canadian agencies commonly charge fifteen hundred to twenty-five hundred dollars a month for local SEO. Here is how one of their own pricing guides describes what that buys: "basic on-page optimization, Google Business Profile management, monthly reporting, and limited content creation."
That is the list above. Described by somebody charging roughly ten times more.
Bought separately, the pieces in this build come to about $41,900 — roughly 12.5× what year one actually costs. The reason it can be priced this way is not generosity; it is that the parts of this work that used to take an agency months have been automated down to days.
The Catch
One Trade,
One Market
Only one business per trade per market. If a deck builder in your town is already a client, you will be turned down — and if you sign, the next one who asks gets turned down instead.
That is not a scarcity tactic, it is arithmetic: two clients cannot both rank first for the same term in the same town, and taking both would mean charging one of them for a result that cannot happen.
It also means the honest answer to "is my market available" is sometimes no. Ask and you will be told.
Fair Warning
You Are Right
to Be Suspicious
The Better Business Bureau takes over thirteen thousand complaints a year about SEO and web design. The average small business loses three to five thousand dollars before working out it has been had. In 2018 the FTC won a four-point-six-million-dollar judgment against nine companies running exactly that play across the US and Canada.
So the structure here is deliberate rather than promised. You get a real deliverable in seven days. You see something new on your Google profile every single week. You can log in and change anything yourself. There is no long-term contract. And the monthly is $197, not two thousand — so if it stops earning its keep, leaving costs you about a tank of gas.
The Framework
The 90-Day Monopoly
Stop chasing customers on social media. Start being the answer when somebody nearby asks their phone who to call. Designed to have you recommended within 90 days.
COVER
Week one
A real page for every town you serve. Not a list of place names in the footer — an actual page, with actual local specifics, that can rank and be cited on its own.
CITE
Week one
Schema markup, llms.txt, AI-readable FAQs, precise coordinates. This is the part nobody does, and it is the part that decides whether an AI can quote you at all.
CAPTURE
Live on day seven
Enquiries hit your phone in seconds. 78% of customers hire whoever answers first, and the average business takes 47 hours.
CULTIVATE
Day seven onward
Every person who ever enquired goes on a list you own, growing every week. Instagram can change its algorithm tomorrow. Nobody can take your list.
Why ninety and not seven? Everything is built in seven days. Ninety is how long it takes the machines to catch up. Pages have to be crawled,
structured data has to be trusted rather than just present, and your Google profile has to build
up a posting history before retrieval systems lean on it. Ninety days is the honest window for a
market this size — and anyone promising it happens the week the site goes up is describing
something that does not work that way.
Free Growth Audit
Start With the Free Audit
Nothing is quoted until you have seen what the answer engines currently say about your trade in your town. If it turns out you are already the one they recommend, you will be told that too.
- See what AI says about your trade in your town — free
- No contract, and $197 a month rather than two thousand
- Not on the list? Choose Other and type your trade
- One business per trade per market
Prefer email? shawn@bigskycreative.org
Common Questions
Pricing FAQs
How much does a website cost with Bigsky Creative?
$1,000 to build it and $197 a month after that, with no long-term contract. Year one is $3,364. The monthly covers hosting and maintenance, one Google Business Profile post every week, a monthly emailed report, email list building, rebooking reminders and ongoing lead monitoring. Canadian agencies commonly charge $1,500 to $2,500 a month for roughly the same list of deliverables.
What happens if I want to leave?
You leave. There is no long-term contract, and the monthly is $197 rather than two thousand dollars, so if Bigsky Creative stops earning it you have lost the price of a tank of gas rather than a year of your marketing budget. That is deliberate — the Better Business Bureau takes over 13,000 complaints a year about SEO and web design, and the usual pattern is a long contract protecting an agency that stopped delivering.
How long does it take to build?
You get a real deliverable in seven days. Bigsky Creative spent months automating the parts of this work that used to take an agency months, which is the reason it can be built in days and the reason it costs a fraction of what an agency charges. After launch, changes take about ninety seconds — you click the thing you want to change and you type, with no dashboard, no plugin and no support ticket.
My trade is not on your list. Can you still help?
Possibly, and you will get an honest answer either way. The five niches Bigsky Creative names are where the playbook is proven rather than the limit of what it works for — if your work is visual, local and quoted per job, it usually transfers. Excavation, roofing, concrete, landscaping, window tint and pressure washing all fit that shape. Choose "Other" on the quote form, type in your trade, and you will be told plainly whether it is a fit.
Find Out What the AI
Says About Your Town
Free growth audit, no commitment. the Kootenays and Canada-wide.