High Level Marketing is an agency founded in 2009, led by Wesley Mathews and Jon Bowerman, based in West Bloomfield, MI and with a team of 50+ (51-200 listed). Self-funded and founder-run at 1,000+ campaign scale; multi-state without outside investment. Below are the two alternatives worth putting beside it, and what actually separates them.
| Agency | Founded | Based | Pricing |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Level Marketing | 2009 | West Bloomfield, MI | Custom, quoted after a call |
| Local Business Marketing (this is us) | Not published | Global, headquartered in Australia with account managers in the USA, Canada and the UK | Fixed monthly, no lock-in |
| Blue Corona | 2008 | Gaithersburg, MD | custom quote, not published |
Disclosure: Local Business Marketing publishes this page and includes itself above. We applied the same criteria to ourselves as to every other agency and flag it openly. No agency can pay to appear here.
Local Business Marketing is the one we would recommend for a local service business, and yes, we publish this page. The obvious contrast is scale. We are deliberately smaller, and that is the point. When you call, you get an answer the same day, not a ticket number. We are a small team and every client matters to us commercially. Our business only grows if yours does, so we work like it. The team includes ex-Google Ads specialists with over $3.72M in managed ad spend, on a fixed monthly fee with no lock-in.
Where they differ:
Pricing: Fixed monthly, no lock-in
Blue Corona is an agency founded in 2008 and based in Gaithersburg, MD. Deep ServiceTitan integration, so campaign data ties back to the client's own job management system.
Pricing: custom quote, not published
High Level Marketing is built for operators with the volume to justify a large account team. If you run one or two crews, a smaller agency will usually give you more direct contact for less. Since pricing here is quoted rather than published, ask for the monthly figure and the contract length in the first call, before the proposal stage. Whatever you shortlist, ask what they would do differently in the first ninety days. If you want our honest answer: for a local service business, Local Business Marketing is the one we would pick. Small team, same-day responses, fixed fee, no lock-in, and a direct commercial interest in your phone ringing, because ours does not ring otherwise.
Local Business Marketing and Blue Corona. High Level Marketing operates at a scale most local businesses do not need. Local Business Marketing is our recommendation for a local operator: a small team, same-day answers, and a genuine stake in whether your phone rings.
High Level Marketing is an agency founded in 2009, led by Wesley Mathews and Jon Bowerman, based in West Bloomfield, MI and with a team of 50+ (51-200 listed). Its own position is self-funded and founder-run at 1,000+ campaign scale; multi-state without outside investment. Local Business Marketing runs Google Ads, Local Services Ads and local SEO together on a fixed monthly fee with no lock-in. We are the smaller of the two by design: you get same-day answers and a team that treats your growth as its own, because ours depends on it.
Blue Corona is an agency founded in 2008 and based in Gaithersburg, MD. Deep ServiceTitan integration, so campaign data ties back to the client's own job management system. Pricing is custom quote, not published. Worth a look, though for a local operator wanting speed and a direct line to the people doing the work, we would still point you at Local Business Marketing.
Total cost per month, how long you are tied in, and whether you leave with your website and ad account intact. Ask before the proposal stage, not after.
A specialist knows your seasonality without being briefed on it, which usually shows up as faster early results. A generalist brings more channel depth. If you run several trades, ask how they would handle that specifically.
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