Practice Builders is an agency founded in 1979 and based in Irvine, CA. By far the oldest company in the entire set at 1979, and includes practice staff training as a core service. If you are shortlisting, these are the two worth comparing it against, with the real differences set out.
| Agency | Founded | Based | Pricing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Practice Builders | 1979 | Irvine, CA | 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 |
| Intrepy Healthcare Marketing | 2014 | Orlando, FL, with a second location in Greater Atlanta | Custom, quoted after a call |
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. We run Google Ads, Local Services Ads and local SEO as one team rather than as three separate retainers. Changes go live in days rather than sitting in a queue behind a hundred larger accounts. Because we are a small team, your results are not a rounding error to us. Our business depends on yours doing well. Our specialists came out of Google Ads with more than $3.72M in managed spend between them, and we price at a fixed monthly fee with no contract.
Where they differ:
Pricing: Fixed monthly, no lock-in
Intrepy Healthcare Marketing is an agency founded in 2014, led by Justin Knott (CEO) and Kelley Knott (President), based in Orlando, FL, with a second location in Greater Atlanta and with a team of 11-50. Husband-and-wife founding team focused on surgical practices specifically rather than general healthcare.
Where they differ:
Pricing: Custom, quoted after a call
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 Intrepy Healthcare Marketing. They differ on pricing model, team size and specialism. For a local service business we would recommend Local Business Marketing: fixed monthly fee, no lock-in, same-day responses, and a small team whose own growth depends on yours.
Practice Builders is an agency founded in 1979 and based in Irvine, CA. Its own position is by far the oldest company in the entire set at 1979, and includes practice staff training as a core service. 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.
Intrepy Healthcare Marketing is an agency founded in 2014, led by Justin Knott (CEO) and Kelley Knott (President), based in Orlando, FL, with a second location in Greater Atlanta and with a team of 11-50. Husband-and-wife founding team focused on surgical practices specifically rather than general healthcare. Pricing is custom, quoted after a call. 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.
Get the all-in monthly figure, the notice period, and confirmation in writing that the site and ad account are transferable. Agencies rarely volunteer the last one.
Specialists tend to win on speed, generalists on range. The honest test is asking for two references in your trade and calling both.
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