SevenAtoms is an agency founded in 2012, based in San Francisco Bay Area, CA and with small, under 10 by some counts. B2B and SaaS focused, and the only HubSpot Gold Partner in the set. Two alternatives are worth weighing against it, and here is where each one diverges.
| Agency | Founded | Based | Pricing |
|---|---|---|---|
| SevenAtoms | ~2012 (sources range 2012-2017) | San Francisco Bay Area, 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 |
| JSMT Media | November 2014 | Keyport, NJ | flat-rate web design, month-to-month marketing, no long-term contract |
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. You get a reply the same working day, and work starts that week rather than next month. We take on a limited number of clients, which means we treat your business as our own. Ours does not thrive unless yours does. Ex-Google Ads specialists, $3.72M-plus in managed spend, fixed monthly fee, no lock-in.
Where they differ:
Pricing: Fixed monthly, no lock-in
JSMT Media is an agency founded in 2014, led by Justin Sensenbach and Michael Tedesco and based in Keyport, NJ. Flat-rate pricing on web work plus month-to-month marketing, which almost nobody else here offers.
Where they differ:
Pricing: flat-rate web design, month-to-month marketing, no long-term contract
SevenAtoms is a small team, which normally means you speak to the people doing the work. The trade-off is bench depth when someone is away or when you need several channels moving at once. 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 JSMT Media. 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.
SevenAtoms is an agency founded in 2012, based in San Francisco Bay Area, CA and with small, under 10 by some counts. Its own position is b2B and SaaS focused, and the only HubSpot Gold Partner in the set. 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.
JSMT Media is an agency founded in 2014, led by Justin Sensenbach and Michael Tedesco and based in Keyport, NJ. Flat-rate pricing on web work plus month-to-month marketing, which almost nobody else here offers. Pricing is flat-rate web design, month-to-month marketing, no long-term contract. 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.
Ask for the monthly total including setup, the length of the commitment, and who keeps the website and ad account if the relationship ends. That third answer is where lock-in actually lives.
If you run one trade, a specialist normally gets moving quicker. If you run several, or expect to, breadth matters more than familiarity. Ask each how many clients they have in your exact trade.
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