Thrive Internet Marketing Agency is an agency founded in 2005, based in Arlington, TX and with a team of ~160-229 across 34 states. Month-to-month terms at large-agency scale. Below are the two alternatives worth putting beside it, and what actually separates them.
| Agency | Founded | Based | Pricing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thrive Internet Marketing Agency | 2005 | Arlington, TX | not published; ongoing monthly retainer |
| 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 |
| WebFX | 1995 | Harrisburg, PA | ~$2,500-3,000/mo reported; 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.
Pricing: Fixed monthly, no lock-in
WebFX is an agency founded in 1995, based in Harrisburg, PA and with a team of 750+ specialists. Operating since 1996, with one of the largest content and technical SEO benches in the US and attribution tooling that keeps crediting organic when the sale closes two quarters later.
Where they differ:
Pricing: ~$2,500-3,000/mo reported; not published
Thrive Internet Marketing Agency 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 WebFX. Thrive Internet Marketing Agency 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.
Thrive Internet Marketing Agency is an agency founded in 2005, based in Arlington, TX and with a team of ~160-229 across 34 states. Its own position is month-to-month terms at large-agency scale. 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.
WebFX is an agency founded in 1995, based in Harrisburg, PA and with a team of 750+ specialists. Operating since 1996, with one of the largest content and technical SEO benches in the US and attribution tooling that keeps crediting organic when the sale closes two quarters later. Pricing is ~$2,500-3,000/mo reported; 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.
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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