The profile itself is free. Everything you would pay anyone for is hours. Here is where those hours go, what we charge, and when you should not hire anyone at all.
Everything involved in managing a Google Business Profile is free and already sitting in your Google account. So the only honest question about price is how many hours of skilled attention it takes each month, and whether those hours are worth more to you than the money.
hours in the first month, if the profile has never been set up properly. Categories, services, hours, photos, and cleaning up whatever is already wrong.
hours every month after that, indefinitely. Not difficult hours, but hours that have to actually happen, in the week someone calls in sick and the schedule falls apart.
is the window that matters for a review reply. After that it still helps the next person who reads it, but it has stopped helping the person who wrote it.
Send a business name and get one page back within two days describing how you currently appear and what a customer sees before deciding whether to call. No call, no card, no account. This exists because showing you the work is the only honest way to ask for money afterwards.
One specific defect on your website fixed the same day. Right when there is one thing you already know is broken and you do not want a relationship, you want it fixed. Details here.
Every review answered within a day, written individually. A post published every week. Hours, categories, services and photos kept current. Right when reviews arrive often enough that answering them properly has become a job you keep postponing.
Everything above, plus two written and published pages each month, a monthly check on whether AI assistants recommend you when someone asks for a business like yours, and competitor price and promotion tracking. Right when one new customer covers the month several times over, and when being absent from an AI answer costs you real money.
Separate from everything above, because it is an emergency rather than a service. Diagnosis, evidence package, written appeal, managed until Google answers. Full refund if you are not reinstated within 90 days of filing. Details here, and the entire process is published free if you would rather run it yourself.
It depends almost entirely on whether a human is writing your review replies. Automated or templated management is cheap to deliver and widely sold at low monthly rates. Individually written replies, weekly posts and proper category work take real hours every week and are priced accordingly. Our own management is $249 a month, and our top tier, which adds published content and AI-search visibility work, is $1,200 a month.
Yes. Creating, verifying and managing your own profile costs nothing, and every tool involved is already inside your Google account. What you would be paying anyone for is hours, not access.
Four things. Choosing the primary category correctly, which means checking what the businesses currently outranking you use. Writing each review reply individually, because roughly half of customers say a templated apology puts them off. Publishing a post every week. And keeping hours, services and photos current, including holiday hours before the holiday rather than after a customer complains.
If your profile has never been set up properly, a one-time cleanup captures most of the available gain and you can maintain it yourself afterwards. Monthly management only earns its cost when reviews arrive often enough that answering them properly has become a real burden. We will tell you which of those you are, and we would rather sell you the cheaper one and keep you.
No. Ranking is a decision Google makes and nobody outside Google controls it. A guarantee of position is either meaningless or is describing paid ads, which are labelled as ads. What can honestly be guaranteed is the work itself: replies answered within a stated time, posts published on a schedule, information kept accurate.