If I charge you $2,500 a month, you should bring back $250k to $1M+ over 12 months from $30,000 of effort. If I cannot see that math when I run your Groundwork Audit, I tell you and walk away. No sales call. No pitch deck.
Your phone is quieter than it was last quarter. The competitor with worse work is on top of the map. The two agencies you tried before sent reports nobody read. The free Groundwork Audit names what is actually broken in 1 to 2 business days, signed by me.
10 years doing this in Mississippi / $27M+ in client revenue / Free Groundwork Audit / 6 mo min
Four real Mississippi clients. Four different bottlenecks. Pick a tab.
No package tiers. No upsells. Every client starts with a free 1-2 day Groundwork Audit. If we work together after that, the scope and pricing are built around your bottleneck, not a productized menu.
Work is custom-scoped from the audit. Monthly retainer plus project pricing.
Retainers run $500 to $5,000 a month, scoped to the bottleneck. The headline math: if I charge you $2,500/mo, you should bring back $250k to $1M+ over 12 months. The Groundwork Audit decides where you actually fall. No package tiers. No upsells. No "starter / pro / enterprise."
The Groundwork Audit is the front door. No obligation past that.
Get the Groundwork Audit10 years in Mississippi · $27M+ in client revenue
SEO is one lever. Software is one lever. Automations are one lever. AI is one lever. Most businesses do not need all four. Most do not even need two. The Groundwork Audit decides which ones matter for you. Then I build the system around it.
Hair salon · Ocean Springs, MS
New location opening. Page 2 average map rank. Customers could not find her.
Local SEO, GBP optimization, review velocity. Hit #1 average rank. New location at 65% capacity within 3 months.
Paving contractor · Madison, MS
$0 in pipeline from Google. Zero rankings. No web presence built for search.
Full SEO foundation, custom website, voice AI lead intake, auto-booking, handwritten postcard system, estimate-to-invoice automation, review autopilot. $1M+ Year 1 from search alone.
Roofing · Central Mississippi
$250k annual revenue. Modest digital presence. Stuck.
SEO and paid ads mix. Organic search drove the majority. $250k to $2.9M in 10 months. Climbed to $5M within 3 years.
Vehicle wraps · Canton, MS
Already a 7-figure word-of-mouth business. Zero search presence to compound it.
Local SEO across multiple Mississippi cities. 73 calls a quarter to 148. Now a 7-figure search business too.
[ Same Groundwork Audit. Four different prescriptions. That is what bottleneck-first means. ]
Rankings start moving. GBP optimized, citations built, technical SEO locked in. The first upward movement is visible.
Top 3 positions on core keywords. New customers calling from Google. The system pays for itself.
Dominant positions across your service area. Authority gap widens. Competitors cannot catch up.
The Groundwork Audit is phase one. After we engage, work starts the same week. The methodology is consistent; the scope is yours.
12 quick questions, then 1-2 business days while I run the Groundwork Audit. I look at your site, GBP, rankings, conversion path, and reputation. You get a written diagnosis at your own URL, signed by me. Free, no obligation.
Full GBP takeover, technical SEO review and implementation, 40+ citation listings, and a competitor intelligence report. The baseline gets locked in before we start moving the bottleneck the Groundwork Audit named.
Link building campaigns, 3 GBP posts per week, 2-4 new city and service pages per month, automated review generation, and monthly performance reports. The machine runs every month.
Rankings hold. Authority widens. Calls keep coming from customers who found you first. The work runs every month, the result compounds, and competitors fall further behind on the keywords that matter to your business.
PavePro was getting 12 calls a quarter from Google. One year in, they were getting 61. Nearly all 46 tracked keywords at #1 across multiple Mississippi cities. The Groundwork Audit named the bottleneck. The work fixed it.
Phone calls and online forms drive your business. That is the wedge. Trades, restaurants, salons, healthcare, retail, equipment rental, pest control, real estate, automotive. Anyone whose customers drive to find them. The only ones I do not work with are out-of-state, e-commerce, and DTC.
No revenue floor. If you are a tradesman thinking about breaking out on your own to do dock repair on the Gulf Coast, I will price it, model your profit-per-job, find the break-even where the side business beats the day job, and build the whole thing with you.
No revenue ceiling either. The biggest mistake $5M operators make is assuming they do not need a system because the business is "working." It is working with five lead inboxes and a foreman with a notebook. We can do better than that.
Categories I work with
Trades. Restaurants. Salons. Healthcare. Retail. Automotive. Equipment rental. Pest control. Real estate. Anyone whose customers drive to find them.
Real constraint, not a marketing claim. Forty-one city-trade slots are taken across four clients. Every other trade in every other Mississippi city is open. The Groundwork Audit confirms your slot is open before either of us spends real time.
41 city·trade slots filled // 4 active client rosters // every other trade in every other MS city = open
Paving
Hair Salon
Vehicle Wraps
Roofing
Every other trade in every other Mississippi city is open. The Groundwork Audit decides if your slot is clear.
Five verified reviews across paving, salons, vehicle wraps, and web design.
“We’ve collaborated with Ryan at Magnolia Digital for years, working with various companies. He’s incredibly reliable and professional, and his expertise has significantly boosted our productivity.”
“Ryan is extremely knowledgeable, helpful, educative, patient and diligent. So many places will just take your money with lackluster results, but Ryan made sure everything was perfect from beginning to end.”
“Working with this company has completely transformed my business in ways I didn’t even realize were possible. After about a year of consistent SEO work, I’m now ranking within the top results on Google, and within just a few months of being there full time, my books are nearly full.”
“Ryan @ Magnolia Digital is the real deal. He makes a plan, sets expectations and delivers. Our SEO and digital presence has grown tremendously since having him take over for us.”
“Outstanding experience with Magnolia Digital. They built a fantastic website for me with excellent communication from start to finish. Ryan was a pleasure to work with: thoughtful, efficient, and always quick to respond.”
Verified Google reviews · Magnolia Digital Solutions, Ocean Springs MS
Most clients see measurable organic ranking movement within 60-90 days. Map pack improvement typically follows within the same window, though that depends partly on review velocity which you control. Some niches are more competitive and take longer. I will be straightforward on our first call about what your specific market looks like. The full compounding effect builds over 6-12 months. Month 12 looks very different from month 1.
No contracts. But I will be direct: if you cannot commit to at least 6 months, do not expect to reach the top and stay there. Local SEO compounds. Reviews build. Content builds authority. Link profiles strengthen. The businesses that dominate their market are the ones that stayed consistent. I do not lock you in because I do not need to. 100% client retention rate for the last 4 years. That does not happen when you are overcharging or underdelivering.
Most agency failures come down to three things: no clear deliverables, no accountability, and strategies built for their workflow not your market. I fix all three. You know exactly what is being done each month. I only work in Mississippi, which means I know your competitive landscape by default. I do not take direct competitors in the same market, so my interests are aligned with yours. And I have kept every client I have taken on in the last 4 years. That track record is my accountability.
Yes. Custom static websites, built to rank from day one. $5,000 standalone (one-time). You own the domain and the site. If your current site is fine, I will work with it. If it is holding your SEO back, I will tell you honestly in the audit.
When you sign as a paving company in Madison, I will not take another paving company in Madison. Not while you are a client. If you leave, that trade in that city opens up again. Real constraint, not a marketing claim. The audit conversation includes a market availability check, because some cities and trades are already claimed.
The audit is free. Retainers run $500 to $5,000/mo depending on what the audit names as the bottleneck. The headline math: at $2,500/mo I should return $250k to $1M+ over 12 months. Custom websites are $5,000 standalone (one-time). 6-month commitment minimum. No contracts.
I diagnose. If marketing is not the answer, I tell you what is. You leave the audit with a diagnosis and a direction. Just not from me. No invoice, no obligation. The audit you keep.
Three places, mostly. Customer qualification (a 24/7 AI receptionist that books while you work). Internal accountability (daily to-dos, automatic reports that catch problems before you would). Lead routing (so a single inbound does not get lost between five inboxes). AI replaces the headcount you would otherwise have to hire to keep up. Used right, it is the difference between a business that scales and one that breaks at the next jump.
Get the Groundwork Audit. 12 quick questions, then I run the diagnostic and write you a real strategic write-up in 1-2 business days. Free, no pitch deck.
10 years doing this in Mississippi · $27M+ in client revenue