Groundbreaker Marketing

FAQs

Pricing & Contracts

Straight answers about money. Our full rate card is on the pricing page; this covers the questions that come after it.

How much does Groundbreaker Marketing cost?

Our Groundbreaker Program is $1,495 per month on a 6 month commitment, plus a minimum of $1,000 per month in ad spend that you pay directly to Google.

The $1,495 covers Local Service Ads management, Google Ads management, Google Business Profile SEO, reputation management, citations, geo-tagged photos, your website and its hosting and maintenance, technical SEO and backlinking, AI visibility work, and lead tracking with monthly reporting. The ad spend is separate because it is not ours — it goes to Google, and you keep the account.

Why is the ad spend separate from your fee?

Because it is not our money. Ad spend is billed by Google directly to your card on your own account, so you can see every dollar and you keep the account and its history if we ever part ways.

Agencies that bundle ad spend into one invoice make it impossible for you to tell what was media and what was margin. It also means that when you leave, the account history — which is what makes campaigns perform — leaves with them.

Is there a contract, and how long is it?

The Groundbreaker Program runs on a 6 month commitment.

Six months is not an arbitrary lock-in. Paid channels produce leads within days, but Google Business Profile ranking and SEO compound over months, and judging that work at week six tells you nothing useful.

How long does a typical engagement last?

Our work runs in monthly cycles: monthly reporting, meetings as needed, and same-day answers from our team. Tell us the number you are trying to hit and we will be honest with you about how long it realistically takes to get there.

What happens to my website if I stop working with you?

Your website is hosted and maintained by us while your plan is active. If you leave, you can continue managing it or purchase it. Your domain and the materials you provide always remain yours.

This is published on our pricing page and on the home page too, because "who owns the website" is the question that catches most contractors out when they try to change agencies.

Do you charge a setup fee?

We do not publish a separate setup fee. What we publish is the monthly programme fee and the ad-spend minimum, and if anything else would apply to your situation you will hear it before you sign, not after.

Why are some marketing agencies so much cheaper?

Under about $500 a month usually buys one task done partially, and very often no call tracking at all — which means nobody can tell you whether it worked.

The cheap end is not always a scam; it is usually just a smaller scope than the buyer thinks they are getting. The problem is that without tracking there is no way to find out either way, and a year can go by.

Do you offer a guarantee?

We do not publish a results guarantee, and we would be sceptical of anyone in this industry who does — nobody controls Google’s auction or your competitors’ budgets.

What we do commit to is transparency: you own the accounts, you can open the reporting yourself at any time, and if a channel is not producing you will hear it from us first.

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