LeadsPass vs. a $4,000-a-month local SEO agency
Written for the owner deciding where a real marketing budget goes — not for resellers.
If your customers find you on Google Maps, you're paying an agency for the wrong thing. Agencies sell the website: blue links, content, backlinks, a monthly deck. The map pack runs on different signals: reviews, activity, a complete profile, proximity. We run that at a published $149–$299 a month, with a person in the loop and a 90-day guarantee.
What it does
- A website audit and technical fixes
- Monthly content and link outreach for the blue links
- An account manager and a monthly reporting deck
- Broad scope: brand, content, sometimes paid media too
What it doesn't
- Touch your Google Business Profile weekly — ask for last month's post log
- Show your map rank on a grid you can open yourself
- Publish a price — the number appears after the sales call
- Guarantee anything countable — the commitment language stays vague on purpose
- Make it easy to leave mid-contract
Side by side.
| A $4,000/mo agency | LeadsPass | |
|---|---|---|
| Price published | Rarely — “book a call” (published examples of the professional tier run $499–$1,999/mo) | $149–$299/mo, on the site |
| Contract | Commonly 6–12 months | Annual with the 90-Day Grid Guarantee as the exit ramp, or month to month |
| Who does the weekly work | A team you rarely meet | A person in the loop on every post, photo, and reply |
| How rank is reported | “You rank #4” in a monthly deck | A block-by-block grid you can open anytime |
| The one-star review | Usually out of scope | Drafted in your voice, approved by you, answered same day |
| Guarantee | Vague growth commitments | 90-Day Grid Guarantee: if the grid hasn't moved, month four is free and we keep working |
| What you own when you leave | The reports | The profile and every post, photo, and reply on it |
Keep them if…
- You sell outside a drive radius, so the map pack isn't your channel
- Your buyers research for weeks and actually read your content
- Your website is genuinely the thing that closes the sale
- You can afford both layers — website and map — done properly
Start with us if…
- The phone rings from Google Maps
- You can't tell what the agency did last month
- You've never seen your rank on a grid, block by block
- You want a price you can say out loud
Before you ask.
Yes, and it's often the right split: they own the website, we own the map. Before you assume the agency already covers the profile, ask them for last month's Google-post log — most managed profiles we score haven't been touched in months.
Sources
- Whitespark managed services — a published example of professional-tier pricing (GBP management $499/mo; with website $1,999/mo)
- LeadsPass pricing, published
Facts verified 2026-08-24. Competitor features and prices change — if something here is out of date, tell us and we'll fix it.
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