Google Business Profile work
Be one of the first three shops customers actually see on Google Maps.
Your listing shows up. The shop two blocks down shows up first. The three-shop map pack is where most customers pick when they search "mechanic near me." Google Business Profile work is what decides whether you're one of those three.
Call or text. We'll audit what you've got and tell you straight, even if we don't work together.
Built for shops
Built the way a shop owner would build a marketing agency.
These three aren't features. They're the first things any shop owner who's been burned by an agency would insist on.
- No 12-month lock-in contract
- You own the Google Ads account
- Same Google Ads manager, every week
The diagnosis
What I find. What I fix.
Every shop RPM takes on starts with the same audit. When I pull up a new shop's Google Business Profile, it's almost always some version of this.
| What I usually find | What I fix |
|---|---|
| No: Wrong primary category. "Car Repair" instead of "Auto Repair Shop" | Yes: Right primary plus every relevant secondary, tuned to the jobs you want |
| No: Services list half-filled or empty | Yes: Every service Google offers, mapped to the bread-and-butter jobs |
| No: Old shop info sitting on Bing, Apple Maps, Yelp for years | Yes: Shop info synced across the web so Google trusts the listing |
| No: Negative reviews sitting unanswered for months | Yes: Every review responded within 24 hours |
The stakes
Why the listing matters more than most shops think.
Ask a shop owner where his customers come from, most will say word of mouth. The math says otherwise. A huge chunk of those word-of-mouth customers still check the map pack before calling. If your listing is half-finished, they call the shop whose listing looks like somebody's paying attention.
The listing is the thing customers see between hearing your name and calling.
The work
What the ongoing work actually is.
Monthly map-pack ranking
Bad edits don't stick
Fast review responses
Weekly posts
Photos rotated
Category and service audit
Proof
What the listing work actually moves.
TBD
Map-pack ranking jump on a real shop. Replace with starting rank → current rank.
TBD
Calls direct from the listing in a typical month. Replace with actual figure.
24 hrs
Average response time on every review, positive or negative.
Map-pack ranking compounds. Most shops see meaningful movement around month three, with the bigger jumps at six and twelve. Weekly posts, monthly category and service audits, and 24-hour review responses are the boring work that gets the listing into the three shops customers actually pick from.
First 30 days
Your first 30 days on the listing.
No marketing-speak. From the onboarding call to the first weekly post and the first ranking baseline, here's the cadence.
- 1
Week 0
The onboarding call
Thirty minutes on video. We walk through your existing listing, what's missing, and the jobs you want more of. I leave with a punch list.
- 2
First 7 days
Listing claimed and tuned
Claim or verify the listing. Category and service audit. Photo direction (you snap, I direct). Business description and attributes filled in so Google has the right info to share.
- 3
First 30 days
Posts live, reviews handled
First weekly posts go up. Reviews getting responded to within 24 hours. First map-pack ranking baseline established.
- 4
Ongoing
Ongoing maintenance
Weekly posts. Monthly map-pack ranking report. Continuous review responses. Photo rotation.
Ownership
Your listing stays in your name. Always has, always will.
RPM's policy from day one: the listing lives in your Google account, not mine.
I do the work that makes it rank: every category I tune, every service I add, every post I write, every directory I clean up, every review I respond to. The day you fire me, all of it stays exactly where it is, under your name. Most agencies do the opposite, claiming the listing under their own account so you can't take it back without starting over.
Month to month. No 12-month contract. No "we own the listing now."
Pricing
Month to month. No contract.
Flat monthly fee. Unlike ads, Google Business Profile doesn't charge you anything directly.
Google Business Profile Management
RankClimber
Starts at
$347/mo
What's included
- Weekly posts on your listing
- Category and service audit reviewed monthly
- Review responses within 24 hours
- Description and attributes maintained so Google has the right info to share
- Shop info synced across the web (Bing, Apple Maps, Yelp, Facebook, and the rest) so Google trusts your listing
- Photo rotation guidance (you snap, I direct)
- One-page monthly map-pack ranking report
Same listing ownership. Cancel any time. Less than the parts bill on a single brake job, doing work most shops never get around to.
Common questions
Questions most shop owners ask.
Will this replace my existing listing?
No. I manage the listing you already have. If you haven't claimed it yet, I'll claim it first and then start the work.
I have some bad reviews sitting there. Can you help?
Yes. Part of the work is responding to old unresponded reviews calmly and professionally. I can't remove them (Google rarely does), but a good response to a bad review often does more than three new five-stars.
I have multiple locations. Can you help all of them?
I only work with independent single-location shops. If you've got two or more locations, RPM isn't the right fit.
How often does my ranking change?
Weekly fluctuations are normal. What matters is the trend. Expect three months of compounding before the map-pack ranking looks meaningfully different.
Do I have to take the photos?
You take the bay and team shots (I'll tell you exactly what to snap). I handle everything else: category work, service list, posts, review responses, monthly ranking report.
What does the $347/mo include vs. what's separate?
Everything on the ongoing-work list above. Nothing else is separate. Unlike ads, Google Business Profile doesn't charge the shop any money directly.
Tomorrow morning, when somebody searches "mechanic near me," your shop either shows up first. Or somebody else does.
Reviews answered. Photos refreshed. Service categories tuned. The listing working for you every time someone within five miles searches for the job you do. That's the difference between owning your patch on Google and watching the next shop over win it.
Call or text. We'll audit what you've got and tell you straight, even if we don't work together.