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Marhardt Consulting

Local SEO, Website Design & Automation for Clarkston Small Businesses

Clarkston, MI · Oakland County

Main-Street small business, right in our backyard.

Our home base. The Clarkston web design and digital marketing company that runs your search, from a team ten minutes away.

What clients say on Google

5.0★★★★★· 7 reviews

“Working with Tony to build our website for our gym, Blue Water Fitness located in Port Huron MI, has been such an easy and stress-free experience.”
Natashia Senyk · September 2026
“Tony is currently handling two websites for us, one for each of my businesses, and he’s been great to work with. He’s very knowledgeable, helpful, and professional.”
Rick Heacock · September 2026
“Extremely helpful and dedicated to detail. I’m very satisfied so far and I’m hopeful this will help get me to the next level. Thanks Tony!”
Terry White · September 2026

One service call a month covers it.

  1. The opportunity in Clarkston

    Residents
    37K
    Median household income
    $115K
    Households
    14K

    Sources: U.S. Census Bureau ACS, via Census Reporter (Independence Township) (2024 5-year)

  2. What one service call returns

    Trades are the largest slice of the Clarkston business base outside downtown, and a single HVAC, roofing, or remodel job clears this comfortably.

    One service call clears

    $800

    The plan

    $179–369/mo

    Pays for

    2–4 months

    Month to month, no build fee: the risk is one month. Illustrative, not a projection.

  3. What the alternatives cost

    • A local agency retainer

      $501 to $3,000 / mo

      Generalist metro agencies price here. A Clarkston shop is rarely their largest account, and the retainer runs whether or not the phone does.

    • Building it yourself

      $0 plus your weekends

      The builders are good now. The cost is forty hours fighting a template into shape, which are evenings you are not quoting work.

    • Renting leads from directories

      $250 to $500 per booked job

      Fast, and it works. The same lead is sold to three to eight contractors, so you bid against neighbours and the meter never stops.

    • A managed presence instead

      $179 to $369 / mo

      Site, Google profile and follow-up automation, managed. A fixed monthly cost instead of a fee per job, and the rankings build month on month.

    The directories charge $250 to $500 per booked job on Angi or HomeAdvisor, and paid search in this trade runs about $128 per lead. And 3 to 8 contractors get sold the same lead.

    Sources: Homeshowoff, cost per contractor job; LeadTruffle, Angi lead guide; LocaliQ, home services search advertising benchmarks (2024 to 2025)

The systems thatget you paid.

Home-service trades here lose work in two places: the search they never appear in, and the enquiry nobody answers by dinner. The website plan and an automated follow-up fix both, from ten minutes away.

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Website & Online Presence

Get found, look credible, and turn visitors into customers.

  • Show up in local Google search
  • A site that actually generates leads
  • Reviews and reputation managed for you
High Impact

Workflow Automation

Stop doing by hand what software can do for you.

  • Hours of manual work handed back every week
  • Eliminated duplicate data entry
  • Faster turnaround on routine processes

What home-service trades in Clarkston ask us.

Are you actually local to Clarkston?

Yes — Clarkston is our home base. We meet on-site with local businesses and know the area well.

How quickly can we see results?

Fast. Most core projects — a new website, a first automation, a simple dashboard — go live within five days, so you feel the difference the same month we start.

Home services here already rank well. Is SEO still worth it?

Sometimes not, and we will say so. If three competitors already have complete profiles and steady reviews, the honest move is reviews and faster follow-up rather than a ranking push. We fix the thing actually costing you jobs.

What does a Main Street retail business need that a trade does not?

A different front door. Downtown wins on the Google profile, current photos, correct hours and reviews, decided on a phone from a car. A trade is never walked into, so its site does the qualifying: what you do, where you go, how a quote starts.

More service calls from Clarkston search? Start with a free proposal.

We are ten minutes away. The free proposal looks at what is slowing the business down and says so honestly, including when you do not need us.

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