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What would local SEO have to do to pay for itself?

Most ROI calculators invent a traffic lift, multiply it by hope, and hand you a big green number. This one only does arithmetic you can check: your average customer value, my $1,999 fee, and the break-even point. Everything past that is return.

Your numbers

A typical aesthetics visit runs $500+, and clients return every few months — so one retained client is worth far more than one visit.

Break-even

4 new customers a month covers the $1,999 fee. Everything past that is return.

If local SEO adds…Revenue / moNet after feeNet / year
1 customer / mo$500−$1,499−$17,988
2 customers / mo$1,000−$999−$11,988
3 customers / mo$1,500−$499−$5,988
5 customers / mo$2,500+$501+$6,012
10 customers / mo$5,000+$3,001+$36,012

Fee held at $1,999/mo (the monthly plan). One-time costs: none. Every figure above is your input multiplied by a customer count — nothing else.

How this local SEO ROI calculator works — the assumptions, in the open

There are only three moving parts: the fee ($1,999 a month, the one plan), your average customer value (editable above — the industry defaults are starting points, not claims about your business), and a customer count you choose. Break-even is the fee divided by your customer value. That's the whole model.

What's deliberately not in it: a projected traffic lift. Calculators that bake in "150% more visitors in 6 months" are guessing, and the guess always favors the person selling. Whether the program adds two customers a month or ten depends on your market, your reviews, and your starting point — which is exactly what the free strategy call looks at, with your real profile on screen.

Where the defaults come from: the dental and CPA figures are the low end of the lifetime values quoted on my dental and CPA pages ($4k–$15k and $5k–$50k+); med spa reflects a typical $500+ aesthetics visit before retention; law is a typical retained matter — injury cases run far higher; HVAC uses a repair-ticket average with installs running $7k+; roofing uses a mid-range replacement job. Edit any of them to your actual number — the honest answer is the one computed from your books.

What I won't put in a calculator

Ranking guarantees, "average client results," or a traffic curve I can't stand behind. The one real result I can show you is on the results page — twelve months of a client's own Search Console, explained honestly, weak numbers included.

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