Modern visibility.
Smart systems.
Stronger service businesses.
Helping skilled service businesses get found, chosen, and trusted. The Modern Guild LLC runs the marketing and operations side, built on San Gabriel Valley roots and working with crews across the country, so you stay on the tools while the work keeps coming.
Helping skilled service businesses get found•chosen•and trusted
Why work with The Modern Guild LLC
Operator Led
Built by an operator who came up on job sites. Focused on real results, not activity.
Smart Systems
Standard work and streamlined systems (reviews, follow-up, reporting) that quietly save time.
More Visibility
Clear strategy and a profile that ranks, and a stronger presence where customers look.
Real Partnership
We work with you, not just for you. One trusted partner instead of a vendor stack.
Built for the people who build, fix, and maintain.
The trades don't need another agency that talks in acronyms and bills for activity. The job is simpler than that: show up first when someone in your service area searches, answer faster than the next crew, and stop bleeding hours into software that doesn't talk to each other.
The Modern Guild LLC keeps that work tight: one trusted partner instead of a stack of vendors, a contract, and a dashboard nobody opens. Rooted in the San Gabriel Valley, working with service businesses across the country.
Start at the front door. Grow from there.
Three services, built to stack. Get found first, tighten how the work flows, then put systems in place so the busywork runs itself. Most businesses start with one and grow into the next when they are ready. What is listed under each service is a sample of the common work, not a fixed menu. If your situation needs something not shown, we handle that too.
Google Business Profile Management
Your profile is the storefront most buyers see before your website ever loads. We run it like an asset, not a listing you set once and forget. Three packages, managed month to month, so you start where it fits and move up when the work earns it.
Profile Optimization
A fully optimized profile built to be found on Google Maps and local search.
Local SEO
Better local rankings, so you reach buyers actively searching for your service.
Map Pack Ranking
More chances to land in the Google Local Pack and the map results.
Reputation & Reviews
More positive reviews and the trust that turns a search into a call.
A professionally optimized profile for businesses that need the front door done right.
- GBP profile optimization
- Business information audit
- Category optimization
- Service area setup
- Photo and media optimization
- Monthly performance report
- Review response guidance
For businesses working to improve local visibility and generate more leads.
- Everything in Starter, plus
- Weekly GBP posts
- Citation management
- Local keyword optimization
- Competitor analysis
- Review strategy and monitoring
- Monthly GBP health check
- Call and direction tracking
For businesses that want to lead local search and outrank the competition.
- Everything in Growth, plus
- Advanced local SEO strategy
- Landing page optimization
- Monthly SEO content creation
- Reputation management
- Google Q&A management
- Local link building
- GBP spam fighting and competitor monitoring
- Priority support
Operational Efficiency Review
A structured look at how the work really moves, from first call to paid invoice. We walk the whole line with you, then map where time and money leak out.
- Intake and call handling: what happens when the phone rings
- Scheduling and dispatch: how jobs get assigned and confirmed
- Quoting and follow-up: what goes out, what comes back, what gets dropped
- Invoicing and collections: where cash sits longer than it should
- A prioritized punch list: what is leaking, what to fix first, what each fix is worth
- A readout call walking through every finding, line by line
Systems & Automation
It starts by making the work visible. We help you build standard work, the repeatable process that shows exactly how a job moves through your business. Then we build the systems that take the manual touchpoints off your team's plate.
- Standard work documented, so the process lives in the business, not in one person's head
- Review requests sent at the right moment, automatically
- Missed-call text-back so no lead goes cold while you are on a roof or under a sink
- Quote and estimate follow-up that runs itself
- One reporting view instead of nine open tabs
- Built, documented, and handed over working
Before you hire anyone
Watch the methodology run before you pay for it.
The free workshop walks the same levers we pull for clients. Take the playbook and run it yourself if you want to.
One partner. Three layers. No vendor stack.
Get found
The profile comes first, because visibility pays for everything after it. More calls is the fastest problem to solve and the easiest to measure.
Find the leaks
More calls only helps if the operation can hold them. The review shows where jobs, hours, and cash are slipping through.
Plug them
Standard work and systems close the gaps the review found, so growth does not cost you your evenings.
What we do. And what we will not do.
Local search has a long history of tactics that sound smart and do nothing. Our methodology comes from controlled testing inside a partnership network of operators who run this work every day, not from a blog post written in 2019 and copied ever since.
What we stand on
Tested methodology, not recycled playbooks
Every lever we pull has been tested against a control. When testing shows something stopped working, we drop it. That has already happened more than once.
Named numbers only
Every figure we quote is sourced and attributed. If we cannot point to who measured it, we do not say it.
One client per vertical, per market
There are three spots in the map pack. We will not sell the same seat twice and compete against our own client.
You own everything
Your profile, your reviews, your systems, your data. If you leave, it all stays with you. Nothing is held hostage.
What we will not do
No keyword-stuffed posts
Cramming your city and service into every post does not move rankings. It just makes your profile read like a robot wrote it. Buyers notice.
No photo geo-tagging tricks
Stamping GPS data into image files has been sold as a ranking hack for years. Controlled testing says it is not one. We will not bill you for it.
No fake or incentivized reviews
It violates Google's terms, it risks your profile, and it lies to the people who trusted you enough to look you up.
No activity billing
You are not paying for posts published or hours logged. You are paying for calls, direction requests, and jobs. That is what the report shows.
No long contracts dressed up as partnerships
Month to month. If the work stops earning its keep, you should be able to walk. We would rather earn it every month.
No cost, no obligation
Sixty minutes that changes how you look at your profile.
What moves the map pack, what quietly stopped working, and how buyers scan you before they call.
Raised on the job site. Run like a firm.
The Modern Guild LLC started on job sites. The founder grew up working alongside his dad, a glazier, riding along on-call and putting in summers all through high school. You learn fast that the craft is only half the business. The other half is the phone ringing, the schedule holding, and the next job already lined up.
He carried that into a career building systems and operations inside institutional finance, then brought both halves back to the people he started with: the feel for the work, run with the discipline of a firm.
That's the guild idea: a real standard behind the name, and good work that actually gets found. No long contracts dressed up as partnerships, just the few things that move calls, jobs, and margin.
See the system before you buy anything.
We run a free workshop that walks through how local search actually works right now: what moves the map pack, what quietly stopped working, and how buyers scan a profile before they ever call. It is the same methodology we run for clients. Come see it, take what is useful, and decide for yourself whether you want help running it.
San Gabriel Valley roots · Working with service businesses nationwide