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A marketing agency for Los Angeles businessesthat starts with what is actually broken.
You already have a business. The question is why the marketing is not producing enough of the right customers. We look at how buyers find you, what happens after the click, and what your current reporting can actually prove. Then we tell you what deserves the next dollar.
Work directly with our founders. No account-manager handoff.
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What changes in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles is enormous, and that is the whole story. One business license covers the entire city, but the city runs from Downtown's towers through the garment and jewelry districts, out to Hollywood and the Westside, over the hill into a San Fernando Valley that is a metropolis of its own, and down the 110 toward the harbor. Entertainment, apparel, tourism, Westside tech and the trade that moves near the ports all sit inside the same city limits.
For an established business that changes what winning looks like. Your customer in Studio City behaves nothing like your customer in Silver Lake or San Pedro, and each one searches for their own neighborhood rather than the city as a whole. Ranking for Los Angeles is rarely the goal. Owning the handful of neighborhoods your customers actually come from usually is, and it is a far cheaper fight.
What we would look at first.
- 1Are the right people finding you?Search, maps and paid placement for the terms that carry buying intent, not the ones that only carry volume.
- 2Are you paying for the right demand?Spend against what converts, and an honest look at the demand you are buying that was never going to.
- 3Does the site finish the job?The offer, the proof and the next step, on the page the traffic actually lands on.
- 4Can the owner tell what worked?Calls, forms and bookings traced back far enough to make the next budget decision defensible.
Already have an agency? Good. Bring the report.
We will tell you what looks healthy, what we cannot verify and where we would look first. If the current setup makes sense, we will say that too. You do not have to fire anyone to get a second read.
Work you can check.
These are our clients, not Los Angeles clients. Every number on them is published on the study itself, so you can read the whole engagement rather than a highlight.
What we would most likely run for Los Angeles.
Founders stay.
The people you meet stay on the account. There is no sales handoff and no junior takeover after the contract is signed.
Yours to keep.
Accounts, domains, ad platforms and content are in your name. If we part ways you keep all of it.
Month to month.
No annual lock-in. We would rather keep the work worth renewing than hold you to a term.
//Common questions
What Los Angeles owners ask us first.
Are you actually local to Los Angeles?
No, and we will not pretend otherwise. Mining Wells is based in Irvine and serves Los Angeles businesses from there. There is no LA office and no LA address on this page. What you get instead is the two founders on your account rather than whoever a local shop assigns after you sign.
Do I need to know which service I need before I call?
No. Most owners who ask for SEO actually have a conversion or a tracking problem, and buying the thing they asked for would have wasted their money. We diagnose first and tell you what deserves the next dollar, even when the answer is something we would not bill for.
What if I already have an agency?
Bring the report. We will tell you what looks healthy, what we cannot verify from the outside and where we would look first. If the current setup makes sense, we will say so. Plenty of these conversations end with us telling someone to keep what they have.
How do you price?
It depends on the scope, and we quote after the diagnosis rather than before it. Work is month to month with no annual lock-in, and your accounts, domains and content stay in your name whether we keep working together or not.
Can you guarantee leads or rankings?
No. Anyone guaranteeing a ranking is either buying it with ads and calling it organic, or targeting terms nobody searches. We will tell you what we expect to move, how long it usually takes and what would tell us early that it is not working.
Get my free marketing plan.
Tell us about the business and where the marketing is getting stuck. We will write you a plan for it, free, and tell you honestly if we are not the right people to run it.
No cost. No obligation. No pitch if it is not a fit.
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