//San Jose · Marketing agency
A marketing agency for San Jose 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 San Jose.
San Jose is the tenth-largest city in the country and the civic heart of Silicon Valley. Behind the technology headquarters sits one of the most diverse populations anywhere and a deep base of local and family businesses. The downtown core, San Pedro Square Market, Santana Row, the SAP Center and the Municipal Rose Garden give the city a strong neighborhood economy alongside the global tech identity.
That split is the thing to plan around. A local service business here is competing for attention in a market where the technology employers have trained everyone to expect a fast site, a clear answer and a short path to booking. The bar set by companies with far larger budgets becomes the bar your customers hold you to, even though you are not competing with those companies for customers. Meeting it is usually a website and measurement problem before it is an advertising problem.
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 San Jose 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 San Jose.
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 San Jose owners ask us first.
Are you actually local to San Jose?
No. Mining Wells is based in Irvine and serves San Jose businesses from there. There is no San Jose office and we will not list one. What you get is the two founders on the account rather than a handoff after signing.
Do I need to know which service I need before I call?
No. We diagnose first. Most owners arrive asking for one channel and leave with a different first move, because the thing limiting growth is rarely the thing that is easiest to name.
What if I already have an agency?
Bring the report. We will tell you what looks healthy, what we cannot verify and where we would look first. If the setup makes sense, keeping it is the right answer and we will say so.
How do you price?
After the diagnosis, not before. Month to month, no annual lock-in, and every account and domain stays in your name.
Can you guarantee leads or rankings?
No. We will tell you what we expect to move, roughly how long it usually takes and what would tell us early that the plan is wrong. That is a more useful promise than a number nobody can hold us to.
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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