LIVE WORKSHOP
Your Customers Are Searching Right Now.
Most of Them Are Calling Someone Else.
Build the System That Changes That.
A 4-hour hands-on workshop for service-based business owners in
Birmingham, Alabaster, Hoover, Pelham, Calera, Clanton, and across Central Alabama.
10 seats per session.
100% money-back guarantee. Instant confirmation
Workshop held at CreACTive in Alabaster, AL
9am-1pm.
Includes lifetime access to the Getting Found Online self-paced course so you can revisit every step on your own time.
We work through
your real profile,
your real services,
and your real website.
You leave with the system built, your first month of content scheduled, and your next moves locked in.
Bring Your Laptop.
You Came for a System.
You Leave With It Built.
This is not a presentation.
It is a working session.
By the time we wrap, you will walk out with:
That is the outcome. The system is how we get there.
The right primary category set on your live GBP
Your services list rebuilt to match how your customers actually search with descriptions.
Your website audited against the Core 30 framework, with a gap list ready to fix
Your Claude Project loaded with your business data and loaded prompts ready to run
4 weeks of GBP posts written and scheduled
One conversion post live on your profile
Your review request automation set up
A 1-page action list of what to do Monday morning
TESTIMONIALS
What others are saying
Every Week That You Wait, You Are Paying For It
Open an incognito window right now.
Search your most important service plus your city.
Look at the three businesses Google shows on the map.
If yours is not one of them, your phone is not ringing for that search.
That is happening every time a customer in your area types it.
If 3 to 5 of those searches per week turn into jobs for someone else, the math gets uncomfortable fast.
| If your average ticket is | Per week | Per month | Per year |
|---|---|---|---|
| $300 | $900 to $1,500 | $3,600 to $6,000 | $46,800 to $78,000 |
| $1,500 | $4,500 to $7,500 | $18,000 to $30,000 | $234,000 to $390,000 |
Your real numbers may be higher or lower depending on your search volume, your conversion rate, and your market. Run yours. The point is to know what invisibility is actually costing you.
Cost of fixing the system that controls those searches: $197
THE MECHANISM
Why Checklists Fail.
Why the
5-Layer System Works.
Most courses teach you tactics.
Add a category. Post weekly. Ask for reviews. You probably tried half of them already.
You are still here.
Local visibility is not a checklist. It is a system.
Five layers, all connected, where each one makes the others work harder.
Remove one layer and the whole system underperforms.
Build all five and they compound on each other.
That is what we build in the room.
1. Foundation
The right business information in the right language, in the right places.
2. Relevance
The categories and services that tell Google which searches you are eligible to rank for.
3. Credibility
The reviews that prove your relevance is real.
4. Activity
The posts, photos, and signals that prove you are open and serving customers right now.
5. Sustainability
The AI co-pilot that keeps the first four layers running so you do not have to.
Four Hours. One Five-Layer System.
Foundation, Relevance, Credibility, Activity, Sustainability
Hour 1: Google Business Profile Foundations
The Free Marketing Asset Most Owners Are Underusing
Most owners try to optimize a profile that isn't ready for it. They change one category, the profile gets flagged, and they lose a week trying to get it back. We start by showing you exactly where your profile stands, locking it down so a wrong move can't suspend it, then building the one document every AI prompt in this system runs on.
What you leave with: a scored diagnostic of your own profile, a change plan that won't get you flagged, and your Quick Info doc built and loaded into your own Claude Project.
The five-layer score: where your profile is strong and where it's leaking trust
The real search: how customers actually see you, not your own personalized view
Suspension risk: which edits are safe and the one that can take your profile down
Verification video: the shot list so a reverification never catches you off guard
Quick Info: the master document every prompt in this system runs on
Your Claude Project: an AI workspace loaded with your business, ready to run
Hour 2: Relevance and Credibility Tell Google What You Are, Then Prove It
Google has to know which searches you belong in before it can rank you, and it has to trust you're a real business before it recommends you. This hour does both. We lock the categories that decide what you show up for, build a review system that runs whether you remember it or not, and clean up the listings across the web that are quietly confusing Google about who you are.
What you leave with: locked categories in customer language, a compliant review system, and one clean record of your business data everywhere it lives online.
Primary category: the single choice that controls what Google ranks you for
The 1+9 structure: one primary category, nine that widen your reach
Services in customer language: matched to how people actually search
The four review signals and the six-message request sequence 2026 policy allows
AI-assisted review responses that sound like you, not a robot
NAP master record: one correct version of your business data, everywhere
Hour 3: Activity and Position Stay Visible and See Exactly Where You Rank
A profile that goes quiet starts slipping. Google rewards businesses that show signs of life, and it ranks you differently depending on where the customer is standing. This hour builds the habits that keep you active, shows you the numbers that actually move the needle, and maps your visibility across your service area so you can see where you're winning and where you disappear.
What you leave with: a posting and photo habit, the three metrics worth tracking, a map of your dead zones, and a website build order that mirrors your profile.
Posts, photos, offers, events: the activity signals Google rewards
The three-surface pattern: website, GBP, and social pushing in the same hour
Three metrics that matter and the three vanity numbers to ignore
Heat map demo: see exactly where you rank and where you go invisible
The Geographic Action Plan: a fix list ordered by where you need it most
The Core 30 framework: the website structure that mirrors your GBP
Hour 4: Reviews, Photos & Your Monday Morning Plan
The System That Keeps Ranking When You Stop Working
Most owners do the work once, feel good about it, and quit. Three weeks later the profile is quiet again. This hour turns everything you built into a system that survives your busy weeks. You learn to turn one post into eight, set the content rhythm that fills your month, and walk out with a 30-day plan that's already on your calendar before you leave the room.
What you leave with: a content engine, two quality gates that stop bad posts from publishing, and a 30-day playbook you start the same day.
One post, eight channels: turn one hour of writing into a week of content
Two quality gates: fact-check and AI-slop detection before anything publishes
Five content pillars and the 5-post weekly framework
The 30-Day Playbook: your daily schedule, photo guide, and checklist
Your first seven days, scheduled before you leave
The Monday morning block: the seven steps that keep the system running
Come ready to build, not to set up accounts.
Before the workshop you'll get a short checklist: confirm you own your Google Business Profile, create a free Claude account, install GoKollab on your phone, take a few baseline screenshots, and write down the one service-plus-city phrase you most want to rank for. Knock it out in about 15 minutes and you walk in ready to work on minute one.
What You Get With
Every Seat
Show Up.
Do the Work.
Or Get Your Money Back.
Attend the full 4 hours.
Do the work in the room.
If you walk out and feel the workshop was not worth the $197 you paid, email within 48 hours and you get every dollar back.
No questions. No hoops. No proving you tried.
The framework works when you implement it. The risk is mine.
What Happens When the
System Gets Built
A local service business owner came to Marla after years of operating on word-of-mouth alone. Good reputation. Loyal clients. Completely invisible online.
Competitors who had been in business a fraction of the time were ranking above them for every search their customers typed.
The audit found the usual suspects. Wrong primary category. Services on GBP with no matching pages on the website. Homepage that never mentioned the city. Four months of zero content activity.
They fixed the structure. Aligned the website to the GBP. Built a content system with regular posts. Updated citations with consistent NAP.
Within six weeks they were in the Map Pack. Inbound calls from Google within the first month.
This was the result for one business in a Central Alabama market. Your timeline depends on your competition, your existing profile state, and how consistently you run the system after the workshop. The lifetime course access included with your seat exists for that reason. The work continues after the room.
Read This Before
You Reserve
This is built for you if
- You own a service-based business and want more inbound calls from Google without paying for ads
- You have a GBP but you are not confident it is optimized
- Your website exists but does not rank for local searches
- You want to understand the system well enough to run it yourself, or to know exactly what to hand off
- You are a contractor, attorney, med spa, salon, dentist, accountant, or any business that depends on local customers finding you
- You can block 4 hours one weekday and bring your laptop
Skip this if
- You are looking for something passive to watch later and never apply
- You do not have a GBP or a working website yet (build those first, then come back)
- You run a national e-commerce business with no local presence
- You will not bring your laptop and do the work in the room
- You want someone to do everything for you (see the upgrade options below)
Meet Marla
Marla Bainbridge is the founder of Marla Bainbridge Business Solutions, a marketing and automation consultancy serving service-based businesses across Central Alabama. Featured in Entrepreneur, Smart Passive Income, and Six Figure Business Coaching.
Marla serves businesses across central Alabama, Birmingham, Hoover, Vestavia Hills, Homewood, Pelham, Alabaster, Calera, and Clanton.
She works directly with clients on Google Business Profile optimization, website strategy, local SEO, CRM, and marketing automation. Her focus on helping businesses become AI ready, whether they are using AI or not. Google is using AI and your business needs to be ready.
The system in this workshop is the same one she runs for those clients. She built it because not every business owner is ready for done-for-you pricing, and the framework should not be locked behind a long-term retainer.
The 10-seat limit per session is intentional. Real feedback on real profiles is the product. That does not happen in a room of 50.
WE'VE GOT ANSWERS
Questions Worth Asking
Everything you need to know about the workshop, the outcomes, and how it works. If you still have questions, we are here to help.
What do I need to bring?
A laptop. Owner or manager access to your Google Business Profile (confirm this before the session). Your website open in a browser. Everything else is provided.
$197 seems low for 4 hours of hands-on work with someone who offers this service. What is the catch?
No catch. The price is set to be accessible to local business owners who are not ready for done-for-you pricing. If your gut says be skeptical, look at the guarantee. Show up, do the work, get value, or get every dollar back. No version of $197 costs you anything when the guarantee is there.
How is the workshop different from the $97 self-paced course?
The course and the workshop teach the same system. The online course is self-paced you work through on your own. The workshop is the system done live, hands-on, with Marla in the room watching your screen and giving you real-time feedback. The workshop includes lifetime course access so you have both.
I already have a Google Business Profile. Why do I need this?
Having a GBP and having one that ranks are different things. The profiles audited in these workshops are typically 40 to 60 percent optimized. The fields most owners fill out correctly are the easy ones: name, phone, hours. The fields that drive ranking, primary category, service structure, website alignment, content cadence, are the ones most people get wrong or skip.
I am not tech savvy. Will I be lost?
No assumed knowledge. If you can log into your Google Business Profile and open your website in a browser, you have the skills required. Business owners with no digital background have built this system from this workshop.
I have tried SEO before. It did not work.
Most local SEO advice focuses on things that help but are not primary drivers. Blog posts. Generic backlinks. Keyword stuffing. This workshop focuses on the structural alignment between your GBP, your website, and your content. That alignment is what Google uses to rank local businesses in the Map Pack. It is a system, not a collection of tactics.
Why are seats limited to 10?
Hands-on feedback on real profiles is the product. That is not possible with 50 people in a room. The constraint is intentional. It is why the results are consistent.
What if none of the available dates work for me?
The $97 online companion course is available for buyers who cannot attend live. You can also pick a date that works from the calendar on this page. Workshops run every week.
Will this work for my type of business?
If your customers find you by searching locally, on Google Maps, in search results, or by typing "service near me," this framework applies. It has been used by service businesses, restaurants, salons, retail shops, medical practices, and professional services.
Is there a break? Do I need to bring food?
The workshop runs 9 AM to 1 PM with a break around the halfway point. Water and light refreshments are provided. You will be done by 1 PM.
Are you going to pitch me on expensive programs during the workshop?
The Coached and Done-For-You options are mentioned briefly with full transparency. The workshop delivers complete standalone value whether you upgrade or not. The goal is that you leave with a system that works.
Choose Your Date
Every workshop runs 9 AM to 1 PM Central. Day varies week to week. Pick the date that fits your schedule.
LOCATION : CreACTive Yoga Studio/ Brother Paul's BBQ
Alabaster, AL
This Is the Part Where
You Decide
Six weeks from now, two things will be true.
Either competitors are still taking the calls that should be yours,
or you are taking theirs.
If this sounds like the right move, the next decision is which date.
The workshop is $197.
The only question is which date.
10 seats per session. Workshops held weekly, 9 AM to 1 PM Central. Lifetime course access included with every seat.
Marla Bainbridge Business Solutions LLC
Location & Contact
Venue: CreACTive and Brother Paul's BBQ Alabaster
Phone: 205-547-3039
Email: [email protected]
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