Growth, on retainer · Kathleen, Georgia

Agencies sell services.
We sell revenue.

A senior growth operator on your business every month. Ads, SEO, email, landing pages — whatever's moving your number, not whatever fits a packaged menu. Month-to-month. No contracts. No 60-slide decks.

Scroll · Built in Georgia · Est. 2026
The anti-agency

You've been burned by an agency before, haven't you.

Most small businesses that find us have already paid one — sometimes three — to learn what doesn't work.

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    They sell you the menu, not the meal.

    Fixed SEO packages. Fixed ad packages. Fixed social packages. You pay for what they sell — not what your business needs this quarter. Your traffic problem gets a content package. Your conversion problem gets a rebrand.

  • / 02

    The senior who pitched you isn't the one doing the work.

    You met the founder on the sales call. Three weeks later, the junior account coordinator is the one running your $8K/month ad budget. You got the show. Somebody else got the handoff.

  • / 03

    The 12-month contract is for them, not you.

    Month-to-month is a feature. If we can't move your number in 90 days, you shouldn't be paying us the next month. Lock-in exists to protect the agency's revenue. It doesn't protect yours.

  • / 04

    Strategy decks billed as work.

    Forty slides of competitive analysis. A roadmap "aligned to your brand pillars." An audit you didn't ask for. None of it ran an ad. None of it ranked a page. None of it put a qualified lead on your calendar.

What a growth retainer actually is

One retainer.
Every channel that moves your number.

Think of it the way you'd think of a fractional CMO — except we run the channel, not just advise. Some months that's paid ads. Some months that's fixing the conversion path. Some months it's writing the email sequence that wakes up dead leads. We work the problem in front of you, not the service the agency happens to sell.

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Senior operator from day one

The person who picks up when you call is the same person touching the ad account and writing the landing-page copy. No handoff. No account coordinator in the middle.

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Month-to-month, always

Cancel any month for any reason. We earn the next month of retainer with this month's work. If the number isn't moving, you shouldn't be locked in.

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Async over meetings

Slack channel, shared dashboard, Loom updates. Calls when there's something to decide, not to prove we've been busy. Your Tuesday doesn't belong to us.

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Transparent scope

You see the ad accounts, the rankings, the dashboards. You own everything we build. Cancel the retainer and it all stays with you — no held-hostage logins.

What's covered

Every growth channel a small business actually uses.

You don't need one more agency that does "a little of everything." You need an operator who'll pick the two channels that'll move your revenue this quarter — and actually work them.

/ 01 · Traffic

Paid Advertising

Google Ads, Meta, YouTube, LSA. We run the ads, not brief someone else who runs them.

  • Google Search & Performance Max
  • Local Service Ads (LSA)
  • Meta / Instagram lead ads
  • Retargeting sequences
/ 02 · Traffic

Search Engine Optimization

Real rankings that compound. No "we did a blog post" deliverables — we fix the site, earn the links, and show up for the keywords your customers are actually typing.

  • Local SEO & map pack
  • Google Business Profile
  • Technical SEO audits
  • Content built for intent
/ 03 · Conversion

Landing Pages & CRO

You can't fix a conversion problem with more traffic. We rebuild the pages that lose leads, A/B test what works, and make sure the form actually fires.

  • Service-specific landing pages
  • Form & funnel diagnosis
  • Call tracking & attribution
  • A/B & multivariate testing
/ 04 · Website

Websites That Sell

The website is the closing tool. If yours was built five years ago by a designer who cared more about animations than conversion, we'll rebuild it — or replace the pieces that are leaking.

  • Full site redesigns
  • Targeted page rebuilds
  • Speed & Core Web Vitals
  • Mobile-first conversion UX
/ 05 · Automation

AI Workflow & Follow-Up

The leads you already paid for — converted. We deploy the same AI platform that runs our own pipeline into your business.

  • AI chat widget & voice receptionist
  • Lead scoring & smart routing
  • SMS reactivation sequences
  • Review-ask & booking automation
/ 06 · Intelligence

Tracking & Analytics

If you can't measure it, you're flying blind. We set up the tracking, wire up call attribution, and build the dashboard you'll actually open on a Monday morning.

  • GA4 + conversion tracking
  • Call tracking by source
  • Attribution dashboards
  • Weekly performance reporting
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How it works

Three conversations.
One honest answer.

Not a twelve-meeting "discovery sprint." Not a sales process designed to wear you down. You'll know whether we're a fit by the end of the third call — and neither of us wastes a month finding out.

Thirty-minute call.

You tell us what's broken. We tell you honestly whether we think we can fix it, or whether you need something else. If you don't, we'll probably know someone. No pitch deck, no recording software, no "let me circle back with our team."

Seven-day audit.

If the call goes somewhere, we look under the hood for a week. Your ad accounts, your site, your tracking, your leads. At the end: a straight report on what's leaking, what's worth fixing, and what we'd touch first. You can hire us to fix it — or take the report to someone else. Your call.

Start — or don't.

If we're a fit, we start the retainer. First month is a 30-day proof window; no friction to cancel. If the number is moving in 60 days, we keep going. If it's not, you don't owe us the next month.

Proof

The kind of thing people say when they fire their last agency.

Real words from operators who'd been through the agency carousel before finding us. Names shortened at their preference.

Before Tyler, I had literally been through ten companies who promised results but never delivered. He has done above and beyond that for me, and stays up to date with every change that affects my rankings. I'm a customer for life.
Mike
Service business owner · Client 3+ years
Their work on our site took us from invisible to ranking for the keywords that actually bring buyers. Since partnering with them, traffic has soared and we've seen a notable increase in leads.
Matt
E-commerce operator
They listened to what we actually needed and built it — beautiful, functional, and a real representation of our organization. Tyler's always available to answer questions. Highly recommended.
Ruth
Nonprofit director
About

Web South Media is what happens when ten years of running agency client work teaches you what actually works.

Our sister company, Web South Solutions, has spent a decade out of Kathleen, Georgia running SEO, ads, and websites for small businesses across the Southeast. We won work. We lost work. We sat across from too many owners who'd just fired an agency and couldn't tell you what they got for $60,000.

Web South Media is the spin-off we'd have wanted when we were starting. A growth partner instead of an agency. Month-to-month, senior operator, no menu of fixed services — just the work that'll move your revenue this quarter, priced to what your business can actually invest.

— Tyler Hagemann
Managing Director · Web South Solutions LLC
Let's talk

Tell us what's broken.
We'll tell you honestly if we can fix it.

Thirty minutes, no slides. If we're a fit, you'll know. If we're not, you'll still walk away with something useful.