The Honest Starting Point
When we sent over the Instagram Growth Strategy and the Summit County SEO Report, your reply captured the situation better than we could:
That's the frame. You're not looking for a rescue. You're looking for a long-term partner who turns already-strong craft into a business that gets found, gets remembered, and stops relying only on referrals.
What follows is a proposal built for a real partnership. Three levels of engagement designed to scale with where Elle J Design is today and where the business is headed. The foundation we build together in the first ninety days is the same foundation that compounds for the next several years.
Your Priorities, In Your Words
Website, SEO, and Google Profile
Your words: "we need to up our website, SEO, and Google Profile game." The single biggest visibility gap today, and the fastest to address professionally.
Blog Posts and Content Foundation
Structured content that builds topical authority in Summit County and compounds every month it sits on your site.
Instagram Cleanup and Direction
Moving from occasional finished-project posts to consistent, branded storytelling that reflects the caliber of the work itself.
What you didn't ask for: a bloated retainer stuffed with services you don't need. Paid ads when you want organic to carry the work first. A pitch that treats you like a transaction instead of a partner.
This proposal honors that. We start at the scope you described, and the partnership grows as the work compounds.
Foundation First, Then Compounding
Month one is the professional rebuild. Website SEO audit and fixes, Google Business Profile rebuilt end-to-end, Instagram strategy and voice documented, content calendar set, email foundation seeded, first blog posts and newsletters published.
Month two onward is when the engine turns on. Your blog posts start indexing. Your Google Business Profile is fully optimized and actively competing for local visibility in Summit County. Your email list grows with every newsletter. Your Instagram reaches a consistent cadence that compounds in the feed algorithm.
By month three, the compounding effects are real. Ranking movement becomes visible. Organic inquiries from people who found you on Google become a normal thing, not a rare thing. The system starts working for you whether you touched it that week or not.
By the end of year one, the compounding has done its real work. Your brand is no longer dependent on referrals alone. Your content library is earning traffic without new effort. Your reputation is compounding. The engine is running whether you're thinking about it or not, and the foundation is strong enough to carry the business for years beyond that.
This is an honest promise. Organic marketing does not generate leads in thirty days. It generates foundation, which generates leads that compound for years. A partnership built on that truth is built to last.
Three Ways to Work Together
- 2 SEO-optimized blog posts per month
- 2 newsletters per month
- Full Google Business Profile management
- Full Instagram management (8 to 12 posts per week)
- Weekly strategy calls with JD
- Review & reputation management
- Website management
- Paid ad channel
- 4 SEO blog posts per month (weekly)
- 4 newsletters per month (weekly)
- Full Google Business Profile management
- Full Instagram management
- Weekly strategy calls with JD
- Review & reputation management
- Website management
- Paid ad channel
- 4 SEO blog posts per month
- 4 newsletters per month
- Full Google Business Profile management
- Full Instagram management
- Weekly strategy calls with JD
- Review & reputation management
- Full website management
- Paid ad channel (Google + Meta)
The One-Time Setup
The first ninety days are where the heaviest foundational lift happens. Full audits, website SEO fixes, Google Business Profile rebuilt from scratch, Instagram strategy documented, voice guide written, email foundation configured, tracking set up, first content produced. That work doesn't repeat at the same intensity later.
We charge a $1,500 one-time setup fee to cover that initial build. And we waive it when you commit to a three-month engagement, because the engagement itself signals we're building something together, not running a trial.
The Full Comparison
| Deliverable | Tier 1 $2,500 / mo |
Tier 2 $3,500 / mo |
Tier 3 $5,000 / mo |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEO-optimized blog posts | 2/mo | 4/mo | 4/mo |
| Newsletters | 2/mo | 4/mo | 4/mo |
| Google Business Profile management | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Full Instagram management (8 to 12 posts/wk) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Weekly strategy calls with JD | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Review & reputation management | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Website management | — | — | ✓ |
| Paid ad channel (Google + Meta) | — | — | ✓ |
Where we think you land: Tier 1 delivers everything you named in your email, plus full Instagram management as a bonus over what you asked for. It's the honest sweet spot for where Elle J Design is today.
The Cost of Waiting Another Year
SEO compounds. Silence compounds too.
Each month without new SEO content is a month your competitors are publishing, indexing, and stacking authority you'd have had. Inhabit Design is publishing. IBD Design Studio is publishing. Starting six months from now means starting six months behind.
Your reviews are a latent asset.
You have 4.9 stars on Google. That is a top-tier asset sitting largely unused. A structured review growth system keeps that rating visible, fresh, and working for you. Paired with a fully optimized Google Business Profile, it's one of the strongest local visibility plays available to a designer in Summit County.
Summit County buyers are searching.
Second-home buyers in Breckenridge, Keystone, Frisco, and Dillon are searching right now for interior designers. The SEO report showed you rank for 2 of 8 priority keywords. Inhabit ranks for 7. That gap exists today. It doesn't close by itself.
The work itself is already there.
You're not hiring us to make your portfolio good. It already is. You're hiring us to make sure the rest of the world can find the work at the level it deserves. That is a faster, cheaper, and more durable investment than building the portfolio would have been.
Ready to Build Something Lasting?
A partnership designed to compound for years, not chase quick wins. Here is how we move forward together.
Picture a year from now. Homeowners across Summit County find you on Google. Your portfolio reaches people who have never met you in person. Inquiries come in from strangers, not just referrals. You spend your days designing the work you love, while the marketing runs in the background. That is the partnership we are proposing.