Customer stories · Real numbers, real wins

The work these teams
already did, ranking.

These aren't testimonial quotes dressed up as case studies. They're the GeoGrid plots, keyword movements, and review counts from local businesses running Nearby Now for a year, two years, a decade — putting the work they already do, to work for them.

281 cities
Reputation footprint
(All Wet)
1,310%
Google Top 3 growth
(Hydes AC)
651%
Organic keyword growth
(John the Plumber)
0→128
Google reviews in 5 months
(RocketMan)
Fire protection

City Fire

South Florida · family-owned since 1974

In their first year alone they saw a 285% jump in Google Top 10 keywords, and went from capturing 3 Google reviews in their previous best year to 87 in year one with Nearby Now — and 514 total since.

285%
Google Top 10 keywords
132 cities
Reputation footprint
3→87
GBP reviews in year one
514
Total GBP reviews since
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HVAC & Electrical

Hydes Air Conditioning

Coachella Valley, CA · family-run

Serving HVAC and electrical across the Coachella Valley, Hydes saw Google Top 3 rankings grow 1,310%, SERP features go from zero to 371, and reviews accelerate from 7 in three years to averaging 37+ every month for five years running.

1,310%
Google Top 3 growth
53 cities
Reputation footprint
0→371
SERP features
37/mo
Reviews average, 5 yrs
PDF · 2024 report
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Plumbing

John the Plumber

Pompano Beach, FL · since 1979

Full-service plumbing since 1979. In their first two years on Nearby Now they expanded to 23+ cities, more than doubled their Google reviews, and posted a 651.4% overall increase in organic keywords.

651%
Organic keyword growth
23+ cities
Reputation footprint
2.1x
Google reviews
45+ yrs
Family-run since 1979
PDF · 2024 report
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HVAC · Rural-focused

Smith Air Conditioning

Acadiana, Louisiana · since 1963

Rural Louisiana HVAC specialist, built for a demographic that lives outside metro ZIPs. Nearby Now expanded their reputation footprint across 50+ surrounding cities, with Google #1s up 269% and Top 3s up 277% in under two years.

269%
Google #1 rankings
277%
Google Top 3 rankings
50+ cities
Reputation footprint
60+ yrs
Family-run since 1963
PDF · 2024 report
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Home services · Rebrand launch

RocketMan Service

Houston, TX · launched 2023

A cold start in every channel — fresh brand, fresh GBP, no organic authority. In under five months they built a 25-city reputation footprint and went from zero to 128 Google reviews.

0→128
Google reviews, 5 months
25 cities
Reputation footprint
< 5 mo
Time to traction
2023
Brand launch year
PDF · 2024 report
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Multi-business spotlight · Spot-On routing

Maximizing Google Reviews with Spot-On

5 local businesses · multi-market

See how five local businesses used Intelligent Review Routing — our Spot-On algorithm that sends each reviewer to the closest Google Business Profile — to maximize GBP reviews. Each is consistently averaging more Google reviews in a single month than they used to earn in a full year before Nearby Now.

5 teams
Local businesses profiled
1 month
> Previous full year
Spot-On
Closest-GBP routing
IRR
Intelligent Review Routing
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The repeating pattern

What every one of these stories has in common.

We've been at this since 2011, and the same 4-part pattern plays out across industries, service types, and geographies. The numbers are different. The mechanism is identical.

It's not magic. It's geotagged schema, routed reviews, and a team that finally has a 10-second way to get credit for the work they already do.

01
Rankings expand from one ZIP to the whole service area Geo-schema on every checkin means Google sees where work actually happened — pins drop across every neighborhood you serve.
02
Review velocity jumps from yearly to monthly ~40% response rate + magic-moment requests + Spot-On routing = reviews every week instead of sporadic handfuls.
03
Google Top 3 and Top 10 counts multiply More content + better structured content + relevant media = organic keyword growth that compounds quarter over quarter.
04
Leads come to you, not to a broker City pages on your own domain capture that intent — so new customers land on your site, not somebody else's directory that sells them to competitors.

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