Get found on Google.
Get chosen by customers.
Local Pros Studio collects your reviews on WhatsApp, posts the jobs you've completed, and keeps your business looking active on Google, Facebook and Instagram. Every week. Without you lifting a finger.
Trusted by trades businesses across South Africa
Meet studio.
studio. learns your trade, your area and the jobs you actually want more of
🔍asks every customer for a review — on WhatsApp, not email
then posts the work you've completed, week after week
👓so Google sees a business that is active, reviewed and real
🚀and you wake up to enquiries from people who've never met you
Your competitors are showing up every week.
Why aren't you?
Before. After. Same business.
Nothing changed about how they do the work. What changed is that every customer now gets asked — and the good ones actually answer.
Reviews
Asked every job
A WhatsApp request goes out automatically once the job is done.
Follow-ups
Three tiers
Most people mean to leave a review. They just forget. We remind them.
Bad feedback
Caught first
Unhappy customers come to you privately, not to your Google profile.
How to start using studio.
Online Presence Review
We look at what people actually find when they Google you — your profile, your reviews, your competitors. Takes about 20 minutes.
Digital Foundation Setup
We claim, fix and connect the pieces: Google Business Profile, Facebook, Instagram, Hello Peter, and your review link.
We do the weekly work
Review requests go out. Your completed jobs get posted. Reviews get replied to. You carry on with the actual job.
You get found, and chosen
More reviews, more recent activity, more reasons for Google and the AI models to put your name in front of someone.
First, let's make you visible.
Most trades businesses have the basics half done. A profile nobody ever claimed. Categories that don't match what you actually do. A Facebook page that stopped in 2022. Google reads all of that.
You probably won't notice most of this...
studio. fixes it anyway
Learns your business.
We learn your trade, your area, your prices and the way you speak to a customer. So everything that goes out sounds like you — not like an agency that's never been on a site.
Sounds like you
Posts written the way you'd actually say it. No corporate waffle, no rocket-ship emojis, no "we are thrilled to announce".
Knows your customers
The person searching at 9pm with a burst geyser isn't the person planning a new build. We write for both.
Knows what they search
We use the same search data the big agencies pay thousands for — so you show up for the words people actually type.
Your customer list stays yours. Never sold, never shared, never reused.
Know what to post next.
You finish a job, you take a photo, and it sits on your phone forever. Those photos don't go anywhere. Send them to us instead — one upload, and it's on every platform.
Completed jobs
6 new
Review requests sent
24
New reviews this month
8
Posts scheduled
4
Reviews that win the job. Not just stars.
A five-star rating with nothing written under it doesn't sell anything. We ask in a way that gets customers to say what you actually did — the leak you found, the same-day turnaround, the mess you cleaned up afterwards. That's the part the next customer reads.
Profile strength
92/100
Rating, recency, response rate, photo activity and how completely your profile is filled in. This is roughly what Google is weighing up when it decides who to show first.
Six jobs. One studio.
We ask, follow up, filter, post, reply and report — without adding another thing to your week.
Asks every customer
A WhatsApp request goes out after the job. Not email — nobody in South Africa opens the email.
Follows up, politely
Three tiers of reminders. Most people meant to leave a review and simply forgot.
Filters the unhappy ones
Negative feedback comes to you first, privately, so you can fix it before it becomes a one-star.
Posts your work weekly
Completed jobs, promotions, holidays and review highlights — Facebook, Instagram and Google.
Replies on your behalf
Every review gets a response. Google counts that. So does the person reading it.
Shows you what moved
Reviews collected, posts published, and where you sit against the guys down the road.
When someone asks AI who to call.
Google and ChatGPT don't guess. They pick businesses that look established — reviewed recently, responded to, and clearly still trading. That's exactly what we build.
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Illustrative example of how an AI Overview presents a local business.
Works with what you already have.
No new app to learn. No dashboard to log into. You send us a job on WhatsApp, we handle the rest.
Built on ten years in the trenches.
300+
Local Pros partners across South Africa
3
Platforms managed for you every week
60s
To send us a job and have it posted everywhere
R2m
Largest single job won by a Studio client
One partner.
Skip the rest.
As a business owner you've got three options. Do it yourself and work out what your time is worth. Employ somebody — R3,000 to R6,000 a month part-time, R7,000 to R11,000 full-time. Or hand it to an agency for R5,000 to R15,000. Then there's us.
| studio. | Employee | Agency | Yourself | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Runs every week without you | ||||
| Sounds like your business, not an agency | ||||
| Bad feedback caught before it goes public | ||||
| Every review replied to | ||||
| Built for South African trades | ||||
| Under R2,500 a month |
Three ways in. Pick one.
No contract lock-in. 50% off your first month while we get the foundation right.
Automated Reviews
StarterFor the business that does good work and has nothing to show for it.
R1,200 /month
- WhatsApp review requests after every job
- Three-tier follow-up system
- Negative feedback caught privately
- Every review replied to for you
- Live review widget on your website
- Google, Facebook and Hello Peter
Reviews + Social
Save R700The full picture. Reviewed, active, and impossible to miss.
R2,500 /month
- Everything in Automated Reviews
- Everything in Social Growth
- One form, posted to every platform
- Review highlights turned into posts
- Custom graphics for your business
- One monthly report that makes sense
Social Growth
PresenceFor the business whose Facebook page last posted in 2022.
R2,000 /month
- Weekly generated posts
- Unlimited job posts from you
- Facebook, Instagram and Google
- Custom business graphics
- Holiday and seasonal posts
- Roughly one minute of your time
Running more than one business? Additional businesses go at 50%.
Built for any trade.
“Generally speaking, digital marketing is not any service business's strong suit. There are very few business owners I've spoken to over the years who do this well — and that's not a failing, it's just not what you were built for.
What I'd ask you is this: what is the cost of doing nothing? Give me 20 minutes and I'll show you exactly what someone finds when they Google your business right now.
No pitch. You'll know where you stand either way.”
Jeremy · jeremy@localpros.co.za
Founder, Local Pros Studio — Cape Town
What our own customers say.
Collected the same way we'd collect yours.
Questions, answered.
The things business owners ask before they start.
Two things, every week. We ask your customers for reviews over WhatsApp and manage what comes back — including replying to them. And we keep your Facebook, Instagram and Google profile posting the work you've completed. That combination is what makes Google and the AI models treat your business as active and worth recommending.
No. There's a three-tier follow-up system, negative feedback gets routed to you privately before it reaches your public profile, and every review that comes in gets a written response on your behalf. The automation is the delivery. The judgement is ours.
You can. Most owners start there and stop within a fortnight, because the moment you're on the next job, asking drops off the list. The reason this works is that it happens every single time without depending on you remembering.
An agency will charge you R5,000 to R15,000 a month and hand you a strategy deck. We do the two things that actually move a local business — reviews and consistent activity — for under R2,500, and you speak to me directly on WhatsApp.
No. Your Google Business Profile does most of the heavy lifting for a local trade. If you do have a site, we'll put a live review widget on it that updates itself. If you don't, we build them too.
The system is designed to catch unhappy customers before they get to Google. If one does slip through, we write the response — and a well-handled one-star does more for your credibility than a wall of perfect fives.
Reviews start arriving in the first week or two, because you're already doing the work — we're just asking. Ranking movement takes longer. Google rewards momentum, not a once-off push, which is exactly why this is a monthly service and not a project.
Your customer's name and number when a job is done, and a photo if you took one. That's it. It takes about a minute.
Yes. Main business at full rate, additional businesses at 50%. Volume discounts kick in from two upwards.
No. It's month to month. The first month is 50% off while we get your foundation set up properly.
Ready to get found, and get chosen?
Start with an Online Presence Review. Twenty minutes, and you'll see exactly what a customer sees when they look you up.