--- title: "Harrigan Creative | Columbus Marketing Agency" description: "Marketing built around your business. Local SEO, Google & Meta ads, websites, and consulting for Columbus small businesses. Month-to-month. No contracts." author: Henry Harrigan canonical: https://harrigancreative.com/ date_modified: 2026-08-07 --- # When your town searches, you show up first. Harrigan Creative — Columbus, Ohio marketing agency. We find where your next 90 days of customers are actually coming from — Google Maps, ads, or a site that finally converts — and we build exactly that. One Ohio-based point of contact. Month-to-month. No long contracts. **Key numbers:** - 20 active clients across five states - 1 point of contact on every account - 0 long contracts — everything is month-to-month ## Operating standards - Month-to-month, no long contracts - US-based support, M–F 9–6 ET - You own everything we build ## Seven things we do differently Most agencies sell you a package, lock you in for a year, and route you to whoever's free. We do the opposite. Every retainer is month-to-month. Every client works directly with Henry. Every dollar of work is yours when you leave. | Typical agency | Harrigan Creative | | --- | --- | | 12-month contract, cancellation fee buried in the fine print | **Month-to-month.** We earn your business every 30 days with results, or you leave. | | You're handed off to a junior account manager | **You work with Henry directly.** Phone, text, email. Same name on the contract is the one running your account. | | Specializes in one channel and wants to upsell you the rest | **All four under one roof.** Paid media, local SEO, websites, consulting. We pick the lever that fits your business, not the one that fits our pricing sheet. | | Cookie-cutter playbook applied to every client | **Strategy built per business.** A med spa and a roofer don't get the same plan. We start every engagement with a 90-day plan we wrote for you. | | You're locked into their platform and lose everything when you leave | **You own the work.** Code, ad accounts, GBP, dashboards, content. If you ever leave, you walk away with everything. | | Reports that say "impressions up" with no context | **Reports + plain-English calls.** Clear monthly reporting plus a strategy call where we walk through what we did, what worked, and what's next. | | Mystery SEO retainer, vague reports, nobody explains what actually gets done | **Scoped SEO work you can see.** Audit first, then a plain-English scope of what gets fixed. Every month you see what changed and what happens next. | ## The first 90 days: here's exactly how it goes 1. **Days 01–07 — Audit & plan.** We pull live data on your rankings, your ad accounts, and three competitors. You get a written 90-day plan — what's broken, what it costs you, what we'd fix first. You keep it either way. No charge, no obligation. 2. **Days 08–30 — Fix the foundation.** Site fixed or rebuilt, Google Business Profile cleaned up, tracking installed. Boring work nobody sees — it's why everything after this works. You own every deliverable. 3. **Days 31–60 — Turn the traffic on.** The right lever for your business goes live — map-pack SEO, paid ads, or both. Every lead gets tracked to its source, so we know what's working, not guess. Calls, not impressions. 4. **Days 61–90 — Read the numbers together.** A clear report plus a plain-English call: what we did, what it produced, what happens next. Then you decide if we keep going — it's month-to-month on purpose. ## What we do: four levers, picked for your business Every engagement starts with the same question: where is the next 90 days of revenue actually going to come from? Then we build for that using one, two, or all four of these. ### 01 / Paid Media — Google & Meta ad management Strategist-led ad builds, copywriter variants, designer assets, and a media buyer in your account every week. Built for businesses ready to invest consistently in paid media. - Full creative: copy, image, and video variations per campaign - Conversion tracking + automated text & email follow-up - Plain-English monthly reporting, shared with you - Direct line to Henry, not a ticket queue Contact us for pricing. Details: https://harrigancreative.com/services#paid ### 02 / Local SEO — Get found in your service area The map pack is the new front page for service businesses. Geo-grid scans, GBP optimization, citation cleanup, review velocity: the full stack. - Drive-time-adjusted geo-grid scans, weekly - GBP rebuild, schema markup, NAP cleanup - Review velocity system for happy customers on autopilot - Monthly content built for searches that actually book Contact us for pricing. Deep dive: https://harrigancreative.com/local-seo ### 03 / Build — Websites that actually book work Custom-coded or platform builds with conversion baked in. Fast, accessible, mobile-first. Built so the form fills, the phone rings, and the calendar fills itself. - Custom design with no templated, vanilla agency look - Lightweight, fast-loading pages on any phone - Optional HoneyBook, Stripe, Calendly & CRM integrations - Full code handover, no platform lock-in Contact us for pricing. Details: https://harrigancreative.com/services#build ### 04 / Consulting — Business consulting For owners who don't need a vendor. They need a thinking partner. Pricing, offers, channel mix, hiring. Hourly or project basis. - Pricing & offer design: what to sell, for how much - Channel-mix strategy: where the next dollar should go - Sales process & CRM workflow design - Quarterly planning & KPI review Contact us for pricing. Details: https://harrigancreative.com/services#consulting ## Websites + marketing, under one roof We design and build custom sites that load fast, read clean, and turn visitors into booked work, then point paid and local search straight at them. Henry keeps the build and the traffic connected, so nothing slips through the gap between them. Every site we ship is built to load fast. Speed is the first thing Google measures, and the first thing a customer feels. Built on your platform of choice: Custom code, Webflow, WordPress, Shopify, Squarespace. **Free mockup:** See your new homepage before you spend a dollar. Send us your current site and we'll design a custom mockup of the redesign, yours to keep with no obligation. ## How we work - **20** active clients across paid, SEO, and web — every one listed on the work page - **5** states we currently run accounts in, from our Ohio home base - **1** point of contact — the person on the agreement is the person in your inbox - **0** long contracts — month-to-month, cancel any time **Client spotlight — Dream Big Contracting:** A rebuilt site, local SEO, and paid media all pulling in the same direction — from a dated website and a neglected Google profile to a steady pipeline of booked estimates. Breakdown: https://harrigancreative.com/work#dream-big Case studies, with the method behind each one, live on the work page: https://harrigancreative.com/work ## Harrigan Systems — automate your business Behind every site and ad campaign sits the part your customers never see: the automations that catch the lead, book the call, and keep the pipeline moving while you work. We build those too, shaped around how your shop runs. Flow: New lead → Texted back in 60 seconds → Call booked → Reminder sent → 5★ review. 1. **Instant lead follow-up.** A form comes in or a call gets missed, and an automated text goes out in seconds, books the slot, and logs it. All you do is show up to the call. 2. **Pipelines that move themselves.** Every lead drops into a visual pipeline. Stages advance on their own, reminders fire before anything stalls, and a review request goes out the minute a job closes. 3. **One dashboard, every number.** We build live dashboards that pull leads, ad spend, calls, and revenue onto a single screen. 4. **Custom tools & AI.** Internal tools, scheduled jobs, and AI assistants built around your workflow. If a task repeats every week, it can run itself instead. **Technical partner · Fractional CTO:** When the bottleneck stops being leads and starts being the build — internal tools, software integrations, AI systems, or the call on what to build versus buy — Henry plugs in as a fractional CTO. That work lives at https://harrigansystems.com > We don't sell channels. We sell growth. > — Henry Harrigan, Founder ## Current and recent client work The businesses behind the websites, local-search campaigns, paid media, booking systems, and practical tools we build. Dream Big Contracting · A&N Outdoor Services · Hoffman Water · Hire a Handyman · Merten Land Clearing · EchoTherm · The Event Vault · The 2-11 · Oak Crest Campground · The Weed Lady · Sellman Insurance · Scioto Inn · No Coast Detailing · Woven Chic · OTR Drive School · JMOC Services · Wren Farm · Studio Roo · Chloe's Pit Stop · Matt Signs - **Dream Big Contracting · Dayton:** Came to us on a dated site with a neglected Google profile. We rebuilt both around a local-first strategy and layered in paid. Now the estimate calendar does the talking. - **The Event Vault · Urbana, OH:** A historic event venue whose inquiries lived in an inbox. We rebuilt the site around the events themselves — a live calendar wired to their ticketing system, online ticket sales, and a photo-forward gallery. - **The Weed Lady · local SEO recovery:** A beloved garden business lost its Google Business Profile to a suspension and vanished from the map. We worked the appeals, fixed the underlying profile issues, then ran the full five-layer local system so it never happens again. ## Contact Free 30-minute strategy call. We'll pull live data on your current rank, ad accounts, and three competitors before we hop on. You walk away with a punch list either way. - Book a strategy call: https://harrigancreative.com/about#contact - Phone/text: (614) 285-6246 - Email: henry@harrigancreative.com