Contractor Marketing Pricing
Paid diagnostics start at $150, credited in full toward your first invoice. Monthly work from $1,200. Fractional Marketing Foreman from $2,500 per month. The Pinned Local score is free.
Start Here: Revenue Map Call — $150
The Revenue Map Call is a 45-minute strategic review of your current growth structure, acquisition channels, and positioning. You receive a written summary with specific, prioritized recommendations within 72 hours, and the $150 credits in full toward any engagement started within 30 days.
This is a directional strategy session, not a technical audit. Before the call, Elena reviews your public website, Google Business Profile, and search presence. It does not include account access, site crawling, data analysis, or a detailed implementation roadmap.
This is not a sales call. If Social Status is not the right fit, you will know within 45 minutes and still leave with a plan you can act on.
What Social Status Charges

Social Status pricing, straight up. Most service businesses end up hiring two or three separate vendors to cover this. Social Status builds it as one system.
Diagnose — one-time; each credits in full toward your first invoice for any engagement started within 30 days
- Revenue Map Call: $150
- Trades Found Audit: $750
- Marketing Foreman Inspection: $1,950
Build — one-time
- Trades Found Foundation: $2,000
- Website and automation builds: fixed price, quoted by scope
Run — monthly, 30-day minimum
- Pinned Managed: from $1,200 per month
- Trades Found Authority Engine: from $1,500 per month
- Pinned Full System: from $2,500 per month
- Google Ads management: $500–$2,000 per month (management fee; ad spend is paid to Google separately)
Lead — monthly, 90-day initial term
- Fractional Marketing Foreman: from $2,500 per month
Out-of-scope work: $150 per hour. The Pinned Local score is free.
Not sure which level fits? See what is included in each service before deciding.
Fractional Marketing Foreman
Owner-side marketing leadership for contractors already spending on marketing who can’t see what’s working. Elena sets priorities, coordinates every provider (including those that aren’t Social Status), and reports in plain language on leads, estimates, and booked work.
- Marketing Foreman Inspection: $1,950 one-time, delivered within 10 business days
- Fractional Marketing Foreman: from $2,500 per month, 90-day initial term, then month-to-month
- Includes biweekly strategy meetings, a 90-day marketing plan, and a quarterly review
The Inspection credits in full toward your first invoice for any engagement started within 30 days.
Trades Found and Pinned Local
Two productized systems. Either can be bought on its own or run under Fractional Marketing Foreman.
Trades Found — AI search visibility
A full AI search visibility audit for trades businesses. See exactly how ChatGPT, Google AI, and Perplexity describe your company, where competitors are getting recommended instead, and the fixes to get you cited.
The $750 Audit credits in full toward your first invoice for any engagement started within 30 days.
Pinned Local — Google Business Profile and map pack
Built for Google Maps and the local pack. The Pinned score is free, takes five minutes, and rates your Google Business Profile, reviews, website, local content, and AI visibility out of 100. Pinned Managed starts at $1,200 per month and implements the priority actions on an ongoing basis. Pinned Full System starts at $2,500 per month and adds the automation layer: lead response, review generation, estimate follow-up, and referral activation.
The difference: Trades Found covers how AI systems find and describe your business. Pinned Local covers how you rank in Google Maps. Most businesses need both eventually, and the Revenue Map Call shows which gap is bigger.
How Pricing Works
Prices marked “from” are starting rates. Final pricing depends on service areas, locations, and how much coordination is needed.
Every paid diagnostic credits in full toward your first invoice for any engagement started within 30 days. Monthly lanes run on a 30-day minimum and can be canceled anytime. Fractional Marketing Foreman has a 90-day initial term, then runs month to month. Lanes added under Foreman are billed at their listed price. No annual contracts, no negotiating, no back-and-forth.
Not Everyone Is a Fit
Social Status works best with trades and service businesses that already have revenue and prefer structure over shortcuts.
This is not a fit for:
- Businesses shopping for the cheapest option
- Anyone expecting results in 30 days
- Owners who want zero involvement — the systems need your input on pricing, capacity, and which jobs you actually want
Frequently Asked Questions
What determines the investment level?
Scope and how many lanes you need. Diagnostics are fixed prices. Monthly lanes start at $1,200 (Pinned Managed) and $1,500 (Authority Engine). Fractional Marketing Foreman starts at $2,500. A “from” price moves up only when the work does: more service areas, more locations, or more providers to coordinate.
Do you work on monthly retainers or fixed projects?
Both. Diagnostics and builds are one-time, fixed-price projects. Lanes and Fractional Marketing Foreman are monthly. Every paid diagnostic credits in full toward your first invoice for any engagement started within 30 days.
Is there a minimum commitment?
Monthly lanes run on a 30-day minimum and can be canceled any time after that. Fractional Marketing Foreman has a 90-day initial term because the plan it runs covers 90 days; after that, it’s month-to-month. No annual contracts and no early termination fees.
What is the difference between Trades Found and Pinned Local?
Trades Found covers AI search visibility — whether ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews name a business when someone asks for a recommendation — while Pinned Local covers Google Business Profile and map pack ranking. The two run on different inputs: AI answers draw on schema, site content, and citations across the web, while map results draw on profile categories, listed services, photos, and review content. Pinned Local starts with a free five-minute score; Trades Found starts with a $750 Audit. The Revenue Map Call is where Social Status identifies which gap is bigger for a specific business.
How quickly should we expect measurable results?
Early signals typically show within the first 30 to 60 days once systems are live, with meaningful stability building over 90 to 180 days depending on starting position and market. Google Business Profile changes move fastest because Google and Gemini read them almost immediately. Site authority and content take longer and keep paying out after the initial build.
What’s the difference between a monthly lane and Fractional Marketing Foreman?
A lane is Social Status doing one kind of work: your map pack, your AI visibility, or your ads. Fractional Marketing Foreman provides owner-side leadership across all of it, including providers outside Social Status. You can add lanes under Foreman at their listed price.
