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Marketing · SEO & AI answers · Design · Consulting
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14:30 · The Studio
Monterey Studio is exactly what it sounds like: a small studio in Monterey, California, a few blocks up from the water.
We do four things: marketing, getting found on Google and in AI answers, design, and honest advice about where to put your money.
Our clients run inns, galleries, whale-watching boats, and dental practices along the Central Coast. None of them are marketers. That’s why they call us.
Plain English. Real numbers. Replies before sunset.
36.6002°N 121.8947°W · Edge of the Pacific
15:20 · Evidence
What actually happened.
Online bookings, in under a year, for an inn near Cannery Row that had given up on Google.
On the search that fills their whale-watching boats. Buried on page two; now the first result people see.
By ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and more. Ask them who’s taking new dental patients in Monterey, and our client is the name they give.
Brief to launch, for a gallery site that had been “coming soon” since 2023. The owner shows it off now.
Proof over adjectives · Numbers on request
16:12 · Digital Marketing
Get noticed.
Digital marketing, plainly: getting your business in front of the people who need it, wherever they spend their time. We run the ads, the emails, the posts; we track what each one brings in; we drop whatever doesn’t earn its keep. If the phone’s gone quiet, start here.
“You don’t need to be everywhere. You need to be where your next customer is already looking.”
- Search
- Ads
- Social
- Partnerships
16:58 · GEO / SEO
When people ask, be the answer.
When someone needs a dentist or a roofer, they used to Google it and get ten links. Now they ask an AI and get one answer. SEO gets you into the links; GEO gets you into the answer. We do both, and we check every month that it’s holding.
“Google gives a list. ChatGPT gives a name. Our job is making sure that name is yours.”
- Google rankings
- AI answer mentions
- Site structure
- Monthly answer checks
17:44 · Design
Look the part.
Design, here, means the things people can see: your logo, your website, your menus and signs and slide decks. The goal is simple. A customer lands on your page and thinks, these folks are good.
“Your website is your storefront. Most customers will never see the other one.”
- Logos & branding
- Websites
- Print & signage
- Pitch decks
18:26 · Consulting
Straight answers.
Consulting is the simplest thing we sell: you ask what to do next, and we tell you straight, even when the answer is “stop paying for that.” What we recommend is what we’d do if it were our own money.
“You don’t need more ideas. You need someone to say which one, and why.”
- A call every month
- Numbers, not vibes
- Bad news while it’s cheap
19:04 · Sunset
There’s still light. Say hello.
Thirty minutes, on us. Bring the hard question. We’ll tell you what we’d try first.