Market Lock runs Google Maps click-throughs and driving direction requests for one business per category in each market, from real U.S. 5G mobile devices, and refuses every other business in your trade and your area for as long as you hold the slot. Exclusivity is written into your agreement, with the category, the market center and the radius named. From $497/month.
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Behavioral signals move map pack rankings. That is settled. The open question for most local businesses is a different one: who else in your trade is buying them, and from whom. Find your situation below.
Your profile is verified, reviewed and complete. You are showing up, just under the fold. The competitor above you has the same foundation plus a CTR campaign. Buying the same campaign from a vendor who also serves them gets you a tie at best.
Market Lock is built for this. You get the signals and they lose access to them.Holding a 3-pack spot is harder than reaching it, because every business below you is now trying to buy its way up. The slot closes the easiest route they have: hiring the vendor that got you there.
Market Lock as a moat. Calibrated volume keeps your signal pattern growing instead of flat.Most CTR services sell to anyone who pays. Ask your vendor in writing whether they run campaigns for another business in your category and area. If the answer is yes or silence, your spend is subsidizing a stalemate.
Move the campaign to a slot nobody else in your trade can buy.Signals on a profile with no foundation do not stick, and we would rather not take a slot fee for a month that cannot work. Fix the listing, collect the first 10 reviews, then claim the slot.
Not yet. Start with the ResolveMap audit and come back in 60 days."Exclusive" is a word a lot of agencies print on a feature list without defining it. Here is our definition, and it is the same text that goes into your agreement.
What this costs us: every slot we sell is a list of businesses we can never sell to. That is why price follows the size of the area you lock, not the volume of signals we run. The pricing section explains the math.
Market Lock bundles the two behavioral signals Google weighs most for local prominence: searches that end in a click on your profile, and direction requests to your location. Both run daily from real U.S. 5G mobile devices inside your market.
Send your Google Business Profile link and the five keywords that matter most to your business. We check whether your category and market are open and reply within one business day.
If the slot is open, the agreement names your category, market center, radius and tier. You add us as a Manager on your profile, which takes about two minutes and lets us read your data and verify the setup.
We send your baseline numbers in writing, and signals start within 5 business days of signature and Manager access. Your first report lands 30 days later, and your guarantee is measured against the baseline you already have.
Signal volume is always matched to your profile, whichever tier you choose. What changes between tiers is how much territory and how many locations your slot closes to everyone else in your trade. All tiers include both signal streams, calibrated volume, Manager-verified setup, the monthly report, and the 30-day money-back guarantee.
One city or 10-mile radius
About $16.50/day
Best fit: Most single-location local businesses
30-day money-back guarantee
Up to 3 adjacent cities or 25-mile radius
About $33/day
Best fit: Businesses serving several suburbs from one base
30-day money-back guarantee
A county or 50-mile radius
About $50/day
Best fit: Multi-location or service-area businesses covering a whole metro
30-day money-back guarantee
Need more than the tier covers? Each added city is $200/month. Each added location inside the area is $150/month. A second category on the same profile is a second slot at 50 percent off. Pay quarterly and get one month free on any tier.
You can buy GBP CTR and DriveForge from us today, without exclusivity, for less. So can your competitor. Market Lock is priced on what we give up when we sell it: every other business in your trade inside your market, for as long as you hold the slot.
That is also why a larger area costs more while the signal volume stays matched to your profile. A 50-mile radius does not cost us more to run. It costs us more to refuse.
The guarantee is measured on numbers you can see in your own Google Business Profile performance report, against a baseline we send you in writing before signals start.
The closest alternatives sell driving direction requests in a 25 or 100 square mile circle, at a flat volume, with "exclusivity" listed as a feature and never defined. The table shows what you get from each.
A top 3 guarantee on one keyword out of many is easy to satisfy and tells you little. We guarantee the number that moves first and that you can read in your own dashboard.
We tell you within one business day that the category is held in your market, and we add you to the waitlist for it. We do not tell you who holds it. If the current holder misses a renewal, the slot opens to the waitlist after a 14-day grace period, and we contact you in order. You are never charged while you wait.
Because customers search by city and neighborhood, and the map pack does not stop at a zip line. A competitor one zip over competes with you for the same searches. A city or radius matches how Google draws the market. The center point and radius are written into your agreement so there is nothing to argue about later.
Those services keep running as they are. Market Lock replaces them with one subscription that adds the exclusivity term, the calibrated bundle of both signals, the Manager-verified setup and the written baseline. If you move to Market Lock, your existing campaigns are folded into it without a restart. If a competitor in your trade and market already holds a Market Lock slot, we will tell you, and your existing non-exclusive campaign continues unaffected.
Two reasons. First, the guarantee is measured on your profile views and interactions, and we set your baseline from the actual numbers rather than a screenshot. Second, we check categories, hours and service area before signals start, because a wrong primary category wastes the first month. Manager access is read access for us in practice. We do not change your listing without asking, and you can remove us from the same screen at any time.
The slot covers your primary category. The overlap rule does block a competitor whose secondary category matches your primary one, so a Water Damage Restoration company with Plumber as a secondary category cannot buy the Plumber slot next to you. If you want exclusivity on a second category of your own, that is a second slot at 50 percent off, since the fulfillment overlaps.
The activity comes from real U.S. 5G mobile devices on carrier networks, inside your market, at a volume set from your own profile's history and scaled 20 to 30 percent a month. That is the same protocol we have run across our Maps campaigns since 2019. The risk in this category is aggressive volume on a thin profile, which is why we start from your baseline rather than a flat count, and why Situation 4 above is a "not yet."
Your Google Business Profile link and the five keywords that matter most to your business. That is enough for us to check the slot. Once the agreement is signed, you add us as a Manager on the profile, which takes about two minutes. Signals start within 5 business days of signature and Manager access.
Yes. Market Lock is month to month. Cancel from your client portal before any renewal and nothing further is billed. Your slot opens to the waitlist 14 days after a missed renewal, so if you plan to come back, renew before the grace period ends.
That bundle adds more deliverables: citations, profile optimization, posts and GBP CTR. Market Lock adds one thing it does not have: nobody else in your trade and your market can buy it from us. If you want the full stack and exclusivity, hold the slot and add the bundle of your choice; we will price the overlap out.
Yes, one slot per client, in the client's name on the agreement, through the white-label partner program. An agency cannot reserve a market without a client in it, because an empty slot is a competitor we turned away for nothing.
Send your profile link and five keywords. We confirm whether the slot is open within one business day, send your baseline in writing, and start signals within 5 business days of signature. If your profile views and interactions have not moved by day 30, the first month is refunded.
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