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Notes from the fulfillment side

Written for agency owners: how to price SEO you outsource, how to present it, and where partnerships go wrong.

Partner selection 6 min read

What to ask a white-label partner before you send them a client

Most agencies ask about price and turnaround. The questions that actually predict whether a partnership survives its first missed deadline are about ownership, escalation and what happens to your client list.

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Margins 5 min read

Pricing an SEO retainer when someone else does the work

The arithmetic of resale: what a retainer leaves you after fulfillment, and the two line items that quietly erase it.

Client management 4 min read

Presenting a technical audit to a client who will not read it

Three findings, one number and a date. How to turn forty pages of crawl data into a ten-minute conversation that gets approved.

Technical 7 min read

Schema, AI Overviews and what changed for local clients

Which structured data assistants actually read, which of it moves anything, and what to stop selling as an AI service.

Operations 4 min read

The intake questions that prevent scope creep

Eight questions asked at onboarding that remove almost every out-of-scope argument in month three.