Rank Consultants

For 5-50 location health and lifestyle brands.

You came here because another marketing promise is not enough.

You probably need to know four things before you keep reading.

What is this. What does it cost. What happens if you leave. Who actually does the work.

Rank Consultants is a flat-fee marketing firm for appointment-based multi-location brands. One posted price. One named senior strategist. One written diagnosis before the first invoice.

Do not take our word for anything. Read the agreement.

Get your diagnosis Read the terms first

The thing the market taught us.

You have heard the words before. The mechanism is what matters.

The exit checklist.

Ask every vendor these questions before you sign anything.

The answer should be written down. Not explained on a call.

Question to ask. Typical risk. Rank Consultants answer.
Who owns the domain? The vendor controls the transfer code when you need to leave. Your domain stays under your admin from day one.
Who owns the website? You keep content but lose the actual site or platform. The site is built on portable, client-owned infrastructure.
Who owns the ad accounts? Campaign history and spend live in someone else's account. Paid media runs in your accounts. You pay platforms directly.
Who owns analytics and data? Reporting disappears when the relationship ends. Analytics, reporting access, and data stay under client control.
How does cancellation work? The sales call says flexible. The contract says renewal window. No auto-renew clause exists. One email ends it at month end.
What happens the day after cancellation? Listings revert, websites vanish, accounts stall, and the final month gets messy. You already hold the assets. Leaving does not require our cooperation.

$7,500/month. Posted. All-in.

The product is not a claim. The product is what is written down.

The field already says everything Rank Consultants says. The difference is that every promise below is either in the agreement, in the diagnosis, or in your own accounts.

What buyers see now. Where it breaks. What we do instead.
Month-to-month claims. The phrase is common, including among vendors with cancellation complaints. No auto-renew clause exists. Cancel by one email.
Dedicated team claims. The buyer still gets passed around after the sale. A named senior strategist is written into the agreement with an account cap.
Quote-gated pricing. Buyers cannot tell what is real until the sales call is already underway. $7,500/month is posted. No setup fee. No hidden monthly-flex premium.
Proprietary sites and platforms. Leaving turns into a hostage negotiation. Domain, site, ad accounts, analytics, and data sit under your admin from day one.
Reporting dashboards. Reports become theater when appointments do not move. Booked appointments and calls per location are the reporting unit.
AI visibility claims. Many agencies already say ChatGPT, Perplexity, AEO, and GEO. The diagnosis shows your live answers by market before you pay.
Spanish-language capability. The supply gap is real, but the buyer usually has not asked for it yet. Spanish pages are built where the diagnosis shows demand.
Reputation SaaS. Per-location pricing scales harder than the operator expects. Reputation and listings work are inside the flat stack.
SEO-only retainers. The channel can cost the same as a full operating stack. The whole stack runs for an SEO-only market price.
Mass-market agency entry tiers. The low number is not usually the multi-location program. We tell you when we cost more. Below 10 locations, this is a trust sell.
Vertical specialist agencies. Specialty does not prevent neglect. The written diagnosis is of your actual markets, locations, and appointment economics.
In-house marketer. One person still needs tools, vendors, channel depth, and coverage. One accountable strategist runs the stack with no asset trap.
Multi-location language. The work often has no location-level grain. Pages, visibility, reputation, and reporting are built by location.
Vendor-held media budget. Money disappears into someone else's account. Paid media runs in your accounts. You pay platforms directly.
Lead counts. Junk leads can hide the business result. The calendar is the dashboard.

Receipts before persuasion.

The public record is loud enough. We do not need adjectives.

321 complaints.

Across 225 mapped vendors, the same failures repeat: neglect, fake reporting, lock-in, price opacity, and lead quality.

Exit ownership is the test.

Most vendors are silent on what the client owns after cancellation. We answer that before the call.

The price math changes by location count.

At 10+ locations, the pieced stack usually meets the flat fee. At 5-9, we may cost more.

The staffing failure is visible.

Buyer and employee records both point to the same cause: too many accounts, too little senior attention.

AI claims are cheap now.

So we do not lead with the claim. We show your live answers in the diagnosis.

The diagnosis comes first.

Per-location economics, AI-answer visibility, and demand gaps are written down before the first invoice.

The founder record is biography.

Drew founded, ran, and sold a prior agency with verified reviews. Different business. Same operating posture.

Choose the version of the page closest to your job.

The relationship from first question to one year later.

    The plain terms.

    If it is not useful, leave with the document.

    No auto-renew clause. One-email exit. Assets in your name from day one. Media budget paid directly to platforms. No proprietary platform. No credits. No setup trap.

    The next step is a written diagnosis you can keep.

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