Straight answers
What to know first.
What does the free consultation actually include?
Two things, and no bill. First, the scan: your real Google Maps rankings at 81 points across San Antonio for the search you want to win, green where you are in the top three and red where you are not, plus a read of your website and your Google Business Profile side by side. Second, the call: 15 minutes with the owner, in plain language, on what the scan found, what it is costing you, and what to fix first.
That is the whole consultation. There is no strategy retainer behind it and no hourly rate. We used to answer the question of how much a consultant costs with a range. The honest answer now is that we do not sell consulting. We sell two things, Google Maps ranking and websites, and the consultation is how you find out whether you need either one.
Why start with a scan instead of a conversation?
Because a conversation without data is two people guessing. Most San Antonio businesses do not need more marketing; they need the right two or three fixes in the right order, and the order depends on where the rankings actually stand. A bar that already holds the top three near the Pearl and disappears in Alamo Heights needs a different first move than a roofer with no page for roof repair. The grid shows which one you are.
The scan also keeps us honest. If the gap is small, we say so, and you keep the findings. If the website is the problem, we say that, and quote the build from the published ranges. If the profile is ready, the free 7 day Maps ranking trial shows you movement before you pay anything. The consultation points at one of those three answers, or at none of them.
What questions should you ask any marketing agency first?
Four questions expose most of the industry. Can you show me the data behind your case studies, in the client's own accounts? What exactly will you measure before you recommend anything? What happens if the audit shows you cannot help me? And who actually does the work after the salesperson leaves the call?
We built Rigal Media to survive those questions. Every published result is checkable: Kissed by the Caribbean's map grid is a public report, Burger Boy's clicks are in Search Console, and Martinez Tire's three grids are on our free scan page, including the reading after the trial ended. The scan comes before any recommendation, we tell you plainly when the numbers say we are not the right spend, and the person who reads your scan is the person who does the work.
Should you hire an agency or handle marketing in-house?
Honest answer: it depends on the bottleneck, which is exactly what the scan is for. Plenty of San Antonio businesses handle their own customer relationships and their own posting beautifully and should keep doing so. The work that usually belongs with a specialist is the technical layer: the website and the Google Business Profile saying the same thing, the schema, the page tree, and measuring rankings from across the city instead of from your own counter.
Sometimes the scan says your foundation is solid and your gap is review volume or a single broken page, and we say so, along with what it takes to fix in-house. A consultant who cannot recommend against hiring their own company is a salesperson with a different title.
What results has this approach produced in San Antonio?
A mobile spray tanning business we have worked with since 2020 holds the top three on Google Maps at 78 of 81 points for her core search and is named in 73 of 81 ChatGPT answers for it, on an October 20, 2026 scan. A restaurant group came to us with search traffic flat near zero; we fixed the domain in June 2025, and the site has earned 238,000 Google clicks since. A tire shop went from the top three at 1 of 81 map points to 52 during the free 7 day trial, and read 27 four days after it ended, which is the number we show because it is the true one.
Three different businesses, three different bottlenecks, one method: measure, diagnose, fix the real problem. That is the difference between consulting and selling.
Verified results, not projections.
Client outcomes come from public map grid reports, Google Search Console and live search, October 2026. Ask for the receipts in your readout; we will show you.
Questions San Antonio businesses ask us
Your questions, answered.
Ours costs nothing. The consultation is the free 81 point visibility scan plus a free 15 minute call that reads it with you. We do not sell consulting hours or retainers. The only two things we sell are Google Maps ranking, from $497 a month after a free 7 day trial, and websites, $499 to $4,999 by page count, and the scan tells you whether you need either.
Ask three things: what will you measure before recommending anything, can I verify your client results myself, and what happens if the data says I do not need you. Any consultant who cannot answer all three cleanly is selling a package, not advice.
No. We serve San Antonio and its surrounding areas exclusively, on purpose. Local search is won with local specifics: neighborhood-level rankings, market knowledge, and being accountable to results you can check on the same map your customers use.
The free scan shows your real Google Maps rankings at 81 points across San Antonio for the search you choose, plus a read of your website against your Google Business Profile. The 15 minute call adds the deeper layer: what the rankings are costing you, where your entity is misaligned, and the fix, in plain language.
No. The scan and the call are free, and nothing starts unless you say so. Google Maps ranking runs month to month after its free trial, and a website is quoted from the published ranges before you spend anything. If the honest answer is that you do not need us yet, you leave with the findings anyway.
Start with evidence, not a pitch
Run the free visibility scan, then take the free 15 minute call. You will leave knowing exactly where you stand in San Antonio search, whatever you decide to do next.
