Semrush & ClickReady SEO case study

ClickReady Gets Clients A-Listed

Client retention is through the roof, clients have 60-80% online visibility, and employees are excited to work with new prospects.

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Challenge: Get more leads for local businesses Solution: Streamline listing management Results: 60-80% visibility for SMB clients

Clients feel seen and employees feel valued at ClickReady, the marketing agency who put real trust behind these incredible customer retention numbers.

60-80% visibility for SMB clients
7-8 year client retention
25-30% time saving for listing management

"Our client retention is through the roof since we started using Semrush—on average, about seven to eight years. What Semrush does is get our employees excited about working with a client."
— Craig Lawson, President of ClickReady Marketing

Challenge: Get more leads for local businesses

Prior to adopting Semrush Local, ClickReady Marketing - Atlanta-based SEO agency - faced a challenge: how could they generate more leads for their clients while also finding a cost-effective solution for their agency?

Many of ClickReady’s clients were local businesses in the Atlanta community—but that didn’t mean every business’s requirements were the same. While some needed to attract more foot traffic to be successful, others wanted to generate their leads online.

In either case, local SEO was key because their target customers were part of the surrounding community. By helping these businesses rank well in Google Maps and local search, ClickReady could help them build a solid flow of leads or foot traffic.

Some of ClickReady’s key challenges included:

Solution: Streamline listing management

ClickReady quickly realized that, by using Semrush’s Listing Management tool, they could:

Here’s how it worked.

With Listing Management from Semrush, ClickReady was able to manage all their clients’ online listings from one place—and in a platform they were already using.

First, they entered each client’s information into Listing Management. The tool then identified any missed opportunities and inconsistencies, and distributed updates automatically.

With that in hand, the team could easily monitor each client’s local listings and suppress duplicates in just a click.

For example, ClickReady increased a large national shredding company’s Visibility scores in Semrush’s Position Tracking tool to 70-80%. This earned them 250 leads per month per geolocation via local search. These leads came in through a variety of channels—50% of leads by phone, 25% through contact forms, and 25% through landing page visits.

Another client—an Atlanta family law attorney— now earns 100 leads per month thanks to their increased visibility online.

ClickReady also helped a pet products franchise earn 60-70 leads per month through local search. Today, they’re a top franchise nationwide—and this success helped ClickReady win new clients from additional related franchises across the country.

Finally, the tool’s user-friendliness enabled ClickReady to increase transparency and build their employees’ and clients’ confidence in their strategies and the results they delivered. This resulted in increased loyalty and client retention.

"Our client retention is through the roof since we started using Semrush. Most of our clients, on average, are about 7 or 8 years retention. What Semrush did was get our employees excited about working with our clients. We show them real data in real time, and are very transparent about success and failure. It becomes a real partnership."
— Craig Lawson, President of ClickReady Marketing

Results: 60-80% visibility for SMB clients

ClickReady Marketing leverages local SEO to drive success for each client. With the help of Semrush Listing Management, they were able to: