How do I market a brand-new service business with no reviews?
In a strict order, because sequence beats spend when you are new. Claim and complete your Google Business Profile the day you launch. Stand up a fast, simple site that says what you do and where. Turn your first jobs into your first ten reviews. Then add real pages for each service and area. Skip steps and the rest underperforms.
The first ten reviews are the hardest and the most valuable. Ask every early customer directly, in person, with the link in their hand. Friends and family padding gets spotted and hurts you. Ten real reviews move you from invisible to considered.
Resist the urge to buy your way past the build. Ads and lead platforms can fill early weeks, but they burn cash exactly when you have the least. A complete profile and a clean site cost little and start compounding immediately.
Expect the timeline to feel slow. Local visibility rewards months of consistent signals, not launch-week pushes. The businesses that win year one are the ones that did the boring foundation in month one.
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