Coaching for London owner-operators.

A lower cost base means problems hide for longer. You can run unprofitably here for years without it hurting enough to look, which is its own kind of trap.

Everything I charge

CAD

Coaching
First conversation45 minutes. No pitch, no deck. Free
Single session90 minutes on one problem. $350/session
Monthly coachingTwo sessions a month, plus email between. $750/month
90-day resetA defined start, a defined end. $2,250total
If you'd rather I just ran it
Google AdsManaged. Fee set by your ad budget. $300/mo and up
Paid socialManaged. Fee set by your ad budget. $300/mo and up
Local SEOPriced by service areas covered. $1,000/mo and up

That is the whole price list. Ad spend is separate and goes straight to Google or Meta from your own account — I never take a percentage of it and never mark it up.

The first conversation is free

Forty-five minutes. If coaching won't help you, I'll say so and we're done.

No contract, ever

Month to month. Stop whenever. There is no term to buy out and no cancellation call.

Prices are on the website

You know what it costs before you speak to me. The number doesn't change based on how the call goes.

You keep everything

Plans, documents, ad accounts, profiles — created in your name, yours when you leave.

London · Southwestern Ontario

And if you want the advertising run, here's what's different about London

Population 422,000 (2021 census). The three things below are true of London and would be wrong about most other Ontario cities.

The competition gap is the whole point

London has the search volume of a mid-sized city and, in a lot of service categories, a field of competitors who have not touched their Google Business Profile in three years. That is the most favourable position local SEO can be run from. It also means the honest recommendation here is more often SEO than ads — when the organic and map results are genuinely winnable, paying per click to sit above them is buying something you could have earned.

Two large student populations reset demand twice a year

Western and Fanshawe together move a very large number of people in and out on a fixed academic schedule. For moving companies, cleaners, storage, furniture, phone repair, food and rentals, that is a demand curve with hard peaks in late August and late April. Spending evenly across twelve months in those categories is a straightforward waste; front-loading the budget into the weeks that matter is not sophisticated, it is just paying attention.

London is the hub for a wide rural catchment

People drive in from St. Thomas, Strathroy, Ingersoll, Woodstock and the surrounding townships for services they cannot get locally. If you are a specialist — a particular medical service, a trade with real equipment, anything hard to find — your realistic market is considerably larger than the city, and the surrounding town names are cheap, low-competition search terms that most London advertisers ignore entirely.

Coverage

Service areas we build around.

In the SEO packages each of these counts as one service area. Core covers four, Plus covers eight, Enhanced covers the province.

How SEO pricing works →

  • Downtown London
  • Old North
  • Old South
  • Byron
  • Masonville
  • Oakridge
  • Westmount
  • Hyde Park
  • White Oaks
  • Wortley Village
  • St. Thomas
  • Strathroy
  • Ilderton
  • Komoka
Who I work with in London

Owners who are still in the work.

  • Home services & trades
  • Moving & storage
  • Dental & medical clinics
  • Insurance & financial services
  • Restaurants
  • Auto services
  • Cleaning services

I'm not based in London. Daylight works with Ontario businesses remotely and there's no office here you can visit. I'd rather tell you on the page than on the call — a location page implying a storefront it doesn't have is the oldest trick in local SEO.

Coaching over video works identically wherever you are. For advertising, what matters is your profile and your address, not mine.

Questions

London, answered

Is SEO or Google Ads the better start in London?
More often SEO than in Toronto, and that is a real difference rather than a sales line. Where the top of the map results is held by businesses with thin profiles and no reviews strategy, the ranking is genuinely available, and once you have it the traffic does not stop when you stop paying. Ads still make sense if you need work booked this month or you are in one of the few categories here that is properly contested.
Can you target the towns around London as well?
Yes, and it is usually the highest-return part of the build. St. Thomas, Strathroy and Ingersoll have real demand and almost no local advertisers competing for it, so those service areas tend to rank faster and cost less per lead than the London terms do.
Do you offer business coaching in London?
Yes, and it's the main thing I do. Coaching runs over video so being in London makes no practical difference — the free first conversation, the $350 single session and $750 a month all work the same wherever you are. The city-specific material on this page is about advertising, where geography genuinely changes the answer.
Are you based in London?
No. Daylight works with Ontario businesses remotely and there's no office here to visit. I'm saying so plainly because plenty of location pages imply a storefront that doesn't exist. It has no bearing on your rankings — your Google Business Profile, your address and your reviews decide those.

Free conversation, wherever you are in London.

Forty-five minutes, a written summary afterwards, and no follow-up sequence.