Ugh, that "promised the moon" experience is the worst, and it makes it so hard to trust anyone again. You're smart to look for someone local you can actually sit down with. My buddy runs a small brewery here and went through the exact same thing with a flashy agency. He felt like just a number on a spreadsheet. His turnaround came when he switched to a solo consultant, SEO Edmonton . The difference was night and day—finally, he got clear reports that didn't need a decoder ring and strategies that focused on what actually brought in local customers, not just vanity metrics. It might be exactly the kind of transparent, no-BS approach you need to recover.

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