Most contractors are renting their online presence

A lot of Smith County home-service businesses pay for leads month after month and never build anything they own. The day the spending stops, the calls stop too — because the website, the rankings, and the reviews were always sitting on someone else's platform. Forty-Second Street flips that model. Every asset we create for you across Smith County is registered in your name and keeps working long after any single campaign ends.

Assets we build — and hand you the keys to

This quiet corner of Middle Tennessee runs on reputation and Google. From the county seat in Carthage out to Gordonsville, South Carthage, and the farms along the Caney Fork, homeowners research before they dial. Here's what ends up in your hands:

A fast, search-ready website you own and control outright
A fully optimized Google Business Profile registered to you, not to us
An automated review system that grows your reputation on your own listings
Local Services Ads and local-SEO groundwork built inside your accounts

Rented reach fades — owned reach compounds

Lead brokers sell the same customer to you and three competitors at the same time. Owned visibility behaves the opposite way: it stacks. Every fresh review, every ranking you climb, and every repeat customer makes the next job cheaper and easier to win. For a business that plans to serve Smith County for the next decade, that compounding is the whole point.

A Tennessee team that actually answers

We're based in Tennessee, not a faceless national vendor, so you get straight answers, plain-English reporting, and a partner who understands how demand moves in a rural county — seasonal HVAC swings, storm-driven roofing calls, and the remodels homeowners plan over the winter. We build to your market instead of a generic template.

We keep score in booked calls

We won't bury you in dashboards full of numbers that don't pay the bills. The measure that matters is your phone ringing with Smith County homeowners who already trust you, because you showed up first and looked like the obvious choice. Want to see what a steady stream of customer reviews could do for your name? Book a free 15-minute strategy call and we'll sketch the plan.

Mike Carleton, founder of Forty-Second Street

“When you call Forty-Second Street, you talk to the people who actually do the work — not a call center. I've spent 30+ years building brands, and our standard is simple: if it doesn't make your phone ring, it isn't done.”

Mike Carleton· Founder, Forty-Second Street

Will I actually own the website and profile you build?

Yes. Every asset — website, Google Business Profile, review system, and ad accounts — is registered in your name across Smith County. If we ever part ways, it all stays with you.

Do you serve contractors outside of Carthage?

We cover the whole county, from Carthage and South Carthage to Gordonsville and the rural areas in between.

What trades do you work with?

HVAC, plumbing, roofing, electrical, and remodeling contractors are our focus in Smith County.

Are you local to the area?

We're a Tennessee-based agency that helps Smith County home-service pros get found. We know the market even though our office is elsewhere in the state.

How is this different from buying leads?

Purchased leads disappear the moment you stop paying and are often sold to your competitors too. We build owned visibility that keeps generating calls on its own.

What should I expect to invest?

Most home-service companies invest somewhere between a few hundred and a couple thousand a month, depending on how much of the county they want to own. We'll tailor it on the call.

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Monthly marketing plans

SEO and AI search plans from $495 a month.

Every plan is built so Google can rank you and ChatGPT can recommend you. Pick the level that fits where you are now. You can move up or down any month.

Get on the map

Presence

$495 /mo

Best for getting found on Google Maps in your home town.

Google Business Profile management
Website hosting, updates and monitoring
On-page SEO upkeep on your key pages
Monthly AI search visibility check
Plain-English report, first Monday of every month

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Start ranking

Local Growth

$895 /mo

Best for passing the one or two competitors above you.

Everything in Presence
2 SEO blog posts a month
Service page optimization
Review request system
Keyword and map rank tracking

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Full Visibility

$1,695 /mo

Best for contractors who want Google and AI to name them first.

Everything in Local Growth
4 SEO blog posts a month
Citations and directory listings included
City pages as you expand
AI search build-out: schema, FAQs, llms.txt
Quarterly strategy and coaching session
Monthly video walkthrough of your results

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Multi-city

Regional Visibility

$2,495 /mo

Best for service areas that cover several cities or counties.

Everything in Full Visibility
6 SEO blog posts a month
More city pages every month
Multi-location Google profiles

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Own the market

Market Leadership

$3,495 /mo

Best for owning your trade across the whole region.

Everything in Regional
8 SEO blog posts a month
Up to 4 to 6 city pages a month
Senior strategist on your account
Priority turnaround

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Month to month from day oneNo long-term contractYou own everything: site, domain, accounts, filesPrice in writing before we start

Want the phone ringing faster while SEO builds? Add Google Ads, Local Services Ads or Meta Ads to any plan. Not sure which plan fits? Book a free 30-minute call and we will tell you straight.

Before you book

What actually happens on the call

No deck, no discovery questionnaire, no contract talk unless you bring it up. Thirty minutes on a screen share, and you keep everything we find.

We search for you the way a homeowner would

Live, on the screen, while you watch — Google, the Map Pack, Local Services Ads, and ChatGPT. The same searches a local homeowner runs at 9pm with a dead water heater.
We show you who is showing up instead of you

Named competitors, the exact searches they own, and the specific reason they are ahead — review count, profile completeness, ad position, or schema. Usually it is one or two fixable things.
You leave with the findings in writing

A short written summary of the gaps and what it would take to close them. If we are not the right fit, you keep it and hand it to whoever is.

What we will not do: put you on a mailing list, call you repeatedly, or ask you to sign anything on the first call. If there is no fit, we will say so on the call and give you the twenty minutes back.

Our process

The Visibility System™

Five stages, run in order. Every engagement follows the same path, so you always know what we are working on and why.

Stage 01
Position
We find the wedge — the trades, neighborhoods, and job types where you can realistically win in your market — instead of fighting everyone for everything.
Stage 02
Authority
Reviews, your Google Business Profile, and the trust signals that decide who gets the call when two contractors look the same on screen.
Stage 03
Content
Pages built around what homeowners here actually type and ask out loud, written so Google and AI assistants can both use them as the answer.
Stage 04
Structure
Schema, site speed, and clean technical foundations, so the machines reading your business get it right the first time.
Stage 05
Presence
Local Services Ads, the Map Pack, and AI answers running together, so you show up wherever the search starts — and every result is reported in booked calls.

See where you stand Free · 30 minutes · findings are yours either way

No cost, no obligation

See exactly where local homeowners can’t find you

Pick a time below. We will run your business through the searches your customers actually use and show you the gaps live.

Where you rank in the local Map Pack today, and who is above you
Whether ChatGPT and Google’s AI Overviews name you at all
What your Google Business Profile is missing
The one or two fixes that would move you the most, in writing

Would rather just talk? Call 865-382-7007.

Everything stays in your name. Your website, domain, Google profile, reviews, and ad account — yours to keep, whether or not we ever work together. We do not resell shared leads.

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Most contractors are renting their online presence

Assets we build — and hand you the keys to

Rented reach fades — owned reach compounds

A Tennessee team that actually answers

We keep score in booked calls

Will I actually own the website and profile you build?

Do you serve contractors outside of Carthage?

What trades do you work with?

Are you local to the area?

How is this different from buying leads?

What should I expect to invest?

More for Smith County

SEO and AI search plans from $495 a month.

Presence

Local Growth

Full Visibility

Regional Visibility

Market Leadership

What actually happens on the call

We search for you the way a homeowner would

We show you who is showing up instead of you

You leave with the findings in writing

The Visibility System™

Position

Authority

Content

Structure

Presence

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See exactly where local homeowners can’t find you

Find out what's costing you jobs.

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