Google reviews and Google pages for local shops · Southern California
Who’s winning your streetthis month?
Your Google reviews, handled. New customers pick the shop with the freshest Google reviews, and most shops do not know they are in the race. For barbershops, salons, nail studios, auto shops and the trades across Southern California: a free one-page look first, then $199 for the first 30 days.
Get my free first lookSee pricesFree first look within a business day. Then $199 for 30 days. No long-term commitment, no password.
- Cards at your counter, one text after each visit, every new review answered in your words.
- Our newest shop: no Google page of its own on Oct 1, live and approved by Google on Oct 6, website live Oct 14.
- Two people in Los Angeles, in English and Vietnamese. Real reviews only. No long-term commitment. No password.
You hand out a card and send one text. We do everything else.
What we do, and what it costs
What it costs.
The first look is free.
Start here
The first look, then the first 30 days
Nothing to buy for the first look. The first 30 days set up everything a customer holds or sees, and get your reviews answered.
The first look
A one-page report: how your shop is doing on Google this month, next to the shops nearby. Yours to keep, whether you buy anything or not.
Get my free first lookFreewithin a business dayThe first 30 days
- Your counter card and wallet cards, designed with a code that opens your Google reviews
- The short text you send after a visit, saved on your phone
- Your newest 25 unanswered reviews answered in your words, with your OK first, and every new review during the 30 days answered too
- Your Google page tidied: hours, description, photos, and a cover photo and profile picture made from your shop’s look
- A before-and-after report on day 30
- A window decal for your door, designed to match your cards (printing at the printer’s price, plus the $39 fee if we order it)
$199for 30 daysNo Google page yet?
Google can only show a shop that has a Google page. Without one, people nearby searching “near me” book with someone else, and you never hear about it. We create your page and walk you through Google’s check, so it goes live with your name, hours, prices, photos and a link for reviews. Usually live on Google Maps within 2 weeks. If Google will not accept the page, you get your money back.
Already have a Google page? There is nothing to pay here.
$299once
Printing: print the files yourself, or we order cards, decals and other pieces for you from our print partner and ship them to your shop. You pay the printer’s price, plus a $39 fee for ordering and checking the proof. Printer prices vary by size, paper and delivery speed.
Then, each month
Your Google page, run for you
Your shop’s spot on Google Maps: your name, hours, photos, services, phone number, and the reviews customers leave on it. We look after all of it. Reviews are the step up.
Pick one. Month to month. How it works, step by step
| What you get | Your Google page$199a month | Your Google page and reviews$299a month |
|---|---|---|
| Hours, services and photos kept right | ✓ | ✓ |
| Four posts a month from your shop | ✓ | ✓ |
| Your new photos added every month | ✓ | ✓ |
| Your description, services and details kept complete, checked monthly | ✓ | ✓ |
| A monthly page: calls, direction requests and website clicks from Google | ✓ | ✓ |
| More customers asked for a review: card files re-sent, the after-visit text kept going | – | ✓ |
| A reply or a draft for your OK within a business day of our seeing a new review, in your words | – | ✓ |
| On the 1st, your new reviews next to the shops nearby | – | ✓ |
Month to month. You add us as a helper on your Google page and can remove us any time; nothing we set up is deleted. The page itself is free from Google: you pay us for the work, and everything stays in your own Google account. Rather keep going on your own after day 30? That is fine too. Everything we set up stays yours.
Your Google page is free from Google, and you can run it yourself at any time. We are not Google, and you are never required to use us to manage it.
When you want it
Everything else
Each one on its own, each one optional.
Shop Growth Session
Your shop against the 10 nearest shops like yours, a 45-minute video call, and a written plan within 2 business days after the call: your top 3 problems and 5 actions in order, marked what you can do yourself and what we can do for you.
$499onceA website, built for your shop
Your services and prices, hours, photos, booking link and Google reviews, on your own domain, built with Google’s basics in place, with ongoing updates after launch if you want them. A few at a time, so we talk it through first.
By request*
Thinking about ads? Ask us. We will say plainly whether you need them, and reviews come first either way.
Want ongoing advice? The Shop Growth Session is one call and one plan. Advice after that is a separate monthly fee, agreed in writing first.
* Website hosting is billed separately.
9:04PM, a Tuesday
A stranger picks a shop.
New in the neighborhood, he types “barber near me.” Two shops, same five stars. Two blocks over has a review from three days ago. Yours is from April. Watch it age. He books the other one and never knows you existed.
Nothing about your work changed. Only the date did. Google shows the newest reviews first, and you are busy, so nobody asks. The customers who love you would leave one. That is the whole gap.
What customers doMany shops leave their Google reviews unanswered. Customers notice: 80% say they are likely to choose a business that answers all of its reviews. BrightLocal, Local Consumer Review Survey 2026
Example. Made-up shops and reviews.
That was one Tuesday. Here is the whole month.
One month at your shop
- Week one
The chair is full. The phone is quiet.
Great work all week. On Google, nothing. Two blocks over, the newer shop picks up two reviews.
- Day ten, the turn
Asking becomes a habit.
A small card at the counter. One short text after the visit. Every customer, same ask. No pressure, no tricks.
- Week three
The first ones land.
A few a week, from people who mean it. In their words, not yours. Each one answered, or sent to you for your OK, within a business day of our seeing it.
- October 1
One report shows you where you stand.
And where you were. Next to the shops nearby, with the date on it, on the first of every month.
How it works
We look. We set you up.
We keep it going.
- 1free
We look.
Tell us the shop. A one-page report comes back: where you stand this month, next to the shops nearby. Yours to keep, whether you buy anything or not.
- 2the first 30 days
We set you up.
We design your cards and write the text you send after a visit. We tidy your Google page and answer your recent reviews, with your OK first.
- 3every month
We keep it going.
Optional. We answer every new review, or send you the draft for your OK, within a business day of seeing it, and send the card files again when you run low. A new report on the first of every month, so you can see it move.
Things you can hold.
No dashboard, no login. A page in your hand, a card on the counter, a text on your phone.
1 new review in the last 30 days, against 2 for the average shop nearby. Of your reviews from the last year, 9 have no reply.
| # | Shop | Last 30 days | Total | Rating | Reply rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Example Shop One | 8 | 188 | 4.9 | 95% |
| 2 | Example Shop Two | 4 | 64 | 4.8 | 45% |
| 3 | Example Shop Three | 3 | 231 | 4.6 | 0% |
| 4 | Example Shop Four | 2 | 27 | 5.0 | 100% |
| 5 | Your Barbershopyou | 1 | 209 | 4.4 | 25% |
| 6 | Example Shop Six | 1 | 46 | 4.3 | 67% |
| 7 | Example Shop Seven | 1 | 152 | 4.2 | 9% |
| 8 | Example Shop Eight | 0 | 21 | 4.9 | 100% |
| 9 | Example Shop Nine | 0 | 16 | 4.8 | n/a |
| 10 | Example Shop Ten | 0 | 228 | 4.5 | 25% |
- Answer the 9 reviews waiting for a reply, oldest first.
- Ask every customer this week: a card at the counter and one text after each visit. 2 more reviews this month puts you past the average shop nearby.
- Your 4.4 average sits under the 4.5 line many people insist on. Every honest new review moves it.
[email protected]
The first look. Free.A one-page report: your shop against ten nearby, counted on a date, with three things to do next. Handed to you or texted. Yours to keep.
How did we do today?
A Google review takes about a minute and helps neighbors find us. Good or bad, we read every one.
Point your camera at the code and tap the link.
The counter card.In a small frame by the register. Every customer gets the same ask.
How did we do?
Scan for our Google review page. About a minute. Good or bad, we read every one.
How did we do?
Scan for our Google review page. About a minute. Good or bad, we read every one.
The wallet cards.For the ones who say “later.” They take one home.
The text.Saved on your phone. You send it once, within a day of the visit.
Day 01Day 306
the average shop nearby: 2Day 0#5Day 30#2
ranked by new reviewsDay 09Day 300
every one answeredDay 04.4Day 304.4
209 reviews, then 215What we did
- 9 older reviews answered in week one, in your words, with your OK.
- Card at the counter, wallet cards in the holder, day 3.
- The after-visit text saved on your phone, day 4.
- Profile: hours, services, photos, booking link.
Next month
- Keep the text going after every visit.
- Two photos a week from the chair.
- Fill in your profile’s description and details.
Day 30. Before and after.The same numbers, counted again on day 30, next to where you started. What we did, dated. Then it is your call whether to keep going.
This sheet, for your shop.
Three lines. Your page comes back within a business day. Nothing to buy.
A & M · Los AngelesThe people
Two people, on purpose.
Cerise is Silk Creative Labs LLC, dba Cerise Agency, run by the two of us in Los Angeles. There is no account manager between you and the people doing the work. We keep the group small so every shop gets our attention, and we say so when something is not worth your money.
We started with social media for local service businesses and kept seeing the same thing: before anyone books, they read the reviews. So that is where we begin now.
A & MFounders, Cerise Agency
Who it is for
- Barbershops
- Salons
- Nail studios
- Auto shops
- Plumbers
- Electricians
- Med spas
- Home-service trades
Local shops and home-service businesses across Southern California, in English, Vietnamese and Dutch. If a stranger’s first look at you is your Google page, this is for you.
Not for anyone who wants reviews bought, filtered or faked. We do not do that, and neither Google nor the FTC allows it.
Also made by us
Sessurely, for the client who doesn’t show
Our own booking app for barbers, stylists, trainers and anyone who works one client at a time. Clients book on your page and see your cancellation rule before they book. Free to start, with deposits and one-tap no-show fees on every plan.
Questions we get
- Shouldn’t I just run ads?
- Every owner asks about ads first. But watch what a customer does after they see your ad. They search your name, look at your stars and the date on your last review, and then they decide. If your last review is from the spring, the ad paid to send them to the shop next door. So we start where the customer decides. Reviews first. Ads after, if you still need them.
- What’s the difference between my Google page and my reviews?
- They sit on the same page and do different jobs. Reviews are what your customers say about you. Your Google page is what you say about your shop: hours, photos, services, phone number, four fresh posts a month. Great reviews on a page with old hours send people to a locked door; a perfect page with three old reviews loses to the shop with fifty recent ones. So we look after the page, and reviews are the step up.
- How long until I see anything?
- It depends on how many customers you ask and how many say yes, so we will not put a number on it. We never promise a number of reviews, a rating or a rank; Google forbids it, and so do we. What you get is the day-30 report: the same numbers counted again, next to where you started, so you can see what changed and decide whether to keep going.
- What am I paying for each month?
- There are two plans, month to month. For $199 we keep your Google page right: hours, services and photos, four posts a month, your new photos each month, your description, services and details kept complete, and a monthly page with the calls, direction requests and website clicks Google sent you. For $299 we also look after your reviews: more customers asked for one, a reply or a draft for your OK within a business day of our seeing each new review, in your words, and on the 1st your new reviews next to the shops nearby. If you would rather do it yourself after the first 30 days, you can. Everything we set up stays yours.
- Where do the numbers on my report come from?
- Your Google page and the Google pages of the shops near you. Anyone can see them. We put them side by side, with the date on the report.
- Do I have to give you my Google password?
- No. You add us as a helper on your Google page. You can remove us any time.
- Can you get rid of a bad review?
- Only Google can, and only when it breaks their rules. What we do is answer it well and get fresh reviews coming, so it sits lower in your reviews.
- What if I stop?
- No long contract. You keep everything: the cards, the text, the tidy Google page, and every monthly report we sent.
The first look is free
See where your shop stands.
Tell us the shop. Your one-page report comes back within a business day.
- 1You fill in three lines.
- 2We count your new Google reviews next to the shops nearby.
- 3Your report arrives by text or email. No login, no sales call.
Rather talk it through? Book thirty minutes on Google Meet, or write to [email protected]. One of the two of us answers, usually the same day. No long-term commitment. Month to month.