You're not vetting an agency. You're vetting one person.
The shop is run by Adam Littell. Adam does the work, AI does the heavy lifting, and the price on the page is the result.
The first conversation is free. Adam reads every inquiry personally and replies the same business day.
Adam Littell. The work, since the late 1990s.
Adam has been doing SEO and small-business marketing since the late 1990s. The actual hands-on work for service businesses: writing pages, tuning Google listings, watching what brings the phone calls and what doesn't. He is the person you talk to and the person doing the work. There is no account team. No pod, no strategist, no quarterly business review. Home base is the Akron-Canton, Ohio, area; the work itself is location-independent because most of it happens online, with the focus staying on local and regional service businesses, mostly trades, small retail, and 1-to-20-person shops.
Next Step Services itself is freshly repositioned. We say so. We don't borrow a multi-year company history we haven't earned under this name. The experience is real and lives in Adam. The new part is the math. A real marketing department for a small business runs $8,000 to $15,000 a month between an in-house marketer, freelancers, and tools. Most owners we meet have never been able to write that check. AI changes the math. AI does the research, the drafting, the monitoring, and the reporting at near-team-quality. Adam does the strategy and the judgment calls. The customer ends up with about 80% of what a full marketing team would deliver, at about 20% of what one costs.
If you're already paying $5,000 a month to an agency you trust, we're probably not better for you. If you're a 1-to-10-person shop that has never been able to afford marketing help, this is exactly what we built. The price is on the page. The number on the page is the number on your invoice.
How I work
Talk first.
Send a short message describing what you do, where you're located, and what you're trying to fix. Adam reads every one personally and replies. No pitch deck, no pressure, no booking funnel asking you to pick a 30-minute slot.
Scope and price on the page.
Three published tiers. Foundation at $695/mo plus $1,500 setup. Capture at $1,495/mo plus $2,500 setup. Full Stack at $2,495/mo plus $5,000 setup. The scope is written down. No mystery quotes. No add-ons that inflate the bill at month three.
Build the system.
Setup phase. A real website built to win customers (not a template you fill in), your Google Business Profile, the local SEO foundation, plus the parts of your tier: AI phone, review system, social posting, email, AI search. AI does the research and drafting. Adam does the editing, the plan, and the judgment calls.
Run it monthly.
Ongoing. The system runs. Adam steers. You get a one-page report at the end of each month showing what was done, what changed, and what's next. Month-to-month. No long-term contract. Cancel any time.
Want to see if this works for your business?
Adam reads every message personally. No pitch deck, no pressure. If you're a 1-to-10-person shop that has never been able to afford marketing help, this is exactly what we built.