We're the team that turns "we have a website" into "we're fully booked."

In a nutshell

If you don't have an hour, here's the whole thing in thirty seconds. If you do have an hour, keep scrolling — it gets good.

Magnet Media Agency is a small, worldwide team that helps local businesses get more customers online. We build custom websites (starting at $30/month — yes, really), run Meta and Google ads that are built to book appointments rather than just collect clicks, and handle the local SEO that keeps you getting found long after the ads stop.

We've been at this since 2022. Today we run hundreds of active client websites and a few dozen full marketing accounts, mostly for contractors, renovators and local service businesses across the US and Canada. We don't do vanity metrics, we don't over-promise, and we'll happily tell you when you don't need us. That last part surprises people.

It started with a simple, annoying observation

Great local businesses were losing to worse ones — simply because the worse ones showed up better online. That felt fixable.

Magnet Media Agency was founded in 2022 by Fahad Lakhani. Fahad's the kind of person who starts things — he's built multiple companies across very different industries, which means he's sat in the seat you're sitting in. He's been the business owner staring at a website that cost too much and did nothing, wondering why the phone wasn't ringing. That perspective is baked into everything we do.

Here's the pattern he kept noticing: a brilliant roofer, a meticulous renovator, a genuinely caring dentist — all quietly losing customers to a competitor down the road who was worse at the actual job but better at being found. The customer never got to compare the work. They just clicked whoever showed up first, on a site that looked trustworthy, with a button that let them book in ten seconds.

That's a rigged game. And it's a fixable one. So Magnet Media was built to level it — to give the businesses who are actually good at what they do the online presence to match, without the agency price tag that usually comes attached.

What started as one person solving an obvious problem grew — carefully — into a team of around twenty people spread across the world, running hundreds of websites. We've stayed deliberately un-corporate. No account managers reading from scripts, no ten-page reports designed to look busy. Just work that shows up in your calendar.

Six things, one goal: more booked jobs

Everything we offer is a piece of the same machine — getting the right person to find you, trust you, and book you. Here's each piece.

Custom websites

The foundation. A fast, custom-designed site — no templates — built to load quickly on a phone, build trust in seconds, and guide visitors straight to booking. Ours start at $30/month, which sounds impossible until you see how the pricing actually works. If you're weighing your options, we broke down DIY builders vs. a custom build and templates vs. custom in plain English.

Meta ads

Facebook and Instagram ads that reach local people while they scroll — and, crucially, send them somewhere built to convert. We treat the ad and the landing page as one system, which is the whole reason our ads convert when others don't. See how we run Meta ads →

Google ads

When someone types "emergency plumber near me," they're ready to buy. Google ads put you at the top of that moment. We manage them daily against real numbers — cost per lead, close rate — not vanity clicks. Not sure whether you need Meta or Google? We compared them here. See our Google ads →

Landing pages

A dedicated page that matches your ad's exact promise and does one job: turn the click into a booking. No distractions, no dead ends. More on landing pages →

Local SEO

The long game. Getting you into Google's map pack and ranking for local searches so you keep getting found without paying per click. We wrote a full plain-English guide on how local businesses get found on Google. See our SEO work →

Conversion optimisation (CRO)

Traffic is only half the battle. CRO is the unglamorous, high-return work of fixing the leaks between "visited your site" and "booked a job" — the stuff most agencies skip. More on CRO →

Most agencies sell you activity. We sell you outcomes.

There's a lot of noise in this industry. Here's where we deliberately zig while others zag.

• We build the whole path, not just one piece. An ad is only as good as the page it points to, and a page is only as good as how easy it is to book. Most businesses hire one person for ads and another for the website, and the two never talk. We do both, on purpose, so nothing leaks.
• We obsess over booked jobs, not clicks and likes. Impressions don't pay your bills. We watch cost per lead and close rate, because those are the numbers that turn into money.
• We don't over-promise. You will never hear us guarantee a magic number. We show you real past results, tell you results vary, and let the honesty do the selling.
• We'll talk you out of it. If a freelancer or a bit of DIY is genuinely your best move right now, we'll say so — we even wrote the guide comparing them. Bad-fit clients help nobody.
• No thousand-dollar wall to get started. Our model is built so a local business can start small and let the results fund the growth.

Mostly the businesses that build, fix, and clean things

We're not everything to everyone. We're very good for a specific kind of business: local, service-based, and reliant on a steady flow of booked jobs.

Over the years we've worked across a lot of industries, but the heart of what we do is renovation and the trades — construction crews and contractors of every stripe. Around that core sits a whole world of local service businesses we know how to grow:

• Renovation & construction — contractors, remodelers, builders
• Exterior & property services — window washing, pressure washing, landscapers
• Home services — carpet cleaners and more
• Health & wellness — med spas, dentists
• And plenty more — if you're local and you live or die by booked appointments, we probably speak your language

Why the focus? Because these businesses all share the same make-or-break moment: a stranger, on a phone, deciding in seconds whether to call you or the next result. We've spent years getting good at winning that exact moment — and the lessons carry from one trade to the next.

Curious whether we've done work in your city and trade? Have a look at the areas we serve — we're adding cities and niches constantly.

Numbers we can actually stand behind

Anyone can claim results. Here are real ones from real campaigns — framed honestly, because that's the only way we know how.

And a real campaign result, so this isn't all vibes: a roofing client of ours saw leads at $8.96 each with a 10.7% close rate in a single month. We're proud of that one — but we'll always add the honest asterisk: results vary from business to business, and nothing in marketing is guaranteed. What is consistent is the approach behind it. You can see more in our case studies.

Don't just take our word for it, either. We're on Trustpilot at 4.4 stars — real reviews from real clients, not a number we inflated. Our testimonials and portfolio pages have more if you want to dig in.

No mystery, no runaround

You'd be amazed how many agencies make this part confusing. We keep it boringly simple.

Custom websites start at $30 a month. Here's the truth about that.

When most agencies quote a custom site, the number starts in the thousands. So $30/month raises an eyebrow — good, it should.

There's no trick. It's a different pricing model, not a worse product. Instead of a giant upfront invoice you pay before you've earned a dollar back, you pay a low monthly rate for a real custom build that stays maintained and updated. We run lean, we build a lot of these, and we'd rather grow with you over years than squeeze you once. We explained the full logic in how a $30/month custom website is possible.

Beyond the website, everything is scoped to what your business actually needs — ads, SEO, landing pages, the works. No bloated bundles you'll never use. If you want a straight number for your situation, the fastest way is to just ask us.

Around twenty people, zero office politics

We're small on purpose and spread across the world by design.

Magnet Media is a team of roughly twenty — designers, developers, ad specialists and strategists working from wherever they do their best work, across multiple time zones. That's not a compromise; it's an advantage. It means we've pulled in genuinely good people regardless of postcode, and there's almost always someone awake when something needs attention.

Being distributed also keeps us lean, which is a big part of how we keep prices sane. No fancy downtown office you're secretly paying for in your invoice. Just a tight crew that actually likes the work, pointed at one thing: getting your phone to ring.

And because we've stayed small, you're never a ticket number. The people building your site and running your ads are the people you can actually reach.

We work worldwide — and where you are matters

Our team is global and our clients are too, though most of them are in the US and Canada.

Because everything we do is online, geography isn't a barrier — we can build your site and run your ads wherever you are. But that doesn't mean we treat every market the same. Local is the whole point. A "near me" search in one city behaves nothing like another, and winning locally means building for your specific city, trade and customers.

That's why we build dedicated location pages for the areas we serve, so a customer searching in your town lands on something made for exactly that. If you're a local business anywhere in North America looking to own your patch, that's squarely what we're built for.

We give away the good stuff for free

No gated PDFs, no "enter your email to learn the secret." Just honest, plain-English guides that'll help you whether you hire us or not.

Our Guides section is where we answer the questions local business owners actually ask — the same conversations we have every week, written down. A few of the most useful:

There's a lot more where those came from — the full library lives here.

Coming to a city near you

We're rolling out local pages across North America, built for specific cities and trades.

Whether you're in a big metro or a growing town, the goal's the same: help local customers find the local businesses that deserve them. Explore the full locations directory, or jump to a hub:

The stuff you're probably wondering

Let's get your phone ringing

If you've read this far, we clearly get along. The next step is a simple, no-pressure conversation about your business.

Tell us what you do, where you are, and what's not working. We'll give you an honest read — even if that read is "you don't need us yet." You can reach us any way you like: