Marketing agency · Santa Monica
A marketing agency for Santa Monica businesses.
From Montana Ave to Main St, your customers find you with a search and an AI answer before they ever walk in. Spec Social runs the whole machine — site, local SEO, Google Business, ads, and content — so you are the result, not the runner-up. Your fractional AI officer.
Who we run marketing for in Santa Monica.
Santa Monica is not one market — it is several stacked on top of each other. Silicon Beach software and agency teams. Wellness, med spas, and longevity clinics. Restaurants and hospitality that live and die by the feed. Retail and service businesses lining Montana Ave, Main St, and the Promenade.
Our typical client is an 11-to-100-employee business that has outgrown doing marketing on the side but does not want to hand it to a big agency stacked with account managers. We run every channel as one operation, priced month to month, with one person accountable for what ships.
What does a Santa Monica marketing agency do?
A full-service Santa Monica marketing agency builds and runs the channels that bring you customers: your website, local SEO and Google Business for "near me" searches, paid ads on Google and Meta, and the search content behind them. Spec Social runs all of it under one roof, reported in customers and revenue.
Why does local search matter so much in Santa Monica?
Because Santa Monica buying decisions start on a phone. Someone on the Promenade or driving down Wilshire searches "near me," reads the map pack, scans reviews, and increasingly takes an AI answer at face value. If your Google Business profile and local pages are weak, you lose the customer before they ever see your storefront.
What we run for Santa Monica businesses.
The whole operation, run together — not four specialists you have to coordinate yourself.
Local SEO & Google Business
When someone searches "near me" from Montana Ave or the 3rd Street Promenade, you want to be the result, not the runner-up. We run the map pack, reviews, and the structured pages that win local intent.
Website design & build
A fast, modern site that loads on a phone walking down Main St and reads as well to an AI answer engine as it does to a person. The build is the on-ramp to everything else we run.
Search & content
Pages and content built from the questions Santa Monica customers actually type and ask — so you show up in classic search and in the AI answers that increasingly sit above it.
Paid ads
Google and Meta ads run in your own accounts, geo-targeted to Santa Monica and the Westside, reported in customers and revenue rather than impressions.
Why work with Spec Social.
Your fractional AI officer.
A full marketing department, AI-accelerated, for the price of a single hire — accountable to you, by name.
We are AI-accelerated, which is why a single senior marketer can run the depth that normally takes a room of account managers and junior staff. That efficiency is what makes real, full-service marketing affordable at $2,500 a month.
We are based in Los Angeles, so Santa Monica and the Westside are home turf, not a line on a map. The person on the call is the person accountable for the work — no handoffs, no juniors, no account manager in between.
And it is month to month. A clear price and plan up front, nothing ships without your approval, and the site, the ad accounts, and the data all stay yours. If we are not the right fit, you will hear that from us first.
Santa Monica questions, answered.
Do you actually work with Santa Monica businesses?
Yes. Spec Social is a Los Angeles full-service marketing agency, and Santa Monica is squarely in our area. We run marketing for the kind of 11-to-100-employee businesses that fill the city — Silicon Beach tech, wellness and hospitality, retail and trades.
What does a Santa Monica marketing agency cost?
Retainers start at $2,500 a month. The exact number depends on which channels you run, and you get it on the first call, not in a follow-up email. Everything is month to month.
Can you help us show up in local and "near me" searches?
That is a core part of what we run. We optimize your Google Business profile, your reviews, and the local pages on your site so you rank in the map pack and the organic results for Santa Monica and the Westside.
Do you do everything, or just one channel?
Everything, run as one operation. Site, local SEO, Google Business, search, content, and paid ads under one roof, with one senior marketer accountable. That is the difference from hiring four separate specialists.
Do we have to be located in Santa Monica?
No. We work with businesses across Los Angeles and the Westside. Santa Monica is simply one of the areas we serve, and we tailor the local SEO and Google Business work to wherever your customers actually search from.
Who runs the work — and whose accounts are they?
A senior marketer runs and is accountable for everything that ships. The ads run in your own ad accounts, the site is yours, and the data is yours. If you ever leave, all of it goes with you.
Let's grow your Santa Monica business.
Run the free audit for a read on your site, or book a call and we'll scope exactly what we'd run and what it costs — on the call, not in a follow-up email.