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Collin County · SMB digital marketing

Web design, SEO & PPC for Plano SMBs.

Corporate-HQ density, well-educated households, and a Legacy West business core that rewards a clean digital presence.

  • Census-grounded

    ACS, CBP & LEHD pulls

  • 60+ ICP cards

    Shipped, signed off

  • Outcome-locked

    One named outcome per sprint

  • No retainer trap

    Sprints, not rent

Who actually does the work

John Cravey, founder and lead strategist
John
Matt Snider, head of build
Matt
Pablo Novelo, head of design
Pablo
Danny, head of discovery and ICP synthesis
Danny
Josh Grounds, senior engineer and recurring care
Josh

Inside the Plano market

The local SMB landscape, the buyers, and how the city actually searches.

Mid-sized professional services firms, corporate-adjacent SMBs, healthcare clinics, and a high-income consumer base. Sophisticated buyers who research before they call.

Plano is one of the wealthiest, most credentialed markets in Texas. Toyota, Liberty Mutual, and JPMorgan all anchor major operations here, which has pulled a generation of professional-services SMBs into Legacy West and the Preston Road corridor. The buyers in Collin County research thoroughly before they pick a vendor — which means a credible website and clean SEO are not optional, they’re table stakes. Our Plano clients lean toward professional services and healthcare. Both categories live or die on local-search ranking + thoughtful, expertise-led content. We build for both.

Notable neighborhoods + business districts

Where the SMBs are — and where we’ve done work.

Neighborhoods + districts

  • Legacy West
  • Downtown Plano (Historic)
  • West Plano
  • Willow Bend
  • Preston Road corridor
  • Shops at Legacy

Landmarks in–market

  • Legacy West
  • Toyota North America HQ
  • JCPenney HQ
  • Shops at Willow Bend
  • Arbor Hills Nature Preserve
  • Oak Point Park

Where the SMBs are

The services Plano operators usually start with.

Sales–cycle calendar

The Plano year, by buying window.

Q1

Q1 is the budget-reset window. Most Texas SMBs lock the year’s digital spend in January and February, and the brands without a fresh audience read end up funding the same channels that plateaued them last year. We do the read in the first six weeks of the year.

Q2

Q2 is when paid spend ramps. School lets out, home-services demand peaks, B2B buyers commit before summer slowdown. Sequences need to be running clean by April or you’re leaving the spring on the table.

Q3

Q3 is the fall planning window. Whatever you’re going to ship for Q4 has to be scoped by Labor Day. We refresh the audience map in July and lock the Q4 push by mid-September.

Q4

Q4 is the conversion push. End-of-year buying compresses sales cycles by 30–40% in most categories. We retune the closing sequences in October and run them hot through December.

Why FH for Plano

The case for working with us in this market.

Plano is a 25-minute drive up the Tollway from our Dallas office. We’ve worked with professional services firms in Legacy West and healthcare practices along Preston Road for years — we know the local competitive set and how Plano households actually search.

The team at Frontend Horizon is very personable and great to work with. They built our new website and really put a lot of effort into understanding the message we wanted to convey to our customers. It turned out great. Their work on SEO and PPC is generating leads and helping us expand our business. Thank you guys!
Ben Yetman, VP of Business Systems — Talbot Companies

Plano questions

The Plano questions operators ask before they sign.

  • Do you work with professional services firms in Plano?

    Yes. Law firms, accounting practices, financial advisors, and consulting boutiques are a significant share of our Collin County book.

  • Can you handle compliance-bound copy (legal, financial, healthcare)?

    Yes. We write to your compliance constraints — state bar advertising rules, FINRA, HIPAA — and brief your compliance team on every public-facing change before it ships.

  • How does Plano local SEO differ from Dallas?

    Less aggregator competition, more sophisticated buyer research. The winning move in Plano is depth of expert content + a clean Google Business Profile, not just citation volume.

Pricing

Sized to the engagement, not the bill rate.

Tell us the outcome you want; we’ll send back the scope and the number that lands it. Free consultation first — the read costs nothing.

Cadence

Weekly progress, monthly reporting.

You see the work as it ships, not just at month’s end. Most Plano clients have a direct text line into the lead strategist on the account.

Outcome lock

Booked–revenue reporting, every quarter.

Every Plano engagement reports against the same number: leads that closed, revenue that booked — not vanity metrics from a platform dashboard.

Other areas we serve

Other Texas markets — and nationwide remote.

Ready to scope a Plano engagement?

Send us your industry, the outcome you’d trade everything else for, and how soon you want to start. We’ll send back a free consultation slot.