Digital Marketing Agency for Small Business Owners Across British Columbia

A digital marketing agency for small business owners does three jobs: get you found on Google, give people a reason to trust you when they land, and turn that visit into a phone call. IshaanEx Digital does that work for service businesses across British Columbia: search, websites, and Google Business Profile, run by the person who builds it. Our prices and our process are both on this page. Read them before you talk to anyone.

Chat on WhatsApp Call 250-271-7055
Harman Chahal, who runs IshaanEx Digital, a digital marketing agency for small business owners based in Abbotsford, BC
Harman Chahal The person who does the work · IshaanEx Digital
Who this is for

Are you the kind of business we work with?

Probably, if you sell a service to people in your area.

Our clients are contractors, professionals, e-commerce sellers and B2B companies across Canada. Names you can look up today: DELANA Interiors in West Vancouver, Paws by the River in Chilliwack, Scholars Hub in Surrey, Super Sanitation, Khaira Insulation and Sahara Law Corporation in Abbotsford, and GALOVTE.

You are a good fit if:
  • You sell a service, and most customers live within an hour's drive
  • You have one to twenty people
  • Word of mouth brings you work, and you want Google doing the same job
  • You want to see what happened each month, not just an invoice
  • You can spend a few hundred dollars a month, not a few thousand
Not a fit if

Not a fit if you need national brand advertising, a media-buying team, or results inside 30 days. We say so on the first call rather than take the money.

Where we work in BC

We are based in Abbotsford, British Columbia, and serve the Lower Mainland and the Fraser Valley directly, from Vancouver and Surrey through to Chilliwack and Mission. We also work as a digital marketing agency Canada-wide, because search work does not need us in the room.

Being close still helps. We meet clients in person, and Harman speaks English and Punjabi, which matters on Fraser Valley job sites.

Your three options

Do you need an agency, a freelancer, or can you do it yourself?

We are an agency, so read this knowing that.

Option one

Do it yourself when you have more time than money.

Set up your Google Business Profile, ask every happy customer for a review, and write the pages that answer the questions you get on the phone.

Option two

Hire a freelancer when you need one job done.

One logo. One landing page. One ad account fixed. A specialist for a defined task is cheap and clean.

Option three

Hiring in-house costs more than the job first looks.

A marketing employee is a salary plus tools before any work happens, and you carry the risk of picking the wrong person. At one to twenty people, the same money spent with an agency usually buys more reach.

What a small business marketing agency should handle

Hire an agency when the jobs connect. Your website, your rankings, your Google profile and your content are one system. Change the website and the rankings move. A local digital marketing agency handles all of it, instead of four people each doing a piece and blaming the others.

Spend $500 a month on ads and pay $1,500 to have those ads managed, and most of your money never reaches a customer. Below a certain budget, ads with a manager on top do not work — which is why our entry plan is search work, not ad management.

Most owners cannot tell a good marketer from a bad one, because judging the work needs the skill you are hiring for.

What we do

What a digital marketing agency for small business actually does

Digital marketing for small business owners covers a lot of ground. We do not do all of it; pretending otherwise is how clients end up disappointed. Our digital marketing services for small business fall into four areas:

Search engine optimisation

covers keyword research, on-page work, technical fixes, citations and monthly reporting. Our main service.

Website design and redesign

means custom-coded sites built to load fast and be found. We also build on WordPress, Wix and Squarespace when those suit you better.

AI automation

handles automated reporting, lead notifications, chatbots and content pipelines.

You may see this work advertised as an internet marketing service. Same job, older name.

Published pricing

What does digital marketing cost?

Nobody ranking above us for this search publishes a price list, so compare ours to whatever a competitor quotes you.

Search engine optimisation

PlanPriceWhat you get
Local SEO Starter $397/month Google Business Profile optimisation, 5 target keywords, citation building, on-page fixes, monthly reporting, 15-minute strategy call
Local SEO Growth $1,000/month Everything in Starter, plus AI search optimisation, on-page work for 5 pages a month, 3 blog posts a month, technical fixes, schema, internal linking, Google Business Profile management, local PR outreach, ongoing link building, 30-minute strategy call

Both plans have a three-month minimum, then month to month.

Website design

PlanPriceWhat you get
Essential $500 3–7 pages, 1 round of revisions, about 2 weeks
Growth $1,000 8–12 pages, 2 rounds of revisions, about 3 weeks, 6 months of monthly care included
Authority $1,500 13–20+ pages, scroll animation, an AI chatbot, 2 rounds of revisions, 4–5 weeks, 12 months of monthly care included

Ongoing website care is $97 a month after the free period ends. Three-month minimum, then month to month.

Three things that are free

  • A free SEO audit of your current site
  • A free AI visibility check, showing whether ChatGPT and Google's AI answers mention you
  • Free Google Business Profile optimisation

The part most agencies leave out

Your first three months are build, not results. We set up citations, fix or build the website, and lay the technical base. That does not produce rankings. It produces something worth ranking.

Search work sometimes needs paid listings, like a chamber of commerce fee or a paid directory, and you pay those directly, never without approving them first. A retainer is the service cost, not the total cost of ranking.

“I can not speak highly enough of the work Harman did in putting all of this together in a way that really captures the heart of TWC.”
— Kerisma Vere, Towards Wellness Coaching
Due diligence

How do you know we are not one of the bad ones?

You cannot fully know. You can check what bad agencies cannot fake.

Red flags, in plain terms:
  • They guarantee a ranking. Google decides. Anyone promising position one, or “50 keywords in a month”, is guessing or lying. We do not guarantee rankings and we never will.
  • They quote a big number with no deliverables. A $2,500 quote with nothing itemised is not a price, it’s a hope.
  • They sell you a website and never mention how it gets found. That is a storefront on a road with no traffic.
  • They bill monthly and never show the work. Monthly reporting is not a premium extra.
  • The senior person sells you, then a junior does the work. Ask who touches your account, then ask again in month two.
  • Their case studies say “400% growth” with no starting number. Five visitors to twenty is 400%.
  • Their own website is thin, slow or out of date. If they don’t do it for themselves, they won’t do it for you.
What to ask before you sign anything:
  1. Who does the work, and can I speak to them now?
  2. What is in the monthly report, and can I see a real one with the name removed?
  3. What happens in month one, two and three?
  4. Which accounts will be in my name?
  5. What have you done for a business like mine, and can I contact them?

One you can check in ten seconds: search “sanitation services Abbotsford”. Our client Super Sanitation ranks #1 in Abbotsford for sanitation services.

Our process

How the work actually runs, step by step

Same order every time, first call to handover.

  1. 1

    First call.

    What your business does, what you sell, how many areas you serve, what you already have.

  2. 2

    Information gathering.

    If you go ahead, we ask for the details in writing: background, services, experience, goals, target city, certifications.

  3. 3

    A second round if anything is missing.

    Pricing, materials, suppliers, service specifics. We do not build on half a picture.

  4. 4

    Platform decision.

    If you have a platform, we usually build there. Starting fresh, we recommend one based on your goals, budget and business.

  5. 5

    Prototype first.

    You approve the direction before a single real page is built. Most agencies skip this.

  6. 6

    Build.

    We build the first page or two, show you, and continue once you like the direction.

  7. 7

    Launch.

    Search Console, sitemap, Google Analytics, Google Business Profile, schema, indexing checks, and every login handed to you documented.

  8. 8

    After launch.

    We talk about ongoing search work. If you want it, you enrol; if not, the door stays open.

Who you get

Who you would actually be working with

Harman Chahal owns IshaanEx Digital and does the work. No account manager sits between you and the person changing your website. You will have his number.

He is certified in Google Digital Marketing Fundamentals through Google Digital Garage, and he builds websites as well as doing search work — most people here do one, not both.

Results you can check yourself:

Super Sanitation

ranks number one on Google organically for “sanitation services Abbotsford”

Khaira Insulation

ranks #1 in the Abbotsford Map Pack (the three businesses Google shows in the map box) for “insulation contractor abbotsford”

Paws by the River

ranks #1 in the Maps 3-pack for “dog walking Chilliwack”

DELANA Interiors

ranks in the top three of the Map Pack for “kitchen renovation West Vancouver”

Google Map Pack result showing Paws by the River ranked first for dog walking Chilliwack
Paws by the River in the Chilliwack Map Pack, screenshotted from Google.

Longer versions are on our case studies page.

A scorecard

How to choose a digital marketing agency

Use this on us and on everyone else.

What to compare A good sign A bad sign
Pricing Published, with what is included next to each number “It depends” and no number until you book a call
Process They can tell you what happens in week one Vague talk about strategy and partnership
Who does the work You meet them before you sign You meet a salesperson
Proof Named clients and searches you can type into Google yourself Percentages with no starting number
Reporting A sample report, showing conversions and spend “We’ll keep you updated”
Ownership Your domain, hosting and profiles in your name Their accounts, their control
Promises Honest about timelines and what can go wrong Guaranteed rankings, guaranteed leads

One thing the table misses: review counts matter less than people think. A profile with fewer reviews and a solid technical base regularly outranks one with more reviews and none — we have seen it in Chilliwack. And when you judge an internet marketing agency, load its own website on your phone first.

Verified Google reviews

What business owners across BC say about the work

Verified Google reviews from the service businesses we run search, websites and Google Business Profiles for.

  • Mandeep Babbar
    Google review

    I know Harman Chahal from last 10 years. He makes beautiful website and great on doing SEO work. I would highly recommend Ishaanex Digital if your looking for marketing growth of your business.

    3 months ago
  • brighthorizonsyouthdevelopment
    Google review

    Harman Chahal is a great person and an excellent listener. He listens to all the client's requirements. He designed my NGO website in Abbotsford. He is very well behaved and always puts the client first. I would highly recommend Ishaanex Digital.

    3 months ago
  • Navdeep Aulakh
    Google review

    Harman Chahal of Ishaanex Digital is great to work with. I know him in Abbotsford, and he is a talented website designer. His SEO work is incredible. I would definitely recommend his services.

    3 months ago
  • Super Sanitation
    Google review

    Harman, Ishaanex Digital, built our website and ran SEO for our sanitation business in Abbotsford. Within 8 weeks we ranked #1 on Google for 'sanitation services Abbotsford' and started getting calls from real customers we'd never reached before. He explained everything in plain English, never tried to upsell us, and delivered exactly what he said he would. Highly recommend IshaanEx Digital to any local trade business in BC that needs a real website.

    3 months ago
  • Amar
    Google review

    Thank you Harman, Ishaanex digital helping me to set up and register my marine company. Amazing work done. They are great website designing company. Very excited to see my website. I would highly recommend them.

    4 months ago
  • Jasdeep Singh Chahal
    Google review

    Thank you Harman, IshaanEx digital to start working on my website and setting up AI Automation for my work. Amazing work

    4 months ago
  • SaharaLaw Corp
    Google review

    Ishaanex Digital has done a great job designing my website and is currently handling its SEO. They are highly reliable and an honest team to work with. My law firm in Abbotsford is now getting more clients. I really appreciate the work done by Ishaanex Digital.

    4 months ago
  • caroline samus
    Google review

    I hired IshaanEx Digital for the full web design and local SEO work on my Paws by the River business — and working with Harman directly was the easiest part of starting up. He met the deadline and delivered the website on time. We met in person to talk through what I wanted, and he came to the table with ideas I had not even thought of. The Google Business Profile optimization is what got me into the Map Pack for dog walking in Chilliwack, and the calls have been coming in steadily ever since. The website is fast, and I have access to make changes whenever I need. Would highly recommend IshaanEx Digital to any small business owner looking for a real partner instead of an agency that disappears after launch.

    4 months ago
  • Jaspal Singh
    Google review

    IshaanEx Digital set up my entire E-commerce store. He is a great person to work with. I met him personally and shared my plan and he set up my entire Shopify store and met my expectations. So glad I worked with him

    4 months ago
  • Kanaris Lazos
    Google review

    I hired IshaanEx Digital to rebuild the DELANA Interiors website after my old site stopped working. We met in person multiple times with Harman, the founder — which mattered to me, I wanted to know who I was working with. He handled the full web design rebuild and then took on the local SEO work that followed. He took the time to understand what I do: kitchen renovation, bathroom renovation, basement renovation, and custom projects across Metro Vancouver. The SEO work from IshaanEx Digital has us ranking on the first page of Google in West Vancouver — including #1 in the Map Pack for kitchen renovation, which I never thought possible against the bigger contractors out here. Harman is honest, transparent, and treats the work like it is his own.

    4 months ago
Read all reviews on Google
Straight answers

Frequently asked questions

Is it worth it to hire a digital marketing agency?
It is worth it when the website, search, your Google profile and content all connect, and you have no time to run them together. Below roughly $500 a month total, learning it yourself usually wins.

How much does a digital marketing agency cost?
Ours starts at $397 a month for search work, with a Growth plan at $1,000. Websites are $500, $1,000 or $1,500 by page count. Across the wider market, retainers commonly run $1,500 to $5,000 a month, so ask what is included before comparing numbers.

What does a digital marketing agency actually do?
Research what your customers type into Google, write the pages that answer those searches, keep your Google Business Profile accurate, build citations and links, fix technical problems, report what changed. Everything else is packaging.

How do I know if my digital marketing agency is legit?
Ask for a real monthly report with conversions and spend in it. Ask who touches your account, and for one client in a similar trade you can phone. Check your domain, hosting and profiles are in your name. A legitimate agency answers all four straight away.

How to choose the right digital marketing agency?
Score each one on the same seven things the table above lists. The same table works on us too.

For a small business, what does a marketing agency do, that I can't myself?
Speed and connection. We have run this setup often enough to know where it breaks, so what takes you a weekend takes us an afternoon. We handle the website, the rankings and the Google profile as one system, not three separate jobs.

Should a small business hire an agency for digital marketing or do it themselves when getting started?
Do it yourself at the start: get the profile right, ask for reviews, write a few pages answering the questions you get on the phone. Bring in an agency once you hit a ceiling.
Where we work

Where we work across British Columbia

We are a digital marketing agency British Columbia owners reach directly. City pages carry the local detail:

our home city Abbotsford Digital marketing in Abbotsford city page Vancouver Digital marketing in Vancouver city page Surrey Digital marketing in Surrey city page Burnaby Digital marketing in Burnaby city page West Vancouver Digital marketing in West Vancouver city page Langley Digital marketing in Langley

We also cover the rest of the Lower Mainland and the Fraser Valley. IshaanEx Digital is one digital marketing agency BC-wide, not a different team in every city. Everything we offer is on the services overview.

One message

What happens if you get in touch today

One message. That is the whole ask.

Tell us your city and what is going wrong. You get a reply from Harman, and a real number on the call.

Chat on WhatsApp Call 250-271-7055
ishaanexdigital@gmail.com · IshaanEx Digital · Abbotsford, BC, Canada
Explore more

Explore our other services

Every service we offer works with the others. Here is what else a small BC business might need.

SEO Services

Keyword research, technical fixes, content, and monthly reporting from $397/mo.

See service
Local SEO

Rank in Google Maps and near-me search for Lower Mainland service areas.

See service
Technical SEO

Core Web Vitals, schema, crawl errors, and indexing fixes.

See service
On-Page SEO

Titles, headings, internal links, and intent-matched copy on every page.

See service
AI Search Optimisation

Get cited in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews.

See service
Website Design

Custom-coded or WordPress + Wix sites, from $500 one-time. No templates.

See service
Google Business Profile Optimisation

Full Google Business Profile setup + ongoing posting. Free first-time.

See service
SEO Audit Services

Free SEO audit, AI visibility check, and paid website + keyword research.

See service
AI Automation Services

AI chatbots, marketing workflows, n8n builds. Trilingual EN/Punjabi/Hindi.

See service
AI Agent Development

Custom AI agents for intake, lead qualification, support, and document workflows.

See service
AI Customer Service

AI customer service chatbots for booking, FAQs, support triage, and lead capture.

See service
AI Receptionist

Done-for-you AI voice receptionist that answers calls 24/7, books jobs, and routes urgent calls.

See service