Built by an operator. For businesses that refuse to be invisible.
Most marketing agencies are run by marketers who learned business from the outside. We are not most agencies. Next Level Media was built by an operator who came up in the trades, still runs companies of his own, and tests every system on his own work before it ever runs on yours.
Not a marketer who learned business from the outside. The difference shows up in every decision we make.
Cody Fortune grew up in the trades. His father has run a successful shower door company for decades, so for Cody, running a business was not a career choice he made later in life. It was the family business. He learned how to estimate, how to manage subcontractors, and how to keep clients happy before he learned how to drive.
Today, Cody still owns and runs a home building and remodeling company in his own market. He is not an agency owner who pivoted into marketing to chase the spend. He is an operator who got tired of paying marketing firms that did not understand his business, and built the partner he wished existed when he was scaling his own.
He has also worked as an import specialist, sourcing custom-branded and custom-designed products and bringing them in for clients to sell online. So he understands the brand, product, and ecommerce side of growing a business, not just what happens on a jobsite. That range is exactly why Next Level Media works for any local or service business, not just one trade.
I am not an agency owner who learned business. I am an operator who learned marketing, and built every system here for the owner I was ten years ago.
Cody Fortune, Founder
That is why every piece of this works the way it does. The websites, the SEO playbooks, the local-search systems, the AI-search positioning: none of it was designed in a vacuum. It was designed by someone who has to use it on his own companies. If it works for Cody's businesses, it works for yours.
The instincts behind Next Level Media did not come from a marketing textbook. They came from a family that has been running real businesses for two generations.
Door Company
The family business that raised Cody in the trades and taught him, from the inside, how a real operation actually runs: estimates, subs, clients, and the standards that keep customers coming back.
& Remodeling
The company Cody owns and runs today. Feet in the field. Trucks on the road. Real clients, real jobs, real numbers, every week. The proving ground where every Next Level system gets tested first.
Media
The marketing partner Cody built for the owners he runs alongside. Same instincts. Same problems. Real solutions, tested in his own shops before they are ever sold to a single client.
No bolt-on tactics. No growth hacks. No shiny-object, month-to-month chaos. A disciplined sequence: foundation first, then structure, then visibility, then the compounding that makes you hard to catch.
Market audit, competitor teardown, keyword and entity mapping, and a custom-coded website built on conversion-tested architecture. Before we build anything, we know exactly what dominant looks like in your market.
Silo-and-cluster content architecture, Google Business Profile rebuild, citation consistency, and the schema markup that wires the whole thing together. The unglamorous technical work most agencies skip.
Rankings in Google, the top-3 Map Pack where most local clicks happen, and citations inside ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google's AI Overviews. We make you the answer customers find, on every surface they actually look.
Monthly content, technical upkeep, off-site authority, and transparent reporting on what moved and why. The asset keeps getting stronger and harder for competitors to take back. Year three is when you own the category.
Three commitments that shape every engagement, and that most agencies will not make.
You talk to the person who actually understands the work and owns the outcome. Real-talk, not sales talk. No layer of account managers reading from a script between you and the people doing the work.
Web design, SEO, local search, and AI visibility are not separate vendors with separate invoices. We build them together as one system, so nothing falls through the cracks between teams and nothing contradicts itself.
No long contracts. No 12 to 24 month lock-in. Clients stay for years because the work keeps paying off, not because they are trapped. If we are not delivering, you should be able to walk at any time.
You own everything we build: your website, your content, your domain, and all your accounts. We never hold your site hostage. If you ever decide to leave, you take it all with you. That is the standard an operator expects, so it is the standard we hold ourselves to.
If your customers find you through search, the map, or by asking an AI assistant, the same playbook applies. We have run it across the trades, professional services, retail, hospitality, and ecommerce.
We keep Cody's trade roots because they are the source of how we work: foundation-first, owner-led, allergic to fluff. But the systems are built for any business that wants to be the obvious choice in its market. If your customers are searching for what you do, we make sure they find you first.
Ready to be the obvious choice?
Book a free 30-minute consult. We will look at your market, your competitors, and your biggest opportunities, and tell you honestly what we would do. No pitch. No pressure.