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Dexter runs on word-of-mouth.
We make sure Google hears it too.

Dexter became a city in 2014 and somehow kept the feel of a village — the cider mill in fall, the Border-to-Border Trail along the Huron River, a downtown where owners still greet customers by name. That reputation is real marketing. It's just invisible to search engines. Leveret Drive is a full-service marketing agency based in Brighton, about half an hour away and just up the road from our Pinckney and Hamburg service area. We help Dexter service businesses put an earned reputation online — reviews, local search, video, a website that sounds like you — so the trust built on Ann Arbor Street shows up everywhere people actually look.

Headquarters
Brighton, MI — 30 min away
Coverage
Dexter & western Washtenaw
How we work
Reputation, systemized
What we do

Marketing that fits a business
with a good name in Dexter.

Every service below can stand alone, and all of them work better together. The order here isn't accidental — for a reputation-driven town, trust content comes first.

Service · Video

Video & Media

Your best marketing asset is how customers talk about you. We capture it on camera — testimonials, brand films, and social clips shot at your shop or on the job around Dexter.

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Service · Social

Social Media

A presence that sounds like a neighbor, not a corporation — steady, genuine posting that keeps Dexter and the surrounding townships thinking of you first.

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Service · Web

Websites, SEO & AIO

A quick, clean website that ranks for Dexter and western Washtenaw searches, reads like you actually wrote it, and turns visits into phone calls — built for Google and AI answers alike.

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Service · Design

Graphic Design

Logos, brand refreshes, and print-ready design that respect a small city's character — professional without going generic, polished without losing the local voice.

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Service · Ads

Ads & PPC

Tightly scoped Google and Meta campaigns for the moments word-of-mouth can't cover — a new service line, a new neighborhood, a slow season — with nothing wasted outside your area.

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Service · Full team

Full Marketing Department

Strategy, execution, and reporting handled by one accountable team — for a small operation, a complete marketing department at a fraction of the cost of one hire.

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Just up the road

Small city, tight community —
and a market that's moving online.

We won't pretend to have a storefront on Ann Arbor Street — our office is in Brighton, about thirty minutes north, and Dexter borders the Pinckney and Hamburg communities we already serve. We know this corner of Michigan: the Huron River lake chain, the trail traffic, the families arriving faster than the town changes. In a place this connected, your reputation already exists. Our job is to make it visible to the people who haven't met you yet.

On the ground 01

Neighbors, near enough.

Dexter sits minutes from our Pinckney and Hamburg Township service area — the same Huron River corridor our home county shares. A strategy meeting or a video shoot in Dexter is a short drive, not a scheduled flight.

On the ground 02

Word-of-mouth, made durable.

Recommendations at the coffee shop win the customers who hear them. Reviews, local rankings, and real video win everyone else. We turn the first into the second without making you sound like an ad.

On the ground 03

Growth without the generic.

Dexter grew into a city and kept its scale. Your marketing can do the same — more reach, more leads, and copy that still sounds like the person who answers your phone.

Our process

Reputation is the asset.
We build the machine around it.

Everything we do follows one rule — strategy before spend, systems before scale — because in a market Dexter's size, wasted motion is expensive and trust is the whole game. Here's the sequence.

01

Listen first

Before we write a word, we learn how your customers already describe you — what they praise, what they ask, and why they picked you over the option in Chelsea or Ann Arbor.

02

Put the reputation online

Google Business Profile, review flow, and a website that carries your actual voice — so what the town already knows about you becomes what search engines say about you.

03

Show up where people look

Local search across Dexter and its townships, social that stays present without pestering, and video proof for the people who've never heard your name at the hardware store.

04

Keep it compounding

Plain-English reporting each month, honest calls on what to change, and a system where this year's work makes next year's leads cheaper — not a treadmill of one-off campaigns.

Areas we serve

Dexter, its townships, and the
lake country next door.

Western Washtenaw County plus the Livingston County lake communities that share Dexter's roads, river, and customers.

Washtenaw · Core

Dexter

Downtown Ann Arbor Street, the Baker Road corridor, and the neighborhoods on both sides of the Huron.

Washtenaw · West

Chelsea

West on Dexter-Chelsea Road — Chelsea's downtown and the I-94 corridor communities around it.

Washtenaw · North

Webster Township

The rural stretch between Dexter and the county line, out North Territorial toward US-23.

Livingston · Lakes

Pinckney & Hamburg Twp.

Up Dexter-Pinckney Road into our home county — Pinckney, Hamburg Township, and the chain of lakes.

US-23 · North

Whitmore Lake

Whitmore Lake and Northfield Township, on the corridor between Ann Arbor and our Brighton office.

Washtenaw · East

Ann Arbor

The big neighbor down Huron River Drive — where many Dexter businesses find their next customers.

Frequently asked questions

Honest answers, Dexter edition.

Do you have an office in Dexter?

We don't — our headquarters is in Brighton at 100 Orndorf Drive #34, roughly half an hour from downtown Dexter, and honesty about that is kind of our thing. Dexter sits just down the road from communities we already serve, like Pinckney and Hamburg Township, so working with businesses here is a natural extension: on-site when it helps, remote when it's faster.

Do you handle local SEO and Google Business Profile for Dexter businesses?

Yes. For a small city like Dexter, the local stack is the highest-leverage marketing there is: a tuned Google Business Profile, a steady flow of reviews, accurate citations, and location pages that rank for Dexter and the townships around it. We set it up, maintain it, and report on what it produces.

What areas around Dexter do you serve?

Western Washtenaw and the lake country just north of it: Dexter, Chelsea, Webster Township, Whitmore Lake, and over the county line into Pinckney and Hamburg Township — plus Ann Arbor and the rest of our Southeast Michigan service area. If your customers drive Dexter-Pinckney Road or North Territorial, we cover them.

What types of businesses do you work best with?

Local service businesses, mostly — the trades and home services, medical, dental and wellness practices, legal and financial offices, and other operators whose growth runs on reputation. If your best customers come from referrals and you want that engine working online too, we're built for you.

Do you meet in person?

Whenever it helps. We're about thirty minutes away, and video shoots always happen on site. Strategy sessions and check-ins can be at your shop, at our Brighton office, or on a call — whatever fits how you like to work.

Let's talk

Keep the small-town voice.
Grow like a city.

If your Dexter business has the reputation but not the pipeline, the fix isn't louder marketing — it's connected marketing. Start with a free 30-minute strategy session: no pitch, no obligation. We'll look at how visible your reputation actually is online, where nearby competitors are quietly winning searches you should own, and what we'd do about it first — useful whether you hire us or not.

Headquartered in Brighton, MI · (810) 207-1015 · Serving Dexter & western Washtenaw County

Also serving Southeast & Mid-Michigan