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In Royal Oak, everyone looks good.
You need to look unforgettable.

Our office sits in Brighton, about forty minutes west of Woodward — I-96 east, I-696 the rest of the way. We make the trip because Royal Oak is unlike anywhere else we work: block after downtown block of med spas, gyms, law offices, and studios that all look sharp online. Your customer opens five tabs before dialing one number. Leveret Drive builds service businesses a complete marketing system — positioning, website, search, ads, video, and social pulling in the same direction — so when the comparison happens, you're the tab that stays open.

HQ
Brighton, MI
Distance to Royal Oak
~40 min via I-96 & I-696
Approach
Strategy before spend
Down the highway, up to speed

We don't live on Woodward.
We work it anyway.

Full disclosure: Leveret Drive is headquartered in Brighton, forty minutes west, and that is our only address. What we bring to Royal Oak isn't a storefront — it's fluency in how this market buys. Downtown here is one of the most saturated small-business districts in metro Detroit: a med spa above a taco joint, a boutique gym across from a law office, and a Corewell hospital feeding an entire health-and-wellness economy around them. Customers can afford to be picky, so they are. We plan for exactly that.

Nearby 01

The five-tab customer.

Royal Oak buyers research like critics: reviews read, Instagram checked, websites compared side by side. Everything we build assumes it will be judged right next to your sharpest competitor's.

Nearby 02

Polish is the price of entry.

In most towns, a decent website puts you ahead. On this stretch of Woodward it just gets you into the lineup. Winning takes a point of view — positioning a competitor can't copy by next quarter.

Nearby 03

Small team, direct line.

You work with the same Michigan crew that writes your strategy and ships your creative — and we'll stack a Royal Oak day so your shoot, your review, and lunch on Main all fit in one trip.

What we do

Six disciplines. One goal:
be the obvious choice.

Bring us in for a single project or hand us the whole function. Either way, the sequence stays the same: strategy before spend, systems before scale.

Service · Web

Websites, SEO & AIO

Search "med spa Royal Oak" or "gym near Main Street" and a wall of polished options comes back. We build sites and local SEO that put you in the map pack — and earn you citations when AI tools answer the question instead.

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Service · Ads

Ads & PPC

Woodward-corridor keywords carry big-city prices. We structure campaigns around intent and neighborhood, so your budget chases people ready to book — not people idly scrolling on a lunch break.

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Service · Social

Social Media

This town lives on its feeds — new openings, studio launches, Dream Cruise weekend. We keep your name in that conversation every week, not just whenever someone remembers to post.

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Service · Video

Video & Media

Royal Oak customers want to see the space, the people, and the results before they commit. We film on location — client stories, walkthroughs, before-and-afters — that turn researchers into bookings.

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Service · Design

Graphic Design

Next door to you is somebody with a great logo. We create identity systems, signage, and collateral built to hold their own on a streetscape where design literacy is simply the norm.

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Service · Full team

Full Marketing Department

Strategy, web, ads, content, and design handled by one accountable team — the output of a marketing department, typically for less than the salary of a single senior hire.

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How we work

Crowded markets reward clarity.
Here's how we build it.

Most Royal Oak businesses aren't under-marketing — they're marketing in pieces. A boosted post here, a redesign there, an ad budget nobody's measuring. We work in a deliberate order so each piece strengthens the next instead of floating alone.

01

Study the lineup

A hard look at who your customers actually compare you against — from downtown storefronts to the Crooks and Rochester Road corridors — plus the search terms and review gaps that decide those matchups.

02

Stake your claim

Positioning, website, Google Business Profile, and conversion tracking locked in first — the argument for choosing you, stated clearly, before any ad dollars go out the door.

03

Open every channel

Local search, paid campaigns, social, and content rolled out in sequence, each judged by one metric that can't be spun: qualified inquiries from the neighborhoods you serve.

04

Raise the bar monthly

New competitors open in Royal Oak every season. Monthly reporting, creative refreshes, and blunt course corrections keep your lead widening instead of eroding.

Areas we serve

One customer base,
seven zip codes.

Nobody in the inner-ring suburbs shops inside a single city line — your clients slide up and down Woodward and across I-696 without thinking about it, and our work follows them.

Core market

Royal Oak

Downtown's restaurant-and-retail core, the blocks off Main and Washington, and the neighborhoods reaching out along Woodward, Crooks, and Rochester Road.

North

Birmingham

Up Woodward into Birmingham's luxury retail and professional district, where presentation standards run even higher.

Northeast

Troy

Troy's office towers and the Big Beaver corridor — the corporate anchor many Royal Oak firms rely on for clientele.

South

Ferndale

Just down Woodward to the 9 Mile scene — Ferndale's independent shops, studios, and nightlife economy.

West & north

Berkley & Clawson

The small-lot neighborhoods flanking Royal Oak — Berkley's Coolidge and Twelve Mile strips and Clawson's compact downtown.

East

Madison Heights

Across I-75 into Madison Heights and its commercial corridors along John R and Dequindre.

Frequently asked questions

Straight answers for Royal Oak owners.

Do you have an office in Royal Oak?

Not one we'd invent for a landing page. Leveret Drive's only office is our headquarters at 100 Orndorf Drive #34, Brighton, MI 48116 — roughly 40 minutes from downtown Royal Oak, east on I-96 and around on I-696. We make that drive for kickoffs, shoots, and strategy days, and handle the day-to-day work remotely.

Do you understand health, wellness, and boutique service businesses?

That's much of what Royal Oak runs on, and much of what we do. Med spas, dental and chiropractic practices, gyms and fitness studios, salons, law offices, and other professional services — businesses whose buyers compare several polished options and choose on trust. Corewell Health's hospital campus keeps the wellness economy here deep, and we build marketing that holds up in front of that audience.

How do you make a business stand out in a downtown this crowded?

By refusing to sound like the other four tabs your customer has open. We start with positioning — the specific reason to pick you — then make sure your reviews, website, photography, and ads all argue that same case. In Royal Oak, generic marketing doesn't fail loudly; it just gets skimmed past. Distinct beats loud every time.

What does marketing cost for a Royal Oak business?

One-off builds — a website, a rebrand, a video package — are quoted as fixed-price projects, so the number you approve is the number you pay. Ongoing marketing runs as a flat monthly engagement: most of our clients invest between $1,500 and $10,000 per month, scaled to how much of the marketing function we're carrying for you.

Is 40 minutes too far for real in-person work?

It hasn't been yet. We're in client markets across Southeast Michigan every week, and Royal Oak is a straightforward run east on I-96 to I-696. Filming days, launch planning, and quarterly reviews happen at your location; everything in between moves faster over calls and shared dashboards than it ever would across a conference table.

Let's talk

Five tabs open.
Be the one that gets the call.

Right now, somewhere in Royal Oak, a customer is comparing you against four competitors who all look the part. Start with a free 30-minute strategy session — no deck, no hard sell. We'll audit how you show up in that comparison today, name the gaps, and outline what we'd tackle first. The plan is yours to keep either way.

HQ in Brighton, MI · (810) 207-1015 · about 40 minutes from Royal Oak via I-96 and I-696

Also serving Southeast & Mid-Michigan