Persist Marketing Reviews & Agency Profile

About Persist Marketing

Persist Marketing is an owner-led agency in metro Atlanta, with offices at 3355 Lenox Road in Buckhead and on Amber Park Drive in Alpharetta. Founder Jay Torrence, who holds a mathematics degree from Georgia College and spent years as a software services executive, began the business part-time in 2010 as PersistSEO and renamed it Persist Marketing in 2026. Client reviews also name Nina Torrence as a long-term contact. The agency keeps a limited roster and offers category exclusivity by agreement.

The firm concentrates on four verticals: home services, attorneys, healthcare and national B2B companies. Its healthcare work covers sixteen practice types, among them dentists and orthodontists, alongside chiropractors, physical therapists, dermatology, optometry and plastic surgery. Services for practices include local SEO, Google Business Profile optimisation, citations on Google, Yelp, Healthgrades and Zocdoc, Google Ads built around Google's healthcare ad rules, review generation and response, website design, AI search positioning, and visibility for practices with several locations.

On HIPAA, the agency is a marketing firm rather than a compliance adviser. It does not collect patient health information through campaigns, and practices should consult a compliance specialist on specific questions. Each client has a dedicated manager with senior oversight, and reporting uses the same dashboards the team uses internally. Typical timelines are days to weeks for profile improvements, two to four months for map pack gains, 30 to 60 days for ads to settle, and three to six months for meaningful organic movement.

No dental client is named. The healthcare case study is Evergreen Private Care, a Florida home care provider and client since 2012, which has gained map pack and organic visibility in Stuart and Ocala and more paid leads at a lower cost per conversion. Other published results include a new family law practice that reached the 3-pack and page one within six months and now draws more than 30 leads a month, an Alpharetta law firm with 120 percent more organic traffic in six months, and a steel building company that grew from 500,000 dollars to 80 million dollars in annual revenue over an eleven-year relationship.

Client reviews on their site are all five stars. Reviewers mention same-day responses, a jump from page three into the local 3-pack in Alpharetta, and relationships running more than ten years; its longest client has stayed fourteen years.

Terms are published. Ongoing SEO, Google Ads and reputation retainers start at 2,000 dollars a month, with scopes built per client, and website design is billed as a one-off project. Agreements run month to month with 30 days' notice to cancel, and the first step is a free 30-minute review of the practice's online presence.