Strengths first
What Rival Digital does well.
This is the part most comparison pages skip. If none of it applied, they would not be on your shortlist and this page would not need to exist.
- A clear, published playbook: founder Eric Thomas literally wrote the book on their approach (The HOME Advantage).
- Boutique attention with a genuine home-services focus: websites, local SEO, PR, and paid.
- An active educational presence contractors actually learn from.
Sourced
The facts, with dates.
Everything below comes from a public source and carries the date it was checked. If something has changed, tell us and we will correct it.
- Founder
- Eric Thomas: author of The HOME Advantage, the playbook behind their strategy
- Checked 2026-07-18
- Services
- Website design, SEO, public relations, and online advertising for home services
- Checked 2026-07-18
Not published on their site as of 2026-07-18: Pricing, Contract terms. That is not a knock, it means you should ask Rival Digital directly, and read what you are given before you sign it.
Side by side
Where we are different.
| Dimension | Real Time Marketing | Rival Digital |
|---|---|---|
| Contract | Month-to-month. There is no long-term contract to sign and no term to wait out to leave. | Not published Rival Digital does not publish this, so we are not going to state it. Ask them directly. |
| Published pricing | The Local Services Ads rate card is published: five tiers, the monthly fee and what each manages, at /resources/lsa-management-pricing. | Not published Rival Digital does not publish this, so we are not going to state it. Ask them directly. |
| Focus | Home services, and nothing else. HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing and the trades around them are the entire business, not one vertical inside it. | Website design, SEO, public relations, and online advertising for home services Checked 2026-07-18. |
How we keep this fair. Every comparison opens with what the other company does well. Every factual claim about another company comes from a public source and carries the date it was checked (2026-07-18). Where a company does not publish something: pricing and contract terms, most often, we say “not published” and tell you to verify it with them directly. An unknown is never counted as a knock, and we would rather leave a cell empty than fill it with a guess.
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- Since 2016
- No long-term contracts
- Every marketing dollar is tied directly to a closed invoice