Leads Near Me

The public founder story on Leads Near Me's site credits Ryan Burton, not the Jonathan Long listed in the directory record, as the agency's founder. That discrepancy is worth flagging for human review. According to the About page, Burton started the firm with a narrow thesis: independent auto repair shops rarely fail because they cannot fix cars, they fail because they cannot get enough cars in the bays. Everything the agency builds flows from that observation.

Burton positioned Leads Near Me as a vertical specialist from the outset, rejecting the generalist model in favor of serving one industry deeply. The site does not detail his prior roles, tenure at other companies, or formal credentials, so most of what a reader can infer about him comes through the agency's operating principles rather than a traditional founder resume. Those principles lean operator-friendly: no long-term contracts, transparent pricing, and a preference for building durable assets (websites the client owns on day one, SEO equity, Google Business Profile authority) over rented attention.

Since 2016, the firm has grown to serve what it describes as more than 500 shops across the U.S. and Canada, ranging from single-location independents doing $50K to $500K a month to multi-shop operators with up to 50 locations. The team reports managing roughly $1.6M in monthly ad spend across the client base. The agency also takes on adjacent verticals such as collision, heavy truck, and towing, but auto repair remains the center of gravity. The public founder narrative is relatively brief, with the site devoting more space to client outcomes and process than to personal biography.