Nothing here is built to trap you.
No long-term contracts. No hostage-holding. No “proprietary platform” you can never leave. We win by being worth keeping, month after month.
Selling since 15. Building since 2018.
Josh Kimmes started selling on eBay at fifteen and never stopped building. In 2018 he started Bear North because contractors kept getting burned by agencies that over-promised and vanished. He is a father of four in Superior, Wisconsin, and he treats every client budget like it is coming out of his own kitchen table.
You always know exactly what we are doing, how it is performing, and what is next.
Meet the leadership team.
The people accountable for your results are the people you talk to. You get a name, a phone number, and a straight answer.
Selling online since fifteen. Started Bear North Digital in 2018 to give contractors an agency that tells them the truth.
Keeps every client account on track and makes sure what we promised is what shipped.
Everything we build, you own.
Your domain, your WordPress install, your content, your ad accounts, your data. If you ever leave, you walk with all of it, and we help you pack. Best-in-class offboarding is part of the deal.
We show the work, every day.
Not a monthly summary written the night before. A live dashboard, daily agent activity, and a human who answers when you ask why something changed.
People who have worked with us.
“Josh is highly intelligent, professional, and passionate about what he does. He explains technical problems in a way that’s easy to understand and responds to emails and calls immediately. Highly recommend!”
“Josh is extremely knowledgeable and helpful. Great quality website and always quick to respond when I have questions. Highly recommend Bear North Digital!”
“Bear North has been amazing for website support. When something went wrong beyond my expertise with tight deadlines, they pulled through quickly to resolve the issues. Their responsiveness gives us peace of mind.”
“We are selective about who we take on. Saying no to the wrong fit is the only way the clients we do have keep getting real attention.”
Selective, on purpose.
We take on who we can genuinely help. Saying no to the wrong fit is how the current clients keep getting attention.
See the plansThe way the work actually gets done.
Less interesting than the origin story, and considerably more useful if you are deciding whether to hire us.
The person who scopes it is the person who does it
There is no handoff from the people you liked in the sales conversation to a team you have not met. That handoff is the single most common complaint contractors have about the agencies they left, and it is structural rather than accidental: it happens whenever selling and delivering are separate jobs. Here they are not.
Automation does the counting, people make the calls
A lot of this work is measurement, and measurement should be automatic. Audits run on a schedule, ad accounts get swept weekly, dashboards update without anyone remembering to update them. What does not get automated is the decision about what to do with any of it. A tool can tell you a campaign’s cost per lead doubled. Only a person who knows your business can tell whether that is a problem or the predictable cost of chasing a job type worth four times as much.
You own everything
The website, the domain, the ad accounts, the tracking, the data. All of it is in your name and stays in your name if you leave. Some agencies hold the ad account or build on a platform you cannot take with you, which converts a client relationship into a hostage situation. If we are worth keeping it should be because the work is good.
We say no
Not every business that asks is a fit, and taking on work we cannot move is bad for both sides. A market without the search volume, a business whose intake cannot handle more calls, or an owner who wants rankings guaranteed are all reasons we will say so early rather than bill for six months and part badly.
Where we work
Home services, and mostly the trades: heating and cooling, plumbing, roofing, remodeling, garage doors, concrete, glass. That focus is what makes the pattern recognition worth anything. We have built for other local businesses too, a dental practice and a veterans museum among them, and that work is on the results page. The trades are where we spend most of our days, which is how we know your July looks nothing like your February.
Nothing built to trap you.
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A free website mockup, a 60-point audit of your current marketing, and a custom growth plan built for your market. No obligation. No pushy sales call.