Turn Fort Lauderdale searches into booked work.
Fort Lauderdale is the largest and least uniform market we serve. A marine electronics shop off State Road 84, a Las Olas restaurant, and a downtown accounting practice are three different businesses with three different customers, and the marketing that works for one is close to useless for the others.
Sun Coast Digital is an AI-native digital marketing agency serving Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in Broward County. It builds and runs websites, social media, Generative Engine Optimization and a managed ad budget for owner-run small businesses in Fort Lauderdale and eight other South Florida cities.
One-time website builds run $1,200 to $5,000. Monthly plans run $997 to $2,997 and include the website, social, ongoing Generative Engine Optimization and a managed ad budget in one flat price, with no separate advertising invoice. Sun Coast Digital is a service-area business with no public street address in Fort Lauderdale; consultations happen by phone or video. Call or text +1 (954) 952-3611.
It is also where half of Sun Coast is based. We are not describing this market from a deck.
Three cities inside one city
The marine and yachting trade runs on referral and reputation, and searches for it are specific and technical — people know what part they need. The hospitality side is seasonal, visual, and lives or dies on photos, hours and reviews. Professional services downtown are slow-cycle and trust-led, where a thin site actively costs you the enquiry.
The mistake is running the same playbook across all three. A restaurant needs review velocity and current photos far more than it needs a 2,000-word services page. A marine specialist needs the opposite — depth, part numbers, and pages that answer a technical question precisely enough that an AI assistant will quote them.
What moves the needle in Fort Lauderdale
In priority order for this market — not a generic checklist.
Depth where the search is technical
For trade and marine businesses, pages that answer a real question completely. This is what gets a site cited rather than merely mentioned in an AI answer.
Freshness where the search is seasonal
For hospitality and retail, the signals that decay: hours, photos, reviews, posts. Our social engine exists mostly so these never go stale.
Credibility where the cycle is slow
For professional services, a site that reads like a firm rather than a template — and schema that lets Google and AI engines resolve who you are with confidence.
Fort Lauderdale is competitive enough that the national listicles own most category searches — "best marketing agency Fort Lauderdale" returns directories, not businesses. Getting named inside an AI answer is currently a far shorter path than trying to outrank Semrush and Clutch.
The same published prices, everywhere we work.
Foundation website builds from $1,200 one-time. Growth plans from $997 a month with a managed ad budget included. AI services from $2,000 setup, priced by scale of job.
Straight answers
Do you work with marine and yachting businesses?
Yes. They need a different build to a restaurant — deeper technical pages, precise service descriptions, and structure an AI engine can quote accurately. That is a Foundation Pro or Premium build rather than a Starter.
We are seasonal. Can we pause the monthly plan?
Growth subscriptions are month-to-month and can be cancelled any time. In practice we usually advise against going dark in the off-season — the ranking signals you lose take longer to rebuild than the months you saved.
Who actually does the work?
The two founders. Sun Coast Digital is founders-only — Alex Alligan and William Jeannot. Nothing is handed to a junior or offshored.
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Let's build your Fort Lauderdale business.
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