Joey Farbstein

Builder · Marketer · AI consultant · Currently nomadic

Hey, I'm Joey. I help local businesses get more leads.

I run Local Pro Solutions — and post the exact tips and systems that make it work.

The arc

A short history of how I got here.

2016

Graduated Westmont. Landed in tech.

I came out of Westmont College in 2016 and went straight into tech startups. My first real job was in customer service — which sounds humble until you realize it's the single best vantage point in any company. You hear everything. Every complaint, every workaround, every product gap, every reason someone churned. I didn't know it at the time, but that's where I started learning how customers actually think.

The turning point

I saw the gap. I pitched it. I built it.

At one of the startups I was at, I noticed the biggest unmet need wasn't a feature or a process — it was that we had no help center. Customers were asking the same questions over and over, and there was nowhere to send them. So I pitched the project, got the green light, and built it. That became my crash course in how content gets structured online — which pulled me into web design, then SEO, then paid ads, then the whole search-engine ecosystem. One thread led to the next.

Summer 2022

Founded Local Pro Solutions.

By 2022 I had the full stack of skills — content, design, SEO, ads, conversion — and I picked the market I wanted to serve. I niched hard into home services and local services because that's where the real work happens and the marketing was the worst. I've always approached lead generation with a developer's mindset: systems thinking, instrumented loops, build it once and let it compound. That posture is what separated Local Pro from the template agencies in the space.

Now

I build the machine, not just the marketing.

With AI, the work stopped being just ads and websites. Now I build the systems underneath — every call captured and scored, every pattern fed back into the ads, the copy, the follow-up, and the way the business runs. Marketing is the wedge. The real product is a business that compounds what it learns.

22,700+

Exclusive leads generated

$50M+

Revenue generated for clients (businesses at $400K–$2M ARR)

What I'm nerding out on lately

The ideas I keep circling back to.

Confession: I'm a nerd about this. When I'm not running campaigns, I'm deep in the ideas underneath them. These are the topics I keep coming back to.

The agents

Agentic AI

AI that does the work, not just the talking — agents that research, decide, and ship a task end to end instead of drafting text for a human to finish.

The machine

Autonomous systems

Software that runs on its own — marketing and ops that kick themselves off on a schedule, check their own work, and log what they did, no babysitting.

The loop

Recursive learning loops

Systems that compound what they learn — feedback loops where every result teaches the next one, so the machine gets sharper each cycle instead of standing still.

The signal

Customer intelligence

The signal hiding in every conversation — the calls, quotes, and questions most businesses throw away are the exact data that sharpens their ads, copy, and follow-up.

The plumbing

AI tooling & MCP

Wiring AI into the systems a business actually runs on — the CRM, the phones, the field software — so agents can touch real tools, not just a chat box.

The memory

Knowledge systems

Capturing what lives in an owner's head — self-feeding knowledge bases that read the work as it happens, so hard-won expertise gets reused instead of lost.

Who I work with

Any local business that needs more leads. That's who I work with.

  • Home & trade services
  • Health & wellness
  • Auto, marine & powersports
  • Food, hospitality & events
  • Retail & e-commerce
  • Professional & B2B services
  • Real estate & property
  • Pet care

How I think

Marketing is the wedge. A business that compounds is the point.

Most marketing chases the next customer. I'd rather build the thing that gets smarter every time you win one — catch the signal a business is already throwing away, feed it back into the work, and let growth compound on its own.

Get in touch

Want more leads? Let's talk.

Book a free 15-minute call and I'll tell you straight — what's slowing your leads down, and whether I can help. No deck, no pressure.

Currently open to: new Local Pro Solutions clients — any local business that wants more leads — plus build & AI-consulting projects for other builders in the space.

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