Ummh.... A virtue for sure, especially in a cyber world where instant gratification has become the norm.

• The client has no time for it
• Their customers don't want to hear of it 

S.E.'s are indifferent, broadly speaking, which is a good thing!

Expect to wait a week or three, for a mom and pop  website, and up to or above a year for anything of a competetive nature.

While a search phrase such as blue bikes bahola (County Mayo) has about two matches in the Serps; hosting drawn from the Irish pages has roughly 429,000. Being in a digital field, one should expect tougher competition from software related services than something like exotic pillowcases in Carrantuohill? No positive return from Google, yet, but that may change in a week?

It took us (two) over a year to get to number one for a fairly competitive and global search term. Roughly 48,000,000 matches.

Expect also, plenty of abuse, possible in-linking from porn and other undesirables, scraping, some elements of jealousy, as well as mindless cyber attacks of various natures.

Couple to this, the myriad changes (algorithms) which a search engine may force one to endure; you will need patience in the long term....... Not the short.