Blog: Digital Marketing
It’s tough to generate moving leads online. Your company needs to be visible on Google, with the right reputation, and with an easy-to-navigate site. With such a tough competitive environment, where huge companies like Two Men and a Truck and Yelp seem to be colluding against you, you need to nail y...
Let’s be honest, most customers that choose to give you a review without you asking aren’t the nicest folks—they are generally crazy customers ranting about something that went wrong. Whether it’s an angry one-legger ranting about how they don’t need their spouse to make a remodeling decision or jus...
There is a whole lot to love in the Google Local platform. For starters, you can advertise your business directly in Google searches at no cost for your core services. On top of that, your Google Local profile will appear almost every time your brand name is searched. Spruced up with...
Malicious and shady operators are out there in your industry. Maybe a competitor who can’t compete honestly, or maybe an angry ex-employee, there are people out there who write fake reviews to damage your business. Here is a guide for what to do when the fishy one-star reviews come in! First, let’s...
Think about your remodeling website like a search engine does – a search engine is a business that provides the searcher, their customer, with valuable and unique information. Search engines like Google have little use for websites that substantially duplicate other sites out there (even if that dup...
Curious how many remodelers place ads on Google? We did a study on that! Spoilers: 56% of award-winning remodelers are running paid-search ads. Some remodelers don’t fully realize the effect that the boom in smartphone searches will have on their business. The mass adoption of mobile sea...
Remodeling Magazine reports that 15-20% of sales appointments are one-leggers, or sales appointments with only one homeowner present. That percentage is even higher in suburbs and during summer. Rather than losing 20%+ of possible business, you should take steps when setting the appointment and runn...
Email is a great tool for home services marketing. You are selling a service with a considerable research window – the more expensive your service, the longer the window. If you touch a prospective customer throughout their research process, your brand will keep popping up in their mind as they’re g...
Referral leads are well loved for a reason: they close at an unparalleled rate, and the cost-per-lead is about as low as it gets. The question is how to grow the amount of referrals you receive. A certain portion of your customers are going to refer you without you doing a thing. Picking a home serv...
Time for some hard truths. According to Google, as of May 5, there are more monthly searches on smartphones than on desktop computers. Digging into our own data from hundreds of home services companies, we see the same trend. If your site doesn’t look great on a smartphone, you are hemorrhaging lead...
