Trades we work with
Marketing for trade contractors, written trade by trade
An HVAC company in a heat wave and a landscaper planning spring installs do not have the same problem. We focus on five trades, and we start from how each one actually gets work.
Generic contractor marketing treats every trade as a phone number and a list of services.
The trades we work with differ in when demand arrives, how urgent it is, how large the jobs get and where the money slips out. Those differences decide what your website should say, which searches are worth paying for and which part of your process to fix first.
Each page below covers one trade: how homeowners search for it, its seasons, where it tends to leak, and what our four services look like for it, from website content to revenue leak remediation.
Five trades
Pick your trade
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C-20 · HVAC
Marketing for HVAC companies
Heating and cooling contractors living with no-cool calls in July and a quiet phone in April.
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C-36 · Plumbing
Marketing for plumbers
Plumbing shops where much of the work is an emergency and much of the rest is a quote someone has to chase.
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C-10 · Electrical
Marketing for electricians
Electrical contractors balancing service calls, panel upgrades and EV chargers against permit timelines.
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C-39 · Roofing
Marketing for roofers
Roofing companies with large tickets, long decision cycles and storm-driven demand spikes.
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C-27 · Landscaping
Marketing for landscapers
Landscape contractors selling recurring maintenance and design-build projects on the same website.
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Side by side
When each trade is busy, and where we look first
Described from how these trades usually run in Southern California, not measured. Your own call log and job records are what we would actually work from.
- HVAC
Busiest Late summer heat; spring and fall for planned work
Look first Replacement estimates and plan renewals nobody followed up
- Plumbing
Busiest Winter rain and the holidays; steady otherwise
Look first Calls after five, on weekends and on holidays
- Electrical
Busiest Spring remodel season; fairly even otherwise
Look first Signed jobs waiting on permits and utility dates
- Roofing
Busiest The run-up to the rains and the first storms
Look first Inspections that never got a second visit or call
- Landscaping
Busiest Late winter and spring for projects; maintenance all year
Look first Project requests from existing clients that never got a proposal
What they share
What holds across every trade
The details differ, but these four hold for all five trades.
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Emergency and planned work are different customers
Someone with water on the floor reads nothing and calls whoever answers. Someone planning a replacement reads everything and compares. Each needs its own page, its own campaign and its own measure of success.
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The phone is where marketing pays or doesn't
Ads and search produce calls. Whether a call becomes a job depends on who answers, how fast, and what happens after five. We look there before we suggest spending more on traffic.
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Big tickets are quoted, not sold on the spot
Every trade has a large job that carries the year's margin: a system replacement, a repipe, a service upgrade, a roof, an installation. It is almost always quoted, and the follow-up often decides who wins it.
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Booked jobs are the only number that matters
Rankings, clicks and leads are diagnostics. We report calls, booked jobs and the revenue they carry, traced back to the source that produced them, so spend is a decision rather than a habit.
Not sure where your own business leaks? The revenue leak calculator puts a number on unanswered inquiries from your own figures, and our services explain what we would do about it.
Next step
Tell us your trade and your market. We'll tell you where we'd look first.
Send a note with what you do, where, and what you spend to make the phone ring. We are two people, and we reply within one business day, Pacific time.