The Nudge crew at work in a home services business

Marketing for home services

Home services marketing, run for you.

The job goes to whoever picks up first. Local SEO, Google Ads, service reminders and a phone that is always answered, run by a named strategist.

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Five moments that cost a home services business.

What happens now, and what we run instead.

  1. The Front Desk agent on the job: the call while you are under a sink

    The call while you are under a sink

    It rings out, and the next plumber on the list gets the job.

    What we run. Every call answered in your name, the job taken down and texted to you.

    Front Desk runs this one
  2. The SEO/GEO agent on the job: “emergency plumber near me”, at nine at night

    “Emergency plumber near me”, at nine at night

    The job goes to whoever is top of the map, not whoever is best.

    What we run. Your listing kept right, service areas set, reviews answered same day.

    SEO/GEO runs this one
  3. The Paid ads agent on the job: the quiet week in march

    The quiet week in March

    Boiler work has stopped, AC work has not started, the vans are half empty.

    What we run. Ads moved toward the work that is moving, paced across the year.

    Paid ads runs this one
  4. The Retention agent on the job: the customer you serviced two years ago

    The customer you serviced two years ago

    They need you again and cannot remember the name on the invoice.

    What we run. A service reminder at the right month, booked before they search.

    Retention runs this one
  5. The Website agent on the job: the site with no service areas on it

    The site with no service areas on it

    Google cannot tell which towns you cover, so it stops showing you in them.

    What we run. A page for each service and each area, fast on a phone.

    Website runs this one
People at work in a home services business

How it went for Vance Heating & Air.

Three vans, one owner, Ohio. Boiler and AC work booked by phone, with nobody free to answer it between eight in the morning and six at night.

3x

more booked jobs from search

0

calls lost to voicemail since

44%

more of the jobs worth having

We used to lose the job to whoever answered first. Nothing rings out now, and the vans are booked a fortnight ahead.
Dale VanceOwner, Vance Heating & Air

The home services marketing checklist.

Eight things that decide whether the vans stay booked, in the order to fix them. Tick what you already do.

0 of 8 in hand. The other eight are what we run.

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Frequently asked questions

The ones a home services business asks on the first call. If yours is not here, ask us.

How do you do marketing for a home services business?

Be top of the map, and answer the phone. Emergency work goes to whoever picks up first, so the listing and the phone do most of it. Then a page for each service and each town you cover, a review asked for at the end of every job, and ads moved toward whatever is in season. A named strategist runs it.

What does HVAC or plumber SEO involve?

Mostly the Google Business Profile and your service areas: Google stops showing you in towns it cannot tell you cover, and most trade listings have that wrong. Then photographs of real jobs, reviews answered the same day, and a page for each service crossed with each area.

Do you work with one-van businesses?

Yes, and a good share of the businesses we run it for are one van. The work is the same whether there is one engineer or six: the listing, the pages that rank, the reviews and the phone. Your side is about ten minutes a month.

How much does home services marketing cost?

From $249 a month, billed monthly, with no contract and no setup fee. Where yours lands depends on what we run, how many trades it covers and how many towns, and we work it out on a twenty minute call. Ad spend is yours, paid to Google directly.

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Twenty minutes, no script.

Tell us what you sell and what a customer is worth to you. We show you where the biggest gap is, using your own numbers.

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No agency retainer. No six-month onboarding. No contract.