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Joinery sells on detail, so we film the detail: the dovetail, the spray booth, the fitted wardrobe sliding shut. Phillips Joinery had flat social accounts for years. In our first month together their Facebook page went from 341 to 4,914 followers.

Phillips Joinery website, built by AMW Media For joiners
+4,497New Facebook followers in our first month, from 13 postsAugust 2026 · 456,673 video views
Why trades trust us

Numbers from the tools, not the pitch deck

Every figure below is pulled from the ad platforms and the CRM into one dashboard. Complete months only.

70.9×Return on marketing for Black Steel Doors: £1.13m of revenue won in the CRMApril to August 2026 · 112 deals · 328 appointments
+4,497Facebook followers for Phillips Joinery in our first month, with 456,673 video viewsAugust 2026 · accounts had been flat for years
£11.65Cost per lead for GoMo Garden Pods across 351 Meta leads2026 to date · Meta Ads
The trade playbook

How we market a trade business

All services

Film the work

Our crew comes to site. Installs, before and afters, the team at work. One shoot day becomes a month of reels, posts and stills that look like you, not stock.

Catch the search

Google Ads built around what homeowners actually type, landing on one page with one job: book a survey or a showroom visit. Tight match types, no wasted clicks.

Answer every enquiry

Trades lose jobs by missing calls on a roof. Our CRM replies automatically, books the appointment and reminds the customer, so nothing goes cold while you are working.

Report in revenue

Every enquiry is tracked to the quote and the signed order. You see what each channel brought in, the same numbers your accountant sees, every month.

Where we work

On site anywhere in England

Our crew travels with the kit, so if your work is worth filming we will come to it. Production days are booked and scheduled in advance.

Steel doors, made to measure joinery, microcement, garden rooms, roofing and extensions. Work like this sells on detail, so we film the detail and measure the deal rather than the click.

What tradespeople actually need from marketing

Most trades businesses do not have a lead problem in the way an agency describes it. They have a mix problem. The phone rings, but with the wrong jobs: the small callout when you wanted the full install, the price shopper three counties away, the enquiry that goes quiet the moment a number is mentioned.

So the first job is not more enquiries. It is filtering. A page stating what you do, roughly what it costs and where you work will lose you the wrong calls before they happen, and that is a gain rather than a loss.

The second job is proof. Nobody buys a five figure extension from photographs taken on a phone in bad light. Film the work being done, show the detail somebody is actually paying for, and let the customer see the standard before they meet you.

The third is speed. In trades the first credible response usually wins. An enquiry answered in five minutes converts far better than the same enquiry answered the next morning, which is why we put the follow up automation in before the ad spend.

The trades we know best

Steel doors and made to measure joinery, where the customer is buying precision and needs to see it. Microcement and specialist finishes, where nobody knows what the product is until they watch it go down. Garden rooms and pods, where the sale happens on social before anybody searches for it. Roofing, extensions and stone, where the job value is high and trust does most of the closing.

Black Steel Doors, Phillips Joinery, MUK Microcement, GoMo Garden Pods, Serenity Pods, JR Stone and Simply Extensions and Lofts are all live examples of that work.

What we do for construction and trades clients

  • Filmed content on site. A day with the crew produces a month of material: the install, the joinery detail, the pour, the before and after. Black Steel Doors recorded a 70.9 times return on ad spend on work built this way.
  • Websites that half qualify the enquiry. Service pages explaining the process, the timescale and the price bands, so what arrives is closer to a job than a question.
  • Google Ads and Meta Ads. Search for the people already looking, paid social for the ones who did not know the product existed. Garden rooms and microcement sell on social. Emergency roofing does not.
  • Local search. The Google Business Profile, the photographs, the review process. For most trades this is the highest return work on the list and the most neglected.
  • CRM and follow up. Every enquiry logged, a text back inside a minute, and a prompt to chase the quote that went quiet at day seven.

Why a specialist marketing agency for tradespeople is not always the answer

Agencies selling only into trades know the sector, which shortens the first conversation. They also tend to run the same campaign for every client, which becomes a problem when you are bidding against three of their other customers for the same postcode.

Ask any agency two things. Whether they work with a competitor in your area, and who makes the video. A UK marketing agency running trades campaigns without a camera crew is buying stock footage of somebody else’s building site.

What the money should be doing

For a trades business the sensible order is nearly always the same: fix the website and the follow up first, then local search, then paid. Advertising into a slow process is how you end up paying for enquiries your competitor closes.

Job values decide the rest. Where an average job is worth thousands, a higher cost per lead is cheap, and a very low one usually means you are attracting the wrong work. We report on deals closed rather than on clicks for exactly that reason.

Start with one job you want more of

Tell us the job you want the diary full of, and how far you will travel for it. The free audit covers what your website does with an enquiry today, how your local search looks against the competitors you actually lose to, and whether a shoot day or an ad budget is the better first spend.

No obligation, and work runs month to month with 30 days’ notice.

Developers and estate agents commission a lot of this work, and they buy it differently from a homeowner, so the marketing that reaches them is different too.

Questions

What trades ask us first

Straight answers from the first call.

Is Checkatrade worth it, or should that money go into our own marketing?
It depends what you want from it. A directory sells you enquiries you compete for on price, alongside three other trades, and the moment you stop paying the enquiries stop. Your own marketing costs more to start and builds something you keep: a site that ranks, a Google profile with reviews, a following that already trusts you. Most trades we work with keep a directory running while their own channels build, then quietly reduce it. If your area is one where the directory is still the better spend, we will tell you.
How do we get leads without buying them?
By becoming the business people find and remember. A complete Google Business Profile, reviews arriving every month rather than in bursts, a website that ranks for the jobs you actually want, and content showing the real work. Phillips Joinery had done none of that: one planned workshop shoot became 13 posts, 456,673 video views and 4,497 new Facebook followers in our first month. Nothing about the business changed.
We are busy already. Why market at all?
Busy now is not the same as booked in six months. Most trades we work with want to move up the value chain, fill the quieter season, or stop depending on one lead source. A steady pipeline lets you pick the jobs rather than take them.
All our work comes from word of mouth. Why bother?
Because word of mouth has a ceiling and no throttle. It gives you the work it gives you, and when it slows there is nothing you can do about it. Marketing does not replace referrals, it makes them land better: the person who was recommended you looks you up, and what they find decides whether they call. An empty Facebook page and two reviews from 2019 has already cost you the job.
Should we do Google Ads or SEO first?
Ads first if you need work this month, because they start the day they go live. SEO alongside, so that over time you stop paying for every enquiry. For most local trades the ads pay the bills while the rankings and the reviews build, and after six months the balance shifts. The free audit shows what your local search market looks like before you spend anything.
Do we need to be on camera?
It helps enormously, and we make it painless. Homeowners buy from people. If you would rather not, we build the content around the work, the site and the finished result, and it still outperforms stock.
How do you measure results for a trade?
Enquiries, appointments booked and signed orders, tracked in the CRM we set up for you. For Black Steel Doors that gives a return on everything spent on marketing of 70.9× across April to August 2026. We do not report vanity metrics on their own.
How much does marketing cost for a trade business?
It depends on what you need and how fast you want to move, which is why the pricing page gives starting points rather than a finished quote. What moves the figure: how many shoot days a month, how many channels, and whether ads and the CRM are included. Every engagement is rolling monthly with no long term contract. The free marketing audit is the place to start, and it ends with a real number rather than a package aimed at someone else.
How quickly will we see something?
Content is live within the first month. Search ads start bringing enquiries in the first weeks. Phillips Joinery added 4,497 Facebook followers in month one. Revenue results depend on your sales cycle, which is why we track appointments and quotes as well as closed orders.
Which trades do you work with?
Joinery and carpentry, steel doors and glazing, garden buildings, microcement and flooring, stone and worktops, kitchens, landscaping and renovation. If you make or fit something for homes and businesses, the playbook applies.
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