Marketing agency for construction and trades · UK wide More booked jobs for
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.
For joiners
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.
How we market a trade business
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.
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.
What trades ask us first
Straight answers from the first call.
Is Checkatrade worth it, or should that money go into our own marketing?
How do we get leads without buying them?
We are busy already. Why market at all?
All our work comes from word of mouth. Why bother?
Should we do Google Ads or SEO first?
Do we need to be on camera?
How do you measure results for a trade?
How much does marketing cost for a trade business?
How quickly will we see something?
Which trades do you work with?
Tell us what you need
Four details and a line about your business. A director reads it and replies within one working day. If you want us to review your marketing first, the free audit and 30 day plan is the place to start.
- ✓ Replies from a person with a name, not a sequence
- ✓ No mailing list, no contract, no obligation
- ✓ Video, social, ads, web, SEO, design, email and CRM under one roof

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