Every brick laid in your name is done perfectly. Plastering is done as if for your mother’s home.
When it comes to adding electrical work, you use only the best electrical contractor. The same goes for every other aspect of your building projects.
When it’s time to sign off the building, you’re satisfied that it’s another job done with excellence.
But how can you get more people to give you their dreams, so you can turn them into reality?
Are you missing out on clients?
Are you an ardent Facebook user?
Maybe you advertise in the local newspaper, magazine, or booklet.
Or perhaps you have a little website, but like a dilapidated old house in the middle of nowhere it’s absolutely useless.
Perhaps it’s time you got yourself a proper website and marketing package that helps you reach more people and gets you more leads.
What can you do with a website?
Your main concern would be to get people to contact you. That means your contact details need to be available loud and clear.
If you have an office where people can visit you to discuss their building needs, you may want to add a Google map with your location too.
But if you really want your building business to benefit from a website, set it up with a specific call to action and aim to drive more traffic to it.
You can do that by adding your latest projects to the website. Whenever you’re busy with a project, take pictures of it and add it to your website as you go.
People will love to see how you turn dreams, drawings and sketches into reality.
And because you’re open and sharing your work to your website, you’ll build trust with prospects.
It’s easy to add projects to your website. It’s not dissimilar to posting to Facebook.
But a well optimized project added to your website will outlast a Facebook post by up to 99%. (That’s a real figure from studies conducted by an expert analytics company.)
Posting your building work to your website will make you look like a trustworthy professional who cares for his clients.
And if posting it yourself seems like far too daunting a task, hire us to do it for you.
It’s simple. Connect your foreman with us. Tell him to take pics as the building progresses and get him to send it to us. Share rudimentary details about the project with us.
We’ll take the bones, add some meat to it and create project posts on your website that’ll draw traffic for a long time to come.
Email marketing
Studies have found that your best customers are existing customers.
These are the people who know your capabilities and who trust you to give them excellent service.
Therefore, it makes sense to build an email list of people you’ve built for before.
And there’s hardly a better way to communicate with these people than to email them with your latest news and projects.
But creating email newsletters is a big undertaking. It takes a lot of time and effort.
That’s why we offer a solution that creates automatic newsletters for you.
All you need to do is keep adding your completed projects to your website.
Whenever you do that, a newsletter is created in the background and sent to recipients at a predetermined time.
That newsletter contains an image you added to the content as well as a link back to your website.
It’s a powerful way to get people to your website. And to get them to your website is the best goal because if your website is optimized it’ll contain a call to action of your design. That might be a “Call now” or “Get a quote” button.
That way, you’re ensuring your website works at getting you more leads for your business.
Search engine marketing
Google can be a great source of traffic if you know how to optimize your website for it.
Here are some of the searches people perform when they’re looking for a building contractor:
- building contractors
- small building contractors
- building contractors near me
- building contractors company
- builders near me
- construction contractor
- construction contractors near me
- general contractor services
- construction company
- construction companies near me
You could be featuring for those searches in Google.
It takes time and patience, but if you put your mind to it, you’ll enjoy the fruit of your labor by way of people contacting you and requesting quotes.
The way to be seen for those search terms is to add content featuring those search terms.
As mentioned earlier in this article, if you don’t see yourself doing that, you can hire us to do it for you.
Emails
You’ll look far more professional using a branded email address than a Gmail or Yahoo email address.
That’s why our package allows you to set up as many email addresses as you wish, your hosting package size being the only limit.
Analytics
If you don’t know what brings people to your website and which pages they use, you’re stumbling in the dark.
Analytics is a must-have for any building contractor serious about knowing what’s going on with his website and for gauging its value for his business.
That’s why we add Google Analytics to your website.
You also get an analytics report which is sent out on a weekly basis and shares details like which search phrases in Google brought people to your website and which pages they visited.
This helps you see what people are searching for and what Google thinks of your website.
Your website also comes with a search box that records what people are searching for.
This is not only a fascinating insight, but valuable for determining what the market is after.
For instance, you might have added content about residential projects you’ve completed, but people visiting your website search for commercial building projects. This shows you that, if you offer commercial construction, you could alter your marketing slightly to align with what the market desires.
Mobile friendly
If someone googles for a building contractor on their phone, and you appear in the search results, and they click through to your website, wouldn’t you like them to have a great experience using your site?
If your site’s not mobile optimized, they won’t enjoy using your website. They’ll need to pinch and zoom to see your text and images. That’ll frustrate them, and they’ll look elsewhere for a building contractor.
That’s why your website will be mobile-friendly; to ensure people enjoy using your site and viewing your building projects.
Cost
This building contractor marketing package comes with everything you need to excel online.
It won’t be cheap, but if it shows results, that won’t matter.
Conclusion
Facebook and other social media platforms will most definitely send you some inquiries.
If you advertise your building business in the local paper, booklet, or magazine, people are sure to inquire if they need a builder.
Even your shabby old website might bring in a query occasionally.
But a marketing package from us ensures you reach people through three channels from a single platform where you’re the boss, and you decide what action you want people to take if you want them to get hold of you.
Book a consultation if you want your building business to stand out and draw more clients.