Resources

Work out what you actually need

Most contractors get sold marketing before anyone has looked at what is actually broken. Everything here is free, none of it requires talking to us, and a fair amount of it might tell you that you do not need us yet.

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Three things worth doing before you spend a dollar with anybody, us included.

Get a free audit

We look at your website, your Google Business Profile, and where you actually rank in the towns you work in. You get the findings whether or not you ever speak to us, and there is no fee and no obligation attached to it.

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See how the work runs

The full build broken into six steps, what happens week by week in the first thirty days, what we need from you, and what the monthly rhythm looks like after launch. No mystery and no vague phases.

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Check the price first

Three plans with the real monthly numbers, what is in each one, what hosting costs, and what happens at the end of the twelve months. Published, not gated behind a discovery call.

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Before you hire anyone

Honest comparisons of the four routes most contractors actually consider. We wrote them to be useful even if you pick one of the other three, and the questions in them work just as well pointed at us.

Building it yourself

What a Wix or Squarespace build genuinely gets you, where it runs out of road, and the specific situations where doing it yourself is the correct answer.

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Hiring a freelancer

Cheaper up front and often perfectly good work. The risks are continuity, ongoing SEO, and what happens when they take a full time job in year two.

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A national agency

Real scale and real capability, with tradeoffs around contracts, who owns the site at the end, and how much attention a small account actually gets.

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A WordPress agency

The most common route in this industry. Worth understanding the plugin maintenance, the hosting question, and who is responsible when something breaks at eleven at night.

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Guides

Longer pieces on the parts of this that people ask about most.

SEO for contractors

What local SEO actually involves for a trades business, how long it takes, and which parts of it move the phone.

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Contractor website design

What a website for a home service business has to do that a normal small business site does not.

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Home service marketing

How the website, the Google profile, the reviews, and the follow up fit together instead of competing for budget.

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New Jersey SEO

Where we are based and where most of our clients are. Written for owners working Bergen, Passaic, and the surrounding counties.

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New Jersey web design

The same ground from the build side, for owners who know the site is the problem and want to start there.

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Your trade specifically

Ten trades, each with the problems that actually come up in that work and the questions owners ask us on the first call.

Pick your trade

Browse by topic

Everything we publish sorted into the four things contractors ask about. If you would rather just read the newest first, the blog is sorted that way.

Local SEO

Ranking in the towns you serve, why the map pack behaves differently to the normal results, and why your rankings look different from your own driveway.

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Websites

What a contractor site needs to do on a phone, how speed affects whether anyone waits around, and the pages most trades sites are missing.

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Google Business Profile

The free listing that decides most local jobs. Categories, service areas, posts, photos, and the settings people get wrong.

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Reviews

Getting them without nagging, what to do about a bad one, and how much they actually affect where you show up.

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Come see if we are a fit

A quick call, no pitch. If we are not the right call for your business we will tell you that on the phone.