Marketing that rings the phone when the pipe bursts.
Plumbing demand is urgent and local — someone with a flooded kitchen picks from the map pack and the Google Guaranteed badge in minutes, not days. Marketing has to own that moment: Local Services Ads that charge per lead, local SEO for the map, and call tracking down to the booked job. Planned, built, and reported in-house from Seattle, Tampa, and Orlando.
Measured to the booked job, not the click.
Home-services campaigns graded on clicks burn budget on tire-kickers; graded on booked jobs, they pay for themselves.
So the KPI is set before launch — cost per booked job, tracked through call tracking that ties a ring to a scheduled truck — and Local Services Ads run per-lead so you only pay for real inquiries.
LSAs, the map pack, and search work as one budget with one cost-per-job number the dashboard shows in the open.
The three realities plumbing marketing runs on.
Emergency intent rewards the top of the map
A burst pipe doesn’t get comparison-shopped for a week. Local Services Ads with the Google Guaranteed badge, the map pack, and top-of-page search own the urgent call — and speed to answer decides who wins it.
Cost per call is the number
Impressions don’t fix a leak. Call tracking ties each ring to the campaign and the booked job, so budget follows the calls that become trucks in driveways — not the ones that clicked and hung up.
Reviews and response decide the booking
When three plumbers show up in the map, the one with more recent reviews and a faster answer books the job. Profile health, review volume, and speed are treated as first-class KPIs.
What we run for plumbing companies.
How an engagement runs.
Goals in booked jobs
Discovery starts with unit economics: what a job is worth by service type, which work you want more of, and what your crews can absorb. Channels get picked to match.
KPIs before launch
Call tracking and form events tied to booked jobs, with targets in writing before the first dollar moves. If we can’t measure it, we don’t launch it.
Optimize in the open
You see every dollar — where it went, what it returned, what we changed and why. The dashboard is live, not a monthly PDF.
Earn the renewal
A monthly strategy review walks through the numbers together. Stay because the work is working — no contract makes you.
What it costs — honestly.
Ad management — Google Ads, Local Services Ads, paid social, display, and video — runs at 20% of monthly ad spend, with a $500 monthly minimum. The rate steps down as spend scales, and larger or multi-location operations run on a flat-rate retainer, so extra budget goes to media, not management. SEO/GEO/AIO plans are flat from $1,299 per month. Every fee is itemized in the proposal.
- No setup fees
- No long-term contracts
- Retainer option — one set fee
- Live reporting dashboard
Questions we get from this vertical.
Whether LSAs work for plumbers, what plumbing marketing costs, how fast ads produce calls, and the terms.
Usually, yes — plumbing is one of the core Local Services Ads categories. LSAs charge per lead instead of per click, show above search with a Google Guaranteed badge, and let you dispute leads that aren’t real. Most companies should run both: LSAs for lower-cost, high-trust calls and search campaigns for the volume and control LSAs can’t offer.
It depends on your market and the jobs you want more of — emergency service, repipes, water heaters, and drain work each carry different value and competition. We scope backwards from what a job is worth and the local cost per lead. The management fee is published: 20% of monthly ad spend with a $500 monthly minimum, stepping down at higher spend.
Local Services Ads and search can produce calls within days of going live, because they capture demand that already exists. SEO takes longer to compound. That’s why we usually start with LSAs and search for immediate calls while local SEO builds the map-pack presence that lowers cost per lead over time.
Expect movement in 3–6 months. Local SEO — profile health, reviews, service-area pages — often moves fastest, while competitive service terms compound over time. We set milestones at onboarding and report against them monthly.
No. Everything is month to month, with no setup fees. We earn the renewal every month — stay because the work is working, not because a contract says you have to.
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