Marketing for Contractors & Trades, Built in BC

Marketing that works as hard as you do.

You’re great at the work. We make sure your market knows it. Built Tough builds lead systems for contractors and service businesses, websites, ads, content and follow-up that turn into booked jobs. No B.S.

Trades & service businesses only

Results, not reports

Work Order

No BTM-2026 · PRIORITY

Scope of Work

More leads. More booked jobs. A marketing system that runs without babysitting.

Crew

One BC agency that only works with trades, not an account manager juggling 40 niches.

Materials

Website that converts. Ads that target buyers. Content that builds trust. Follow-up that never sleeps.

Approved

  • Web Design

  • Google Ads

  • Meta Ads

  • Content Creation

  • Social Media

  • Funnels & Follow-Up

01 · The Problem

You’re great at the work. The phone still isn’t ringing enough.

Most contractors don’t have a quality problem. They have a visibility and conversion problem. It usually looks like this:

/01

Word-of-mouth hit a ceiling

Referrals built the business, but they’re unpredictable, and you can’t scale a busy season on hope.

Read the playbook

/02

The website doesn’t sell

It looks like it was built in a weekend, loads slow, and makes people work to contact you. Traffic in, nothing out.

Read the playbook

/03

Random posting, zero leads

You post when you remember. There’s no strategy behind it, so it builds nothing and books nothing.

Read the playbook

/04

Agencies that don’t get trades

You’ve been burned by marketers who send pretty reports about clicks while your calendar stays empty.

Read the playbook

/05

Leads slip through the cracks

Quotes go out, follow-up doesn’t. Every missed call and ignored form fill is a job your competitor booked.

Read the playbook

/06

Invisible in your own market

Homeowners are searching for exactly what you do, and finding the other guys first.

Read the playbook

None of this gets fixed with more random tactics. It gets fixed with a system.

ON THE TOOLS · REAL CLIENT JOBSITES

98

%

Search Online First

98% of consumers check a business out online before they ever pick up the phone.

8

×

More Likely to Convert

when a lead gets a response within 5 minutes. Speed-to-lead wins jobs.

73

%

Prefer Short-Form Video

73% of consumers would rather watch a short video than read about your services.

03 · The System

Good marketing isn’t random activity. It’s infrastructure.

Every client runs through the same proven sequence. No 6-month strategy phase where you pay and nothing ships.

01

Plan

We dig into your market, your margins and your best jobs, then build a strategy around what actually makes you money.

Market & competitor breakdown

Offer and messaging that fits your trade

A clear roadmap with real numbers

02

Build

We build the machine: the site, the ads, the content, the follow-up. Everything wired together and tracking real outcomes.

Website / landing pages that convert

Campaigns live on Google & Meta

Automated speed-to-lead follow-up

03

Grow

We measure what matters, calls, quotes, booked jobs, and reinvest in what’s working. Consistency compounds.

Reporting on jobs, not vanity metrics

Monthly optimization & new creative

Scale spend only when the math works

04 · Why Built Tough

Most agencies don’t understand trades. We don’t do anything else.

Generic Agency

Built Tough

Focus

Restaurants Monday, dentists Tuesday, you Wednesday

Contractors, trades & service businesses. Period.

Reporting

Impressions, reach, brand awareness

Calls, quotes and booked jobs

Websites

Pretty online brochures

Conversion tools that make contacting you effortless

Content

Stock photos and recycled captions

Your real crews, real jobs, real results on camera

Follow-up

Leads emailed to you. Good luck.

Automated response in minutes, before the competitor calls back

Talk

Buzzwords and 40-slide decks

Plain English and straight answers

Generic Agency

Built Tough

Focus

Restaurants Monday, dentists Tuesday, you Wednesday

Generic Agency

Contractors, trades & service businesses. Period.

Built Tough

Reporting

Impressions, reach, brand awareness

Generic Agency

Calls, quotes and booked jobs

Built Tough

Websites

Pretty online brochures

Generic Agency

Conversion tools that make contacting you effortless

Built Tough

Content

Stock photos and recycled captions

Generic Agency

Your real crews, real jobs, real results on camera

Built Tough

Follow-up

Leads emailed to you. Good luck.

Generic Agency

Automated response in minutes, before the competitor calls back

Built Tough

Talk

Buzzwords and 40-slide decks

Generic Agency

Plain English and straight answers

Built Tough

05 · Straight Answers

Questions contractors actually ask.

How fast will I see leads?

What does it cost?

Do you work with my trade?

Do I have to be on camera?

Who owns the website, ads and content?

I already have a website. Do I need a new one?

06 · Next Step

Stop guessing. Start building.

Book a free 15-minute strategy call. We’ll look at your current marketing, tell you what’s leaking, and lay out exactly what we’d build, whether you hire us or not.

01

15 minutes, straight talk. No 40-slide pitch deck.

02

You leave with a clear read on what’s broken and what it’s worth fixing.

03

If we’re not the right fit, we’ll say so and point you in the right direction.

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No pressure. No spam. Just a straight conversation about your business.