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Marketing for restoration and home-service companies: being found when disaster strikes, reviews, and winning the jobs that follow.
These guides are for restoration and home-service companies. They share one idea: someone with water on the floor is stressed, short of time and looking at a short list, and the company that looks real and answers the phone is the one that gets the job.
Read in this order
- Getting Found When Disaster Strikes covers who is searching, why answering the phone matters more than ranking, and what your pages should say.
- Your Google Business Profile as a Restoration Company covers categories, showing an address, asking for reviews, what Google and the FTC do not allow, and a checklist.
- Reviews and Response Time: Why the First Call Wins the Job covers what homeowners look at before they call, how to ask for reviews and how to answer a bad one.
- What to Put on a Restoration Website That Gets Calls covers what a visitor needs in the first ten seconds, which trust signals are real and a checklist before you publish.
Want to be listed where homeowners already look? See the restoration company directory.
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