Roofing Leads In Less Than 72 hrs

Where & How Get Leads Quickly

OK, so you want to do some marketing for your roofing businesses but don't know where to start. Well, I’m going to show you the most effective and proven way out of all the options you have. 

Let's look at a few and identify why most are less suitable or at least less of a priority if you want to start getting leads now.  If you are not in a rush and want to start planning ahead, w'ell all the options below are a possibility however if you want to get leads tomorrow then see my recommendation below.  For now let's look at what's not going to work! 

What Wont Work For You Now And Why!

Why These Roofing Marketing Options Won't Work For You Today?

• Email Marketing, requires you to build up a list of potential prospects who are interested in your services, takes a few months to do and when you do it, these prospects are potential customers for life but takes time and not the way to get started today.
• SEO or Search Engine Optimisation, you will need to hire a SEO expert to spend the next 6-8 months ranking and optimizing your website, whe this is achieved, you will get plenty of free calls and leads form clients but will take the best part of a year to achieve depending on the size of the city and the amount of competition you are up against, great option but will take time and money.
• Leaflets - The tried and tested system and tends to be used by older roofers who apply the 1980’s marketing strategies, takes time and requires consistent effort, can work but you can't scale it, can be done and achieved reasonably quick but you have no idea if its effective and if you deliver 3000 flyers, all of them could go to people who are not ready for your services so a lot of waste and no scalability.  
  
• Newspaper ads - can be effective and still used by a lot of roofing contractors.  Can be expensive given the returns that come out of it and again, no consistency and no scalability from it, if you need more work, very hard to run more ads and get more calls for your costs. Can be effective for lead generation for roofing contractors but not to be used and the main source of leads.
• Facebook Ads - Social media unlike Adwords is never a go to source for services as its social, its intent is social and you can pull plenty of homeowners who want their roofs repaired but they're not on Facebook with that intention. So you have to grab their attention and prioritize their intent with an offer or some favorable than a free quote etc. Social media works but customers' intent (purchasing intent) is lower than other sources such as Adwords etc.
• Mobile Ads - similar to social media, customer purchasing intent is low and requires creating something of greater value to bring the prospective customer across the line, not that suitable and effective as getting roofing leads in the next 48-72 hours
• Online Directories - There are alot of online directories at this stage, the most obvious is what we used in the past “Golden Pages” however when was the last time you opened one?  Or when online to find the Golden Pages to find a local service?  Probably not in years, well that's probably why I don't recommend it.  It’s 1980’s marketing and occasionally good to have your company on there for branding, that's the only real use it will be to you.  
• LinkedIn - Good for contacts and building relationships and profile but not much good to get roofing leads by tomorrow.  Good to be on there and have your company on there for branding and profile, not much good for us for now.
• Reviews & Google My Business - Great for getting calls and leads from customers, I highly recommend it but will require you a few weeks of work to get working and should be step 2 in the process immediately after you have a few calls coming in and things rolling, make sure your GMB profile is listed on Google, your address for your business is verified and start driving reviews, very good as a step 2.

How To Get Leads Today

You are Going to start receiving roofing leads in the next 72 hours by using Google Adwords, the quickest way to get them. Customers have the highest purchasing intent and they can find you with what's in their hand right now, their mobile phone.  

For those of you are not that familiar with how people search for services these days and those customers with high purchasing intent, if you are familiar with this process, you can skip ahead but think about it, your roof is leaking, its bucketing down outside and you need a roofer to seal a leak in your roof. 

What do you do?

Step 1. You pick up your phone, 

Step 2. You type in "Roofers Near Me" or "Roofers + City"

Step 3. You are presented with Four Options in Order by Google

Options by visuals on your phone or computer

So what you see first are any businesses registered in Google Guaranteed Ads which have priority over regular ads as they are guaranteed by Google. There are between two and three companies listed here.  

 Second Listing is the are the regular Google Adwords and both of these ads in both 1 and 2 are both connected in that you need to be running regular google Ads to have been showing up in Google Guarantee Ads.

OPTION 1 & 2  - GOOGLE GUARANTEE & GOOGLE ADWORDS

Ok so below the above two options of both Google Ads and Google Guarantee Ads you will be able to see here in the next image, a listing for Google My Business Profile, option three on our list presented by Google.

Option 3 - Google My Business or Business Profile