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Very Good Marketing Co. — You run the business. We figure out the marketing.

For owner-run home service businesses

Not getting enough calls?

We get your phone ringing,and we make sure you never miss a call.

You run the business. We get you in front of people searching for your service on Google, and we make sure every call gets answered, even when you are on a roof.

Tell me what's happening and I'll show you where calls are getting lost. Plans start at $297 a month, and setup is free.

Free · About 15 minutes · No obligation

No pressure and no confusing marketing talk. Just a conversation about your business and what could be working better.

Does any of this sound familiar?

  • “The phone is not ringing enough.”

  • “I am paying for marketing, but I do not know what I am getting.”

  • “We get leads, but too many of them disappear.”

  • “I do not know whether I need Google Ads, SEO, a new website, or something else.”

  • “I am too busy working to learn all this marketing stuff.”

  • “My competitors seem to show up everywhere.”

  • “I know I need marketing. I just do not know what is actually working.”

  • “I tried this before and never knew whether it worked.”

You should not have to figure that out by yourself.

Here's the deal

You know your business. I know marketing.

You don't need to understand Google's algorithm, or what a CRM is, or why anybody cares about review counts. That's not your job. Your job is running crews, quoting work, and getting it done right.

My job is looking at the whole path a customer takes to reach you and finding the places they're falling off it.

I'm not going to tell you that you need SEO just because I sell SEO. And I'm not going to tell you to spend more on ads before we know what's happening to the leads you're already paying for. First we work out where the problem actually is. Then we fix the things that will make a difference.

Sometimes that's a new website. Sometimes it's a Google listing nobody ever finished setting up. Plenty of times it's something as unglamorous as a phone that rings out at 4:45 on a Friday.

Before you spend more on marketing, figure out what's actually wrong

Getting more customers does not always mean spending more money. Plenty of the businesses I talk to are already paying for enough. The problem is somewhere else.

  • Customers cannot find your business on Google
  • Your website is not convincing visitors to call
  • Calls are getting missed
  • Website leads are not getting a fast response
  • After-hours calls go to voicemail, and the caller moves on
  • You do not have enough reviews
  • Advertising is sending people to the wrong place
  • Leads you already paid for are falling through the cracks

Spending more money won't fix the wrong problem.First, we figure out what needs fixing.

How I find it

I look at the whole path, from search to sale

Between somebody needing your service and you cashing the check, there are six places a job can quietly get lost. I go through all six.

  1. Step 1

    Somebody searches for your service

    Can they find you?

  2. Step 2

    They see your business

    Do they trust you enough to call?

  3. Step 3

    They visit your website

    Is it easy to contact you?

  4. Step 4

    They call or send a form

    How quickly does somebody respond?

  5. Step 5

    They ask for an estimate

    Does anybody follow up?

  6. Step 6

    They hire you

    Are you turning them into reviews and referrals?

Six places to lose the job. Most businesses are losing them in two or three.

The tricky part is that it is almost never the step you would guess. Plenty of owners are sure they need a new website when the real problem is that nobody answers the phone at 4:45 on a Friday. More marketing is not always the answer. Sometimes you just need to fix what happens to the leads you already have.

Here's how we figure it out

Just a few quick questions to get started. No long questionnaires, no complicated setup, and no obligation.

  1. 1

    Tell me what is happening

    We talk about your business. Where your customers come from now, what you have already tried, what you paid for it, and what you wish was different. You do not need to know what is wrong. That is my job.

  2. 2

    I go look for the problems

    I go through the places customers find you, contact you, and decide whether to hire you. Your website, your Google listing, your reviews, your ads if you run them, and what happens after a lead comes in.

  3. 3

    We fix the right things first

    You get a plain-English list of what I found and what it is costing you, in order. We start with whatever is most likely to put work on your calendar, instead of spending money on everything at once.

  4. 4

    We keep watching it

    Every call gets tracked, and you get a plain report each month: how many calls came in, where they came from, and how many we caught that you would have missed. When the business changes, the marketing changes with it.

Once we know

What we may fix

You don't have to pick from this list. It's here so you can see what the work looks like. Each package below puts the right pieces together, so you never have to build it yourself.

Get Found Locally

SEO, Google Business Profile, local visibility

Someone nearby needs what you do. They search, they look at the first few names, and they call one of them. The job is usually decided right there.

  • Google profile
  • Local search
  • Service pages
  • Map results
What this looks like

Turn Visitors Into Calls

Website design and conversion improvements

People are already landing on your website. The question is whether it gives them a reason to pick up the phone, or a reason to go back and try the next company.

  • Fast on phones
  • Easy to call
  • Real photos
  • Short forms
What this looks like

Get In Front Of Buyers

Google Local Services Ads and Google Ads

Search ads put you in front of people who are looking for your service today. Done right it is the fastest way to add calls. Done wrong it is the fastest way to waste money.

  • Search ads
  • Right jobs
  • Right area
  • Cost per call
What this looks like

Get More Reviews

Reputation and review management

Your customers are happy. They just never got asked. Meanwhile the company with 300 reviews looks like the safer bet to somebody who has never met either of you.

  • Automatic asks
  • Steady flow
  • Bad review alerts
  • Reply help
What this looks like

Every Lead to You

Instant lead alerts, fast first reply, one place for every lead

A form that sat overnight. A voicemail you found on Monday. Those leads were already paid for, and somebody else booked them.

  • Instant alerts
  • Fast first reply
  • One place
  • Nothing lost
What this looks like

Never Miss A Call

AI receptionist, missed-call text back, after-hours answering

You are under a house, on a roof, or driving. The phone rings and you cannot get it. That homeowner is already dialing the next company on the list.

  • Missed-call text
  • After hours
  • Overflow calls
  • Nothing dropped
What this looks like

Pricing

Simple monthly pricing

We get your phone ringing, and we make sure you never miss a call.

Never Miss a Call

For businesses that already get calls but miss too many of them.

From $297per month

  • An AI receptionist answers in your business name when you cannot, day or night
  • A text back within a minute to anyone who hangs up
  • A text to you with every lead: who called, what they need, and their number
  • Call tracking on every call
  • A monthly report: every call, where it came from, and what happened to it

Setup: $299 Free right now

Our core package

More Calls

For businesses that need the phone to ring more, and every call answered.

From $997per month, plus your ad budget paid to Google

  • Everything in Never Miss a Call
  • Google Local Services Ads set up and managed (the Google Guaranteed ads)
  • Google search ads aimed at the jobs you want
  • Your Google Business Profile set up properly and kept active
  • A landing page built to get the call

Setup: $299 Free right now

Full Service

For owners who want all of their marketing handled.

From $1,997per month, plus your ad budget

  • Everything in More Calls
  • A website built and hosted for you, in your name
  • Ongoing local search work so you show up without paying per click
  • Review requests sent after every job
  • Facebook and Instagram ads, if they make sense for you

Setup: $299 Free right now

  • No long-term contract. Month to month.
  • Your ad budget goes straight to Google, so you see every dollar.
  • You book the jobs. We make sure every call gets answered and every lead gets to you.
  • Everything is set up in your name and stays yours.

Not sure which one fits? That is what the free call is for. I will look at your business and tell you which package makes sense, or if you do not need one at all.

Let Me Take a Look

Why owners call me

I work with owner-run home service businesses. Everything here is built around how those shops actually run, not how a marketing agency would like them to run.

You do not have to know what is wrong

Most people call me because the phone is quieter than it should be and they have no idea why. That is a completely normal place to start. Working out the cause is the service.

I look before I sell you anything

I am not going to tell you that you need SEO just because I sell SEO. And I am not telling you to spend more on ads before we know what is happening to the leads you already get.

Plain English, every time

You will never get a report full of impressions and engagement rates. Calls, leads, booked jobs, and what things cost. If a number does not help you decide something, it does not go in.

Built for how your day actually goes

You do not have a marketing department and you are on a job when the phone rings. Anything we set up has to run without you and be readable in five minutes between calls.

You keep everything

Your website, your domain, your Google profile, your customer list, your phone number. All of it in your name, so nothing is held hostage if we part ways.

You talk to me, not a call center

You get the person doing the work. Questions get answered by somebody who knows your account, not a ticket queue and not a different account manager every quarter.

Who you're talking to

A person, not an agency

I'm Brad. I run Very Good Marketing Co. out of Hartselle, Alabama, and I've spent about fifteen years building websites and software before this. When you call, you get me. When something breaks, you text me. There's no account manager and no ticket queue.

I'm not here to impress you with marketing words. I'm here to help your business get more customers, and to be straight with you about what that's going to take.

More about how I work

So why isn't the phone ringing?

You don't need to know what kind of marketing you need. Tell me what's happening with your business and we'll work out what has to change.

I'll take a look at how you show up when somebody searches, what your website does with the people who land on it, what happens when a call or a form comes in, and where jobs are going quiet. Then I'll tell you what I found and what I'd do about it first.

Rather just talk?

(256) 754-8400

Mon to Fri, 8am to 5pm CT

Tell me what is going on

Six quick things and one real question. I read every one of these myself.

"I don't know, the phone just isn't ringing" is a completely fine answer.

No obligation, nothing to sign, and we never share your information.

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