As we move into 2025, the contractor marketing landscape continues to evolve rapidly. Home services businesses must stay ahead by embracing multi-channel strategies, leveraging AI, and focusing on customer engagement. Here’s what contractors need to know to thrive in the year ahead.

While SEO still plays a vital role in a company's online visibility and authority through Google, the digital landscape has changed. SEO alone is no longer a sufficient strategy to carry a business to success. An omnichannel strategy utilizes different marketing channels to allow a brand to “meet people where they are” and coordinate around a single set of themes.

When was the last time you searched on Google for the results of a question or query? If it’s been a while, then you might not necessarily be aware of the new AI Overview method that’s been added to search queries for months. It uses generative AI to provide answers to more complex questions posed in Google searches that might otherwise lead to confusing results.

March 2024 saw two significant updates to Google’s algorithm, a Core Update, which aims to cut unhelpful content by 40% in conjunction with ongoing efforts since 2022 to enhance the quality of search results by filtering out low-quality, unoriginal content, and a Spam Update. Both have significant potential to affect search rankings and both updates are rolled out and live. 

Just as seasonality is predictable, so are trends and cycles within the home services industries. Planning is critical to your business success but as the industry, economy and customers’ spending habits change each year, your marketing strategies should as well. We'll identify some of the most important things you should be thinking about for operating a profitable home services business in 2024. 

SEO is part of a dynamic digital strategy for any HVAC contracting business. While paid channels have a quicker turnaround, SEO is an investment that compounds over time–that is, if you have the right strategy and execute it well.

Google rolled out core algorithm updates that impact how their search engine results are processed. This typically happens a few times a year and in August of 2023, they introduced an update that impacts user-generated content (UGC).

Having a strong online presence is crucial for any business. Most homeowners (and consumers) use the internet to search before making a purchase or major financial decision. In fact, you likely do the same thing.

When a web user is trying to find a home services provider for their plumbing needs, they’re most likely going to search online for some combination of the service they’re looking for and the city or state they’re in. How do you ensure your plumbing website shows up on page one? Read on to find out!

Did you know that Google My Business is adding a messaging feature to their desktop interface? Previously, a business could only respond to messages through the Google My Business mobile app. By adding this new feature to the desktop interface, it will be easier for local HVAC, Plumbing, and Electrical contractors to manage live chats as they come in. Read on to learn how to enable messaging.

What if you could sit down with leaders in the contracting space to learn how they continue to grow and scale their business? Gary Elekes, iMarket Solutions Co-Owner and CEO, did just that with Chad and Amanda Faith, owners of Aire Texas. Check out what they had to say!

The biggest impact to businesses in 2020 has come from dealing with the spread of COVID-19. Adaptability has become vital, not only for the safety of your customers and employees, but to your business success. Take a look at the SEO lessons we’ve learned so far this year, and how they can apply to your contracting business.

What does your contracting business need to build your digital brand? You’ll need to consider your marketing plan as a whole, including traditional and digital media, which we covered in Part 1 of this 2-part blog series.

Google has brought their fair share of changes to their Google My Business and Google Ads products in an effort to adjust to changing business needs during the COVID-19 pandemic. We've summarized some of the most critical changes that could impact your contracting business.

We recently shared part 1 of a 2-part blog post about emerging SEO trends to expect in 2020. In part 2, we cover a few more predictions, and how you can stay on top of these changes.

SEO is an industry that changes very quickly. Google always has and always will continue to make updates throughout the year, every year. The best way to keep up is by partnering with a marketing team that keeps a finger on the pulse of these changes. In this post, we'll uncover 4 of the biggest predictions for SEO in 2020.

With 2020 in full swing, do you have all of the info you need to master Google’s search results? If your answer is no, our team is here to give you the details! Google pushes updates out on a daily basis, and the most frustrating part can be that most updates will have zero to little impact on your business, but you certainly don’t want to miss the ones that do. We’ve collected the top 5 Google updates that will have an impact on your business in 2020.

Last month we posted a blog about brand reputation and how you can improve your SEO results. Now, we want to go more in-depth about the connection between your brand and your vision. While we mentioned briefly the importance of understanding your brand and the importance of the “why,” we’d like to delve into how it relates to the “where.”

In the traditional digital marketing agency setup, SEO and Brand Reputation are two entirely different entities, but could disassociating these two key areas be a mistake? We certainly think so! Learn more about how your company’s portrayal helps (or hurts) your SEO results.

Your website is the core of a successful digital marketing strategy. After all, 95% of customers find businesses online through their websites. But having a website with an attractive design, eye-catching calls-to-action, and friendly navigation doesn’t mean prospects will actually see it.