TradesPlumbersMarketing and leads

Plumber Business MarketingWord of mouth was enough until the week the phone did not ring.

Marketing and lead generation for plumbing business owners who have always relied on referrals and the odd builder. How to get the right plumbing work calling you, at the margin you want, instead of taking whatever comes through a lead site.

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The week this is about

Sound Like Your Plumbing Business?

One builder is half your turnover

The work is steady until it is not. If that builder slows down, goes to another plumber or falls over owing you a progress claim, half your income disappears in a week and you have no pipeline of your own to fall back on.

You are paying for leads that waste your day

The lead platform sends you the same blocked drain to four plumbers, so you price against three others in a race to the bottom. You drive across town for a job you did not want at a rate you would not choose, and you pay for the privilege.

Nobody knows you exist between emergencies

Customers only think about a plumber when water is going somewhere it should not. You did their hot water changeover two years ago and they have forgotten your name, so the next one goes to whoever comes up first on the phone.

With no marketing of your own, your diary belongs to whoever is sending you work, and the day they stop is the day you find out what your business is worth.

A trade business owner working alone at the kitchen table late at night, laptop open and paperwork spread across the table, work boots and tool bag by the door

Marketing and lead generation

Here Is What We Do About It.

The Learning Hub carries the marketing and lead generation training built for trade businesses: getting found locally, following up quotes properly, and turning a one-off blocked drain into a maintenance customer. Business Foundations and Greg then hold you to actually running it week after week.

How it works

Three Steps, Starting Tonight.

Step 1

Fix what happens to the leads you already get

Most trade businesses do not have a lead problem first. They have a follow-up problem. We start where the money is already leaking, because it is free to fix.

Step 2

Build one channel properly

One channel that works beats five that half work. The training walks the whole thing: the offer, the proof, the ad, the page and the call back.

Step 3

Make the phone ring on purpose

A pipeline you can turn up when the diary looks thin in six weeks, rather than hoping the referrals land in the same month the wages do.

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Why Greg

You speak to the owner who has already done it.

Greg built Response Electricians in Perth into a 30+ staff business with 1,950+ five-star reviews. A general manager runs it.

He has trained 9,000+ trade business owners across Australia and New Zealand.

He grew a coaching company to 35 staff, a CEO and 15 coaches, then cut it back so every owner deals with him directly.

Most coaching companies hand you to a salesperson, then to a coach who has never run a trade business. Here you get the owner.

Read how Greg built a trade business that runs without him

What changes for you

The old way. The new way.

Illustration: a trade business owner standing over three office staff buried in paperwork at night.
The old way

More customers meant more people doing the computer work, and more wages nobody invoices.

Illustration: a tradesman shaking hands with a homeowner in her driveway, his phone showing jobs quoted and invoiced.
The new way

You stay with your customers and your team. The office stops landing on you.

The old way

More jobs. More paperwork. Less of the owner left.

Most trade businesses grow the same way.

More jobs means more quoting, invoicing, chasing and scheduling.

None of it gets paid for.

So the owner does it at night, after a full day on site.

Or hires an office person to do it.

The office grows. The wages grow. The margin does not.

And the owner is still the one everything waits on.

Where we take you

More work. More profit. More of you left.

The phone rings with the jobs you want, at the price you set.

You grow when you're ready, never faster than the business can carry.

Every job is priced to make money, so the busy months show up in the bank.

The best tradies in your area want to work for you, and they stay.

The chasing, the paperwork and the 9pm admin stop landing on you.

The business runs the day. You pick which parts of it you're in.

Bigger, without the headaches. Getting bigger stops meaning getting busier.

What changes

What Plumbing Business Marketing Actually Changes.

Three things plumbing business owners walk away able to do.

Fill the diary from your own leads instead of one builder's schedule

Follow up every quote on a set rhythm rather than when you remember

Turn one-off callouts into repeat customers with a reason to ring you

A trade business owner watching his child play sport on a Saturday morning, coffee in hand and phone face down
Nights and weekends back
A trade business owner and his partner in the kitchen looking at a tablet showing the numbers going up
Work that actually pays
A trade business owner shaking hands with a new apprentice in the work yard
A good hire who stays
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Out of the middle of everything
9,000+tradies trained4.9★Google rating4.9★App Store rating

Questions

Plumber Business Marketing, Answered.

Do I need to be on lead platforms to get plumbing work?
No, and most owners want off them. They are useful to fill a gap, but the model puts you in a price race with three other plumbers on the same blocked drain. The training shows you how to build your own local presence and referral base so the platform becomes optional rather than your pipeline.
What marketing actually works for a plumbing business?
The boring things done consistently. A local presence people find when a pipe bursts, reviews from the jobs you already did, a follow-up on every quote, and a reason to contact past customers before they need you. The Academy covers all four in the Learning Hub and in the live Business Foundations sessions.
Should I chase emergency callouts or planned work?
Emergency work pays a premium and fills the phone, but it owns your nights and your weekends. Planned work, renovations, changeovers and maintenance contracts, is what gives you a diary you can staff. Most plumbing businesses need a deliberate mix, and the training helps you set yours on purpose rather than by accident.
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Join the Waitlist to Work With Greg.

The Crew, daily Q&A and starter courses. Free for trade business owners. No card, no trial clock.

The Academy is at full capacity. Join the waitlist and when a place opens, Greg interviews the owners who look like the right fit.