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The plan is not the same for every trade

A tow truck search is decided in forty seconds on a phone at the roadside. A kitchen renovation is decided over six weeks from photographs. Both are local service businesses, and almost nothing about their marketing should match.

These are the categories we have already built and ranked for.

Roadside assistance & towing

Emergency search, decided in under a minute, almost entirely on a phone.

Nobody comparison-shops a tow truck. The customer is standing on a shoulder, they open Google, and they call one of the first three results. Everything about the marketing follows from that.

How we approach it
Device
Overwhelmingly mobile, often on cellular data
Decision window
Under two minutes from search to call
Where the click goes
The map pack, not the organic results

Auto body & collision

High ticket, insurance-mediated, and decided over days rather than seconds.

A collision customer is shaken, dealing with an insurer, and choosing between shops over several days. They are not looking for the closest option. They are looking for the one that seems least likely to make the next two weeks worse.

How we approach it
Ticket size
High, frequently four figures
Decision window
Two to seven days
Third party in the decision
The insurer, often steering

Tire sales & service

Two sharp peaks a year, and a demand curve you can see coming months ahead.

Tire demand is not steady and it is not unpredictable. It spikes on the first cold snap and again in spring, and the size of those spikes is measurable in advance. A shop that starts marketing when the phone gets quiet has already missed the season.

How we approach it
Seasonality
Two peaks, roughly November and April
Peak volume
Changeover terms multiply several times over in season
Decision window
Same day to a week

Renovation & contracting

Long consideration, high ticket, and the portfolio does most of the selling.

Nobody hires a contractor from a headline. They hire from photographs of finished work in houses that look like theirs, plus enough evidence that the project will not go sideways. The website is a portfolio with search attached, not a brochure.

How we approach it
Decision window
Four to twelve weeks, sometimes longer
Ticket size
High, and highly variable by project type
Primary evidence
Photographs of completed work
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If your category is not here

We have also built for event and wedding services, short-term rentals and e-commerce. The categories above are the ones with enough repeat delivery behind them to write a page about honestly.

The method transfers: measure where you rank across the area you serve, work out which terms are reachable at your current authority, and fix the free things before spending on the expensive ones. Ask and we will tell you whether your category is one we can help with.

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