Topic
Home services
Texting guides for home service businesses: quotes, scheduling, on-the-way messages, reviews, and seasonal campaigns.
Homeowners want to know when the technician is arriving and what the job will cost, and a text answers both without phone tag. These articles cover how plumbers, HVAC companies, cleaners, and other home service businesses use texting from first inquiry to follow-up review request.
14 guides in this topic
Storm season estimate requests: handling the roofing rush without losing jobs
After storms, roofers drown in estimate requests. Here is how to respond to all of them.
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"Where is my technician?" calls: fixing a daily home services pressure point
Arrival-time calls swamp home service offices. Here is how proactive texts fix it.
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Quoted but never closed: how to follow up on stalled quotes
Sent quotes go quiet for predictable reasons. Here is how to restart them.
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Text message marketing for electricians
Electricians spend the day on job sites. Texting keeps leads, quotes and appointments moving without stopping work for every call.
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Text message marketing for pool service companies
Pool service is recurring, seasonal and mostly invisible to the customer. Texts make the work visible and the upsells easy.
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How to text Angi and Thumbtack leads before competitors do
Marketplace leads are often shared. The first useful response usually wins the job, and text is the fastest way to give it.
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Responding to Google Local Services Ads leads by text
Local Services Ads reward fast responders. Pairing them with text follow-up helps you answer quickly and book more jobs.
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On-my-way texts: arrival windows that stop customers calling to ask where you are
Customers do not mind waiting. They mind not knowing.
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Following up on estimates by text: how contractors win the quiet ones
The customer usually picks someone. The only question is whether they hear from you again before they do.
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Text marketing for lawn care and landscaping
Rain moves your whole schedule. Texting is the only channel fast enough to tell everyone.
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Text marketing for pest control companies
Pest control is a subscription business wearing a work truck. Texting is what keeps the recurring plans recurring.
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Text message marketing for plumbers
A homeowner standing in water is not going to wait for a callback. Texting is how you get there first.
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Text message marketing for HVAC companies
HVAC demand swings from frantic to dead. Texting is how you win the frantic weeks and fill the dead ones.
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Text marketing for HVAC, plumbing, and home services
Homeowners call three companies. The one that texts back with a real time window gets the job.
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