Remodelling and home improvement contractors · Real estate and construction
A kitchen is decided over months, and most contractors stop calling after two weeks.
A homeowner decides on a kitchen long before they call anybody. They save photographs for a year, argue about moving the island, and eventually fill in a form on a Sunday night. By then they have a picture in their head and no idea what it costs.
In one paragraph
Remodelling marketing is about being found and remembered by a homeowner who will not sign anything for six months. Remodelling sales is qualifying that enquiry on budget early, and staying in touch until the money is ready. GullySales builds the portfolio, the budget conversation and the follow-up that carries a January enquiry through to a summer build.
You go out, spend two hours measuring and listening, and put a number on it. The number is triple what they imagined, and you never hear back. That evening is gone, and there were three more like it last month.
How buyers decide
How remodelling and home improvement contractors are chosen.
Remodelling is chosen on pictures first. A homeowner browses Houzz, Instagram and Pinterest, searches for a kitchen remodel in their town, then reads the Google and Houzz reviews. Angi and the directories are in the mix, and those enquiries usually go to several companies at once. What they are hunting for on your website is a project that looks like their own house.
Then comes the part most enquiries die in. The homeowner wants a number and you want a budget, and neither one says it first. Companies that get through this ask about budget on the phone, before the visit, and charge for design work instead of giving drawings away. For example, a design-build firm in Columbus that drives out to every January enquiry loses most of those evenings to homeowners who were never within range.
The rest of the work is referred and repeated. A past client wants the bathroom done four years after the kitchen. A neighbour watched the dumpster sit in the driveway for six weeks. An interior designer needs a builder who returns calls, and a Realtor has a client who wants a bathroom done before listing. These arrive with trust already in place, and they are still lost when nobody follows up.
The problem
What usually goes wrong for remodelling and home improvement contractors.
What owners tell us on the first call, in their words.
“We give away estimates to people with no budget”
Two hours at the house, an evening pricing it up, and the homeowner wanted a kitchen for a third of what any kitchen costs.
“The directory sends our lead to three other builders”
We pay the same fee as everybody else, and the homeowner has already spoken to two companies by the time we ring back.
“Our best jobs were never photographed”
A whole-house renovation finished in March with the cabinetry we were proudest of, and all we have is four phone snaps with a ladder in the shot.
“The enquiry goes quiet and we stop calling”
The homeowner said they were planning for next year. Nobody put a date in the calendar, and next year they used somebody else.
“Design costs us money before anyone signs”
We produce drawings and selections for free because a competitor does, and plenty of them never turn into a contract.
“Past clients hear from us at Christmas, if that”
The kitchen client from three years ago is doing the primary bathroom now, and they are collecting quotes from strangers.
What we do
What we do for remodelling and home improvement contractors.
Everything included for remodelling and home improvement contractors, and the result each part is there to produce.
A portfolio built the way homeowners browse
Projects sorted by room, style and budget band, each with proper photography and the story of what changed, published on your own site and on Houzz.
Result: A homeowner finds a project that looks like their house.
The budget question asked before anybody drives out
A phone and form script that reaches a realistic range early and kindly, with wording that says what a kitchen in your market actually starts at.
Result: Your evenings go to the enquiries that can afford the work.
Paid design presented as a step, not an obstacle
The design agreement explained on the website and in the first call, covering what the homeowner receives for the fee and how it credits against the build.
Result: Fewer free drawings walk out to a cheaper builder.
A follow-up programme measured in months
Calls, emails and project updates for the homeowner who told you next year, running on a written schedule until they book or ask you to stop.
Result: The January enquiry is still yours in August.
Shared leads answered first
A routine for Angi, Houzz and website enquiries that gets a reply out within minutes during agreed hours, because a shared lead goes to whoever calls first.
Result: You stop paying for enquiries somebody else answered.
Reviews, photographs and referrals asked for at handover
A request built into the final walkthrough for Google and Houzz, a photography release signed at the same time, and a note for the neighbours who watched the build.
Result: The next enquiry arrives already trusting you.
Past clients contacted on a schedule
A record of every completed project with the rooms not yet done, the year of the build and a reason to make contact, held in Buildertrend, JobTread or a sheet.
Result: The bathroom four years after the kitchen comes back to you.
How the result is measured
- Enquiries by source and by room
- Enquiries that became an in-home consultation
- Consultations that became a paid design agreement
- Design agreements that became a signed build
- Months from first enquiry to contract
- Repeat and referred work as a share of revenue
Recorded as a baseline before work starts, then reported every month against it.
Worth a page and a campaign of their own
Kitchen remodels · Primary bathroom remodels · Whole-home renovations · Room additions and second storeys · Basement finishing · Outdoor living, decks and screened porches · Ageing-in-place and accessibility work · Window, siding and exterior replacement · Paid design and pre-construction agreements
Priority campaigns
Campaigns for what remodelling and home improvement contractors most want to sell.
Each one planned around when your buyers decide, and measured against the baseline.
New year planning campaign
Advertising and content through January and February, when homeowners plan a summer build, with project galleries and a design consultation offer.
Result: The build calendar is filling before the season starts.
Room by room campaign
Separate pages, advertising and photography for kitchens, primary bathrooms, additions and basements, because somebody searching for one is not interested in the others.
Result: Each room's enquiries land on a page written for it.
Designer and Realtor referral campaign
Outreach to interior designers, architects and Realtors, with a portfolio piece and a follow-up routine held against each relationship.
Result: Work arrives pre-qualified, through somebody the client already trusts.
Past client campaign for the next room
An email and mail programme to completed projects, aimed at the rooms left undone and at the neighbours who watched the work happen.
Result: Repeat work with no lead fee attached.
Showroom and supplier event campaign
Invitations, advertising and follow-up for a showroom evening or a cabinetry supplier event, aimed at the enquiries stuck in the deciding stage.
Result: Undecided homeowners get a reason to come and touch the samples.
Beyond search
Where we reach buyers of remodelling and home improvement contractors, beyond Google.
Search matters, but it is rarely the only way this industry's buyers find a supplier.
Interior designers and architects
We prepare the portfolio piece and the contact routine for the practices whose clients need a builder who returns calls.
Realtors and property agents
An offer for agents with clients renovating before a listing or straight after closing, and a record of which agent sends what.
Past clients and their neighbours
A schedule for contacting completed projects about the next room, and a letter for the street while the dumpster is still in the driveway.
Cabinetry, surface and window suppliers
Your listing on supplier dealer locators kept current, and any co-operative advertising funds you are entitled to actually used.
Houzz, Angi and the directories
Profiles completed with real project photography and reviews, and every shared enquiry answered on a routine rather than when somebody gets to it.
Who it is for
This is written for these remodelling and home improvement contractors.
- Kitchen and bath remodelling companies
- Design-build firms with an in-house designer
- Whole-home renovation contractors
- Additions, sunroom and basement finishing companies
- Showroom-based remodellers selling cabinetry and surfaces
- Exterior remodellers doing siding, windows and decks
- Ageing-in-place and accessibility specialists
- Custom homebuilders moving into remodelling
- Single-trade companies expanding into full remodels
Not for
It is not the right fit if.
- You want a guaranteed Google ranking or a guaranteed number of leads. Nobody honest can promise either.
- You need enquiries by next week and have nobody to answer them.
- You want posts and reach reported, not enquiries and orders.
How it works
From your first message to the first monthly report.
No open-ended retainer. Each step has a point in time and something you receive.
01 · Day 1
Free audit call
45 minutes with whoever handles your enquiries: how they arrive, how fast they are answered, where they are lost.
02 · Within a few working days
Written, scored report
Six areas scored, fixes ranked by return and cost. If you want our help, the scope and fee come with it, in writing.
03 · Before work starts
Baseline recorded
Enquiries by source, reply time, conversion and cost per order, written down so every later month has an honest comparison.
04 · Month 1
The first fix goes live
Usually the cheapest one on the report: reply time, a follow-up sequence or the marketing-to-sales handover.
05 · Every month
Report against the baseline
What moved, what did not, and what changes next, in plain words.
06 · Month 3 to 6
Renew on the numbers
The term ends and you decide whether to continue from the results. No twelve-month lock.
How the work runs for remodelling and home improvement contractors
- 1
Assess
The free audit goes through last year's enquiries. How many became a consultation, how many became a design agreement, and what happened to all the rest?
- 2
Qualify earlier
A budget conversation on the phone, wording that is honest about what work in your market costs, and the design agreement explained before the visit.
- 3
Show the work
Project photography, room by room pages, and a portfolio a homeowner can browse by style and by budget.
- 4
Follow up for months
A written sequence for enquiries that are not ready, with a date against every one and nothing left to memory.
- 5
Go back to past clients
Completed projects contacted about the rooms still undone, and referrals asked for at handover instead of hoped for.
Proof
What happened when owners fixed this.
These are Indian clients, with the numbers their published case studies record. We have no US clients yet, and will not pretend otherwise.
Houzeome Interior Design Studio
- Situation
- A client choosing an interior designer wants to see rooms the studio actually finished. The site showed stock photography, which tells a prospective client nothing about this studio.
- What we did
- A custom site build
- The studio's own photography
- One brand across the site
- Six project pages
- Result
- Six real projects published, each with its own detailed case-study page
Chord Road Hospital
- Situation
- Patients who knew the hospital trusted it. Patients who searched for a department or a treatment in the area did not find it.
- What we did
- Website rebuilt around patient needs
- Search visibility
- Social media on a schedule
- Review management
- Result
- Organic traffic increased 60% within six months
- Online appointment bookings increased 40%
- Social following grew 45%, and engagement on it rose 70%
Also worked with
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Why us
Why owners pick GullySales over an agency.
Marketing and sales, as one job
Most agencies stop at the enquiry. We also fix what happens after it: the reply, the follow-up, the quote and the CRM.
The person on the first call does the work
No account managers in between. You are never handed to someone you have not met.
A baseline before anything starts
Your numbers are written down on day one, so every monthly report compares against something honest.
The fee in writing, split three ways
Our time, your media spend and production on separate lines. You always see what goes to us.
No lock-in, no guarantees we cannot keep
Three to six months at a time. We never promise a ranking or a lead count, because nobody controls those.
Hours that fit your day, agreed up front
Which hours we overlap with yours is settled before any work starts, so you know when a reply is coming and when it is not.
#257, 3rd floor, Sri Nanjundeshwara Complex, Nagarbhavi 8th Block, Outer Ring Road. How we work.
Engagement options
Ways to work with us.
Pick the size of commitment that fits. Every option starts with the free audit.
Option 1
The audit on its own
A 45-minute call and a written, scored report. It says honestly whether you need outside help, and many fixes are ones your own team can make.
Option 2
One fix, scoped
Start with the fix the audit ranks first, such as reply time or follow-up. The fee is in writing before anything starts.
Option 3
A three-to-six-month programme
We run the work month by month, report against the baseline every month, and you renew on the numbers. No twelve-month lock.
Option 4
Guidance for your own team or agency
We plan, brief and check the work of your in-house team or current agency, instead of replacing them.
The offer
Start with a free audit of how you sell.
It is useful on its own, whether or not you hire us.
What you receive
- A 45-minute call with the person who will do the work
- A written, scored report on the six places orders leak, within a few working days
- Every fix ranked by what it returns and what it costs
- The one thing to do first, and why
- An honest line on whether you need outside help at all
- If you do, the scope and the fee in writing
No invoice. No obligation. No sales script.
FAQ
Questions remodelling and home improvement contractors ask before they call.
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