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Boosting Your House Painting Business Revenue: Four Proven Ways to Improve Google Ads Results

Are you a house painting business owner who wants to save money on Google Ads and get more customers? 

We’ve got four simple tips to help you do just that. 

In this blog post, we’ll show you how to make Google Ads work better for your painting business, and it’s not as hard as you might think.

Tip 1 - Make a Special Page For Your Google Ads (Your Landing Page)

To get better results with Google Ads, you need a special page on your website, called a landing page, just for the people who click on your ads. This page should make it easy for them to contact you. 

Be sure that you include your phone number in the upper-right hand side and have a form that they can fill out.  You may also want to consider having a way to directly schedule the appointment, like a calendar or a chat function for the people that cannot wait to get started.

Don’t worry about making it show up on Google.  It doesn’t have to be optimized for SEO (search engine optimization) because you are sending paid traffic to it. 

Instead, make it all about getting people to contact you or leave the page. 

This simple change can make a big difference.

Tip 2 – Make Sure That Your Ads and Page Match (Ad Congruity)

If your ad talks about a specific service or benefit, make sure the page it leads to talks about the same thing. If your ad is about painting a room, the page should be too. If it’s about fixing a ceiling, the page should be all about that. This way, people won’t get confused, and more of them will contact you.

You will also want to use similar fonts, colors and images.

This technique is called “ad congruity” and it helps potential clients make the connection from your ad to your landing page in their mind.  The more they can look alike, the better. 

If your website hasn’t been updated in a while, this article will help!

Tip 3 - Focus on What People Want (Focus on the Client’s What’s In It For Me?)

Instead of talking about what you do, focus on what people want. 

People who need painting services want their homes to look great. So, tell them how your painting services will make their homes look amazing. Talk about the results and benefits they’ll get. This will get more people interested in what you offer.

People always want to know, “What’s in it for me?”

So, answer them in a way that will elevate their status, but will highlight what you can do.  It’s a win-win for everyone.

Tip 4 - Show You're Trustworthy

People like to see that others have been happy with your services. In fact, 46% of consumers feel that online business reviews are as trustworthy as personal recommendations from friends or family according to BrightLocal.

Add reviews from past customers to your landing page. These can be written reviews and even short videos where your happy customers talk about their experience. You can even use widgets to embed the latest reviews from Google into your Website if you are using WordPress.

By making it easy to see what people are saying, it helps people trust you and decide to contact you.

Sometimes, people don’t leave reviews because they don’t know what to write.  To make it easy to leave a review, send your client some variation of the following email:

“Mrs. Smith – 

We hope that you found our service to be extraordinary.  If that is the case, we would love for you to leave us a review.

To help you get started (and avoid writer’s block), we have found that the most impactful reviews answer these questions:

  • What work did we do for you and where are you located?
  • Was it done well?
  • Why did you pick our company?
  • What was the best thing about working with our company?
  • Would you recommend us to family and friends?

Please click here and it will take you directly to our Google Review Page: [Link]

Thank you for choosing us and we really appreciate you taking the time to leave a review.” 

We recommend asking for a review after your final walkthrough, which is when your client should be the happiest.

By asking these questions, you help guide them to use the words and phrases that will make your reviews relevant to most searchers looking for companies like yours. In addition, they will leave reviews that look non-spammy and well thought out.

Where To Go From Here

Improving your Google Ads results is doable, even if you’re running a house painting business by yourself. 

By following these simple steps, you can save money on advertising and get more customers. Just make a special landing page, match your ads to it, focus on what people want, and show that you’re trustworthy. These changes can help your business grow. 

If you need more help, feel free to reach out to IFTS. Good luck with your house painting business!

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for House Painting Companies in 2023: Help Your Brand Stand Out In The Search Results (SERPs) Part 1

Does your painting business’ website show up where you want it in the Google search results for ALL potential clients?

If not, this article is for you.

We will review what SEO is, why it’s important and the steps that you can take to improve your ranking.

Unveiling the Significance of SEO: Boosting Your Painting Business Through Effective Strategies

The success of your business largely depends on how well you rank online. To achieve this goal, it’s essential to prioritize the right SEO techniques that will boost your marketing efforts and drive growth. With these strategies in place, there’s no limit to what you can accomplish!

Google processes over 5 billion searches everyday!  One out of five queries originate from mobile devices. In fact, more than half of mobile queries are “near me” searches.  For the desktop inquiries, which make up the other 80% of searches, roughly twenty percent have local intent. 

This trend highlights the importance for businesses to optimize their online presence and ensure they appear prominently when potential customers search nearby.

Its evident that local search behavior has immense potential for generating new house painting leads! By crafting a targeted campaign focused on consumers in specific areas and implementing effective marketing techniques you can enhance your visibility online. This will ultimately lead to increased chances of attracting fresh customers who may not have known about you otherwise.

Strategy 1 – Business Listings: Enhancing and Tracking Key Elements

By optimizing your Google Business Profile Listing correctly, you could potentially reach the top of organic SERPs within the local results section for your niche. 

However, don’t limit yourself to just focusing on your Google Business Profile alone when it comes to improving your local SEO campaign. Optimizing your business listings on social media sites, Yelp and other major listings is crucial for attracting customers.  

To achieve this, you will need to claim, optimize, verify, manage and sync all relevant information about your company across these platforms.  

(Need help with this? Our services will ensure that potential clients find accurate details about what you offer when they search online. Don’t miss out – let us handle the heavy lifting so you can focus on running a successful painting company! Email si@iftsdesign.com to find out more)

So, what do you need to sync across all of your listings?

Business NAP (Name / Address / Phone Number)

Make sure that your company’s name, address and phone number is written exactly the same across all listings and your website.

As an example, if your address is “123 North Smith Street,” don’t have your website say “123 N. Smith Street” and the Google Business Profile say “123 North Smith St.” Choose one version of the name/address/phone number and stick to it.

Your Painting Business’ Website

Having a link to your official website is crucial.  This gives Google and other search engines a link to follow, which gives them relevant information about your company.  It also allows customers looking at your citation to go directly to your site.

Business Hours / Description / Categories

All your listings should have the same hours, description and industry categories. If they don’t, the search engines will be confused about which is the correct and most relevant data about you. This could result in a lower result for your website in the results.

Images / Videos Of Your Painting Jobs and Team

Including high-quality images and videos can set your citation apart from others in your industry. It will maximize your visibility and sometimes, will make your citation larger than others, which catches the eye of the person browsing.

Online Reviews

While you can’t optimize your reviews, technically speaking, it is still essential to keep a close eye on them. Regularly checking up on new listings for fresh feedback is important. So is flagging any spam or inappropriate comments.

Bad review? No problem! Responding professionally when dealing with dissatisfied customers who may have had negative experiences shows that you care about the client experience and gives you a chance to fix the issue. 

This approach helps ensure that everyone has an opportunity to share their thoughts while also maintaining the integrity of online review platforms overall. By staying vigilant about these matters, painting businesses like yours are better equipped than ever before to address concerns head-on and ultimately improve customer satisfaction levels over time!

Strategy 2 – Local SEO: Attract More Clients Near You

Want to improve your local presence online? Start with your website!

Using multiple SEO strategies to optimize your website is crucial to getting more local house painting clients.

Here’s a great way to start this process:

Website URLs, Page Titles, and Meta Descriptions

When Google and other search engines crawl your site, it’s important to have these elements filled in and optimized. 

[Side Note – If your website is created in WordPress, you can use the Yoast plugin to take care of all of these]

The website URL is the website address of the page www.yoursite.com/page-name. You’ll want to be sure that the page-name element contains keywords and your local town name.

The page title is the name of the webpage that appears in the tab on your browser.  A good format for naming your webpages is “Keyword 1 – Keyword 2 | Company Name.”

The meta description is the short paragraph that appears below the website name in the search engine results.  Google does not look at this when determining page rank, but your client is going to read it. Put the most relevant information in there for them.

Contact Information and Business Hours

Just like with the citations, you want to be sure that your website clearly lists the hours and how to contact you. Make sure that this information is consistent with the citations as well.

Landing Pages

Want to attract clients from multiple areas?

Have a landing page that is optimized for each location.  However, one important thing to note – these pages cannot have the exact same text on each page. Be sure to customize it to that town or be penalized by Google.

Blog

Having a blog is a great way to improve your SEO!  

You can showcase your latest projects, highlight an employee, inform your clients and prospects about a frequently asked question, or talk about events that are happening in your town. Each one of these allows that specific blog entry to be optimized to a set of keywords that are relevant to your local area.  More about this in the next post…

To Be Continued…

Ready to get started? Implement the two SEO tactics above.  

In our next post, Strategy 4, Strategy 5 and Strategy 6 Will Be Revealed.

Unlocking Success for House Painters – The Economics of Client Acquisition

Have your PPC ad costs gone up over the past year?

We have seen the rising costs of Google ads prompting many painting companies to reduce their advertising spending. However, this shift can be detrimental, potentially allowing competitors to
dominate the market.

Why?

Because whoever is willing and able to spend the most money to acquire a client will ultimately come out on top.

This concept, emphasized by marketing strategist Dan Kennedy, highlights the importance of structuring the economics of your business to support a robust client acquisition strategy.

In this article, we will explore the key numbers that drive your business’s profitability, delve into the concept of cost to acquire a client (CTA) versus average client value (ACV), and discuss how house painters can increase their ACV to gain a competitive advantage in client acquisition.

Understanding the Numbers – CTA vs ACV

Two crucial figures play a significant role in your business’s success: the cost to acquire a client (CTA) and the average client value (ACV). The wider the gap between these two values, the higher your profit margin. 

In this economy, it’s essential to shift your focus away from reducing CTA. Instead you should concentrate on increasing the amount of money you make from each client.

For example, let’s say the average exterior house painting job in your area is valued at $5,000. A decent return on marketing ad spend is 5:1.

In this scenario, if your ACV to CTA ratio is 5 to 1 or better, you can afford to spend $1,000 on acquiring a client. 

However, what if you could elevate your average client value to $10,000?

This improved ratio would allow you to spend $2,000 to acquire a client.

The Power of Economics – Beat Your Competition Every Time

By strategically structuring your company’s economics, you can afford to spend more money to acquire clients and outshine your competitors. 

Let’s again consider the scenario where your average revenue per client is $10,000, while your competitor’s average revenue is $5,000. With an increased ACV, you can allocate $2,000 towards client acquisition, whereas your competitor can only invest $1,000. 

This substantial investment disparity positions you to win clients consistently, as you have the financial capability to outspend your competitors.

Continuously Evaluating Your House Painting Business Model

To maintain a winning edge, it’s crucial to continuously evaluate and enhance your business model. 

Ask yourself, “What else can we do to increase the average value we make from a client, enabling us to spend more on client acquisition?” 

This question will drive innovation and identify additional opportunities to upsell or cross-sell to existing clients, increasing their lifetime value.

Converting Traffic and Building Loyalty

In the realm of online marketing, there are three types of traffic: 

  • traffic you control, 
  • traffic you don’t control, 
  • and traffic you own. 

The ultimate goal is to convert the traffic you control and the traffic you don’t control into traffic you own. 

Traffic you own refers to having access to essential user data, such as email addresses and phone numbers, which allows for direct communication and relationship-building. Once you have traffic you own, you gain greater control over converting prospects into clients. 

Explore opportunities to expand your services or offer maintenance plans, such as treating a deck annually after building and painting it. Additionally, leverage your existing client base to upsell complementary services or offer discounts on additional projects, creating a cycle of repeat business.

Some examples of this might be:

If you did the exterior painting for someone, maybe you could give them a deal on the interior, or, maybe you could sell them a power washing package to help the paint last longer.

If you did a complete kitchen makeover, you could then sell them interior painting of all of the rooms around the kitchen to make the whole level look new.

Offer a design package on top of painting to help your clients get a “Designer look”.

Start Raising your ACV Today

By understanding and optimizing the economics of client acquisition, house painters can position themselves for success in an increasingly competitive market. By focusing on increasing average client value, rather than solely reducing costs, painters can afford to invest more in client acquisition, outspending competitors and securing a larger market share. 

Continually evaluating and enhancing the business model, along with converting traffic into loyal customers, further solidifies long-term success. Embrace these strategies, unlock your business’s potential, and watch your painting business thrive.

Need help implementing any of the ideas discussed in the article?  Let IFTS help!

Call 412.715.6266 or send an email to si@iftsdesign.com to get started.