Guide

Facebook and Instagram Ads for Builders: What Works

Meta advertising works for trades when it promotes one specific job to one specific area, with the follow-up set up before it goes live.

One service, one area, one advert

'Extensions in south Leeds' beats 'quality building services'. Narrow adverts are cheaper and produce better enquiries.

Use your own footage

A short clip walking through a finished job outperforms polished graphics. It looks real, because it is.

Set up the follow-up first

Meta enquiries are colder than Google ones. Without an instant reply and a reminder sequence, most go quiet.

Judge it on surveys, not clicks

The only number that matters is how many enquiries turned into a booked survey and what those surveys were worth.

Written by Oliver Martin, founder of OMP and director of a UK construction company.

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