We don’t just do marketing. We understand landscapers.
Landscaping has the most extreme seasonality of any trade we work with. March to August is chaos. November to February is a desert. Customers buy on photos. Competition runs from one-man-and-a-van up to full design-build studios. The marketing has to span all of it, and start in November for the following March, not in March for March.
Visual portfolio is everything. Landscaping is bought entirely on photographs. A customer scrolls Instagram for three weeks, falls in love with one before/after, books a consultation. If your portfolio looks like a builder’s, bad lighting, dirty boots in shot, no after photos, you lose to the studio with the proper photography. We brief and run the visual content the trade demands.
Spring is booked in winter. The customer who calls in March wanting a new patio by May is already too late, most good landscapers are booked through August by mid-February. We start ad spend in November, run nurture content through January, and capture the customers who plan ahead. That’s where the premium work lives.
Average job value swings hard. A repointing or fence-fix job is £800. A full garden makeover is £25,000. An “every-six-weeks maintenance” contract is £3,000/yr recurring. Your marketing has to chase whichever you’re trying to build, you can’t do all three at once.
You’re competing with man-in-a-van. Every postcode has 50+ “landscapers” on Facebook who are one bloke with a wheelbarrow. Most homeowners can’t tell the difference at first glance. We make sure yours is obvious, APL membership, insurance, proper before/after work, design qualifications, a named team.