For hardscaping contractors
Stop taking whatever calls in. Start picking the jobs worth doing.
Your own ads. Your own page. Homeowners booked onto your calendar for an estimate. You look at the work, you price it, and you take the ones that make sense.
No pitch deck. Thirty minutes. You will know if this fits.
What is actually broken
The work is there. Nothing is holding it.
A homeowner sees your boosted post and hits Send Message. It lands in a Messenger inbox. It is Saturday. You are on a driveway with a plate compactor running.
By Monday she has three other quotes and a deposit down with somebody who answered first.
That is not a demand problem. It is a selection problem. You do not need to be busier. You need better jobs to choose from.
Plainly stated
These are not shared or recycled contacts.
Your ads
The ads run under your business name, for your service area, in your metro only.
Your page
The homeowner lands on a page that carries your name.
Your appointment
That homeowner talks to nobody else. Not another contractor, not a call center.
How it works
Three moving parts. That is the whole thing.
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01
We put you in front of homeowners
Ads in your metro, under your name, aimed at homeowners who are looking for this work right now.
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We book the estimate
Inquiries get answered fast and turn into an appointment on your calendar, in the days and areas you choose.
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03
You pick and you price
You walk the job, quote it at your number, and let the small ones across town go to somebody else.
The promise
Same crew. Same weeks. Bigger jobs.
Labor is the hard part of this trade, so more volume is the wrong thing to sell you. What changes is the choosing. More estimates means the forty-five minute drive for a two thousand dollar job goes to somebody else, and your crew spends the season on the patios and outdoor living builds worth the truck roll.
This fits you
- You are an owner-operator with a small crew.
- You install paver patios, driveways, walkways, retaining walls and outdoor living spaces.
- You can hold a price when the job is right.
This does not fit you
- You want to be the cheapest bid on the street and you will take anything.
- Nobody at your shop can show up to a booked appointment on time.
- You are looking for a contact list to buy.
- You want a promise about volume rather than about which jobs you run.
Questions
The ones I get asked on every call.
Are these shared or recycled contacts?
No. The ads run on your business page, under your name, in your service area only. The homeowner who books an estimate with you is not passed to another contractor and is not sold on to anybody else. There is no list involved.
Whose ad account is it, and who pays for the ads?
The ads run under your business name and the ad budget is paid by you, direct to Meta, on your own card. It never passes through Vantage. You can open the account whenever you want and see every dollar and every result yourself.
I already boost posts on Facebook. What is different here?
A boosted post sends a homeowner into Messenger and then waits for somebody to read it. You are on a driveway with a plate compactor running, so nobody does, and by Monday she has three other quotes. Here she lands on a page with your name on it and books a time on your calendar instead of starting a conversation that somebody has to go and answer.
What happens when a homeowner books?
The appointment goes onto your calendar, in the days and the areas you told me you want them. You walk the job, you price it at your number, and you decide whether to take it.
How fast do I hear back after I book?
You do not wait on a callback. You pick the time on the calendar yourself and it is confirmed on the spot, so you leave the page knowing exactly when we speak.
What does it cost?
We go through that on the call, once I know what you install, what an average job is worth to you and how many estimates you run in a normal week. Those three numbers decide whether any of this pays for itself, and if it does not I would rather say so on the phone than sell you something.
Something not answered here? Email info@vantageacquisitionsgroup.com and ask, or put thirty minutes on the calendar.
I am Adam. I run Vantage Acquisitions out of Bloomington, Minnesota, and I work with hardscaping contractors only. One trade, one job to do: get good estimates on your calendar so you get to choose.
Adam Said
Book the estimates. Take the good ones.
If your season is filling up with the wrong work, this is the conversation to have before spring.
No pitch deck. Thirty minutes. You will know if this fits.