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Part of: Turning jobsite photos into marketing

You already take the photos. Here's how remodelers turn them into marketing.

The hardest problem in contractor marketing is getting content out of the field. If your crew uploads to JobTread, you have already solved it.

By Marisol Vega 3 min read
A copper pipe, coiled cable and hand tools racked in order on a bench, early morning, depth from a foreground object slightly out of focus.

Ask any agency that has tried to run marketing for a remodeler what killed it. It was not strategy and it was not the writing. It was three weeks of emails asking for photos of the job that finished in April.

If your crew uploads to JobTread, that problem is already solved and you probably have not noticed.

What is sitting in your account right now

Open a job from last month and look at the photo log. There will be a wide shot from the walkthrough, a few from demolition, something from the day the cabinets landed, and a set from the end because somebody needed them for the closeout.

That is a project story. It is in order, it is dated, it is attached to an address, and it took nobody any extra time to produce, because documenting the job is part of running the job.

What has to happen to it

Four things, none of them creative:

Pick. Most of the photos are documentation: a receipt, a serial number, a sub’s mistake. Perhaps one in eight is worth posting. That is a judgment about light, framing and whether it shows work you want more of.

Pair. A before-and-after needs the day-one shot from the same position as the finished one. When both exist, this is the single most persuasive thing you can put in front of a homeowner.

Brand. Your colors, your logo, your license number and your phone, composited the same way every time, so a grid of your work reads as one company rather than a camera roll.

Publish. To social and to your Google Business Profile, in order, over the weeks the job runs, on the channels that matter for your trade – which for project work means social and the Google Business Profile both.

Why the order matters

A finished kitchen posted on its own is a nice photograph. The same kitchen posted as a project story – demolition, then framing, then tile, then the reveal, over five weeks – answers the question a remodeling customer actually has, which is not “can you do good work” but “will you still be here in week three.”

You cannot fake that arc, and you do not have to, because it is already on your crew’s phones.

What we will not do with them

We do not generate rooms. Not a “before” that never existed, not an “after” that has not been built, not a render dressed as a photograph. Homeowners have learned to spot it, for a business that runs on referrals being caught faking a project is the kind of thing you do not recover from, and the FTC’s guidance on advertising takes the same view of it.

Real photos of real work, branded and captioned. That is the whole rule.

Where PostIQ comes in

We connect to your JobTread account, read the photos your crew is already uploading, pick the ones worth posting, build the posts, and publish them on a schedule. You get a text before anything goes out, and you never open a marketing tool.

References

  1. 1. JobTread — JobTread
  2. 2. Google Business Profile — Google
  3. 3. Advertising and marketing guidance — Federal Trade Commission

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