Interviews with the nations leading plumbing businesses. Discover what marketing efforts actually work and how you can grow your business to the $1M + mark & beyond.
On this episode I interview Josh Kelly – Marketing Director for Parker & Sons. If you are not familiar…their company does over $80M per year and is on pace for $100M this year!!! Listen in as I pick Josh’s brain on what they are doing to keep their phones ringing, trucks running & BUSINESS BOOMING.
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On the interview Josh explained that they do a lot of TV & Radio. He shared that they came up with a unique campaign that helped to differentiate themselves from the industry norms called the “Melvin Campaign”. Here is an example of one of their Melvin Ads: In this episode, Josh Kelly shares keys to successfully marketing your plumbing or home service business, giving tips from his experience. Kelly has led the marketing team at one of the top 5 plumbing companies in the country, Phoenix-based Parker & Sons. This HVAC & Plumbing company is currently on pace to reach $100 million in business this year. Listen along this episode to hear Kelly elaborate on best marketing practices and how to maximize your business’s impact.
Kelly emphasizes through this episode the importance of being a big fish in a small pond. He says it is important for you to have the strongest presence while being efficient. He uses examples of running ads on smaller radio stations or targeting neighborhoods as the market your business can saturate and be the “big fish.” He also mentions roadblocking certain times on television stations as a way to be the “big fish” advertisement-wise. By having a smaller pond, consistency, frequency and longevity in marketing are more easily attainable.
Kelly says that it doesn’t matter as much whether your message is good or bad. Instead, it is whether it is memorable. He tells us about Parker & Son’s Melvin campaign which plays to the perception that plumbers are people you don’t want to deal with and don’t trust. They do so by showing a plumber you wouldn’t want working on your house then, juxtaposing this shady plumber with Parker & Sons, a quality family service. You remember what their company is not and what they are.
Parker & Sons does not limit itself to one, two or three marketing sources. Kelly tells us that his leads are spread wide enough throughout many sources, that they cannot limit them to just one. He gives marketing examples of bathroom walls at Diamondback sporting games, television ads during typically non-recorded segments, talk radio shows, sponsorships, and others to show where they have been the big fish. He adds that if a company cannot diversify its marketing, to at least make sure it is dominating where it is marketing.
RevuKangaroo, an online review system, was born from Kelly’s experience at Parker & Sons. He saw the need for online reviews since 87% of their customers were looking up their company before doing business with them, and most customers were only doing reviews if they had a negative experience. It aids home service industries in boosting their reviews and boasts a 15% boost in revenue in the 1st month in the program. Kelly emphasizes that even if you don’t used RevuKangaroo, your plumbing business should be doing something with reviews.
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