Run Opus Leads • Helping home improvement businesses grow • [email protected]

United Kingdom
Joined September 2026
Cleaning business owners: Now’s the time to get yourselves in front of Airbnb owners HARD - Airbnb specific services - Landing pages targeting Airbnb owners - Airbnb specific campaigns + creative - Solid tracking and follow up If you do this right, you’ll have consistent, low-churn custom for years Don’t miss the opportunity
JUST IN: Airbnb announces new rules banning hosts from requiring guests to wash dishes, do laundry, strip beds, or take out garbage before checkout.
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Not sure how? Message me, I’d be happy to help
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Think ads are too expensive? £1500 a month in ads 30 enquiries 10 surveys booked 3 jobs at £5K £15K of work off £1.5K 10x ROI
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Tradespeople: don't do this. Especially with a gold credit card around your neck lol There's a difference between showing your work and using the customer as part of your content Gain trust with before and afters (with permission, no house number, no faces) No customer wants you shouting into a camera around their property instead of actually getting the work done
Under any circumstances show your customer’s house number on the internet when they ask you not to!
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UK Heat Pump Installers: 570,000 people have asked Octopus about heat pumps in 18 months and most independent installers still don't run a single ad Octopus are creating the demand for you If you're a local heat pump installer and you're not showing up when those people Google "heat pump installer near me" after getting an Octopus quote, you're leaving easy money on the table
The Cosy 12 heat pump was just named one of TIME's Best Inventions of 2026 – an accolade shared by the @Apple iPhone, the @Dyson Air Multiplier and the @Tesla Model S. 570,000 people have asked us about getting a heat pump in the last 18 months. That’s roughly a third of the UK’s yearly boiler replacements. It makes sense when (not to plug or anything but) a heat pump on a smart tariff costs around £230 a year less to run than a gas boiler, or nearly £350 without the gas standing charge. And 9 in 10 who’ve switched are happy with their Cosy heat pump. The Boiler Upgrade Scheme helped get us here. Keep backing it, keep growing the market, and heat pumps will keep getting more affordable for households across the country. We are very proud of the little heat pump that could. Last night, Cosy had a big night out to celebrate 👇 (The photo NOT AI - we really did hand glue a billion sequins to crown Cosy!)
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What's the most worst thing a tradesperson can do when quoting? Extra marks for things that have happened to you
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If a customer has to ask what your quote includes, you've already lost some of them BE CLEAR: What's included, what isn't, VAT or no VAT, when you can start, how long the job will take, etc It takes 2 minutes and it's the second cheapest conversion boost a trade business can get (the first is fast lead times) And agencies: Help your clients with this Create clear quotes and contracts for them (many struggle with this in house) And integrate clear automated communication and proper follow-up, so customers know what's happening When ours clients conversion rates are low, we're in the firing-line. So don't assume it's fine because "it's on them"
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In the US, LSA is the default first channel for home services Here in the UK, it’s a niche add-on for a handful of trades, so search PPC does the heavy lifting That means we have to get PPC right If you’re a home services business in the US And you’re looking for someone who knows his stuff to help with the LSA move to Google Ads Send a message my way
LSA is moving to Google Ads, and I just received the email saying we are moving in November. But... We don't have anything setup in Google Ads since we have never done any PPC. I need to get the current LSA account set up under Google Ads and also get the new acquisitions location set up for LSA. Not sure if I want to try and get this done myself or hire a company to set it all up. I don't have a lot of interest in paying for PPC management right now... So might have to do this on my own.
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Google gives you exactly what you ask for, which is only a problem if not set up right Ask for installs like Burak: you get people who install Same for local business: optimise for form fills and you get form fills, optimise for booked jobs and it starts finding people who pay
Google Ads literally brings in the most low-intent, NPC-like users if you run an install campaign. They spend 10 seconds max in your app and just leave. I understand that install campaigns aren't designed to target high-intent users, but it's nowhere near this bad with Meta or Search Ads. Be really careful with Google Ads install campaigns. Ideally, don't even run them or waste your money on them.
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A lot of this gets solved before the job starts Tell customers what's happening each day, how long things will take, and when they'll get an update They hover because they think they might be needed or they aren’t sure what’s going on in their own home
If you have a contractor working in your home please please don’t keep walking in and standing to look while we’re working. This essentially is my “office” and I’m working, I know you probably don’t want people constantly walking in and bothering you in your work space.
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UK heat pump installers, this is your 2027 offer handed to you on a plate • Cooling is what actually gets people interested • Heating is what they need Being able to package a want AND a need together makes making the sale easy Sell both angles
.@OctopusEnergy has announced the Cosy Cooler 🧊 It turns a Cosy heat pump into air con, from £500–600 and coming in 2027 👀 Sign me up! 🙏🏼
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Trade businesses: Christmas is a terrible time to switch your ads off Everyone else does, clicks get cheaper, and people searching in December are planning January jobs Keep them running, even at half the budget
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Things that cost trade businesses jobs that have nothing to do with price: • Turning up late to the survey • Quote taking 2 weeks • No photos of previous work • Not answering the phone • Not responding to leads within 5 mins • A quote that just says "kitchen fit £14,000" • Never following up These cost nothing to fix
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Every time a grant gets cut (which does really suck), a load of installers find out they never had a marketing plan If today your enquiries only exist because of a grant, start building something else now while it's still running
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If you install insulation, heating controls, or solar in the UK and you're not marketing to landlords right now, you're missing a trick Rentals MUST to hit EPC band C by 2030 (google MEES) So thousands of landlords are about to need quotes and most have no idea where to start
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Simple test for any home improvement firm Ring your own business from someone else's phone at 5:30pm on a Thursday See if you get through to anyone
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Good news for local trade businesses if it means we can stop performance max spending half the budget on random display and YouTube placements
Google Ads is rolling out two new optional campaign controls: Channel Prioritization and Budget Allocation. These optional features are designed to give you more flexibility over where your campaign budgets go across Google Channels, the Google Display Network and Google Search Partners – moving beyond binary opt-out choices. 👇
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Home improvement businesses: This is how this stuff should be sold Nobody buys a new kitchen to save money If your website, offer, and pitch is based around costs and pricing, your customers will be price focused (and your margins suffer)
I didn’t build a ducted air source heat pump into my home to save a lot in bills. I did it because it provides fast heating & cooling, removed reliance on fossil fuels, ascetically better, saved space & provided zonal control When did money saving become the only measure?
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Great idea from Noah And you can go a step further: Start with a one-tap page like this one • If they tap Yes, send them to the review page • If they tap No, send them to a feedback page This way you can auto-send to all customers, minimise the % of bad reviews, and have a chance to put a bad experience right
🤖 Made with AI
We're about to test a new review link with a few home service companies. Instead of sending every customer straight to Google, it gives them a few places to leave one. Google still gets almost all of it. Once a business already ranks well on the map, the split we're aiming for is about 85 to 90% Google, with the rest spread across BBB, Angi, and Facebook. AI search pulls from more than your Google profile. In our tracking, Yelp, Angi, BBB, and Yellow Pages get pulled into AI answers more than any other directories, and the reviews on them help. How it works: > One link on the tech's QR card and in the follow-up text > Google shows up first, with the biggest button > BBB, Angi, and Facebook sit under it for customers who have accounts there. Most don't, so those pick up a few here and there. > Every customer sees the same page. Nobody gets asked if they were happy first.
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Agency tip Before a campaign goes live, tell your client the date they'll actually be able to judge the results by Not "give it time". An actual date Saves so many awkward week 2 phone calls
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