{"podcast":{"title":"Beers With Contractors","slug":"beers-with-contractors-6738776","podcast_index_feed_id":6738776,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/ef70d9c0/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://unisonworx.com/beers-with-contractors?utm_campaign=Beers%20with%20Contractors&utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/40071504/40071504-1703100236405-a040268315fed.jpg","author":"Beers with Contractors","episode_count":144,"summary":"Welcome to Beers with Contractors. We're cracking a cold one and taking a deep dive into the foundations of your construction business, pun intended, to unearth the strategies, techniques, and insider knowledge that can take your contracting business to the next level. So, grab your favorite beer, pull up a seat, and let's have a chat about the nuts and bolts of the construction industry.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-04T02:19:38.817079+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/beers-with-contractors-6738776"},"episode":{"title":"S2 E68 - Best Marketing and Lead Gen Lessons from Top Guests","slug":"s2-e68-best-marketing-and-lead-gen-lessons-from-top-guests","published_at":"2026-04-23T21:11:26+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/beers-with-contractors-6738776/s2-e68-best-marketing-and-lead-gen-lessons-from-top-guests","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/beers-with-contractors-6738776","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beers-with-contractors/episodes/S2-E68---Best-Marketing-and-Lead-Gen-Lessons-from-Top-Guests-e3icge8","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/ef70d9c0/podcast/play/118947720/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-3-23%2F422731898-44100-2-d7eff14732374.mp3","summary":"Will introduces a “mix-up” compilation episode of Beers with Contractors after a multi-city speaking sprint, focusing on lead generation and marketing takeaways from past guests. The clips cover how home-service contractors should approach a first $5K–$10K marketing spend by setting up Google listings, using Google/Facebook ads, building listings across sites, and layering PPC/SEO/SEM, home and garden shows, and even direct mail while tracking cost per lead. Guests emphasize scaling through marketing and sales, prioritizing fewer but higher-quality leads over cheap unqualified sources, raising average ticket to grow without more leads, and using AI to launch campaigns faster and reduce acquisition costs. They discuss remarketing old leads via email/text, rapid call-backs to improve lead-to-appointment conversion, avoiding blindly auto-applying Google ad recommendations, and measuring the right KPIs. Additional strategies include TV news/weather frequency for brand building, the hidden costs of weak branding, and low-cost local tactics like door hangers, yard signs as “silent referrals,” and neighborhood canvassing to become “five-mile famous.” 00:00 Introduction 00:41 Clip 1 - The Best First Move For Your Small Marketing Budget 03:29 Clip 2 - Why More Leads Can Hurt Your Sales Team 06:09 Clip 3 - The Mindset Behind Tripling Your Sales in Just Three Years 08:15 Clip 4 - The #1 Sign Your Marketing Agency Is Falling Behind 10:03 Clip 5 - How Contractors Turn Old Leads Into New Revenue 10:56 Clip 6 - Here’s How to Boost Lead Conversion by 23%! 13:38 Clip 7 - The #1 Way to Ruin Your Contractor Marketing in 2025 15:59 Clip 8 - TV Marketing Doesn’t Work Like You Think 20:22 Clip 9 - Bad Branding Is Costing You Thousands 23:11 Clip 10 - When Customers Don’t Know You Exist Unti…","meta_description":"Will introduces a “mix-up” compilation episode of Beers with Contractors after a multi-city speaking sprint, focusing on lead generation and marketing tak…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2352,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/beers-with-contractors-6738776/episodes/s2-e68-best-marketing-and-lead-gen-lessons-from-top-guests/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/beers-with-contractors-6738776/s2-e68-best-marketing-and-lead-gen-lessons-from-top-guests.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}