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Who we serve
Marketing for Cleaning Companies and Restoration Crews
You have two businesses in one truck. Restoration is won or lost in the minutes after a pipe bursts. Recurring cleaning is won by being the company an office manager trusts in the building after hours. They need different marketing, and most companies only build one.
Sound familiar?
The problems we hear from cleaning and restoration companies every week
National restoration franchises with real ad budgets own the emergency searches in your own county
Residential cleaning turns into a price-shopping race where the cheapest quote wins and the customer leaves in four months
Commercial janitorial work is bid and referred, so your website does nothing for the accounts you most want
Minutes
decide the restoration job.
Water is moving, the insurance clock is running, and the homeowner is calling down the list. Whoever answers and says "we can be there" gets a job worth thousands — and it is almost never the second call.
The fix
What we build for cleaning and restoration companies
- An emergency-ready Google Business Profile and a page for each disaster people actually search — water damage, sewage backup, fire and smoke, mold, storm cleanup — with 24/7 answering wired to all of it
- Recurring-cleaning pages that sell on the things price shoppers cannot see: background-checked staff, the same crew every visit, bonded and insured, and a real checklist — so you stop being quoted against someone with a bucket and a car
- An AI receptionist that answers at 2 AM, gets the address and the situation, tells the caller you are on the way per your rules, and pages your on-call tech — while daytime calls get booked for a walkthrough
- Follow-up and reviews built for both sides: a review request the day a restoration job is finished and the relief is real, and a quarterly check-in on commercial accounts so renewals are never a surprise
A restoration call is won in minutes, and it starts with showing up in the map pack. That is ordinary local SEO work, done properly and kept up.
Restoration is the fastest emergency vertical there is — faster than a furnace in January — and the answering and follow-up engine we already run for the trades is the part that wins it. The recurring side runs on the same trust signals as every service business on this site.
Questions owners ask
Cleaning and restoration marketing questions, answered
How fast do we actually have to answer a water damage call?
Immediately, and that is not marketing exaggeration. People with water spreading across a floor call three companies in about five minutes and go with whoever picks up and gives a time. This is the single clearest case for an AI receptionist we can make — it answers on the first ring at 3 AM, every time, and pages you with the address.
Most of our restoration work is insurance claims. Does that change things?
It changes the copy, not the engine. Homeowners still choose who to call — the carrier rarely assigns it — so being findable and answering still decides the job. We put your certifications, your direct-billing process, and a plain explanation of how a claim works where a panicked homeowner can read it.
Can we really compete with the national franchises?
Locally, yes. They win on budget; you win on the map, on real local reviews, on actually answering, and on being twenty minutes away instead of dispatched from two counties over. Those four things decide more emergency jobs than ad spend does.
Residential customers only ever ask about price. How do we change that?
By answering a different question than the one they asked. Who is coming into my house, are they screened, is it the same person each time, what exactly gets cleaned, and what happens if something breaks. Companies that answer those on the page get compared on trust instead of on hourly rate, and they keep customers far longer.
We want more commercial contracts, not houses. Can marketing do that?
Partly, and we will be straight about the limits. Janitorial contracts are still won by relationships and bids. What marketing does is make you look like a real company when a facility manager checks you out, get you found for "commercial cleaning" searches that do happen, and keep your existing accounts warm so renewals stay easy.
What does it cost?
Packages typically start around $500/month. A two-person residential crew and a restoration company with a 24-hour truck are different builds, so the free audit is where we scope it.
The Playbook
Plays for cleaning and restoration companies.
What actually works, written in plain English — no marketing degree required.
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