Meta ads that neighbors actually see
Google catches people already searching. Facebook and Instagram reach the neighbor who did not know they needed you until your work slid through their feed. Different job, same rule: every lead gets answered.
The problem
Boosting posts is not a strategy
Most local businesses have tried the blue button. Boost a post, spend fifty dollars, get some likes from three towns over, conclude that social ads do not work. What actually happened is that money went out with no targeting, no offer, and nowhere for an interested neighbor to land.
The other failure is quieter. A decent ad runs, a homeowner taps it at 9pm, fills out the lead form, and then nobody follows up until the interest is gone. Meta leads go cold fast because nobody was searching to begin with. The ad created the moment, and the moment passed on hold.
Run properly, this channel does something search cannot: it keeps your trucks, your crew, and your finished jobs in front of the same few thousand households that can actually hire you, so when the water heater finally quits, yours is the name they already know.
How it works
Real jobs as creative, real follow-up behind it
No stock photos of smiling models in hard hats. Your actual work, in front of your actual neighbors.
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Creative from your jobs
Before-and-afters, crew shots, and finished work become the ads. Real beats polished in a local feed.
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Aimed at your service area
Campaigns target the towns you serve and the people most likely to hire, not the whole county.
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Leads land in one inbox
Lead forms and messages flow into the same inbox as your calls, and the system replies in seconds.
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Follow-up runs itself
Automatic follow-up keeps the 9pm form-filler warm until the job books, without you chasing.
What you get
Managed end to end, on top of the system
- Campaigns built and managed for you. Audiences, creative, offers, and budgets handled. You send job photos when we ask, we do the rest.
- Retargeting that pays twice. People who visited your site or called once keep seeing you, which is where this channel quietly earns its fee.
- Instant lead response. A Meta lead answered in seconds behaves like a referral. One answered tomorrow behaves like spam. The system makes sure it is the first one.
- Spend stays in your account. Ad budget goes to Meta directly. Management is an add-on quoted by scope before launch, and it sits on top of any Midwatch plan.
- The same plain monthly readout. Spend, leads, booked work, and what changes next month, written so it reads in two minutes.
One system
Works with the rest of the system
Feed ads create the moment. These pieces keep it from slipping away.
Pro
Unified inbox
Messenger, Instagram DMs, lead forms, and calls in one thread per customer.
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Review engine
Ads get the look. Stars get the call. The two compound in a small town.
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Reactivation campaigns
Past customers see your seasonal offer in their feed and their texts at the same time.
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Meta ads questions
Google Ads or Meta ads first?
If you only fund one, usually Google, because it catches people already looking. Meta earns its place when you want steady local presence, retargeting, or demand for work people do not search for until they see it, like remodels and upgrades. Plenty of businesses run both on modest budgets.
How is the management fee set?
Set by scope. Ad spend goes to Meta from your own account and you control it. Our management fee is quoted before anything launches, on top of your Midwatch plan, and you always see both numbers separately.
I boosted posts before and got nothing. Why would this differ?
Boosting buys attention with no plan for what happens next. This runs targeted campaigns with a real offer, sends every lead into a system that replies in seconds, and retargets the people who almost called. The difference is not the platform. It is everything wrapped around it.
Do I have to appear in the ads?
No. Job photos carry most local campaigns fine. That said, a ten-second phone video of the owner explaining one thing tends to outperform polished footage, so if you are willing, we will use it.
What do you need from me to start?
Access to your Facebook page, a folder of real job photos, and one short call about which work you want more of. We handle the pixel, the audiences, and the campaign build from there.