Has a storm recently rolled through your area of service? You know it won’t be long before roofers from everywhere are crawling all over the affected neighborhood. Have you ever wondered what you should do in situations like this?
I currently live near Nashville, Tennessee, and I witnessed several tornadoes roll through a couple of times. I drove through the neighborhoods that were affected, and I noticed many roofing companies are hard at work. As I was driving around, I wondered, if I owned a roofing company in the local area, what would I do to ensure that I received the most amount of jobs possible in this current situation. So, as I was driving through, I was brainstorming on how I could reach these individual homeowners with my message.
Here is a guide that I came up with to effectively reach those homeowners in a recently affected storm-damaged area:
Do Your Research
Find out the specific zip codes in neighborhoods, and addresses that have been affected by the recent storm. Find out which houses might have been damaged by the recent storm and if insurance could replace their roofs.
Google Display Ads
Once you have found the addresses and the ZIP codes in the neighborhoods, you can pinpoint where you want to target display ads. What I would do is create ads that target the homeowners offering storm-damaged roof services. Once they click on the ad, I would redirect them to a landing page with a video of you in the neighborhood weaning out the different roofs while explaining how you can help the homeowners. On this landing page, you want to be sure to leave a call to action instructions, either calling a phone number right away or filling out a lead form.
Physical Postcards
After the research you did earlier, you can go to the nearest Post Office and find out how many addresses are in the affected neighborhoods. You can ask the post office to ship to these addresses your postcard with a message telling the homeowners that you could be the solution to their storm-damaged roof.
Be sure to leave a strong call to action.
Yard Signs
Let’s say that the storm just blew. You need to place yard signs on all major intersections throughout the entire part of the town that has been affected. Once you have started doing a few jobs in that area, leave your yard signs right where you completed the jobs. The neighbors will drive by this sign over and over, day after day. The yard sign will serve as social proof that a customer is happy with your service, and this will tell them the message.
Door knocking
I am personally not a fan of door-knocking because it is like you are chasing the customer instead of them coming to you. However, if you have an extra workforce, this is an exception to use the door-knocking technique. You can give your door-knockers the neighborhood’s zip codes so they will knock on each door in that affected area. It would help if you offered value at the entrance to these prospects. Try providing them with some samples (ex. roofing samples, etc.). If they are genuinely interested in your services, you can take down their information in return for a visit with samples in hand as well as a professional salesman to try to close the deal right then and there.
Google Search Ads
In times like this, you can set up Google Search Ads designed and tailored for storm-damaged searches. All the homeowners are looking for solutions to their roofs. You want to be sure to target these individuals with your ads. These tips will be beneficial leads since they are actively searching for a solution to their roofing problem.
Storm Damage Organic Rankings
Lastly, you need to create a landing page tailored for storm damage Roofing Services within the specific cities you serve. Once you have this landing page with plenty of content and you are already proactively doing SEO on your website, this page should rank effortlessly. Your competitors are doing it, so you might as well do it and make sure you do it right. If you do not currently have this ready, use this time to be proactive in the next storm. All you need to do is create an SEO optimized storm damage Roofing Services Page.
Conclusion
All over the country, there are different kinds of storms that can affect home roofs. But the message of this article can also be applied to each specific type of storm. If you do the action steps listed above, I guarantee you will get more jobs than you thought possible!
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