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A marketing agency that has shipped software for job sites

Most agencies have never met a foreman. We build contractor websites that close, follow-up systems that answer while your hands are full, and we have built field-operations software used by real crews on real builds.

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The short answer

EVM is a marketing agency for contractors and field services: websites that capture the job details, missed-call text-back, an optional AI receptionist at $500/month, and Google Ads when you are ready to buy volume. The website tier is $500/month and you own the site; custom field-operations software is scoped at $150/hr. The proof build is Buffalo Windshield: Page 1 for 9 of 10 keywords in 18 days.

The contractor marketing problem is a hands-full problem

Your leads call while you are on a ladder, under a sink, or forty minutes into a pour. The industry average response to a web lead is 42 hours; the lead is gone in 5 minutes, into the voicemail of the next contractor on the list. No amount of ad spend fixes that. The fix is a system: a site that captures the job details, a text-back that fires the second you miss a call, an alert that puts the hot lead on your phone, and, if you want it, an AI receptionist that answers every call like a front desk you do not have to hire.

Built for trades, proven in one

The package we run for contractors is the same one that put Buffalo Windshield, a one-location auto glass shop, on Page 1 for 9 of 10 keywords in 18 days, above Safelite. Service pages, location pages, insurance pages, all schema-marked, all loading in under a second, with every lead landing in the owner's Gmail in real time. Auto glass is a trade; your trade gets the same machine.

We also build the software side of a contracting business

This is where EVM stops resembling a marketing agency. For a construction client we designed and shipped a field-operations portal: daily reports filed from phones, multi-foreman inspection workflows with approval loops, threaded communication between office and crew, and voice notes that transcribe themselves. If your bottleneck is the paperwork between the job site and the office rather than the lead flow, we build for that too, as custom software you own.

What a contractor engagement looks like

Where we actually are

Effective Visibility Marketing has one office: 2405 Leigh Ln, Cedar Falls, IA 50613. We do not have a Waterloo office, a Des Moines office, or a branch anywhere else, and this site will never claim one. We serve Cedar Falls and Waterloo in person, the rest of Iowa by a short drive or a call, and clients across the United States remotely. If a local agency page you are comparing us against claims offices it does not have, treat that as data about how they market.

The contractor stack

Three pieces, added in order

Questions

Contractor marketing questions

Which trades do you work with?
General contractors, construction, roofing, HVAC, plumbing, lawn and landscape, snow removal, auto glass, and adjacent field services. The lead-capture problem is identical across them; the pages and keywords change.
I already pay for leads from HomeAdvisor/Angi. Why do I need this?
Shared leads are rented demand: you pay per lead, you race four competitors to the phone, and the platform owns the customer. Your own site plus map pack rankings is owned demand that compounds, and the follow-up system means you win the race even on the rented leads.
How fast will I see leads?
The follow-up system starts saving missed calls the day it turns on. Rankings take longer: our public benchmark is Page 1 for 9 of 10 keywords in 18 days for a client in a competitive trade, with 30 to 60 days being typical.
What does the field-operations software cost?
Custom software is scoped per project at $150/hr, sized after we understand the workflow. The marketing stack does not require it; it is there for contractors whose office-to-field paperwork is the real bottleneck.
Do you work with contractors outside Iowa?
Yes. The office is in Cedar Falls, Iowa, and contractor clients are served nationwide; the Buffalo Windshield build is in New York. Local presence matters for your customers, not for your agency.

The full stack

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Stop losing jobs to whoever answers first

Free 30-minute call. Bring your phone log; we will count the missed calls together and price what catching them is worth.

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