Facebook Lead Generation

Facebook Lead Generation For Scottish Trades

I run Facebook ads that put verified homeowner leads straight on your phone. Real footage of your work, a funnel that filters out tyre-kickers, and no retainer. You stay on the tools. I keep the phone ringing.

Most trades ads fail for the same reason: the ad sends people to a basic website or a Facebook page, there's no clear next step, and the enquiries that trickle in are tyre-kickers who were never going to spend. You end up thinking Facebook ads don't work. They do. The ad was never the problem. The system behind it was.

Here's exactly how I run it, start to finish, so you can see where the leads actually come from.

The system, start to finish

01

Hyper-local ads to homeowners

I target homeowners in the exact postcodes you cover, not a vague 50-mile radius that burns your budget on people you'd never drive to. You set the daily budget and I build and manage the campaigns around your trade, your area and the jobs you actually want.

02

Real footage of your work

We come to you and film your real jobs, or work with footage from jobs you've already done. No stock clips, no generic library video. Real work on camera converts because it looks real, and homeowners can tell the difference in half a second of scrolling.

03

A qualifying funnel that does the selling

The ad clicks through to a hand-coded landing page, not your homepage. It asks a short set of questions that only a serious homeowner bothers to finish. That's what filters the time-wasters before they ever reach you.

04

Verified leads on your phone

A qualified lead lands in your messages with their name, number, postcode and the job they want. You pick up the phone knowing they're real. No logging into dashboards, no chasing cold form-fills.

What the filming actually looks like

This is the part other agencies skip, and it's the part that makes the ads work. Stock footage of a smiling stranger in a clean van fools nobody. A homeowner in Bellshill or Johnstone wants to see the actual finish, the actual van, the actual job in a street that looks like theirs.

So we get real footage. Sometimes that means coming out to film a live job. Sometimes it's cut together from clips of work you've already completed. Either way the ad shows your work, which is why it stops the scroll and why the enquiries that come through already trust you before you've said a word.

The qualifying funnel: how tyre-kickers get filtered

When someone taps your ad, they don't land on a page with ten menu links and a phone number buried in the footer. They land on one page with one job: qualify them. It asks the things you'd ask on the phone anyway:

  • What's the job you need done?
  • Which town or postcode is it in?
  • When are you looking to get it started?
  • Name and the best number to reach you on.

A tyre-kicker can't be bothered filling that in. A homeowner who's serious about spending money answers it in under a minute. By the time the lead reaches you it's already been sorted from the browsers, so you're spending your evenings quoting real jobs instead of ringing dead numbers.

What happens the second a lead comes in

Speed wins jobs. The homeowner who gets a reply first usually gets the quote, and then usually gets the work. So the moment a lead is submitted, two things happen:

  • It hits your phone straight away with all their details, so you can reply while you're still on a break, not that night when they've already booked someone else.
  • Automated follow-up kicks in through the CRM, so if you're up a ladder and can't get to it, the lead gets a message and doesn't go cold while you're working.

Every lead is tracked from first enquiry through to won or lost, so you can actually see what your ad spend is turning into instead of guessing.

What it costs to run

Two separate things, and I keep them separate so you always know where your money goes:

Ad spend goes direct to Facebook, never through me. You set a daily budget you're comfortable with and can turn it up or down whenever you like, and on our call I'll suggest a sensible starting point for your trade.

My fee is separate and depends on your trade, your area and what you need, so there's no fixed menu. There's no retainer and no long-term contract. If it stops working, you stop. Book a call and I'll give you a straight number after a quick conversation.

Who this is for, and who it's not

This is for you if

  • You get your work from homeowners, not big contracts
  • You can handle more enquiries than you're getting now
  • You can reply to a lead within a few hours, not next week
  • You'd rather quote real jobs than chase cold leads
  • You want to control your own budget with no lock-in

This isn't for you if

  • You're already flat out and turning work away
  • You want leads for free with no ad budget at all
  • You can't get back to enquiries for days
  • You want a guarantee of exact numbers on day one
  • You're after commercial or trade-to-trade contracts only

Common questions

Once the ads and funnel are live, leads usually start coming through within the first week or two. The first stretch is about learning which angle and audience pull best for your trade, then I lean into what's working. It builds from there.
No. The ads run to a hand-coded funnel page, not your website, so you don't need one to start. If you want a proper site as well I build those too, and it bolts straight onto your campaigns. That's a separate service.
You do. The ads run on your Facebook ad account, your spend goes direct to Facebook, and every lead is yours. Nothing is held hostage on my side. If we ever stop working together, your account and your leads stay with you.
Fair enough, plenty have. The difference here is no retainer and no lock-in, so I only keep your business if the leads keep coming. You're not signing away six months up front to find out if it works.
I work with trades that get their work from homeowners across Scotland: exterior cleaners, joiners, fitted wardrobe and media wall installers, window and door fitters, garage conversion specialists and more. If homeowners pay your invoices, this can work for you.
Ad spend is the money that goes to Facebook to show your ads, and it goes direct from you to Facebook. My fee is for building and running the whole system. Two separate things, kept separate, so you always know exactly where every pound is going.

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