CASE STUDIES US · RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCTION

What the system produces: booked consults, not clicks.

We measure one thing across every engagement — how many qualified project consults land on the calendar, and what each one costs. Rankings and traffic are inputs. These are the outputs.

About the figures on this page Elite Construction Marketing is a new specialist division. The scenarios below are illustrative composites built from our parent agency’s search and paid-acquisition work, shown to demonstrate the model and the metrics we hold ourselves to. They are not claimed as delivered client results. First verified residential-construction case studies publish in 2026.
ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE · HOME REMODELING · CHARLOTTE NC

From 4 quote-requests a month to 17 booked whole-home consults.

A design-build renovation firm doing $2M–$4M/yr had a strong portfolio and almost no inbound — nearly all work arrived through past-client referrals. The constraint wasn’t demand in the market; it was that none of it could find them. Six months in: Google Ads dialled to $215 per booked consult, organic ranking #1 for 14 home-renovation queries across the metro, and citations appearing in GPT and Perplexity answers.

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Consults / mo4 → 17
Pipeline value$1.6M
Cost / consult$215
Avg. project$68K
First win34 days
Revenue (11 mo)$2.8M

Illustrative composite · placeholder figures pending first verified client

ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE · BATHROOM REMODELING · CHARLOTTE NC

Beating a national franchise without outspending it.

A tile-and-bath specialist doing $1.4M/yr was losing every paid search to a one-day bath-fitter franchise with roughly ten times the budget. Rather than compete on spend, campaigns were rebuilt around the work the franchise model physically cannot deliver — moved plumbing, curbless entries, full wet rooms. Ad spend fell. Booked consults nearly quadrupled.

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Consults / mo6 → 23
Pipeline value$740K
Cost / consult$164
Avg. project$34K
First win29 days
Revenue (10 mo)$2.1M

Illustrative composite · placeholder figures pending first verified client

ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE · POOL BUILDING · CHARLOTTE NC

A season booked out by March instead of scrambled together in June.

A gunite pool builder running 14 builds a year had always switched marketing on in spring — the same quarter as every competitor, at the most expensive moment of the year. Moving spend into the September-to-February window and publishing genuine all-in pricing changed the shape of the year: consults arrived from February and the build calendar filled before peak-cost traffic even began.

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Consults / mo4 → 25
Pipeline value$3.1M
Cost / consult$472
Avg. build$134K
Calendar fullMarch
Builds signed21

Illustrative composite · placeholder figures pending first verified client

What we measure

Four numbers. Everything else is a means to them.

Most agencies report impressions, clicks, and keyword positions because those always go up. We report the numbers that decide whether the retainer paid for itself.

Booked consults Not leads, not form-fills, not phone rings. Appointments that appear on your calendar with a qualified homeowner attached.
Cost per booked consult Total spend divided by consults booked. The single most honest efficiency number in contractor marketing, and the one most agencies avoid publishing.
Pipeline value Consults multiplied by your real average project value. Converts marketing activity into a number your accountant recognises.
Time to first win Days from kickoff to the first booked consult attributable to the work. Tells you how long the investment stays underwater.
Next step

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