INDUSTRY 11 · WINDOWS & DOORSUSA · RESIDENTIAL

Window and door marketing that books $15,000+ replacement jobs.

SEO, Google Ads, and AI search visibility built for US window and door contractors working on $8K–$35K projects. You’re competing against national franchises with television budgets. You won’t outspend them — but they’re structurally bad at the one thing that decides most of these jobs, and that’s the opening.

$16Kavg. project size (target)
29%estimate → signed rate
25 daysto first booked job
Search: “window replacement charlotte nc”SERP snapshot
Before — franchises own the page
  • 01 Sponsored · national window franchise
  • 02 Sponsored · second national brand
  • 03 angi.com — Window Installers
  • 04 Big-box install program
  • 05-16 local competitors with better SEO
  • 17 yourbrand.com — page 2 (0 clicks)
After — you own the rebate query
  • 01 yourbrand.com — rebate & credit guide
  • 02 Local pack — your GBP (top 3)
  • 03 yourbrand.com — organic #1
  • AI ChatGPT + Perplexity cite you
  • MAP Google Maps pin — yours
SEC 01  ·  The Problem

You’re a local installer competing with a television advertising budget.

Renewal by Andersen, Pella, Champion and the big-box install programs dominate paid search, run national brand campaigns, and send commissioned salespeople into homes with financing tables. A local contractor cannot win that fight head-on. What they can do is own the questions those companies deliberately avoid answering online.

  • Franchise ad budgets set the price of every clickNational brands bid aggressively on every window term in your metro, which prices out contractors trying to compete on the same generic keywords.
  • Buyers can’t tell you apart from a $99-a-month pitchAggressive in-home selling has made this category suspicious. Homeowners arrive braced for a sales process rather than a contractor.
  • Energy rebates and tax credits are badly explainedFederal credits, utility rebates, and state programs meaningfully change the real cost — and almost nobody publishes clear, current, local guidance on them. That gap is the single biggest opening in this trade.
  • You’re invisible to ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini“Do I qualify for a window tax credit” and “what should new windows cost” are now AI questions, and they set the budget before you ever get a call.
Window search economics · US metros2026
Monthly local searches2,700+Avg. tier-1 metro
Avg. cost per click$34Franchise-inflated
Avg. project value$16K8–12 window replacement
Cost per booked job$240Our system, avg.

Composite of local pack, organic, AI citation, and GBP engagement across US window and door searches.

DEEP-DIVE  ·  The rebate wedge

Be the contractor who actually explains what it costs after credits.

A homeowner replacing ten windows is doing arithmetic: sticker price, minus federal credit, minus utility rebate, over financing. The national brands keep that arithmetic deliberately fuzzy so it happens in the living room with a salesperson. A local contractor who publishes it clearly — current figures, eligibility rules, which products qualify — earns the trust before anyone visits.

  • Rebate and tax-credit guides kept current, by state and utility
  • Real installed price ranges by window type and material
  • Product comparison content: vinyl, fiberglass, wood-clad, composite
  • Explicit no-pressure estimate positioning throughout
  • Negative-keyword walls blocking repair, glass, screen, and DIY queries
Google Ads funnel · rolling 30 days$4.8K spend
STAGE 012,050 impressionsrebate & comparison intent
STAGE 02142 clicks6.9% CTR
STAGE 0352 form submits37% conversion
STAGE 0431 phone callstracked + recorded
RESULT20 booked estimates$240 cost per job
SEC 03  ·  Window & Door Case Study

What the system looks like when it’s working.

ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE · WINDOW CONTRACTOR · CHARLOTTE NC

Outranking three national brands without outbidding one.

A window and door contractor doing $1.9M/yr had abandoned Google Ads entirely after burning budget against franchise bidding. Rebuilding around rebate and comparison content — and bidding only where the nationals weren’t — produced a channel that was profitable within the first quarter.

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Estimates / mo8 → 20
Cost / job$240
Avg. job value$17K
Rebate page share44%
First win25 days
Revenue (12 mo)$3.4M

Composite scenario shown as illustrative example. First real window client case study coming in 2026.

SEC 04  ·  What’s included

Three tiers. Pick the pace that fits your install capacity.

Every tier starts with a 90-Day Growth Sprint at $4,500. After 90 days, you convert to one of these monthly retainers — or walk away with everything we built in your name.

TIER 01 · FOUNDATION
Growth
$3,000/mo
SEO + GBP-only. Builds the rebate and comparison content that outranks franchises.
  • Local SEO for 1 metro
  • Google Business Profile optimization
  • 10 window and door pages built
  • Rebate + tax credit guides, kept current
  • Review flywheel setup
  • Monthly ranking + traffic report
  • 1 strategy call / month
Choose Growth
TIER 03 · CATEGORY
Dominate
$6,500/mo
For contractors who want to own the local alternative to the national brands.
  • Everything in Accelerate
  • Multi-metro expansion (up to 3 cities)
  • Manufacturer co-marketing programmes
  • Digital PR + local press placements
  • AI citation active monitoring
  • Priority support (24-hr response)
  • Weekly strategy calls
Choose Dominate
SEC 05  ·  Common questions

Window and door marketing — answered.

How do we compete with Renewal by Andersen or Champion?

Not on their terms — their budgets are structurally larger and that isn’t going to change. You compete by being the genuinely useful local answer on rebates, real pricing, and product comparison, which their marketing avoids because it’s built to move the conversation into a living room. That content ranks organically, gets cited by AI assistants, and costs a fraction of what generic window clicks do.

Rebate rules change constantly. Isn’t that content a maintenance burden?

It is, and that’s exactly why it works — most competitors won’t keep it current. Maintaining it is part of the retainer. Stale rebate content is worse than none, so if you’re not prepared to keep it updated, we’d steer you toward comparison and pricing content instead.

Should we publish pricing when the franchises don’t?

Yes, and it’s your advantage precisely because they won’t. Buyers in this category have been trained to expect an opaque, high-pressure quote. Publishing honest installed ranges positions you as the straightforward option before anyone speaks to you — and filters out people whose budget was never realistic.

What’s the ideal project size and revenue range?

We’re built for window and door contractors doing $1M–$10M/year with average projects of $8K–$35K. Single-window replacements and glass repair won’t support a retainer at this level; if that’s most of your work, start with GBP and reviews.

Do you also build the website?

Both options work. Most window contractors need a rebate hub and published pricing ranges before their traffic converts. That’s bundled into Accelerate and Dominate.

Who owns everything you build?

You do. Everything lives in your accounts, in your name. If we ever part ways, everything stays with you. This is non-negotiable — we don’t hold client work hostage.

SEC 07  ·  Next step

Ready to book more $15K+ replacement jobs?

30-minute strategy call. We audit your current search visibility, show you which terms the national brands have priced out of reach, and identify the rebate and comparison searches you can realistically own. No pitch deck. No pressure.

  • Live audit of your Google, Maps, and AI-search visibility
  • Franchise bidding analysis for your metro
  • Rebate and comparison content gap analysis
  • Straight numbers — no fluff, no pitch, no obligation

Book a window & door strategy call

30-min · usually within 48h