Case study · Carpenters · Dubai

Carpentry & Joinery Case Study Dubai: +138% Leads

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How a 4-person carpentry and joinery firm in Dubai Marina grew quote requests 138% and cut cost per lead 53% in 6 months with Web Development, SEO and LinkedIn Outreach.

Illustrative case study: the business is anonymised and the figures are modelled on typical results for this market.

Carpenters · Dubai

Carpentry

A 4-person carpentry and joinery firm based in Dubai Marina, serving the wider Dubai Marina area and focused on custom wardrobes and walk-in closets, plus kitchen cabinets. Before working with us, 64% of enquiries came through ServiceMarket and similar paid platforms, where the same lead often went to three or four competitors. The goal was more exclusive quote requests, a lower cost per project and a pipeline the owner controls.

Results After 6 Months

Leads per month

+138%

Cost per lead

-53%

Marketing-sourced revenue

+200%

Return on marketing spend

17.4x

The challenge

Where the business was stuck

Carpentry covers everything from small repairs to custom joinery, and generic marketing attracts the low-value end.
Quality craftsmanship is hard to show on a basic website, so buyers compare on price instead.
Many carpenters depend on builders for work, leaving them exposed when a builder's pipeline slows down.
Peak season (outdoor pergola and decking work peaks in the cooler months (october to april), while interior joinery is year-round) was not being planned for, so budget ran out when demand was highest.

The approach

Three services, one goal

We focused on Website Development, SEO and Prospect Outreach (LinkedIn Sales Navigator), the three channels with the best cost per project for carpentry and joinery businesses in Dubai Marina. Every call, form and chat was tracked to a booked outcome from week one, so every decision was based on revenue, not clicks.

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What we did

The technical work behind the numbers, service by service.

Service 1

Website Development

Designed and built a new 50-page website on a fast, lightweight stack, replacing an outdated template site.
Structured the site around services, locations and projects, with a filterable project gallery of 70 completed jobs.
Hit a mobile Lighthouse performance score of 95 with compressed images, no page builder bloat and a load time of 1.7s.
Set up 301 redirects for every old URL so no rankings were lost in the move, and connected GA4, Search Console and call tracking.

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Service 2

SEO

Technical audit and fixes: 249 crawl errors removed, mobile Largest Contentful Paint cut from 4.6s to 1.7s and indexing issues resolved.
Built 12 dedicated service pages for high-value work such as custom wardrobes and walk-in closets and kitchen cabinets, each targeting one search intent.
Added LocalBusiness, Service and FAQPage schema and rebuilt internal linking between services, locations and guides.
Earned 26 links from local news, suppliers, associations and community sites instead of low-quality link packages.

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Service 3

Prospect Outreach (LinkedIn Sales Navigator)

Defined the ideal customer profile and built 379 target accounts in LinkedIn Sales Navigator: builders, interior designers, architects and fit-out firms.
Saved lead searches with alerts for job changes, new projects and company growth, so outreach starts with a real reason to talk.
Ran a 4-step manual sequence from the owner's profile: personalised connection note, value message, case study and a meeting request, within LinkedIn's weekly limits.
Logged every conversation in the CRM and handed warm replies to the owner with account notes before each call.

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The numbers

Before and after

Metric	Before	Month 6	Change
Quote requests per month	24	57	+138%
Cost per lead	AED 290	AED 138	-53%
Cost per project	AED 1,109	AED 417	-62%
Lead-to-job rate	26%	33%	+7 pts
Website conversion rate	2.6%	5.9%	+128%
Marketing-sourced revenue / month	AED 76k	AED 227k	+200%
Share of leads from paid directories	64%	26%	-38 pts
Mobile page load time	4.6s	1.7s	-63%
Organic sessions / month	987	3,492	+254%
Sales meetings booked / month	0	8	new channel

Lead growth

Quote requests per month

Marketing-sourced revenue went from AED 76k to AED 227k a month, measured from booked projects in the CRM.

Optimisations That Moved The Numbers

01
The new site's conversion rate is 2.3x the old site's, on the same traffic.
02
Project gallery pages became the most visited pages on the site and appear in 17% of converting sessions.
03
Consolidating 13 overlapping pages that competed for the same keyword doubled the surviving page's clicks.
04
Personalised connection notes reached a 34% acceptance rate, and 18% of new connections replied.

The 6-month timeline

From tracking to scale.

Weeks 1 to 2
Audit, tracking and baseline
Call tracking, conversion tracking, CRM connection and a full audit covering Web Development, SEO and LinkedIn Outreach.
Weeks 3 to 6
Build and launch
Web Development, SEO and LinkedIn Outreach live for custom wardrobes and walk-in closets, plus kitchen cabinets.
Months 2 to 4
Optimise
Weekly search term, call and landing page reviews. Budget and effort moved to the jobs that close.
Months 5 to 6
Scale
Expansion into Arabian Ranches and nearby areas, plus new services with proven demand.

Illustrative case study: the business is anonymised and the figures are modelled on typical results for this market. Your results depend on your market, budget, capacity and follow-up. We share realistic forecasts in your free audit.