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Plumber Marketing Example: Canada

An illustrative plan showing how Business Listings, Email Marketing and Local SEO could work for an 11-van plumbing business in Ottawa.

Illustrative example: this is not a client result. It shows how this work could be structured.

Plumbers · Canada

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Example business: an 11-van plumbing business based in Ottawa, serving the wider Ottawa area and focused on water heater and tankless replacements, plus frozen and burst pipe repairs. Businesses like this often get many enquiries through HomeStars and similar paid platforms, where the same lead often goes to three or four competitors. The goal was more exclusive calls and enquiries, a lower cost per booked job and a pipeline the owner controls.

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The challenge

Where a business like this gets stuck

  • Emergency jobs go to whoever answers first, so missed calls after 5pm quietly hand revenue to competitors.
  • Lead marketplaces sell the same enquiry to three or four plumbers, which drives prices down and win rates with them.
  • Low-value tap and toilet jobs fill the diary while hot water, re-pipe and bathroom work, the jobs that pay, go elsewhere.
  • Campaigns were not planned around peak season, so budget ran out when demand was highest.

The approach

Three services, one goal

This example focuses on Business Listings & Citations, Email Marketing and Local SEO & Google Maps, three channels that can suit plumbing businesses in Ottawa. Every call, form and chat is tracked to a booked outcome from week one, so decisions are based on revenue, not clicks.

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What the work could include

The technical work, service by service.

Service 1

Business Listings & Citations

  • Claim and complete profiles on Google Business Profile, Bing Places, Apple Business Connect and local and industry directories.
  • Clean name, address and phone details everywhere, removing duplicate listings that split reviews and confusing Google.
  • Add services, photos, opening hours, licence numbers and booking links to every profile, with UTM tags to track leads by source.
  • Set up monthly listing monitoring so incorrect edits by users or aggregators are caught and fixed within days.
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Service 2

Email Marketing

  • Set up SPF, DKIM and DMARC on the sending domain and warm it up to support inbox placement.
  • Segment past customers and quote recipients by job type, area and last service date.
  • Build automated flows: welcome, quote nurture, post-job review request, annual service reminder and win-back.
  • Send a monthly campaign with seasonal offers for water heater and tankless replacements and related work, A/B testing subject lines and send times.
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Service 3

Local SEO & Google Maps

  • Rebuild the Google Business Profile: correct the primary category, add secondary categories and services with descriptions and a service area matched to the real travel radius.
  • Publish suburb and area pages across the wider Ottawa area, each with local job photos, travel times and area-specific FAQs.
  • Launch a review request flow by SMS after every completed job to encourage a steady flow of new reviews.
  • Track rankings on a 9x9 geo-grid around the office to see Maps visibility street by street, not just from one location.
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An example 6-month timeline

From tracking to scale.

  1. Weeks 1 to 2

    Audit, tracking and baseline

    Call tracking, conversion tracking, CRM connection and a full audit covering Business Listings, Email Marketing and Local SEO.

  2. Weeks 3 to 6

    Build and launch

    Business Listings, Email Marketing and Local SEO live for water heater and tankless replacements, plus frozen and burst pipe repairs.

  3. Months 2 to 4

    Optimise

    Weekly search term, call and landing page reviews. Budget and effort moved to the jobs that close.

  4. Months 5 to 6

    Scale

    Expansion into Mississauga and nearby areas, plus new services with clear demand.

Illustrative example: this is not a client result. It shows how this work could be structured. Your results depend on your market, budget, capacity and follow-up. We share realistic forecasts in your free audit.

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