Case study · Carpenters · Singapore
Carpentry Case Study Singapore: +95% Leads
How a 5-person carpentry and joinery firm in Singapore's Central Region grew quote requests 95% and cut cost per lead 34% in 6 months with Web Development and SEO.
Illustrative case study: the business is anonymised and the figures are modelled on typical results for this market.
Carpenters · Singapore
Carpentry
A 5-person carpentry and joinery firm based in Singapore's Central Region, serving the wider Central Region area and focused on built-in wardrobes and kitchen cabinets. Before working with us, 58% of enquiries came through Qanvast 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
+95%
Cost per lead
-34%
Marketing-sourced revenue
+140%
Return on marketing spend
10.5x
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 (demand follows bto key collection and renovation cycles) was not being planned for, so budget ran out when demand was highest.
The approach
Two services, one goal
We focused on Website Development and SEO, the two channels with the best cost per project for carpentry and joinery businesses in Singapore's Central Region. Every call, form and chat was tracked to a booked outcome from week one, so every decision was based on revenue, not clicks.
What we did
The technical work behind the numbers, service by service.
Service 1
Website Development
- Designed and built a new 40-page website on a fast, lightweight stack, replacing an outdated template site.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 30 completed jobs.
- Hit a mobile Lighthouse performance score of 97 with compressed images, no page builder bloat and a load time of 2.2s.
- Set up 301 redirects for every old URL so no rankings were lost in the move, and connected GA4, Search Console and call tracking.
Service 2
SEO
- Technical audit and fixes: 129 crawl errors removed, mobile Largest Contentful Paint cut from 5.6s to 2.2s and indexing issues resolved.
- Built 15 dedicated service pages for high-value work such as built-in wardrobes and kitchen cabinets, each targeting one search intent.
- Added LocalBusiness, Service and FAQPage schema and rebuilt internal linking between services, locations and guides.
- Earned 34 links from local news, suppliers, associations and community sites instead of low-quality link packages.
The numbers
Before and after
| Metric | Before | Month 6 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quote requests per month | 21 | 41 | +95% |
| Cost per lead | S$117 | S$78 | -34% |
| Cost per project | S$463 | S$251 | -46% |
| Lead-to-job rate | 25% | 31% | +6 pts |
| Website conversion rate | 3.3% | 7.8% | +136% |
| Marketing-sourced revenue / month | S$25k | S$59k | +140% |
| Share of leads from paid directories | 58% | 28% | -30 pts |
| Mobile page load time | 5.6s | 2.2s | -61% |
| Organic sessions / month | 923 | 2,823 | +206% |
Lead growth
Quote requests per month
Marketing-sourced revenue went from S$25k to S$59k a month, measured from booked projects in the CRM.
Optimisations That Moved The Numbers
- 01
The new site's conversion rate is 2.2x the old site's, on the same traffic.
- 02
Project gallery pages became the most visited pages on the site and appear in 26% of converting sessions.
- 03
Consolidating 11 overlapping pages that competed for the same keyword doubled the surviving page's clicks.
- 04
Rewriting title tags around price and location intent raised organic click-through rate from 2.6% to 6.0%.
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 and SEO.
Weeks 3 to 6
Build and launch
Web Development and SEO live for built-in wardrobes and 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 Punggol 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.
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