The call comes from someone who needs a plumber in their town.
A water heater out, a backup, a leak in a finished basement. Some of those calls come from a referral and some from a search: "plumber near me", "water heater repair", "drain cleaning" and the town. Either way the homeowner checks you out first, and picks from whoever Google, Maps and the AI answers show them. If your listing sits in the wrong category, or your site never says which towns you cover, the call can go to the shop down the road.
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We do not sell leads. Your calls come to your phone, from your own name, shared with nobody.
What we found on a plumbing company's Google presence.
Kansas City area. Strong reviews from real customers, and a presence working against them:
- The Google listing filed under the wrong category.
- Hours on the listing that did not match the real hours.
- No photos on the listing.
- A phone number on the old site that did not match the one everywhere else.
None of it showed from the truck, and nobody had told him.
A site built around the towns he drives to.
Built from a short intake form, then researched town by town and checked twice before anything went live.
Built around his map
A hub page, a page for each county he serves and pages for the towns he works most, each written about that place.
Researched town by town
The water utility, the permit office, the neighborhoods and when they were built, the roads. Each town with its own questions answered, fact checked by a second pass.
Licensed, checked first
Every "licensed" claim checked against the county and city registries before it went on a page. A town that could not be confirmed was held back until it was.
One search, one page
A map of the real searches his customers run, each one owned by one page, so the site does not compete with itself.
Requests to the office
A request page that lands straight in his scheduling software, so the office sees each request where they already work.
The listing
Manager access on his Google listing, a logo on the profile and the review link from it, ready for the asks after each job.
What comes next for a plumbing company.
The site, the listing and the request page above are the door. Picture the same company a season later: three trucks, an office manager on the phone, and the rest of the house in place.
- The review ask goes out after every job. In his words, the day the water heater is in, to a page on his site one tap from the Google review box, plus the past customers still to ask.
- Quotes get followed up until yes or no. One quote per customer, the water softener or the expansion tank as an optional line on it; his text after each one, the office system's reminder on his schedule, and every open quote on one list until it is a yes or a no.
- The office and the numbers. One system for customers, quotes, jobs, schedule, invoices and payments; prices rebuilt from what a truck has to bill in a day to cover the plumber, the fuel and the parts on the shelf; and a Monday email built from his own numbers, the week's money and the days worked, to him and his office manager.
- Hiring the next plumber. The posting in his words, every applicant asked the same questions, the license, the service calls they have run alone, and scored; the cleared ones handed to his office in one written format. He runs the interview.
Every step above is running today for home service companies we work with. The door is already open for the plumbing company you just read about: the site and the request page are live.
Built around the towns you drive to.
You know your map: the counties you cover, the towns you will drive to on a Saturday, the ones you will not. Before our first conversation we run the searches your customers run, "plumber near me", "water heater repair", "drain cleaning" with the town, from your town and a few miles out. We look at who Google, Maps and the AI answers name instead of you, measure where your pin sits against the town center, and list every directory with a different phone number or different hours.
Then each real market gets a page written about that place: who the water utility is, where the permit office is, the age of the houses and what that means for the pipes in the walls, the roads you take to get there. Every "licensed" claim is checked against the county or city registry before it goes on a page. Not a template with your logo on it.
In person in the Lehigh Valley and the Denver foothills, by video in Philadelphia and southeastern PA and everywhere else. See where we work.
The house behind the door.
Marketing is the door. Then the same person sits with you on the rest of a plumbing business:
- Quotes on the big jobs, the water heater, the repipe, the sewer line, followed up with you and your office until each one is a yes or a no. Options, not one price.
- What a truck has to bill in a day to cover the plumber, the van and the overhead, and where service calls and replacement work each land.
- The office: requests, callbacks, invoices and the money owed, worked with whoever answers your phone.
- Hiring: the job ad for a licensed plumber or an apprentice, the applicants screened and called back, the interviews booked.
Alex will not tell you how to plumb. He will read your numbers with you and tell you what he sees, at your table every week while we build, then on the rhythm we set together.
What stays yours.
- Your domain.
- Your website files.
- Your Google listing.
- Your reviews.
- Your phone number.
- Your ad accounts.
In your name, on your side of the line, with Apex working inside them as a manager you can remove. If we ever part ways, you keep it. The one line in your footer that says we built the site comes off when you ask.
Eight departments sit behind all of this: Sales, Marketing, Operations, Finance, HR, Reporting, Website and brand, Customer service. Marketing is the door. The rest is the house.
What plumbers ask.
I cover more than one county. How does the site handle that?
Each real market gets its own page, written about that place: the water utility, the permit office, the neighborhoods, the roads you take. Your Google listing shows the places you actually cover, matched to the site word for word. Where you are licensed is checked against the county or city registry before the word goes on a page.
Do you sell leads, or share my calls with other plumbers?
No. We do not sell leads. Your calls come to your phone, from your own name, shared with nobody. The site, the listing and the reviews are yours, in your name, on your side of the line.
Will the request form on my site work with my scheduling software?
Where your scheduling software takes outside requests, the form on your site can land straight in it, so your office sees each request where they already work. We check how your software handles it before anything is built.