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Generators Marketing

Marketing for Generator Installers Who Want Bigger Installs

Websites, search visibility and paid campaigns built for standby generator installers — designed to capture outage-driven demand and turn it into booked installs.

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Property Sweepers Case Study

“Figgle Media got back to me right away and turned the whole project around incredibly fast. They built Property Sweepers a beautiful, modern website that loads quick and looks more professional than I ever expected. Easily the best decision I’ve made for my Raleigh business.”

Skyler White

Skyler White

Property Sweepers · Raleigh, NC

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Choose the system that fits your growth stage

Every contractor is different. We'll help you pick the right website, SEO, ads, and tracking setup based on your market, services, and lead goals.

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Starter System

For contractors who need a clean, professional online foundation.

Best for

  • Newer contractors
  • Bad or outdated website
  • No clear lead tracking
  • Need to look pro fast
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Custom System

A plan built around your business — start with what moves the needle most, then layer on the rest as you grow.

Best for

  • Built around your goals & budget
  • Start with one service, add more later
  • Call automation, reviews & follow-up
  • Scales as you grow
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Market Leader System

For contractors who want to aggressively grow and own their market.

Best for

  • Established contractors
  • Multiple services or locations
  • SEO + Google Ads + tracking
  • Serious monthly growth plan
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Why Figgle

Why generator installers choose Figgle Media

A North Carolina agency built only for generator installers — here’s what sets us apart.

  • NC-only and contractor-only — we already know how generator installers get hired here
  • Built around storm and outage-driven demand, not generic marketing
  • We report in booked consultations — not clicks, impressions, or vanity metrics
  • Flat monthly fee — never a percentage of your ad spend
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The Process

How we launch your growth system

  1. 1

    Discovery call

    A real talk about your trade, market and service area.

  2. 2

    Free growth plan

    A written plan, sized to your market, in 48 hours.

  3. 3

    Set up your system

    Site, search, ads and tracking, wired together.

  4. 4

    Launch & learn

    Go live, watch the calls land, and tune weekly.

  5. 5

    Scale what works

    Double down on the channels booking the most jobs.

What We Build

What goes into your Generators system

Most generator installers get a site that looks fine and books nothing. Here's what we build instead — tuned to storm and outage-driven demand and the way the work actually gets won.

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Built for intent

Built around "whole-home generator"

When a homeowner searches "whole-home generator" near you, your site has about three seconds to earn the call. We lead with the job and the city, keep tap-to-call and a short quote form above the fold, and turn that click into booked consultations.

Generators marketing built around each service line

Built for your service lines

One path per service line

Generators work splits across standby generators, installs, and service — and they don't convert the same way. We build a dedicated page and ad path for each, so generator installers stop losing intent-matched traffic to a single catch-all page.

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Built to earn trust

Proof that wins the call

Generac/Kohler dealer status and licensing, real photos of local jobs, and honest reviews are what get a homeowner to pick you. Stock photos never do. Every call and form lands in one dashboard, so you can see which ones turned into paid work — backed by our 90-day performance guarantee.

The Full Program

What Generator Marketing Actually Covers

This trade has the strangest demand curve of any we work in. Nothing happens for months, then the power goes out and a year of enquiries arrives in four days. Marketing for generator installers only works if it is built for that shape.

Which means the work happens in the quiet months. You cannot build search visibility during an outage — the ranking has to already exist when the lights go off, because that is the moment every homeowner in the county starts looking at once.

The cards below cover the whole program: being visible before the storm, converting the burst when it comes, and turning a one-off install into decades of service revenue.

Generator installation marketing runs on outages

Demand here is not seasonal, it is event-driven, and that changes the whole plan. A hurricane, an ice storm or a grid failure produces more enquiries in a week than the previous quarter combined. Generator installation marketing spent flat across the year wastes budget in calm months and run dry exactly when it matters. The right shape is a low floor most of the year with real headroom held back to deploy the moment the outage hits.

Rank before the lights go out

You cannot buy your way to the top of organic results in the two days after a storm. That position has to already be yours. Everything that ranks — the cost pages, the sizing guides, the comparison content — needs writing months earlier, in the quiet stretch when nobody is thinking about backup power. This is the single biggest difference between installers who win storm weeks and installers who watch them, and it is why generator marketing has to start in a quiet month.

Paid search earns its keep here

Most trades we work in want their advertising budget trimmed. This one does not. When demand spikes, paid placement is the only lever that responds within hours, and the intent behind those searches is about as unambiguous as it gets — someone sitting in the dark pricing a permanent fix. Tight negatives, real budget, and a landing page that loads on a phone running low on battery. Cost per lead spikes during a storm and is still the cheapest work you will buy that year.

Publish sizing and price guidance

The two questions every buyer has are what size they need and what it costs, and most installer websites answer neither. Publishing honest bands by home size and load, along with what a whole home generator actually covers versus a partial system, filters out the browsers and earns trust from the buyers. It also ranks, because it is what people search during the research phase — installation seo that pays back for years.

The install itself is half the sale

Buyers are not just choosing a unit, they are choosing whether the job will be done properly — the pad, the gas line and propane or natural gas supply, the transfer switch, the permit, the inspection. Showing that work in photographs, and explaining the permitting you handle, separates a real installer from a box-shifter. This is where the higher-margin jobs are won.

Service contracts are the real prize

A standby unit needs annual maintenance for twenty years, and the person who installed it is the obvious choice to service it. Yet most installer sites mention maintenance nowhere. Building the plan into the site, the follow-up and the handover turns a single install into decades of predictable revenue at no further acquisition cost — service marketing with no acquisition cost attached.

Your profile carries the storm week

When the power fails, people search on phones and call whoever appears first with credible ratings. The listing does more work in those four days than the website does. Your Google Business Profile wants categories set correctly, services listed in full, photos of real installs, and questions answered before anyone has to ask. It costs nothing and most competitors leave it half-built.

Ratings decide a five-figure purchase

Nobody spends this much with a company that has four ratings from two years ago. Recent, steady feedback is what makes a stranger comfortable committing to a permanent installation on their house. Asking every customer at handover is unglamorous and it moves more work than any advertising budget at this ticket. Lead generation gets cheaper as the ratings build.

Answer during the burst

The week after an outage is when a year of revenue is decided, and the operators who win it are the ones who pick up. Overflow handling, missed-call text-back and a form that reaches a phone rather than an inbox are worth more that week than any campaign tweak. A lead that rings out during a storm goes to the next generator business on the list within a minute.

Generator dealer marketing you can measure

Every call and form tied back to the campaign, the page and the search that produced it. In a trade this spiky, month-on-month reporting is meaningless — every ads campaign gets compared against the same period last year and against cost per booked install. Without call tracking most of it is invisible, because at this ticket the customer rings rather than fills in a form.

You own all of it

The website, the analytics, the advertising accounts, the listing, the phone numbers and the content. In your name, on your billing, and yours to keep if you leave — including the ranking history, which in this trade is the asset that pays out during the next storm.

What we will tell you not to do

Do not build a campaign during an outage; it is already too late. Do not spend evenly across a calm year. Do not run traffic to a site that does not explain permitting or sizing. Do not let generator dealers outrank you on questions you could have answered. And do not pay anybody a percentage of your spend, because that arrangement rewards them for talking you into more of it.

Based in North Carolina

Built in North Carolina, working with contractors statewide.

Headquartered near Raleigh — we serve roofing, HVAC, plumbing, electrical, concrete, landscaping, remodeling, and home-builder contractors across NC.

Questions installers ask

How fast does this produce enquiries?
Paid search can produce calls the week it launches, and during an outage it produces them within hours. The organic side takes a season. The operators who do best set the search work up in a quiet month so it is already ranking when the next storm arrives — because that is when the searches happen and nobody can build a campaign fast enough to catch one.
What does it cost?
A flat monthly fee, quoted before you commit, covering the site, the search work, the profile and campaign management. We never take a percentage of your advertising budget — that model rewards an agency for talking you into spending more.
Our work comes in bursts after outages. Can marketing handle that?
That is exactly what it should be built for. Budgets that sit flat all year waste money in calm months and run out mid-storm. We hold spend at a floor through quiet periods, keep the pages and profile earning in the background, and have headroom ready to deploy the moment demand spikes.
We sell service contracts too. Does that change anything?
It should change the weighting. A standby unit needs annual servicing for its entire life, and the install customer is the cheapest service customer you will ever get. Most installer websites treat maintenance as an afterthought, which leaves years of predictable revenue sitting unclaimed.
Who owns the accounts?
You do. The site, the analytics, the advertising accounts, the profile and the phone numbers are all in your name, and you keep every one of them if you leave.

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