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How the largest firms in the UK generate most of their double glazing leads online
With over £5bn a year spent by UK homeowners to improve the windows in their home, competition is intense between installers to secure for themselves the highest quality and most closeable double glazing leads.
Until the advent of the internet, most double glazing companies used to leaflet the areas they served or place adverts in local newspapers when canvassing for new windows and doors quotes.
Some companies grew really large by using telesales and high-pressure in-home sales tactics as epitomised in the recent White Gold series on the BBC.
Times have changed though.
With over 20 million people on the Telephone Preference Service, there often isn’t enough numbers left to call in a local area to build a working telesales team.
Leaflets do work but they don’t seem to pull as many double glazing leads as they once used to.
Now, homeowners use the internet to find out the information they need about double glazing for their property before they actually call a double glazing installer.
And to generate double glazing leads of the quality and in the quantities you want, that’s where you have to focus much more of your advertising budget.
The old ways of selling have created a legacy today’s companies have to overcome.
The legacy of the old hard sales techniques still affects double glazing and triple glazing companies to this day.
There were two reasons why so many sales reps could get away with such high prices in the past:
- very effective high pressure selling techniques and
- a lack of knowledge about double glazing on the part of the homeowner.
Think of it like taking your car to a garage if you don’t know anything substantial about how cars actually work.
The reason that so many of us in this position get nervous is that our lack of knowledge means that we have no idea if the repairs we’re being quoted for really need doing.
Even if they do, is the price we’re being quoted too high?
Repairing your car is expensive enough but it’s a lot less expensive than having the windows in your home replaced.
That extra expense raises the stakes for homeowners.
To avoid being stung by salespeople and to make sure that they’re getting value for money, most customers’ journeys now start online as they search for information about double glazing.
Making sure your website is the one potential clients see on their buying journey
Your website currently competes for the very limited number of high search engine ranking places with:
- local competitors’ websites,
- national companies’ websites, and
- lead generation companies’ websites.
You have an advantage though over your national competitors and the lead generation companies.
Your advantage is that you’re a local supplier.
Google’s reason for being is to provide people with the most useful, accurate, relevant, and actionable information in a fraction of a second.
That’s why when you search for double glazing companies in your part of the country, many of the results you’ll see will be either your website and/or your competitors’ website.
So now that you know that your website only has to be better than your local competitors’ websites, how do you achieve that?
Our double glazing content marketing services
The best way to generate extra double glazing leads from your website is to build a library of online content hosted on your website covering on every conceivable topic on windows and doors.
When researching getting new double glazing or doors for their property, homeowners and landlords will ask many different questions of Google.
By examining the questions they ask and the search terms and keywords they use, we know what content we need to create for your online library.
We do all this research for you.
Our copywriters will then create high-quality, SEO-optimised blogs and articles answering all the questions your potential customers are asking online.
Your blogs and articles will be engaging, informative, Google-friendly, and written in plain English and each one will invite the reader to get in touch with you.
If your website keeps appearing when a potential client is searching for information and it’s your website which keeps giving them the information they want in a way that they understand, they’re far more likely to remember your company over your competitors.
Not only will your library of content deliver more leads to your company, it will profoundly change the value Google assigns to it.
Every time we upload a new article to your website, the credibility and the authority of your entire website and every page on it improves.
That extra credibility and authority means that you’ll be seen by far more prospective customers when they’re on their buying journey.
The more your company’s website is seen, the more leads it will receive.
These leads will be all yours too – you won’t have to compete against three or four other installers like you do when you use a lead generation company.
It’s a virtuous circle which rewards you with really high Google rankings for months and years to come even if you temporarily stop your spending money on new blogs and articles.
That makes it totally different to paying for clicks to your website or paying for leads.
As soon as you stop spending on either of those approaches, the extra traffic and the extra leads stop.
Find out more
Get in touch with us to let you know more about your company, your target clients, the areas you work in, and what you want your website to add to your business in the coming 12 to 24 months.
To speak with one of our account managers, please call us on 0330 010 3495 or you can email our home improvement leads UK team by clicking here.
Add value to your business and reduce costs by investing in your own online double glazing leads system
A series of engaging double glazing blogs & articles which connect with your customers
We create an extensive library of online, jargon-free, plain English, informative double glazing blogs and articles for your site to improve your search engine rankings and to answer searchers’ most pressing questions
- SEO-optimised so that each article & your website achieves the highest possible Google rankings
- Let readers know everything they want to know – we research and answer the questions potential customers are using to search for
- Use articles, blogs, and other content to become a trusted voice to new & existing customers during the decision-making process
- Highlight the quality of your work with case studies is great for Google rankings and for convincing potential clients of your ability to do the work to a very high standard
Showcase your level of expertise and after-sales care on popular social media platforms
For any double glazing firm seeking high-quality leads and a loyal following, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram are among the powerful and influential online tools and you should be sharing as much content on them as possible
- Highlight the quality of your double glazing and your installation service with before and after photographs from clients’ homes
- Build an audience of interested followers at all stages of the decision-making cycle – be the company with them throughout their entire buying journey
- We create downloadable and shareable content for messaging platforms like WhatsApp as well as all of the major social media sites
- Ask us about out compelling, and engaging social media profile creation and social media content management services
Let us re-write your current website or create a brand new website for you from scratch
If you’re happy with your website but you just want the pages to be SEO-optimised, let us re-write them for you. If you want a brand new Google-friendly, sales-driven website, let us work on all aspects of it from planning to design to copy to hosting and beyond.
- Planned so that you’re found from the day of your website launch or re-launch
- In-depth plain English product description pages for each type of window
- Use your Home, About Us, and Testimonials page to build credibility and to tell your compay story
- Easy-to-read, easy-to-navigate, looks beautiful on all devices, fast-loading, and Google-indexable
Experienced copywriters who have an understanding of how to sell double glazing
Our double glazing writer have a deep working knowledge of double glazing and an understanding of sales psychology. Each piece of content we write for your firm “tells” customers what they want to know and “sells” all the positive benefits of choosing your company for the work.
- Dozens of articles and web pages already rank highly on Google P1 for other clients
- The content we create convinces and persuades at all parts of buying cycle from consideration to decision
- 100s of articles written for double glazing clients in last 12 months
- Content plan moulded around buyer motivations and to address buyer concerns
How the big firms generate leads for windows and doors quotes
Big double glazing firms and lead generation companies invest significant sums of money in creating large online libraries of Google-optimised, high-quality, engaging, and informative articles.
That’s because the journey a homeowner takes to the point when they’re ready to make a decision to buy can sometimes take months.
In that period of time, they’ll ask the internet lots of different questions about everything to do with double glazing, including but not limired to:
- what it’s likely to cost,
- the best type of glass to keep noise from coming in from the outside,
- how long it takes to install,
- what finance options are available so they can spread the cost and so on.
To give their websites the best chance of being found, big double glazing firms and lead generation companies create and upload a blog or article answering every single question a prospective customer can think of.
What impact do double glazing blogs and articles have on prospective customers?
The value in creating and uploading articles and blogs which answer prospective buyers’ many questions is that, by doing so, you really build up the level of trust in readers’ minds about the credibility, professionalism, and reliability of your company over time.
A prospective buyer may want to replace their windows in a month’s time or in twelve months’ time.
Over the course of that month or those twelve months, give yourself a competitive advantage by being the company which freely and generously shares in detail the information they want to know.
A prospective buyer may search for 50 or more answers to the questions they have about double glazing as they approach their decision to buy.
Now, companies need to be seen by prospective customers up to 13 times before trust is built and an enquiry is made.
They’ll be much more likely to contact you when they’re ready to go ahead than your competitors because:
- they’re familiar with your company, its history, and the range of options you offer and
- they’re happy with the quality of the information you have let the read on your website.
Most-asked customer questions on creating an online double glazing leads generation system
How can smaller companies compete against big companies and firms offering home improvement leads for sale?
Your competitors, including the firms offering window leads for sale, have invested large sums of money into their blogs and articles because they’re trying to finish at or near the top of search engine rankings all over the UK.
For a search engine optimisation point of view, that’s very difficult.
It’s actually much easier for double glazing firms serving local communities to finish in a high ranking position on Google.
Why? It’s because of the way Google’s algorithm works.
Google’s job is to find the most accurate, relevant, and useful information possible for its searchers.
If you type “double glazing” into Google, the likelihood is that most of the results it returns which are not lead generation sites will be for local companies.
If you’re searching for double glazing in Manchester, you’re unlikely to see any search results for Cardiff double glazing installers.
This means that, along with using other SEO techniques, featuring on the first page of Google search results is a lot easier than it is for national companies and lead gen compaies.
The library of content you have to create still has to be thorough but nowhere near as thorough as the big companies and lead generation firms.
You just have to make sure that your website and the content on it is better than any of your local rivals.
For that, you need an experienced double glazing blogger who knows how to write for Google and how to write to turn visitors into enquirers.
Creating your own double glazing leads channel
We provide online and offline marketing services to the UK’s finest larger and smaller double glazing installers as well as to the leading home improvement lead generation companies.
Our range of services include:
- creating a library of high-quality, SEO-optimised articles and blogs,
- rewriting your current website product and credibility pages to really sell your products and your company well,
- planning and executing double-glazing social media marketing campaigns,
- creating content which can be shared on social media and on messaging apps, and
- designing and writing printed material including brochures and flyers.
We’re open during office hours between Monday and Friday.
Please call us, email us, or fill out the contact form and let us know what you want to achieve for your glazing business in the coming twelve to twenty-four months.
We’re available on 0330 010 3495 or you can contact our home improvements lead generation team by clicking here.
We’re based in North Shields town centre if you want to come and visit us. There’s lots of free parking outside and we’re only three minutes’ walk away from North Shields Metro station.
Find out more about our double glazing leads service
Call us now to receive more info on 0330 010 3495, click here to email us, or fill out the form below.
