Greater London

Marketing agency in London

Leads worth the price of working in London

Meta and Google ads, Google Maps rankings and SEO for cleaning, roofing and trade firms across London and the home counties.

We are a Manchester firm and we run London remotely, which makes no difference to the work. Scope does. London is the toughest market on this list and a small budget spread across the M25 will achieve nothing, so we would start with a tight borough list and a realistic number.

Covering Greater London

  • Richmond
  • Barnes
  • Dulwich
  • Blackheath
  • Wimbledon
  • Ealing
  • Chiswick
  • Islington
  • Hampstead
  • Bromley
  • Croydon
  • Barnet
  • Clapham
  • Greenwich

Nearby: Bristol · Birmingham · Sheffield

The London market

What makes advertising here different

The property

London is not a city for advertising purposes, it is 32 boroughs that happen to touch. The honest answer for most trade firms is to pick three or four adjacent ones and own them. Stock brick and stucco through the inner boroughs, interwar semis across the outer ring, and conservation areas scattered everywhere that put real limits on what you are allowed to do to a building. Jobs pay more here and so does everything else.

The weather and the geography

London is drier and warmer than anywhere else on this list, so the moss and algae demand that drives the northern markets is weaker. What replaces it is traffic film and air pollution, which is why window and render cleaning run on much shorter cycles here. The selling point is not damage, it is appearance, and the advert has to be written that way.

Competition. London is the hardest market in the country and we are not going to pretend it is not. Click costs are multiples of the northern cities, every agency in Britain is bidding, and the map results in the central boroughs are locked up by firms who have been building them for a decade. The way in is to go narrow, not broad.

Where the money is

Four trades worth building a campaign around in London

Four different trades, not four versions of the same one. If yours is not here it does not mean we cannot run it, it means these are the ones the local market rewards most.

Exterior cleaning

Window cleaning on short cycles

Pollution means a four to six week cycle is normal, so one customer is worth ten times what they are in the north.

Roofing

Flat roof and parapet repairs

Period terraces with parapets and valley gutters leak in ways pitched roofs do not, and access alone prices out most firms.

Driveway installation

York stone and natural paving

Conservation areas rule out block paving across huge stretches of the city, which protects the price.

Carpet and upholstery

Rental turnaround cleaning

The biggest rental market in Europe, turning over constantly. Agency contracts here are worth more than domestic work.

What we run

Four channels, and the honest version of what each one does

Meta ads

Fastest to produce leads. Live within a week, and the one to start with if the diary needs filling now.

Google ads

Catches people already searching for the job. Dearer per click, warmer lead.

See pricing

Google Maps

The three businesses pinned on the map. Top 3 on the map within 90 days, guaranteed.

Google Maps and Local SEO

SEO

Your website in the ten results underneath the map. Slowest, and the one that compounds.

SEO services

Results

What the advertising has done elsewhere

594

gutter cleaning leads at £3.92 each

from about £2,330 of ad spend

800

carpet cleaning leads

one campaign, one client

575

window cleaning leads

one campaign, one client

£34,156

booked from one gutter client

at a 46.7% quote win rate

Real numbers from real PS Results clients across the UK. We would rather show you those than dress a case study up to look local.

Honest bit

Nobody needs to be in a van. Ads, Google Maps and SEO are all delivered remotely, so whether we are in London or not changes nothing about the work itself. What it does change is how fast we learn your local competitive picture, and we build that properly in the first fortnight rather than guessing at it.

If the numbers do not work for your area, we will say so on the call rather than take the money.

Questions

What London firms ask first

Can a small firm compete in London?

In three or four boroughs, yes. Across London, no. The firms that do well here pick a patch they can actually reach through the traffic and dominate it. The ones that fail try to cover the M25 on a budget that would only just cover Croydon.

Why is London more expensive to advertise in?

More competitors bidding on the same searches, and higher job values pulling those bids up. Your cost per lead will be higher than it would be in Leeds. Your job value should be higher too, which is the only reason it works.

Am I tied into a contract?

No. Everything is month to month. If it is not working you stop, and we would rather you did that than stay on out of politeness.

Do you work with businesses outside your own area?

Yes. Every client we have is run remotely, including the ones a few miles from our office in Manchester. Ads, Google Maps and SEO are all delivered the same way wherever you are.

Next step

Tell us what you sell and where in London you work

Twenty minutes. We look at your area, your competitors and your numbers, then tell you straight whether we can get you more booked jobs.