The Best Social Media Accounts by Home Service Companies

Social media is one of the most critical components of a well-rounded digital marketing strategy. It increases brand recognition, widens your audience, and helps you uniquely target new customers with your posts and ads. At VitalStorm, we encourage all of our clients to focus on building a strong social media presence. (For more about the […]

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Facebook Launches Home Services for Facebook Marketplace

The Marketplace tab on Facebook has transformed the way users buy and sell used and new products locally. Now, Facebook plans to make waves in the home services industry too. As of May 2018, Facebook users can search for home service professionals in the Marketplace. Home service professionals can sign up with one of Facebook’s […]

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Google Local Services Ads Roll Out to 30 Major Cities By 2018

If you’ve tried searching for local garage door repair, duct cleaning, or almost any other home service on Google recently, you may have noticed a new Local Services ad box at the top of the search results. We wrote about Google’s Home Services Beta Test back in 2015, but the program is now beyond its […]

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Why Your Home Services Company Needs Social Media

Social media is a large part of our everyday interactions. There are 2.3 billion active social media users around the world, and they are talking. These people are your past and potential clients, wouldn’t you like to join the conversation? Relationships Social media is about creating, building, and nurturing relationships with clients both past and […]

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Expanded Text Ads (ETA) | Google AdWords and Bing Update 2016

Update your old ads now! Standard Text Ads disappear on January 31, 2017. Google announced a lot of new updates at its annual Performance Summit in San Francisco earlier this year. There was a lot of focus on mobile (up to about 60% of all search queries), but the most frightening and exciting change was […]

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