Your best marketing is the job you finished last Tuesday.
Film, photography, and design for painters, roofers, flooring crews, landscapers, and the family-owned trades that live on referrals and want more than referrals.
Twenty years of beautiful work, and the only proof of it is a phone gallery nobody outside the truck has ever seen.
Referrals built the business and they still carry it, which is exactly why the marketing never got attention. It did not need to. But referrals have a ceiling, and the day one dries up you are competing against companies whose work is worse and whose website is better.
The homeowner deciding between you and two others is not comparing craftsmanship. They cannot see craftsmanship from a phone. They are deciding who seems least likely to disappear halfway through, leave a mess, or add three thousand dollars at the end.
Everything that reassures them on that is showable. Almost nobody in the trades shows it.
Customer story films shot in finished homes, with the homeowner saying what it was like to work with you.
Before and after photography of real jobs, shot properly, organized so you can actually find them.
Short vertical cuts for Meta, because that is where a homeowner is scrolling at nine at night.
We are busy. How much of our time does this take?
One planning call and one day where somebody on the crew can answer a question now and then. I work around the job rather than stopping it.
Will homeowners agree to be filmed?
More often than you would think, especially the ones who are happy with the work. I handle the asking and the scheduling so you are not chasing anybody.
We are not big enough for this.
Most of my clients are between five and forty people. If a project is not the right size for you I will say so on the call rather than sell you something you do not need.
The work is already good. Let people see it.
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A creative studio in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Brand films, photography, and design for family-owned manufacturers, outdoor structure companies, and trades businesses.
Narrative film work lives at Stump & Root Films.