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Updated October 2026 · By Spencer Wright, Founder
If you're running a $2M+ home-service company with crews and an office team, and nobody owns marketing, this is for you. We become your marketing department: one person accountable for every channel and the whole marketing number, plus the team that actually runs it. Not a slide deck and a monthly call. The ads, the website, the reviews, the follow-up and the report that ties every job to where it came from.
Eric E., a patio cover builder in Southern California, went from about $4M a year to about $8M a year in 12 months with us running his full marketing as fractional CMO.
Many fractional CMOs sell hours of strategy, and you still have to find people to do the work. Here, the person who writes the plan and the team that runs it are the same, so there's nobody left to point at but us.
The first card is a full fractional CMO engagement. The rest come from the appointment system that sits inside every fractional CMO scope we run. Every result is a real contractor we worked with, first name and last initial only, because we never publish a client's business name.
Across the system: 100+ home-service contractor businesses worked with since 2024, 20,000+ exclusive appointments booked and 4,000+ jobs signed, with clients in 16 states coast to coast.
Watch the engine run. This is Chris W.'s 60-day call, including the part where the ads got turned off because the crews couldn't keep up:
Unedited client call, trimmed only for private information.
Everything a head of marketing would own, run as one plan instead of five vendors who never talk to each other.
| Area | What we run | What you see |
|---|---|---|
| Paid advertising | Search, Local Services Ads, social and retargeting, with the creative scripted and shot with you. A booking dial instead of an on/off switch. | Appointments on your calendar |
| Website and landing pages | A site built to book, hosted and maintained, with every form and call tracked to its source. | Leads by source |
| Google Business Profile and local SEO | Your profile fixed and completed, directory listings cleaned up, service and city pages. | Map and search visibility |
| AI search visibility | Showing up where AI answers draw from, with a monthly test of whether AI tools recommend you. | A monthly AI ranking check |
| Review engine | Automatic review requests after every job, responses handled, the best ones turned into ad and website proof. | More, better reviews |
| Speed-to-lead and follow-up | Replies within minutes, nights and weekends included, plus confirmations, reminders and no-show recovery. | Fewer leads lost |
| Past customers and referrals | Quiet leads re-engaged, past customers contacted by install year, and a referral program. | Jobs from people who already know you |
| Content and proof | Social posts from your own photos and video, a monthly shot list, case studies and testimonial videos. | A brand homeowners recognize |
| Tracking, reporting and strategy | Every job tied to its channel, a monthly report and review call, a quarterly game plan, budget allocation and new-channel tests. | Where every dollar went |
Selling, estimating, project management, production, bookkeeping, hiring and day-to-day CRM administration. In Spencer's words: "You run the jobs. I fill the calendar at a pace you can handle and show where every dollar came from."
It runs like a marketing department, because it is one:
You own your ad accounts and your CRM data from day one, so you're never held hostage. Everything is built inside your own accounts, so nobody can hold a login over you.
Spencer and team, directly, on a shared board with regular calls. The person setting your strategy is the person accountable for it.
Three ways to get marketing leadership, and what each one leaves on your plate.
The same warning signs apply as with any agency. See contractor marketing agency red flags.
| What you get | Who does the work | Watch for | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Full-time marketing hire | One person, on payroll | Them, plus whatever vendors they hire | A full salary before you know if they can do it |
| Channel agency | One channel, done well | The agency | Nobody owns how the channels fit together |
| Strategy-only fractional CMO | A plan and a monthly call | You still have to find people | Great slides, same results |
| MoreJobCalls | The plan, the budget and every channel | Us | Built for $2M+ companies with crews and an office team |
Not there yet? The contractor marketing agency page covers the appointment system on its own, and cost per appointment shows the math behind it.
Every trade we serve is on the trades page.
On a fractional CMO engagement, this applies when your scope includes running the paid appointment system. It's in the signed agreement, not just on this page. Full terms here.
It counts appointment opportunities, never revenue. The appointments are the part the system controls. The closing is yours.
Ed M., a general contractor in Carlsbad, California, on Clutch: "We're impressed with the personalized service from Spencer."
Joe M., an outdoor living builder in Middleton, Idaho, on Clutch: "They've changed the whole dynamic of my business for the better."
They own your whole marketing number, the way a full-time head of marketing would. That means deciding where the budget goes, running every channel, tying each closed job back to where it came from, and reporting it to you every month. Here, the same team also does the work: ads, website, reviews, SEO, follow-up and past-customer campaigns.
We don't publish a price, because the scope changes with your size, your trade and how many channels you run. You get the real number on a 30-minute strategy call, plus a straight answer on whether a fractional CMO is what you need, or whether more appointments alone would do it.
An agency is usually hired for one channel and measured on that channel. A fractional CMO is accountable for all of them, including the agencies. Here you get both: the person who sets the plan and the team that runs it, so there's no one left to blame but us.
If your calendar is the problem and the rest of your marketing is fine, you need appointments, and the More Jobs System on its own is the better fit. A fractional CMO makes sense when you're past about $2M, you pay several vendors, and nobody owns the whole picture.
It applies when your fractional CMO scope includes running the paid appointment system: 100 exclusive appointment opportunities in 100 days, or you get paid three ways: a 100% refund, a $2,000 check from us, and we keep working for free until we hit 100. Full terms are at apply.morejobcalls.com/terms.
You own your ad accounts and your CRM data from day one, so you're never held hostage. Everything gets built inside your own accounts.
Selling, estimating, project management, production, bookkeeping, hiring and day-to-day CRM administration. You run the jobs. We fill the calendar at a pace you can handle and show where every dollar came from.
Companies under about $2M a year, owners still doing the labor themselves, handymen and small repair work. If you're between $500K and $2M with crews, the appointment system on its own is usually the better first step, and we'll tell you so on the call.
On a 30-minute strategy call you'll get an honest read on your current marketing, the real cost for your company, and a straight answer on whether a fractional CMO is the right move yet.
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