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Catch the Emergency Repair, Then Sell the Replacement Door

Own the same-day repair call, then sell the door it turns into.

No obligation, and no contract required to get it.

How your trade actually runs

Repair pays the week. Replacement pays the year

A broken spring is a same-day emergency with almost no shopping around. A new door is a considered home-improvement purchase. Most garage door marketing only ever chases the first.

Proximity decides the repair call
A trapped car is an urgent, local problem. Local pack position does more for repair volume than any amount of clever copy.
Replacement is bought with the eyes
Nobody commits to a door they cannot picture on their own house. Style and material guidance is the sales tool, not a nice-to-have.
Route density protects the margin
Two service calls an hour apart can cost more than they earn. Where you advertise should follow where you can profitably drive.

Where we start

The three channels that move garage doors first

We do not sell all eight services to everybody. These are the ones that pay first in this trade, the rest come later, if they earn a place.

  • Valley Plumbing
  • Ernie's Plumbing
  • Mark Johnson Plumbing
  • Heidler, Inc.
  • Red Rock Plumbing
  • Home Heroes
  • Mallick Plumbing
  • Perry Heating & Air
  • JAG Exteriors
  • Towers Plumbing
  • Isley Plumbing
  • Marlin Plumbing
  • Hafke Plumbing
  • Meyer's Heating & Cooling
  • Home Performance Pros
  • Water Heaters Any Time
  • Bullwinkle's
  • West Desert Plumbing
  • Summit Coatings

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What working with CMS actually sounds like

Home service owners talking about what changed after the marketing started answering for itself. No script, no actors, the people who hired us.

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What you get

What we build for garage doors

A broken spring is an emergency. A new door is a considered purchase. Most garage door companies market for one and hope for the other. We build for both, so the service calls that come in today turn into the installs that carry the margin.

  • First position on broken spring and opener searches
  • Separate pages for repair, opener, and new door work
  • A door gallery that sells the upgrade visually
  • Follow-up that turns today's repair into a replacement

What it is costing you

Where the jobs are going instead

A stuck door is an emergency

A car trapped in a garage is a same-day problem. Whoever answers first books it, and comparison shopping barely happens.

Item 1

Repairs are small, doors are not

A spring replacement pays for the visit. A new insulated door pays for the week. Most companies never market the second one at all.

Item 2

Nobody knows what a door costs

Homeowners have no reference price and no idea what styles exist. Without visible options and ranges they stall, or they call the company that showed them.

Item 3
Technician adjusting the spring and opener rail of a residential garage door

What we fix

The three things holding garage doors back

Not a generic marketing checklist with your trade pasted on top. These are the constraints that actually cap growth in this business.

01

Winning the Same-Day Repair Call

A door that will not open is a car that cannot leave. That homeowner calls the first company that appears and answers, and rarely makes a second call. We put you at the top of Local Service Ads, paid search, and the map pack for every broken spring, cable, and opener search in your service area.

02

Selling Doors, Not Just Repairs

Replacement doors carry the margin that grows a garage door business, but they sell like a home improvement purchase rather than an emergency. We build the style galleries, material comparisons, and price guidance that let a homeowner picture the door on their own house before they ever request a quote.

03

Turning Today's Service Call Into Next Quarter's Install

Every repair on an aging door is a replacement prospect your technician already met. We build the follow-up, seasonal reminders, upgrade offers, and maintenance touchpoints, that brings those customers back when the door finally fails, instead of losing them to whoever happens to advertise that week.

What you get

The system we run for garage doors

Every channel links through to exactly how it works, the same page any other client of ours reads before they sign.

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When the money is

Cold snaps break springs. Spring sells doors.

Repair demand spikes when temperature swings stress hardware. Replacement demand follows the home improvement calendar. The two need different messages at different times of year, and running one campaign across both wastes most of it.

WinterPeak

Cold snaps break springs and openers, the sharpest repair surge of the year.

SpringPeak

Curb appeal season, and the best replacement window of the year.

SummerSteady

Steady replacement and opener upgrade work.

FallSteady

Pre-winter tune-ups, and a good replacement window before the freeze.

A general pattern for this trade, not measured client data. Your market will have its own shape, and we build against that rather than against this.

Free garage doors marketing analysis

See who is taking your emergency repair calls

We will show you where you rank for broken spring and opener searches across your service area, and how much replacement work is going elsewhere.

Chad and Boston Douglas, co-owners of Custom Marketing Solutions
ACCOUNTABILITYCUSTOM MARKETING SOLUTIONSPLEDGESINCE 2011

Our promise to you

Partner with a company that answers for the number.

“Handing your marketing to someone else means handing over the budget that keeps your crews busy. We don’t take that lightly.

So here’s what we commit to: you will always be able to see where your money went and what it produced, not buried in a report at the end of the quarter, but any day you want to look. We’ll tell you what isn’t working before you have to ask. And we’d rather turn down a fit that isn’t right than take money we can’t grow.

Thank you for trusting us with it.”

, Boston Douglas & Chad Westover

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In their words

What working with an accountable team actually looks like.

Read all reviews
CMS is a great partner and has enabled us to take our advertising to a whole new level. We now have a better understanding of all our efforts and are fortunate to have a very talented group of people at CMS who have our back at all times. We highly recommend their service and expertise to anyone seeking to take their marketing to new heights!

Cody Wilcox

Google Review

Charlie and Becky, and the team at Custom Marketing Solutions have elevated our marketing strategy to new heights. The CMS strategy allows us to track where our advertising dollars are being spent, which allows us to manage our marketing budget efficiency. They helped consolidate our websites into one location, and they dispute Local Service Ad calls that are irrelevant. The team is very professional, knowledgeable, and great to work with.

David Tebbs

Google Review

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Tell us about your garage doors business

We will look at your market before the call, so it is a conversation about your actual position rather than a generic pitch.

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  • Talk through your garage doors market and growth goals
  • Review the biggest visible marketing opportunities
  • Leave with clear next steps, whether we work together or not

No contract, no obligation, no pitch deck.

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Documented results

Real numbers, from real client accounts

We have not published a garage doors case study yet, so we are not going to imply otherwise. Here is what we have actually measured.

Charlie and Becky, and the team at Custom Marketing Solutions have elevated our marketing strategy to new heights. The CMS strategy allows us to track where our advertising dollars are being spent, which allows us to manage our marketing budget efficiency. They helped consolidate our websites into one location, and they dispute Local Service Ad calls that are irrelevant. The team is very professional, knowledgeable, and great to work with.
David TebbsGoogle Review

The honest comparison

Three ways to market a garage door company

Repair pays the week and replacement pays the year. Most garage door marketing only ever chases the first one.

Emergency repair

Custom Marketing Solutions

Built to capture a same-day problem before anyone shops around

A generalist agency
Ordinary search traffic with no urgency weighting
Handling it in-house
Whatever the listing brings in

Replacement doors

Custom Marketing Solutions

Style galleries and material guidance that let a buyer picture the door

A generalist agency
A price list and a contact form
Handling it in-house
Quoted over the phone, sight unseen

The considered purchase

Custom Marketing Solutions

Follow-up built for a decision made over weeks

A generalist agency
One quote, then silence
Handling it in-house
Chased if someone remembers

Local pack position

Custom Marketing Solutions

Worked deliberately, because proximity decides the repair call

A generalist agency
Treated as a set-and-forget listing
Handling it in-house
Claimed once, never revisited

Review velocity

Custom Marketing Solutions

Prompted after the job and treated as a ranking input

A generalist agency
Mentioned in a monthly report
Handling it in-house
Requested occasionally

Reporting

Custom Marketing Solutions

Installs and repairs traced back to their source

A generalist agency
Calls delivered, outcome unknown
Handling it in-house
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Before you commit

Garage Doors questions

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01How fast can we start getting repair calls?

Paid search and Local Service Ads can produce calls within days, which is why they usually go first for emergency work. Map pack and organic rankings take longer, but they are what stop you renting every call forever.

02Should we advertise repairs or new doors?

Both, but never on the same page or with the same message. Repair searches are urgent and price-sensitive. Door buyers are browsing styles. Sending both to one page loses both.

03Do we really need a photo gallery?

For replacement work it is one of the highest-value pages you can build. Homeowners cannot picture a door on their house from a spec list, and they will not buy what they cannot picture.

04How do we turn repair calls into door sales?

Follow-up. A technician who just replaced a spring on a twenty-year-old door has met a replacement prospect, and almost nobody contacts that customer again.

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