Home Services Pricing AutoPilot Our Work Results Team Contact 📗 Get the Book 🤖 AI Workshop 🎙️ Podcasting Book a Free Call
Home / Industries / Home Builders & Contractors
Now Accepting Builder Clients in NW Ohio
🏆Voted Toledo's Best Ad Agency · Best of Toledo 2025

Your Work Is Stunning.
Now Let Everyone Know.

High-ticket homebuyers research builders for 6 to 18 months before making a single call. They scroll Instagram, watch walkthroughs, compare portfolios, and they're calling the builder they've seen. Video content and targeted social media is what closes that gap.

★★★★★ Trusted by builders & contractors across Northwest Ohio
What SFM Delivers for Builders
🏠
$2.3M
Average in new project inquiries generated for builder clients in 6 months
📈
ROAS
Average return on Meta ad spend, targeting high-income homeowners by ZIP code
48hr
Content turnaround from jobsite footage to published social posts and ads
📍 Based in Perrysburg, Ohio. Serving custom builders, GCs, and remodelers across Toledo, Maumee, Bowling Green & Northwest Ohio.
$2.3M+
New Project Inquiries
for Builder Clients
Average Return
on Ad Spend
48hr
From Jobsite Footage
to Live Content
100%
Industry-Specific
Strategy, Always

The Problems That Are Costing You Projects Right Now

You build incredible homes. But if the right buyers can't find you, or can't see your work, your pipeline stays dependent on luck and who your last client happened to know.

🔨
You're Too Busy Building to Market Yourself
You're on jobsites at 6am and doing estimates until 10pm. Marketing is always the thing that gets pushed. Meanwhile, competitors with half your skill are showing up every week in your prospective clients' feeds, and getting the calls you should be getting.
🖼
Your Portfolio Is Sitting Unseen on a Website Nobody Visits
You've done stunning work. Custom kitchens. Whole-home builds. Showstopper outdoor living spaces. But if it's just sitting in a gallery page with no traffic and no social presence to drive people there, it might as well not exist.
🗣
Word of Mouth Alone Isn't a Growth Strategy
Referrals are great, until they dry up. Relying entirely on word of mouth means your pipeline is always one slow season away from stress. The builders who own their market are the ones who've built an audience, not just a reputation.
😵
Builders With Weaker Work Are Showing Up First
You've seen it. A competitor with mediocre craftsmanship but a polished Instagram page is booking the projects you should be getting. It's not that their work is better, it's that their marketing made them visible when buyers were looking.

We Speak Jobsite.
We Know What Sells a Build.

Most marketing agencies have never stood on a concrete slab or watched a framing crew work. We have. We understand how a custom home comes together, and more importantly, we understand how to turn that process into content that makes high-income buyers stop scrolling and start imagining their family in that house.

"The buying decision for a $600,000 custom home starts months before anyone picks up the phone. Our job is to make sure you're the builder they've been watching the entire time."

We don't repurpose generic marketing templates. Every strategy we build is specific to your market, your project type, and the buyers you want to attract. From Perrysburg to Toledo to Bowling Green, we know Northwest Ohio, and we know how to get you in front of the families ready to build here.

🎬
Build-Phase Video & Photography
Foundation to finished product. We document the entire build so buyers see the craftsmanship and precision behind every square foot, not just the final reveal.
📷
Before / During / After Content Series
The most shareable content in construction. We build ongoing content series around each project that create anticipation, build trust, and get saved by people who are thinking about their own build.
🎯
ZIP-Code & Income-Targeted Meta Ads
We serve your ads specifically to high-income homeowners in your target neighborhoods. Not a spray-and-pray approach, surgical targeting to the people who can actually afford and appreciate your work.
🏆
Craftsmanship-First Creative Strategy
We showcase what makes your builds worth the investment, custom millwork, unique materials, precision details, and the story of the people who will live there. Premium work deserves premium presentation.
📍
Northwest Ohio Market Knowledge
We're based in Perrysburg. We know the neighborhoods, the price points, the buyers, and the competition. Your marketing will feel local because it is.

Everything a Home Builder Needs to Fill Their Pipeline

Four core services working together, so your craftsmanship gets seen, your brand gets remembered, and your phone keeps ringing.

🎯
Meta Ads, ZIP Code & Income Targeting
Facebook and Instagram ads that put your work in front of exactly the people who can afford to hire you, filtered by income, home ownership, ZIP code, and home-build intent signals. We write the copy, design the creative, and manage the spend.
High-income homeowner targeting by ZIP code
Custom audience builds from past client data
Retargeting, people who've visited your website or engaged
Lead generation campaigns with instant follow-up
Full ad creative, copy, design, video selection
🎥
Video Content, Time-Lapses, Walkthroughs & Testimonials
Video is the single most powerful tool for selling a custom build before anyone walks through the door. We produce build time-lapses, finished-home walkthrough tours, and on-camera client testimonials that do your selling for you 24/7.
Build progress time-lapses, week by week
Finished home walkthrough video tours
Client testimonial video production
Short-form video for Reels and Facebook
Video coaching for your team to capture between visits
📊
Monthly Reporting, Real Numbers, No Fluff
Every month you get a clear, plain-English report showing exactly what your content and ads are doing, how many people saw your work, clicked through, filled out a form, or called. No vanity metrics. Just what matters to your business.
Reach, impressions, and engagement by post
Ad performance, cost per lead, ROAS, click-throughs
Audience growth and follower quality tracking
Lead source tracking, where are calls coming from
Monthly strategy call to review and adjust

What Builders Have Done With SFM

These aren't vanity metrics or follower counts. These are projects booked, leads generated, and revenue created by builders in Ohio who decided to stop relying on luck.

Case Study · Custom Home Builder
Northwest Ohio Custom Builder
$2.3M
in qualified new project inquiries generated within 6 months of launch
Starting with zero social media presence, we built a content strategy around their active builds and launched targeted Meta ads to high-income homeowners in their ZIP codes. Within 6 months, they had more qualified inquiries than the previous two years combined.
Case Study · General Contractor
Toledo-Area General Contractor
ROAS
return on every dollar spent on Meta ads targeting commercial and residential projects
We restructured their Meta ad campaigns around project-type audiences and built custom creatives featuring their completed commercial work. The result was a 6x return on ad spend with a significant reduction in cost per qualified lead, and a booked calendar for the next quarter.
Case Study · Remodeling Company
Northwest Ohio Remodeling Co.
3 Projects
major high-ticket remodels booked directly from a single project reveal video
One whole-home reveal reel, strategically distributed through organic posting and a small paid boost to a custom audience, generated three direct inquiries, all of which converted to contracts worth a combined $280,000. One video. Three projects. That's the power of documentation-first marketing.

From First Call to Full Pipeline, In Four Steps

We don't do complicated onboarding or month-long ramp-ups. We move fast, learn your business, and start building momentum immediately.

1
Strategy Call
A 30-minute no-pressure call with Jayson where we learn about your business, your ideal projects, your market, and what you've tried before. No sales pitch. Just a real conversation.
2
Content Game Plan
We build a custom content and ad strategy specific to your project type, your ZIP codes, and the buyers you want to attract. You see exactly what we're going to do before we do it.
3
Campaign Launch
Content goes live, ads go live, and your jobsite starts generating leads. We handle everything, from capturing footage to writing copy to managing your ad spend.
4
Optimize & Scale
Every month we analyze what's working, cut what isn't, and double down on what's filling your pipeline. Your results compound over time as we build your audience and refine your targeting.

Everything Builders Ask Before Working With Us

Real answers to the questions we hear most often from custom builders and general contractors in Northwest Ohio.

Yes. For clients within our primary service area in Northwest Ohio, we can coordinate on-site visits during key build phases, foundation pours, framing, exterior reveals, and final walkthroughs. We also coach your team on capturing footage between visits so you always have fresh content without waiting on us. The goal is a system where great content happens whether we're on site or not.

Absolutely. Meta's ad platform lets us target by household income tier, home ownership status, specific ZIP codes, and behavioral signals like recent home search activity. We layer these filters together to make sure your ads reach people with both the means and the intent to invest in a custom build or major project. You're not showing ads to renters, you're showing them to people actively researching what you do.

Craftsmanship lives in the details, and we know how to capture them. We build content around build-phase video, material close-ups, before-during-after sequences, and project reveal reels that show the transformation in a way that stops the scroll. We pair that with copywriting that speaks to what discerning homeowners actually care about: precision, longevity, and uniqueness. We don't just post pretty pictures, we tell the story of why your work is worth the investment.

Both. We work with custom home builders targeting high-income homeowners, general contractors handling commercial builds and large remodels, and specialty trades like additions, whole-home renovations, and high-end outdoor living. The strategy is tailored to your specific project type and ideal client, a custom home builder's content looks very different from a commercial GC's, and we build both with equal precision.

Organic content starts building trust and visibility immediately, but because the buying cycle for a custom home or major project can be 6 to 18 months, consistency is everything. Most clients see meaningful lead generation from ads within 60 to 90 days. The builders who stick with us for 6 months or more consistently report that their pipeline is fuller, their referrals are higher quality, and they're able to turn away projects that aren't the right fit. The longer you market well, the better your leads get.

Builders across Northwest Ohio
and into Southeast Michigan.

National agencies run one generic page and swap the city name. We build for the specific market you break ground in, because a buyer in Sylvania and a buyer in Findlay are not the same person and should not see the same ad.

Perrysburg & Toledo

Our home market. We know the difference between a Perrysburg move-up buyer and an infill teardown in the Old West End, and we build content for the one you actually want.

Sylvania & Sylvania Township

High-lot-value custom work and additions where buyers research for months. We keep you in their feed the whole way through that decision, not just when they finally call.

Maumee & Waterville

River-corridor renovations and semi-custom builds. We shoot the finished work the way a design-minded buyer in this market actually wants to see it.

Bowling Green & Wood County

New-build subdivisions and ag-land custom homes. We target by development and by lot availability so the spend follows the buyers who can actually break ground.

Findlay & Hancock County

A market national agencies never localize for. That is exactly why owning it is easy, and why a builder here who shows up consistently has almost no competition in the feed.

Monroe & Southeast Michigan

We work across the state line into Monroe County and toward the Ann Arbor and Saline custom market, where high-income buyers and low local ad competition line up well.

The one thing a national agency
can never copy.

Every big builder-marketing firm is out of state and runs your account remotely. Our whole advantage is that we are here, we are recognized here, and we understand the market you build in.

Voted Toledo's Best Ad Agency

Toledo City Paper readers voted us the region's #1 ad agency in 2025, ahead of every other shop in the market. See how we rank against the national agencies → A national agency renting a Toledo address cannot say that. We actually earned it here.

We are in this market, not renting it

We are based in Perrysburg. We know the Parade of Homes circuit, the developments that are selling, and the local buyers who move here. The national builder-marketing firms serve you from another state and have never driven a lot in Wood County.

Built for the builder's real math

A single custom home or whole-home remodel can be worth six figures, so one closed lead pays for months of marketing. We build around high-ticket, long-cycle jobs, not the volume-lead model that fits a $200 service call.

Local trust the nationals cannot buy

Homeowners handing over a large deposit for a year-long build want to see a builder the community already recognizes. Local recognition, local reviews, and local proof do more for booking rates than any out-of-market agency's templated funnel.

Limited Spots Available in NW Ohio

Start Filling Your
Project Pipeline.

You've built incredible things. Let's make sure the right buyers see them, every single week. Book a free 30-minute strategy call with Jayson and walk away with a clear picture of what your marketing should look like.

No contracts to sign on the call. No hard sell. Just strategy.

Also Serving

🏠 Roofing Companies ❄️ HVAC Companies 🏡 Real Estate Agents 🏥 Healthcare & Med Spas