Social Media Marketing for Construction Companies
We run social media marketing for construction companies that are short of people more than work. We post real site video, run hiring ads in Meta's employment category and keep client posts for the jobs you want. Judge us on applications, hires and the work you can finally say yes to.
For firms turning down work because they cannot staff it
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Most social media marketing for construction companies chases the wrong people
Ask a contractor what caps growth, and the answer is often people. Then look at the feed. Every post is a finished job aimed at clients who came by referral anyway.
Common Social Media Problems
The Limit Is People, Not Leads
Firms turn down work they could do because nobody is free to run it. More client ads only make that worse.
Good Trades Are Not Job Hunting
The people worth hiring are busy at another firm. They only see you if something crosses their feed.
Job Posts Show Up in a Panic
A firm posts a job the week someone quits, to followers who are mostly past clients. Few trades see it, and the firm decides social does not work.
A Finished Room Answers None of It
A carpenter learns nothing about pay day, site safety or rain days from a photo of a finished kitchen.
Our Solution
Show what working for you is like
Site setup, tools, pay timing, rain-day rules and how long people stay. Plain posts like these reach trades who were not looking. The best ones become hiring ads.
Tenure is your best number
How long your longest-serving trades have stayed tells a recruit more than any line about culture. A worse employer cannot copy it.
When you hire, Facebook ads for construction companies follow new rules
Job Ads Have Their Own Category
Meta treats ads for full-time jobs, part-time jobs and apprenticeships as employment ads. US advertisers must pick that category.
Perks Count Too
An ad about your perks is an employment ad, even with no opening named. A site tour that names no job or perk is not.
The Targeting Is Broad by Rule
Employment ads limit age and gender targeting, drop ZIP codes and widen a US city target to 15 miles. We never try to work around that.
Client Ads Can Fall Under Housing
Meta's housing category names housing repairs, so some remodel and repair ads belong there. The same limits apply.
Which category your ad needs
These are Meta's own examples. Meta says its lists are not complete and are not legal advice, so when in doubt we pick the special category.
What we run for a construction firm
Hiring comes first when people are your limit. Client work stays, sized to how your jobs really arrive.
Site Video
Short clips of real sites: setup, tools, safety gear and how the day runs. A foreman can shoot most of it on a phone.
- Real sites
- Phone shot
- Unposed
Pay and Terms Posts
When pay lands, how overtime works and what happens on a rain day. Plain terms filter applicants before anyone books an interview.
- Pay timing
- Rain-day rule
- Overtime
Hiring Ads
Job and apprenticeship ads in Meta's employment category, aimed at the commute area around your sites. Short forms make applying easy.
- Employment category
- Commute area
- Short forms
Tenure and Crew Stories
How long your people have stayed and who moved up. Checkable proof, posted with their consent.
- Checkable
- With consent
- Promotions shown
Client Project Posts
Finished work and progress shots for people checking you after a referral. Repair and remodel ads go in Meta's housing category when they fit it.
- Referral check
- Progress shots
- Right category
Reviews Done Right
We ask every client for a review. Staff who review the firm say they work there, as the FTC asks.
- Every client
- Staff disclose
- No paid praise
What changes when the account recruits
Capacity improves, and capacity was the limit holding the business back.
You Can Take the Work You Turned Down
When people are the limit, one good hire is worth more than a pile of new inquiries.
You Reach Trades Who Are Not Looking
Busy, skilled people do not read job boards. They do scroll, and a real site clip can catch them.
Hiring Stops Being a Crisis
A steady presence means candidates exist before someone quits. You stop hiring whoever happens to be free.
Plain Terms Filter Early
Posting pay timing and the rain-day rule draws people who accept them. The rest drop out before an interview.
Tenure Grows on Its Own
Every year your people stay makes that number stronger. It improves just by you being a decent employer.
Client Work Still Gets Seen
Project posts stay in the mix for the people who look you up after a referral.
How we run social media marketing for construction companies
Three weeks to set up. The first question is what you turned down last year, and why.
Find the Real Limit
We look at work you turned down in the past year and the reason for each. If most of it was capacity, hiring leads the plan.
- Declined work reviewed
- Reasons sorted
- Open roles listed
- Plan weighted
Agree What You Will Publish
Pay timing, rain-day rules, tenure and site standards need a senior yes before they go public. This is where firms push back.
- Terms agreed
- Tenure gathered
- Standards written
- Sign-off given
Set Up Site Clips and Ads
A foreman sends a few clips a week through an app you already use. Hiring ads go live in Meta's employment category.
- Clip channel set
- Consent rules agreed
- Hiring ads live
- Forms routed
Run Both Audiences
Hiring content leads, client posts stay in the mix, and we track applications next to inquiries.
- Weekly site clips
- Hiring ads running
- Applications tracked
- Client posts kept
Six months of recruiting through social
Quiet candidates move on their own schedule, so we judge this over a longer window than client ads.
Limit confirmed, terms agreed
You know what you turned down and why, and you decide what to say in public about pay and rain days.
The account starts talking to trades
Site, tool and tenure posts go out each week, and hiring ads run in the employment category.
Quiet candidates surface
People who were not looking start to reach out, often by message rather than a formal application.
Hiring stops being a scramble
You have enough of a pipeline that a resignation becomes a hassle instead of a crisis. You can be picky again.
Good hires show up on their own schedule
A content carpenter will not move because you posted in March. They remember you in September, when their firm does something annoying.
Why construction firms work with us on this
Our first question is about the jobs you said no to last year and why.
We Weight Toward the Real Limit
If people cap your growth, hiring content gets the most room. We ask that question before we plan a single post.
We Push You to Publish Terms
Pay timing, overtime and rain days. Firms resist stating them, yet plain terms are the clearest signal a recruit gets.
We Use Tenure as Proof
How long people stay is easy to check and hard to fake. It beats any line about culture.
We Follow Meta's Hiring Rules
Job ads run in the employment category, with no age or gender targeting. We do not look for ways around it.
We Send Client Leads to Google When It Fits
A homeowner hunting for a builder often starts on Google. If client leads are your real gap, Google Ads and SEO may beat social.
You Can Cancel Anytime
No long contract. Recruiting is slow to show results, and you should be free to stop whenever it stops making sense.
Meta's count for a video play. Open on the site.
What works against you:
Job posts that only appear when someone quits
A feed with no sign of daily site life
How a good tradesperson passes on you: they never apply
They turned down the contract because nobody could run it
A good job went to a rival for want of a site lead. The feed was full of finished projects aimed at clients the firm did not need. The next week, a job post reached mostly past customers.
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A foreman with a phone on a live site
The material is a working site as it looks on a normal day. Nobody needs to tidy up for it, since the point is to show real conditions.
Each month, here is what you get
Weighted to hiring, with client work kept at the share that matches how your jobs arrive.
Conditions
What a recruit is judging.
Terms
What most firms keep vague.
Hiring ads
Run by the rules.
Client work
Kept in proportion.
What we stop doing
Feeds made only of finished projects, panic job posts, staged sites and vague claims about a great place to work with nothing to back them.
How social media marketing for construction companies fits with referrals
Many construction clients arrive through referrals and repeat work. That frees social to do a different job.
Referrals Bring the Work
Architects, past clients and other trades send many jobs your way. Social helps when those people look you up.
Google Catches the Homeowner Search
A homeowner who needs a remodeler or a builder often searches Google first. Google Ads and SEO serve that search better than a feed.
Social Reaches the Quiet Candidate
A tradesperson with a job is not on a job board. A site clip in their feed is one of the few ways to reach them.
LinkedIn Fits Office and Site Leads
Estimators, project managers and superintendents keep work profiles there. We use it for those roles only.
The comparison we watch
Client posts against crew posts
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Get Free ConsultationFrequently asked questions
What contractors ask when the leads are fine and the crews are not.
If people are your limit, yes. The trades worth hiring are busy and not reading job boards. A real site clip in their feed is one of the few ways to reach them.
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Talk to Our TeamFind out what you turned down for lack of people
We will look at the work you declined last year and why. Then we check what your account says to a tradesperson and what a hiring-first plan would post.