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Thinking About Hiring a Marketing Agency for Your Land Business? Read This First

Josh Stockel • July 13, 2025
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Hiring a marketing agency can be one of the smartest moves you make—or one of the most frustrating. The difference comes down to whether the agency truly understands your industry and delivers results that matter: phone calls, booked jobs, and long-term growth.


At Blue Goat Land Leads, we've been helping land clearing, excavation, and demolition contractors grow for over a decade. We’re not generalists. We're a specialized agency that lives and breathes dirt work marketing. Our systems, our tools, and even our podcast—The Land It Podcast—are built around the unique needs of this industry.


We’ve worked with solo operators just getting started and 7-figure contractors looking to scale, and the strategies we use come directly from real-world case studies—not theory.


If you're considering hiring a marketing partner, here's what to look for—and what makes a specialized agency like ours different.


1. Not All Agencies Understand the Dirt World

If your agency doesn’t know what a pad site is, how long an acre takes to mulch, or how to demo contractor thinks when looking at a tear down —it’s going to show in your ads and messaging.


We speak the language. We know the market. And we’ve run hundreds of campaigns specifically for land service contractors.


Look for a team that specializes in land services. That means:

  • Industry-specific language that builds trust
  • Ad creatives that actually represent your work
  • A website and brand that feel like you, not a generic contractor


2. You Don’t Just Want Leads—You Want Qualified Ones

A good agency won’t just flood you with form submissions from people who “aren’t sure what they need.”


You want:

  • People in your service area
  • With the right job types
  • At the right stage of planning


This comes from smarter targeting, better messaging, and filtering systems that separate the tire kickers from the real buyers.


We’ve helped dozens of contractors do exactly that—by designing campaigns that match their capacity, their profit goals, and their timeline.


3. You Shouldn’t Have to Do All the Work

If your agency hands you a pile of logins, a website template, and a to-do list—you’re not hiring help, you’re buying homework.


We provide a fully done-for-you system. Our team:

  • Handles ad setup and daily management
  • Writes and designs your landing pages and creatives
  • Automates your follow-up using our Lead Nurturing CRM


You should be out in the field—not trying to figure out how to connect a Facebook pixel.


4. Ask About Transparency and Reporting

You don’t need to be a data geek, but you do need to know what’s working.


At Blue Goat, we don’t just send you canned reports or spreadsheets full of jargon. Every month, we meet with you one-on-one to go over what’s working, what’s not, and where your biggest opportunities for growth are. We track every dollar of ad spend and connect it to real-world results—calls, jobs, and revenue.


Ask any agency:

  • What gets tracked?
  • Do you just send canned reports that are hard to understand or do I get to meet monthly with a staff member who can show me exactly how things are going?
  • Will I know my cost per lead?


If they can’t answer clearly—or don’t even mention reporting—walk away.


5. Cheap Work is Expensive in the Long Run

A $500/month agency that does the bare minimum is more expensive than a specialized team that delivers actual ROI.


Think about:

  • How much is a new job worth to you?
  • What’s your time worth?
  • How many leads do you need per month to grow?


The right agency will help you answer those questions—and then build the strategy to get there.


Marketing shouldn’t feel like a gamble. It should feel like growth.


We’ve spent the last 10+ years helping land service businesses grow smarter. With real strategies. Real conversations. And real results.


Want to see what the right-fit partnership looks like for your land business? 👉 Let’s talk


🎧 Also: On the Land It Podcast, we regularly talk with contractors about what’s worked (and what hasn’t) when they outsourced marketing. Listen in to learn how other land service pros made the leap—and what you can take from their journey.

👉 Check out the Land It Podcast

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