Stock photos, not your yards
A generic lawn image tells a homeowner nothing. They cannot picture your crew in their yard when they never see your crew or their neighborhood.
SOCIAL · FOR LANDSCAPING
Social Media Marketing for Landscapers
Likes do not fill a route. We turn your before-and-after cuts, hardscape pours, and spring cleanups into feed content that books estimates and fills recurring maintenance slots.
THE CAMPAIGN SPEC
- PlatformsFB / IG / TikTok / Shorts
- Posts / month12-20 job-site
- Bought followers0
- MethodSince 2008
Content pulled from your real crews and real yards. Nothing staged, nothing stock.
- Since 2008
- Job-site content
- You own the accounts
- No bought followers
- Trade-specific
QUICK FACTS · SOCIAL FOR LANDSCAPERS
At a glance.
The whole engagement on one ticket. Read it in a minute, then bring us the hard questions on the call.
- What it is
- Managed social media marketing for landscapers: organic posting, job-site photo and video, and paid Meta ads across Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube Shorts.
- Timeline
- First posts inside 2-3 weeks once we have crew photo access. Paid social can start booking estimates in the first month; organic reach builds over a season.
- Investment
- Monthly, quoted at the strategy call. Priced by post volume and whether you want paid ad management on top. No invented flat rate.
- What you get
- A steady feed of your own work, short reels of installs and transformations, review-fed posts, and paid campaigns aimed at homeowners in your service radius.
- What's not included
- Google rankings, Maps 3-pack, AI-search citations, and the website build. Those are their own silos. Social sends the traffic; the rest catches it.
- Managed how
- In-house by our team, on social accounts you own. We do not hold your logins hostage or run everything through an agency page.
- Who it's for
- Established landscapers, lawn-maintenance routes, and design-build firms who post sporadically or paid for a cheap social package and saw nothing.
- Who it's not for
- A brand-new one-truck operation with no completed jobs to show, or an owner who wants follower counts instead of booked estimates.
SOCIAL THAT BOOKS WORK
The feed is a job board homeowners scroll for their yard
Homeowners plan landscaping the way they plan a kitchen. They save reels of paver patios, screenshot a retaining wall they like, and follow the crew whose spring cleanups keep showing up in their feed. When they finally call for a design-build estimate, they call the company they have already watched work. Generic social media marketing for landscapers misses this entirely: a stock lawn photo and a motivational quote does not book a patio.
Landscaping also runs on two engines most agencies ignore. One is the recurring route: mow, edge, and maintenance accounts that renew every season and get upsold into mulch, aeration, and cleanups. The other is the seasonal spike, spring rush, fall leaf work, snow in the north, holiday lighting, where a two-week window decides half your year. Social hits both. Route posts remind current clients to add services. Seasonal campaigns catch the homeowner who just realized their yard is a mess.
We build content from your actual crews and yards: the before-and-after cut, the drone pass over a finished install, the sod going down. Then we point paid Meta ads at homeowners inside your service radius. That is the whole play, work worth showing, shown to people who can hire you.
[ 01 ] THE PROBLEM
Why most landscaper social goes nowhere
You are not bad at your work. The content just does not do the job it should.
Posted, then forgotten
You post in the spring rush, then go quiet all summer when you are busy. The feed goes cold exactly when homeowners are planning next season's projects.
Likes instead of estimates
The cheap package chases followers and engagement. None of it maps to a booked design-build call or a filled maintenance slot on your route.
No seasonal timing
Spring cleanup, fall leaf work, and holiday lighting each have a two-week booking window. Miss the window with your content and the ad spend arrives too late.
[ 02 ] THE METHOD
What we actually run
Organic feed, paid ads, and content production, all pointed at booked work.
Job-site content
We turn your installs, cuts, and hardscapes into photos and short reels. Real crews, real yards, no stock, no staging.
Before-and-after reels
The transformation is the whole sell in landscaping. Overgrown to clean, dirt to patio, we cut it so homeowners feel the change.
Paid Meta ads
Facebook and Instagram ads and lead forms aimed at homeowners inside your service radius, tuned to design-build and seasonal offers.
Seasonal campaigns
Spring cleanup, aeration, fall leaf work, mulch refresh, and holiday lighting timed to the booking window, not run flat year-round.
Route and upsell posts
Content that reminds current maintenance clients to add services and keeps your recurring accounts warm through the off months.
Review-fed social
Five-star reviews become posts and ad proof. Happy clients on a finished lawn do more selling than any slogan.
[ 03 ] THE DIFFERENCE
Trade-specific vs. the calendar mill
Be Seen, Contractors!
We sell booked yards, not likes
- Content from your real crews, cuts, and installs
- Paid ads tuned to design-build and seasonal windows
- Tied to the rankings and reviews your shop already runs
the $199 social package
A calendar of filler
- Stock lawn photos and recycled quote graphics
- Boosted posts with no service-radius targeting
- Follower counts that never map to an estimate
[ 04 ] DELIVERABLES
What lands each month
Content shoot plan
A simple shot list your crews follow on job sites so we always have fresh before-and-after material.
12-20 organic posts
A month of posts across your platforms, built from your own work and reviews, not stock.
Short reels and video
Cut-down transformation clips and install footage sized for Reels, TikTok, and YouTube Shorts.
Paid ad campaigns
Meta ad sets targeting homeowners in your service radius, with copy tuned to the season's offer.
Seasonal offer content
Spring, fall, and holiday-lighting pushes timed to the booking window for each service.
Lead-form setup
Facebook and Instagram lead forms so a homeowner can request an estimate without leaving the feed.
Reply and message coverage
We keep comments and DMs from going stale so an interested homeowner is not left waiting.
Monthly report
A plain-language rundown of reach, ad spend, and leads booked, not a vanity dashboard.
[ 05 ] THE PROCESS
From plan to booked work.
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WEEK 1
Audit
Where your customers actually are, and what a busy owner can realistically sustain.
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WEEKS 2-3
Setup
Profiles cleaned up, branded, and pointed back at the site that books jobs.
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MONTH 1
Cadence
A right-sized posting rhythm built from job-site photos, not stock images.
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ONGOING
Manage
Posting, light engagement, and the occasional boosted post that earns its keep.
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MONTHLY
Report
Reach and, more importantly, the calls and clicks it sent to your site.
[ 06 ] THE HONEST CURVE
What to expect, honestly
Paid social can book estimates in the first month. Organic reach compounds over a full season, not a single post.
2-3 wk
First posts live
Once we have crew photo access set up.
30-60d
Paid ads booking
First estimates from Meta campaigns.
12-20
Posts per month
All from your own work, no stock.
0
Bought followers
Reach comes from real content, never purchased.
[ 07 ] STRAIGHT ANSWERS
What contractors ask us most.
The questions landscapers actually ask before they hand over the feed.
01Does social media actually book landscaping jobs, or just get likes?
It books jobs when the content is your real work and the ads are aimed at homeowners who can hire you. Before-and-after reels and paid Meta lead forms turn a scroll into an estimate request. We report leads booked, not likes.
02Which platforms should a landscaper be on?
Facebook and Instagram carry most of the homeowner audience, and Meta ads run across both. TikTok and YouTube Shorts are where transformation reels travel furthest. We do not chase every platform, we run the ones that book work for your service area.
03I am slammed in the spring. Who takes the photos?
Your crews do, with a shot list we give them. It takes thirty seconds to grab a before, an after, and a short clip on each job. We handle everything after that: editing, posting, and the ads. You do not sit at a computer.
04How is this different from the cheap social package I already tried?
The cheap package posts stock lawn photos and quote graphics and chases followers. We build content from your actual yards and point paid ads at homeowners inside your radius, tied to seasonal booking windows. One sells your work, the other sells filler.
05Do you handle Google rankings and Maps too?
Not in this service. Search rankings live in SEO, and the Maps 3-pack and review requests live in local SEO. This page is organic social and paid social ads. Social sends homeowners your way, and the other silos catch them. We can run all of it, just quoted separately.
06Who owns the social accounts?
You do, always. We work inside accounts under your name and never run your presence through an agency-owned page. If we ever part ways, your followers, content, and history stay with you.
07Can you time content around my seasons?
Yes, and that is most of the value for landscapers. Spring cleanups, aeration, fall leaf work, mulch refresh, and holiday lighting each get pushed inside their real booking window instead of run flat all year. Seasonal timing is built into the plan.
08What does it cost?
It is monthly, priced at the strategy call by post volume and whether you add paid ad management. We do not post an invented flat rate here because a two-crew maintenance route and a design-build firm need different plans. The audit shows you what makes sense first.
[ 08 ] WHAT COMES NEXT
What comes next.
The rest of the build works alongside this.
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