Priced on posts, not consults
The package promised twelve posts a month and reported a like count. Nobody could tell you whether a single consultation came from the feed, so you had no idea if it worked.
SOCIAL · FOR SOLAR
Solar is a five-figure decision a homeowner chews on for months, and they research you long before they call. Install reels, savings math, battery content, Meta ads, and lead forms wired to real work, run by a shop that has marketed local-service businesses since 2008.
Ad spend goes to Meta, not to us. You keep the pages and the login.
QUICK FACTS · SOCIAL FOR SOLAR COMPANIES
The whole engagement on one ticket. Read it in a minute, then bring us the hard questions on the call.
THE SOCIAL FEED
A homeowner is not shopping for a solar installer at 9pm on Facebook. Then a reel stops the thumb: panels going up on a roof exactly like theirs, a battery bolted to a garage wall, and a caption that puts a real dollar figure on the monthly bill it kills. Now your name is in their head when the next power bill spikes, when a neighbor's array goes up, or when they finally look into the federal tax credit before it changes. Social media marketing for solar companies is not about being clever online. It is about turning installs, savings math, and battery storage into content that books the next consult.
Solar does not sell like a same-day repair. It is a five-figure, high-consideration purchase a homeowner makes once in the life of a house, and the payback runs years, so people take their time. That long consideration window is the whole game. A homeowner watches your work, reads your savings breakdowns, and quietly decides whether your crew is the outfit they trust on a $20,000 to $40,000 system and whether you actually understand the tax credit, net metering, and battery backup. The three things they keep coming back to are the money (bill savings and payback), the incentives (the federal credit and any local rebate), and increasingly storage, because a battery is what turns solar from a bill-cutter into keeping the lights on. The footage and the numbers to tell that story are already on your crew's phones and in your proposals. Most owners just never turn them into anything, or they hand the feed to a franchise-style agency that posts stock energy graphics no local homeowner cares about.
Most social packages sell a post count and a like count with no line to a single signed contract. We run the other math. What did the feed and the ads produce in consultation requests and calls, which install or savings post made the phone ring, and which posts were noise. Since 2008 we have marketed local-service businesses, so we build the solar feed around leads, not followers, and tie it to the same reviews and rankings the rest of your shop already runs.
[ 01 ] THE PROBLEM
Most solar installers who call us already tried social once. Here is what went wrong.
The package promised twelve posts a month and reported a like count. Nobody could tell you whether a single consultation came from the feed, so you had no idea if it worked.
The agency posted generic sun clip-art and motivational quotes that could belong to any solar company anywhere. Your actual installs, batteries, and savings numbers, the stuff homeowners want to see, never made the feed.
Solar buyers decide on payback and incentives, yet the feed never put a dollar figure on savings or explained the federal tax credit. It looked pretty and answered none of the questions a buyer actually has.
Even when a post landed, there was no lead form, no call-to-action, and no tracking. A homeowner ready for a quote had to hunt for your number, and most just kept scrolling to the next installer.
[ 02 ] THE METHOD
Every piece is wired to solar and how homeowners buy a system.
We give your crew a dead-simple shot list so they capture panel sets, racking, inverters, and battery installs from the job, then we cut them into reels and photo sets that stop the scroll.
Posts that put a real dollar figure on a homeowner's bill and show the payback timeline, because solar buyers decide on the money, not on how the panels look.
Plain-language content on the federal solar tax credit and any local rebate, timed to the buying urgency around deadlines, so you are the installer explaining the incentive, not just selling it.
Content built around backup power and storage, the fastest-growing reason homeowners go solar now, positioning you as the crew that keeps the lights on when the grid goes down.
Meta campaigns targeted to homeowners in your utility market and set to gather real lead data, instead of a boost button hit at random with no follow-through.
Facebook and Instagram lead forms wired so a homeowner requests a quote in two taps, plus monthly tracking that ties the feed and ads to real consults and calls, not impressions.
[ 03 ] THE DIFFERENCE
[ 04 ] DELIVERABLES
A month-by-month plan of the install reels, savings breakdowns, and battery posts that match how homeowners decide which installer to trust.
A simple, printed guide so a crew member captures the right footage from a roof-mount or ground-mount install in seconds without slowing the job down.
Panel sets, racking, inverters, and battery installs cut into scroll-stopping reels and photo sets for Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Shorts.
Captions in plain homeowner language that put a dollar figure on savings and explain the tax credit, giving people a reason to save, share, or request a quote.
A set of storage and backup-power posts that speak to the homeowners going solar for resilience, not just for the bill.
Facebook and Instagram ad campaigns targeted to homeowners in your utility market and built to gather real consultation leads.
Facebook and Instagram lead forms wired so quote and consultation requests route straight to your phone or inbox.
Plain reporting on consultation requests, calls, and lead-form submissions from the feed and ads, not vanity metrics.
[ 05 ] THE PROCESS
WEEK 1
Where your customers actually are, and what a busy owner can realistically sustain.
WEEKS 2-3
Profiles cleaned up, branded, and pointed back at the site that books jobs.
MONTH 1
A right-sized posting rhythm built from job-site photos, not stock images.
ONGOING
Posting, light engagement, and the occasional boosted post that earns its keep.
MONTHLY
Reach and, more importantly, the calls and clicks it sent to your site.
[ 06 ] THE HONEST CURVE
Solar is a long, five-figure decision, so social is a compounding game, not a slot machine. Posting and ads can start within days, but a feed that consistently pulls consults takes a couple of months of steady content while homeowners research on their own timeline.
To first posts and ads
Once we have page access and install footage
To a working ad cost
As targeting and creative tune to your market
To a feed that pulls
Steady content builds trust before a system sells
Vanity metrics reported
We report consultation requests and calls
[ 07 ] STRAIGHT ANSWERS
The questions solar owners ask before they hand us their pages.
It does when it is built for booking, not for likes. Solar is a considered, five-figure purchase, so homeowners rarely call after one post. They watch your installs, read your savings math, and quietly decide over weeks whether your crew is the one they trust on a $30,000 system. The feed that books consults shows real work, answers the money and tax-credit questions, and gives people a lead form or a number to act on. A feed of stock sun graphics books nothing, which is why most cheap packages disappoint.
The content that works maps to how homeowners decide: real installs going up on roofs like theirs, a dollar figure on the bill savings, the payback timeline, plain-language answers on the federal tax credit and any local rebate, and battery-storage backup stories. People do not go solar because the panels look nice; they go solar for the money and the resilience. We build the feed around those exact questions instead of generic energy quotes.
We put them in plain language, not fine print. Homeowners know a solar tax credit exists but rarely understand how it works or when it applies, so we run content that explains it clearly and ties it to buying urgency when a deadline is in view. That positions you as the installer who walks people through the incentive, not just another company selling panels. We never invent numbers; the content reflects the credits and rebates that actually apply in your market.
Your crew does, and it is easier than it sounds. We hand you a simple shot list so someone grabs a few clips from the job: panels going onto the racking, the inverter, the battery on the wall, the finished array. You send us the raw footage and we do the editing, captions, and posting. The best solar content is real work from a phone on the install, not a studio production.
There is no flat number. It depends on your service area, your utility market, how many platforms you want covered, how much footage your crews can capture, and whether you are running paid ads. We size it at the strategy call so it fits your market and your goals. If you run Meta ads, that spend is separate and paid straight to Meta; we never mark it up.
For most solar companies, Facebook and Instagram carry the load because that is where local homeowners are, especially the ones who own the houses and pay the power bills. TikTok and YouTube Shorts are worth it because installs and battery jobs make strong short video. We do not spread you thin across every platform; we pick the few where your work and your market actually convert.
Most cheap packages sell you a post count and a like count with no line to a signed contract. Stock graphics, no actual install, never a word about savings or the tax credit, and nowhere for a lead to go. We build around your real installs and battery work, put dollar figures and credit answers in the content, wire lead forms and tracking, and report consultation requests and calls instead of impressions. If the numbers still do not work for your market, we tell you.
You do. We work inside Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok pages and a Meta ad account in your name, and you keep the login. If we ever part ways, the pages, the content, the followers, and the ad history stay with you. No shared agency account that vanishes the day you cancel.
[ 08 ] WHAT COMES NEXT
The rest of the build works alongside this.
Google Business Profile and map-pack work that wins the local solar calls happening on Google Maps, a different lever from the feed.
→The hand-coded, under-two-second solar site your social traffic should land on when a homeowner is ready to book a consult.
→Organic Google rankings that catch the homeowners searching for a solar installer, separate work from the social feed.
BOOK YOUR FREE STRATEGY CALL
We'll run a free audit of your current social presence and your solar market and deliver it in 1-3 business days, with an honest read on whether the feed can book consults in your area.