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Lead Generation For Earthworks Contractors

Plenty of the people searching for a machine are not homeowners at all. They are builders, plumbers, landscapers and developers who need someone on site by a certain date and are working through whoever they can find. We build the lead generation system that puts your business in front of both sides of that, and every enquiry it produces is yours alone.

Exclusive leads for earthworks and excavation businesses. No shared enquiries. No lock-in contracts.

Illustration of an earthworks contractor receiving an exclusive excavation lead on his phone beside an excavator cutting a site pad
New earthworks leadSent to your business only

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exclusive enquiries, sent to your business alone

4-6

leads guaranteed during the trial program

$300

one-time trial setup, no lock-in contract

The Earthworks We Generate Leads For

Earthworks enquiries arrive from two directions. A homeowner describing a sloping backyard in plain words, and a builder or trade who already knows the volume, the machine and the date they need it there. Different searches, different forms, so we build for both and weight it however you want.

  • Excavator cutting and levelling a building pad on a residential block

    Site Cuts And Pad Preparation

    Cutting and levelling for a house slab, shed or granny flat. Usually searched by a builder or an owner-builder who is already working to a set date.

  • Large excavator loading soil into a tipper truck during a bulk excavation

    Bulk Excavation And Earthmoving

    Larger volume digs and cart-away on residential and commercial sites. The form can be set to arrive with the volume and the spoil plan already stated.

  • Narrow service trench dug along the side of a residential property

    Trenching And Service Runs

    Trenches for drainage, power, water and sewer. Often searched by another trade who needs the machine on site before their own crew can start.

  • Excavated batter behind a partly built limestone retaining wall

    Retaining Wall Excavation

    Batter cuts and benching behind new retaining walls. Regularly searched alongside landscaping, so we can set the form up to catch the wider scope.

  • Bobcat preparing and compacting a base for a new residential driveway

    Driveway And Access Preparation

    Digging out and preparing the base for a new driveway or crossover. A residential search that often runs at the same time as someone looking for a concreter.

  • Cleared and levelled rural block with an excavator and stockpiled vegetation

    Land Clearing And Levelling

    Clearing scrub, stumps and rubbish, then levelling the block. A rural and semi-rural search pattern worth targeting on its own rather than folding into the rest.

You Decide What An Earthworks Lead Contains

Two things tend to decide whether a job is yours before anything else does: whether your machine fits through the access, and whether the person enquiring is running a site or describing their backyard. Neither of them shows up in a name and a mobile number.

So we build the form around them. Access width, who is enquiring, whether the spoil is going or staying, whatever you need to know before you commit a machine and a float to a day. If you would rather ask less and sort the rest out on the phone, we build it that way instead. It is your form.

  • Sent through the moment it lands, so you can look at the access before somebody else books the week
  • Delivered only to your business, never passed on to the other earthworks contractors in your area
  • Filtered to the suburbs, site types and job sizes you want, and changed the moment your fleet changes

Your enquiry form

Yours only
Name and mobile
Direct contact, not a masked number
Who is enquiring
Homeowner, builder, another trade or a developer
Site address
So you can price the float and the travel before you call
Type of work
Site cut, bulk dig, trenching, clearing or driveway prep
Site access
Gate or side access width, slope, overhead lines and verge
Approximate size
Area, depth or volume, in whatever terms they have
Spoil
Carted away, stockpiled on site, or not decided yet
Site readiness
Ready now, waiting on approvals, or waiting on another trade
Job notes
Free text for services, rock, trees and anything unusual

Examples of what we can ask for. The form is built per business, so we add the fields you want and leave out the ones you do not.

What One Earthworks Lead Is Actually Worth

Earthworks sits in an awkward spot for this sort of sum, because a single enquiry can turn into more than one job on the same site and that never shows up in a per-lead figure. Use your own numbers below. Ours are round numbers to show the shape of it, nothing more.

  1. Your average earthworks job

    Say $9,000

    A site cut, or a day or two of machine work with cart-away. Use your own average across the jobs you actually take.

  2. Your quote-to-job rate

    Say 1 in 3

    Put in your own figure, and use the rate you get on jobs where you have seen the access rather than the ones priced blind.

  3. So each lead is worth

    About $3,000

    Before a cent of advertising, and before anything else that follows on from the same site.

That is the number worth holding up against what a shared enquiry costs you, rather than the price of the lead on its own. Our calculator runs the same sum on your figures in about thirty seconds.

Lead Value Calculator

The Risk Sits With Us First

You are not being asked to take this on faith. Before there is any ongoing arrangement, this is what we are putting up and what you are not.

  • Leads Guaranteed, Not Promised

    The trial comes with a guaranteed number of exclusive enquiries. If they do not arrive, that is on us to fix rather than on you to wear.

  • One Earthworks Business Per Area

    We take on a single contractor in a market. That is the reason the enquiries are never split, and the reason we check whether your area is open before either of us spends more time on it.

  • $300, And Nothing Locked In

    A one-time trial setup, no contract and no ongoing commitment while you work out whether the enquiries are real and worth putting a machine on.

The Trial Program exists so you can see the enquiries turning up in your own area before either of us commits to anything longer term.

See how the trial works

How We Build Your Earthworks Lead System

Excavation and earthworks lead generation, done for you. Nothing to manage, nothing to learn and nothing to log into. We build the system, we run it, and the enquiries land with you. It is all delivered through our Lead Launch Program.

  1. We Work Out Who Is Actually Searching

    Builders and trades chasing a machine behave nothing like a homeowner with a sloping block. We look at what is being searched around you and build for the mix you want, not the mix a template assumes.

  2. We Get Your Machines In Front Of Them

    We build the pages, the offer and the enquiry forms, then do the work that puts your business where people go looking for an excavator. You never touch a campaign or a dashboard.

  3. The Enquiries Come Straight To You

    Every one lands on your phone and in your inbox with the access details you asked for. No portal, no credits, no other contractor pricing the same dig.

Want The Earthworks Enquiries In Your Area Coming To You?

Tell us where you work and what your machines are set up for. We will check whether the spot is still open and what the demand actually looks like there.

Why These Are Not Directory Leads

Shared platforms sell the same dig to whoever buys the credit, and they rarely ask a single question about access, so what turns up may not suit your machines at all. This is a different arrangement, and we have written more on how a lead generation service differs from a marketing agency.

  • Who receives the enquiry

    Shared lead platforms

    The same dig sold to three or four contractors

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    Only your business, every time

  • What is in the enquiry

    Shared lead platforms

    A name, a suburb and a line of description

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    Access, site type and whatever else you told us you need

  • What you compete on

    Shared lead platforms

    Who rings first and who drops their day rate

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    Your gear, your availability and your quote

  • What you pay for

    Shared lead platforms

    Every enquiry, access problems and all

    The Lead Gen Lab

    An arrangement built around what a lead is actually worth to you, worked out after the trial rather than before it

  • Job types you receive

    Shared lead platforms

    Whatever the platform pushes at you that week

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    The site types, suburbs and job sizes you choose

  • Who owns the visibility

    Shared lead platforms

    The platform, always

    The Lead Gen Lab

    Built around your business and your service area

  • Getting started

    Shared lead platforms

    Credit packs and ongoing subscriptions

    The Lead Gen Lab

    A $300 one-time trial with guaranteed leads and no lock-in

Who This Works For, And Who It Does Not

Better you find out now than three weeks in. Exclusive earthworks lead generation suits some businesses very well and is the wrong call for others, so here is both sides of it.

This works well if

  • You have machines and operators free for work you did not have booked.
  • You can get out and look at the access quickly once an enquiry lands.
  • You want the enquiry to be yours alone rather than one of four contractors on the same dig.
  • You are happy taking work from builders and trades as well as homeowners, because both will come through.
  • You want enquiries turning up between contracts, not only when a builder remembers your number.

It is probably not for you if

  • You need the machines busy next week. This is built to rank, and ranking takes a run-up.
  • You want to run the campaigns yourself. We build and run the whole system, you just take the calls.
  • You only want one kind of customer. A good share of what arrives will be from other trades, not homeowners.
  • Another earthworks business already has your area. We only take one per market and we will say so.
  • There is genuinely no search demand where you work. We check that first, either way.

Not sure where you land on that? Tell us where you work and what your machines suit and we will give you a straight answer. If it is not a fit we will say so, the Trial Program exists so you find that out cheaply rather than expensively, and you can always ask us first.

We Generate Earthworks Leads Australia-Wide

It does not matter where you are based. We run earthworks lead generation right across Australia, and we take on one earthworks business per area so the enquiries in a market are never split. These are the areas we are already set up in.

Australia wide

Your area is not on the list? Not a problem. We work Australia-wide, so wherever your machines travel, if there is demand for earthworks there is a good chance we can make it work. Tell us your area and we will check it.

Earthworks Lead Generation Questions

Yes. Every enquiry the system produces goes to your business and nowhere else. We do not sell shared leads or send the same dig to four contractors, so you are never racing anyone to the phone on a job you were both handed.

Both, and the split is one of the things we set deliberately rather than leave to chance. Homeowners search in plain language, builders and trades search for the machine and the job by name, and the two need different pages and different questions. Tell us which side you want more of and we weight it that way, then adjust once we can see what your market is actually producing.

Yes, and it is usually the first thing we would suggest asking. Access width, slope, overhead lines, whether a float can get near the block, whatever your smallest machine needs to know. Keep in mind that every extra question costs you a few people who give up halfway, so we start with the ones that genuinely change your answer and refine it from there.

Yes. If you do not want small backyard jobs, or you only want work inside a certain radius, or you would rather stay off tight residential blocks, we build the targeting and the form around that. It works the same way for every trade we run this for, and you can see the full list of industries if you want a sense of how specific it gets.

It depends on your area, how far your machines travel and the work you take on, and earthworks demand moves with the weather and with how much building is happening around you. A fixed monthly figure would be a guess, which is exactly what the Trial Program is for: you see the real enquiry flow in your own market first.

Not instantly, because we are building something that ranks rather than renting clicks. Most clients start seeing enquiries within the first stretch of the Trial Program. The trade-off is that once it works it keeps working, instead of stopping the moment an ad budget runs out. Our guide to lead generation strategies for tradies explains why we build it this way.

The Trial Program is a $300 one-time setup fee with guaranteed leads, no lock-in contract and no hidden costs. You see genuine exclusive enquiries land in your business before either of us talks about anything longer term.

Ready For Earthworks Leads That Are Only Yours?

Tell us where your machines work and what they are set up for. We will check the demand for earthworks leads in your area and whether the spot is still open.

If it is a fit we will get the Lead Launch Program underway and start sending you exclusive enquiries with the access detail already attached.

  • We check the demand and the competition in your suburbs before we take you on
  • One earthworks business per area, so your enquiries are never split
  • $300 one-time trial with guaranteed leads, no lock-in contract
  • Every enquiry sent straight to your phone and inbox, exclusively

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