Six services for local home-services owners

Your website is your front door. Most are jammed shut.

When it’s open, it’s your Google Business Profile. It’s your reviews. It’s the phone that picks up after 5pm. We work the whole front door.

The same conversion patterns the bigger brands use, sized for the local owners they leave behind. Six services that work harder together than any one alone.

  • Audits, GEO/SEO, and full site rebuilds
  • AI receptionist for after-hours calls
  • Reviews and Google Business Profile management
Hear it for yourself

Hear what your business sounds like answering after hours.

You’ll be calling Pipeline Plumbers, a fictional plumbing company we set up to demo the agent. Same setup you’d get, just with your services and your calendar instead of theirs.

$999 setup, then $199/mo. Buy in five minutes, live in 48 hours. Month-to-month, cancel any time.

Call (385) 402-7029
Proof from rebuilds we’ve shipped

Real before-and-after numbers from sites we’ve rebuilt.

Separate from the AI Receptionist above, this is the website-rebuild side of Front Door Digital. Three cold runs each, measured the same way Google measures them.

5.6x

Faster mobile load on the TruLight SLC rebuild (4.1s → 0.7s)

36x

Lighter pages at peak (TruLight Austin, 56MB → 1.56MB)

<800ms

Mobile load on every rebuild we’ve published

Owner-led

One operator, not an account manager. Available by text.

Who we work with

Built for the work you actually do.

Audits, rebuilds, and AI-search work for the local home-services niches that buy on Google and answer the phone.

  • Plumbing
  • HVAC
  • Roofing
  • Permanent Lighting
  • Wildlife Removal
  • Gutter Systems
  • Landscaping
  • Electrical

Don’t see your trade? Tell me what you do. We work across local home services.

Why we exist

Built by an operator who runs one of these businesses.

Hi, I’m Tom. I run TruLight SLC, a permanent-lighting company here in Salt Lake. When I first launched the company, my website wasn’t good. It looked dated, it didn’t show up on Google, and on mobile it took over four seconds to load. The few visitors who did land on it bounced.

Once we rebuilt it, the same site loaded in under a second on mobile. The difference was real. That’s when I realized most local home-services owners are stuck in the same spot: great work, hard-earned reviews, and a website that doesn’t reflect any of it. Front Door Digital exists to fix that, peer to peer.

Talk to Tom
How we build

The same playbook the bigger operators use, sized for local.

The conversion patterns that work at scale also work for a local owner. We use them on every Front Door Digital build, then translate them down.

A

Conversion-first, not design-first.

Every page exists to do one of two things: collect a lead or trigger a phone call.

  • Sticky phone banner on every page, tappable on mobile
  • Inline lead form visible above the fold, no clicking required
  • H1 written as the actual phrase your customers Google, not a slogan
  • CTA repeated after every section, because attrition compounds as visitors scroll

The principle: a pretty site that doesn’t capture leads loses to an ugly site that does.

B

Trust signals, in order.

Real local proof, stacked the way the highest-converting brands stack it.

  • “As seen on” logo strip with Google, BBB, Angi, local press
  • Real customer testimonials matching the avatars you actually sell to
  • Customer map showing completed jobs across your service area
  • Owner intro section with a real photo on a job site, not a polo-shirt headshot
  • FAQ block with FAQ schema baked in for Google AI Overview citations

No stock photos. No AI-written body copy. No fake reviews. Real or it does not ship.

C

The right pages, written right.

Service pages, location pages, and reviews built so Google and ChatGPT can both find you.

  • One page per service you offer, with full conversion stack on each
  • One page per city or neighborhood, with unique copy for each (no duplicate content)
  • Schema markup on every page so AI search engines can quote your reviews
  • Mobile-first, server-rendered, fast on the first load

Built to win the mom on her phone in the kitchen, getting a couple quotes for her husband.

Why we build it this way

The modern stack a lot of the web’s heaviest hitters run on.

We build every Front Door Digital site on Next.js and Vercel, the modern stack a lot of the highest-traffic sites on the internet run on (including Nike, DoorDash, and Notion). For a local home-services owner, here is why that matters.

A

Speed equals leads.

When someone clicks your Google ad on their phone in their truck, you have about two seconds before they bail.

  • Only 40% of WordPress sites pass Google’s Core Web Vitals on mobile (Web Almanac 2024)
  • Modern stacks like Next.js are built for this, not patched into it
  • Google ranks faster sites higher, so speed compounds over time

Slow first paint is the difference between a quote request and a lead your competitor closed.

B

AI search is where customers start now.

Customers ask ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google AI “best plumber in [city]” and the AI reads your site to decide who to recommend.

  • Server-rendered HTML so AI can read every page
  • Full schema markup baked into every site, not bolted on
  • Your reviews and ratings become AI-citable, not invisible

WordPress and Squarespace can do this, but they fight you the whole way.

C

Nothing to hack.

Most WordPress sites that get hacked were running an outdated plugin. Then it is $500 to clean up while Google flags your site as compromised.

  • No plugins to update or patch
  • No database to attack
  • No “this site may be compromised” warning showing on your homepage

Your site stays online, your reviews stay safe, and you never get the call.

What customers actually see

Your front door is more than your website.

When a local customer searches you, they don’t land on your homepage first. They see your Google Business Profile on the map, scan your star rating, read a review or two, then tap through. By the time they hit your website, they’ve already made up their mind about whether you’re worth a call.

If your GBP says one thing and your website says another, that lead is gone. Same with reviews that don’t match the work you sell, or a phone that goes to voicemail when they finally do call. The whole front door has to match.

The map listing.

Your Google Business Profile is the first impression. Hours, services, photos, and reviews are all public.

It has to match the website you send people to. If it doesn’t, customers notice and bounce.

The reviews.

75% of consumers regularly read online reviews of local businesses (BrightLocal 2024). AI search engines now quote those reviews when recommending you.

Both audiences need to be fed: real humans on Google and the AI engines that point them at you.

The phone.

When a customer finally taps Call, the worst thing your business can do is not pick up.

After-hours leads are a huge share of the home-services market. A great site can’t save you from a missed call.

What we do

Your website is the door. This is who answers it.

We build the front door, then we staff it. The audit, the GEO and SEO work, and the rebuild get the door open. Then this team keeps it open, working every customer the moment they show up.

A welcoming storefront with AI assistants answering the phone, holding up a five-star review, replying at a laptop, and greeting a customer at the open door
01

The Receptionist

Answers every call, day or night. Captures the lead and texts it to you in under 60 seconds, so a missed call never becomes a lost job.

02

The Web Responder

The second someone fills out a form on your site, it replies and books them, before they move on to the next name on Google.

03

The Reputation Manager

Asks every happy customer for a review, replies to the ones you get, and keeps the flow steady. 75% of customers read them before they call.

04

The Map Keeper

Keeps your Google Business Profile accurate, fresh, and matched to your site. It’s the first thing a customer sees, so it has to be right.

05

The Re-Activator

Works back through your old leads and past customers and brings the ready-to-buy ones back. You already paid to earn them once.

06

The Marketer

Brings new people to your door with paid ads, then nurtures them until they call.

How it works

A simple, four-step process.

  1. 1

    Discovery call

    30 minutes on the phone. Tell me about your business, your customers, and what’s been frustrating you about your current site.

  2. 2

    Free audit

    I run a full website audit and send you a written report with prioritized findings. No pressure, no contract, no upsell.

  3. 3

    Walkthrough

    We jump on a call to walk through the audit. You decide what (if anything) you want to do next.

  4. 4

    The work

    If we move forward, you get a fixed-scope proposal with a clear timeline, a clear price, and weekly check-ins.

Why Front Door Digital

Different from the agency you tried last time.

Peer to peer.

I run a local home-services business too. You’re not getting passed off to an account manager. You’re working with the operator.

Built for local.

This isn’t a generic template adapted for HVAC or plumbing. Every recommendation is grounded in how local home-services customers actually search and decide.

Plain English.

No agency jargon. No 80-page deliverables full of metrics that don’t mean anything. You’ll always know what we’re doing and why.

Ready for AI search.

Customers are searching in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini, not just Google. We build sites and content that get cited in both.

Fixed scope, fixed price.

You’ll know exactly what you’re getting and what it costs before we start. No retainer creep, no surprise invoices.

Local accountability.

Based in Salt Lake. Available by text. If something breaks, you can reach me directly.

How we compare

Same budget. Different posture.

Where most agencies and Front Door Digital actually diverge, line by line.

Most agencies
Front Door Digital
Who’s running it
Career marketer, or an operator who exited years ago
Currently runs a local home-services business (TruLight SLC)
The stack you’ll be on
WordPress, Wix, or a Squarespace template
Next.js + Vercel, the stack DoorDash and Notion run on
Pricing
“Quote on request”, custom every time
Published tiers, fixed scope, fixed price
Contracts
12 to 24 month lock-in
Month-to-month, cancel anytime
Speed proof
Promised, not measured
Real before/after Core Web Vitals on five published rebuilds
What you see in case studies
Lead-volume claims you can’t verify
Public case studies with screenshots, page weights, load times
Communication
Account manager and a ticket queue
Tom directly, by text
Reviews and Google Business Profile
Bolt-on add-on later, if you remember to ask
Built into the system from day one
Our launch-day promise

Pass Core Web Vitals on launch, or you don’t pay setup.

Every Front Door Digital rebuild ships passing Google’s Core Web Vitals on day one. All five of our published case studies prove it. If yours doesn’t, setup is free until it does. Applies to every rebuild tier.

Get my free audit

Free. No contract. Plain-English written report.

Get started

Let’s see what your front door looks like.

Free website audit. No contract. No obligation. You’ll get a written report and a 30-minute walkthrough, even if we never work together after that.

Or reach Tom directly: (385) 503-3119 · tom@thefrontdoordigital.com

Tom Porter · Front Door Digital · Salt Lake City, UT