Tree work has a marketing problem nobody else in the trades has. Half your revenue arrives in the four days after a storm, when you cannot answer the phone because you are in a bucket at somebody's house. The other half has to be sold from a driveway, one estimate at a time, against a guy with a magnet sign quoting a third of your number because he carries no insurance and no certification.
This site is written for that. Every guide gives you the whole method with the numbers, whether or not you ever talk to us. If you would rather have it run for you, pick a service and we do it for 14 days free. No card. If nothing improves, you stop and you are out nothing.
What is on the site
The benchmark report is built from 87,219 public Google Business Profile listings for tree services across 51 states. The median tree company has 17 reviews. 25.5% list no website at all. Companies with a website carry a median of 27 reviews against 4 for companies without one. Read it before you spend a dollar on advertising, because it tells you which gap to close first.
The guides cover what actually moves the phone in this trade: reviews asked for while the chips are still on the lawn, a Google profile that says arborist and not just landscaper, ad campaigns split between emergency removal and planned pruning so one does not eat the other, estimate routing that stops burning your drive time, and how to look credible next to an uninsured competitor.
The missed-call calculator uses your own average ticket. At a $1,100 job and 30 calls a month, missing a third of them is not a small leak. Storm weeks make it worse, and storm weeks are when the tickets are largest.
Who writes this
Steve Meitler edits the site. He has run growth campaigns for local service companies for years, tree services among them, and builds the benchmark dataset himself from public listings. More on the about page.