One budget for the whole city
Mixing Oakland, Sewickley and Cranberry into one budget hides which area pays. Crews can only take work near them, so the account has to follow their map, not the city outline.
City hub · Pittsburgh metro
Marketing for Pittsburgh firms that work by the hill, the river and the neighborhood
Three rivers, steep hillsides and a handful of tunnels make the Pittsburgh map a poor guide to drive time, and ad budgets should know it.
A radius drawn on a Pittsburgh map says little about real drive time. We start with the neighborhoods your crews and agents can reach, then build ads and pages for those places only. Urgent jobs stay apart from planned ones, and sales stay apart from property management. Each month you can see which neighborhood paid. The first step is a free audit of what you spend and where it goes.
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- check_circle Reports in dollars tied to booked jobs, signed listings and management contracts
What we do
Four services, each built around where your crews work
An Oakland property manager and a Cranberry HVAC crew need different reach. Each service below is set up around the places you serve.
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SEO
Pages and listings that appear when people nearby search Google for what you do.
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Google Ads
Paid search ads that reach people searching right now, reported against the calls and bookings they produce.
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Meta Ads
Facebook and Instagram ads for offers that need reach, including ads shown again to people who visited your site.
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Web and landing pages
Pages built to turn a visit into a call, form or booking.
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Call tracking and customer-system setup come with the work when you need them: analytics and crm integration.
Who we work with
Who we work with in Pittsburgh
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Agents and property managers who tour Oakland, Shadyside and Squirrel Hill and want calls from owners, not portal browsers.
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HVAC, plumbing and pest crews whose vans end the day in Monroeville or Cranberry and need calls from those streets.
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Commercial and residential cleaning firms with crews and access windows across Oakland, downtown offices and Sewickley homes.
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Owner-led businesses that want a Pittsburgh marketing team instead of another directory listing or a statewide campaign.
Industries
Real estate, home services and cleaning in Pittsburgh
All three use the same neighborhood list, but each has its own pages, offers and reports.
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Real Estate and Property
Agents, property managers and maintenance firms working Oakland, Shadyside and the Parkway East and Route 22 commercial corridors.
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Home Services and Trades
HVAC, plumbing, pest and restoration crews sorted by drive time, with emergency calls kept as a separate offer.
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Cleaning Services
Commercial and move-out crews built around access windows, from Oakland buildings to Cranberry office parks.
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Focus industry
Where to start in Pittsburgh: Real Estate and Property
A customer in Sewickley and one in Oakland live in different worlds. HeyLead builds your marketing around the neighborhoods your team can reach in a working day.
HeyLead is a marketing agency for owner-led Pittsburgh firms in real estate, home services and cleaning. We run Google Ads, search engine optimization (SEO), Facebook and Instagram ads, and the web pages that catch the clicks. Monthly reports show booked jobs and signed work by neighborhood, in dollars.
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- check_circle Zillow and Realtor.com left to the listing shoppers while you go after owners directly
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Google Maps
Pittsburgh metro on the map
Live Google Map. Tap a place to zoom in.
The local picture
Marketing in Pittsburgh: what to know
Your market
What is different about Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh is hillside row houses, mill-town streets and north-hills suburbs, tied together by rivers, bridges and tunnels. Oakland, Shadyside, Squirrel Hill, Bloomfield and Sewickley each feel like their own place, and customers search that way.
Cranberry, in Butler County, and Monroeville, out along Route 22, sit far enough from the center to behave like separate markets. Winters bring urgent heating and frozen-pipe work, and wet spells send basement and water-damage calls.
Zillow, West Penn Multi-List and Realtor.com own most listing searches, so property firms do better going after owners who need a manager or an agent.
Pennsylvania broker licenses cover real estate, and home trades register as home improvement contractors with the state Attorney General's office and hold any local trade licenses. HeyLead is the marketing team, not the license holder.
Your customers
How customers find you
Customers search in plain terms: property management, real estate agent, commercial cleaning or plumber, with a neighborhood added. Landlords look for a manager when a lease ends. Sellers look for an agent when they decide to move.
Facility managers look for a cleaner when a contract comes up for renewal. A good lead is someone in a neighborhood you serve who will pick up the phone. We do not chase people outside your reach, job seekers or portal browsers.
Each month you see booked jobs, signed contracts and listings won, in dollars and by neighborhood.
Our approach
How HeyLead runs it for you
We start with an audit of your service map, your Google Business Profile (the listing that shows on Google Maps), current ad spend and call tracking. Next we match each job to a channel.
Google Ads catches urgent searches. SEO and the Business Profile bring map results. Facebook and Instagram ads remind owners who looked but did not call. Each offer gets its own landing page, a page built for one job with one form.
Budgets begin in the neighborhoods you can staff, such as Oakland and Shadyside, and widen when you have room for more work. Every call and form is tracked back to the ad or page that produced it.
Building stock
hillside row houses, mill-town stock, and north-hills suburbs
Portals buyers still use
Zillow, West Penn Multi-List, Realtor.com
Proof on the page
Pennsylvania broker licenses; Pennsylvania contractor registration and local trade licenses
Common mistakes
Common mistakes firms in Pittsburgh make
Relying on the listing sites
Zillow and Realtor.com will keep the listing shoppers. Local firms win with pages that name the streets and house types and speak to owners who need management, a valuation or a repair.
Every offer on one form
Emergency repair, planned replacement, sales and management do not belong on one landing page. A mixed form makes your records useless and hides which offer booked the work.
How it works
How we work with you, step by step
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Draw your service map
We list the neighborhoods you can staff, such as Oakland and Shadyside, and leave the rest off the plan.
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Give each offer its own page
Real estate, trades and cleaning each get their own pages. Emergency and planned work stay apart, and every offer has its own form.
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Pick the channel for each job
Google Ads for urgent searches, SEO and the Business Profile for the map, Meta ads for reminders, and landing pages to take the click.
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Report by neighborhood
Monthly reports in dollars show which area paid, so a busy zip code cannot hide inside a blended average.
Searches
What people search for
These are the searches your pages and ads are built around, and what each person is trying to do.
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| Pittsburgh property management | A landlord or owner looking for a local manager |
| Pittsburgh real estate agents | A seller or landlord looking for a listing agent |
| Pittsburgh commercial cleaning | A facility manager wanting a contract cleaner, not a one-off house clean |
| Oakland plumber | A homeowner with a problem now, usually searching on a phone |
Testimonials from HeyLead clients
Property, trades and cleaning firms we work with
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I've worked with HeyLead for over a decade. There is no one else I'd trust with lead generation and IT. I've tried others, to my detriment. If you want someone who is dedicated and trustworthy, you couldn't pick someone better.
Andrew Woodruff
CEO, Woodruff Property Management
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Our company 1800 CLEANER has worked with Martin for over two years now and we can attest he is one of the best. His technical knowledge in the SEO and online marketing space is second to none. But more importantly he cares. He listens and truly empathises with the client. The feeling of support that ensues is truly otherworldly. We have no hesitation in recommending him.
Michael Sweet
CEO, 1800 CLEANER
FAQs
Questions about Pittsburgh
Straight answers about local coverage, campaigns, pages, and how we measure demand in Pittsburgh.
Is there a HeyLead office in Pittsburgh? expand_more
No. HeyLead is an online team, so there is nowhere in Pittsburgh to visit us. We work with you by phone, video or email and run your campaigns for the neighborhoods you serve.
Should we run one campaign for the whole Pittsburgh map? expand_more
Usually not. A customer in Sewickley, one in Oakland and one in Cranberry respond to different proof and sit at different drive times. We split them so you can see which area earns its budget.
Which listing portals matter in Pittsburgh? expand_more
Zillow, West Penn Multi-List and Realtor.com still capture most listing shoppers. We treat them as background and put your budget into the searches they do not serve, such as owners looking for a manager or an agent.
Can we start with a single neighborhood? expand_more
Yes. Oakland and Shadyside is plenty of ground if that is where your crew works. We widen the map only when you have room to answer more calls.
What does the first month include? expand_more
An audit of your service area and tracking, a landing page that names your streets and house types, ad areas that match your map, and call and form tracking. You get a written plan before anything launches.
What do you need from us to start? expand_more
Access to your Google Business Profile, your ads account if you have one, and your website. We also need the neighborhoods you serve, your license details and a rough idea of how many jobs you can take each week.