City hub · Birmingham and the West Midlands

Birmingham marketing

Birmingham firms use HeyLead for Google Ads, search and a website aimed at the towns they serve.

We are a marketing team for local firms. We set up the ads and the pages for the places your crew can reach, then show you which ones booked the work.

  • check_circle Birmingham city, Solihull and the Black Country each get their own plan
  • check_circle Gas Safe shown on heating pages, where the work calls for it
  • check_circle VAT at 20 per cent counted in budgets and reports

Who we work with

Who we work with across the West Midlands

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Estate and letting agents with a clear area in mind, from Solihull family homes to flats in the city centre.

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Landlords and property managers with student streets and city flats in Birmingham, or terraces in Dudley and Walsall.

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Commercial and end of tenancy cleaners whose crews work from one part of the conurbation.

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Gas Safe heating and plumbing firms that cover chosen boroughs and not the whole region.

Focus industry

Where to start in Birmingham: Real Estate and Property

People in Dudley, Solihull and Coventry search for their own town, not for Birmingham. HeyLead plans your marketing around the towns your team can reach, then counts the jobs that get booked.

HeyLead is a marketing agency for owner-led firms across the West Midlands. We run Google Ads, SEO, Meta ads and websites for letting and estate agents, landlords, cleaners and Gas Safe heating and plumbing firms. Each month we report booked work in pounds, with VAT at 20 per cent shown.

  • check_circle Your service area is listed town by town, never as the whole region
  • check_circle Rightmove, Zoopla and OnTheMarket stay where house-hunters browse, and we go after people looking for a local firm
  • check_circle Every call and form is tagged with the town and the offer that produced it

Google Maps

Birmingham and the West Midlands on the map

Live Google Map. Tap a place to zoom in.

Google Maps. The same map, larger, in Google Maps.

Open Birmingham in Google Maps

The local picture

Marketing in Birmingham: what to know

Your market

What is different about Birmingham

The West Midlands is a county made of seven councils, and each one feels like its own place. Birmingham is the biggest, with flats in the city centre, student streets around Selly Oak and large family houses up at Sutton Coldfield.

Solihull is a separate borough to the south-east, with detached homes around Knowle and Dorridge and the NEC close by. To the west and north sit the Black Country boroughs of Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton, each with its own town centre, terraces and semis.

Coventry is a city in its own right, further east. Rightmove, Zoopla and OnTheMarket hold most of the property browsing. Heating firms answer to the Gas Safe Register. Letting and estate agents must belong to a redress scheme (the body that handles complaints about them).

Fees are in pounds, and VAT at 20 per cent is normal on agency fees.

Your customers

How customers find you

People here search for the town they live in, not the region. Typical searches are letting agent Solihull, plumber Dudley, end of tenancy cleaning Selly Oak and boiler repair Walsall.

Local words matter in the Black Country, and bland Midlands wording loses those clicks to firms that sound local. We keep lettings apart from sales, and emergency boiler calls apart from planned servicing, so each search gets an answer that fits.

The calls worth paying for come from a landlord with an empty flat, a homeowner with a dead boiler, or a facilities manager with a contract to tender. We leave out country-wide terms and people who are only browsing the portals.

Your monthly report is split by town, in pounds.

Our approach

How HeyLead runs it for you

Step one is agreeing your service area, town by town. It might be Solihull and south Birmingham, the Black Country, or a single patch around Wolverhampton. Then we build one page and one campaign for each job.

Google Ads catches people searching right now. SEO and your Google Business Profile (the listing that shows on the map) build your local results over months. Meta ads remind nearby owners and past customers that you exist.

Phone calls and forms are tracked separately, and boiler enquiries are tagged as emergency or planned. Each month the report shows enquiries and booked work by town, so a strong Solihull month is not averaged away by a slow one elsewhere.

SEO, Google Ads, Meta ads and web design each have their own Birmingham page.

Building stock

city flats, suburban houses, and Black Country stock

Portals buyers still use

Rightmove, Zoopla, OnTheMarket

Proof on the page

Agent redress schemes; Gas Safe

Common mistakes

Common mistakes firms in Birmingham make

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One ad for the whole county

Setting an ad to cover Birmingham and the West Midlands looks efficient on screen. A Wolverhampton crew cannot answer a Solihull click at rush hour, so money leaks into jobs nobody can staff. The report still looks busy, which makes the leak hard to spot.

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Relying on Rightmove alone

The portals will keep the house-hunters, and you cannot outbid them for those. Independent firms grow on local pages, reviews and offers that mention Selly Oak flats or Halesowen semis, which a portal profile cannot carry. Searches for a local firm are the ones you can win.

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One page for every job

A landlord, a seller, an emergency plumbing call and an office cleaning tender want different answers. Put them on one page and your figures become hard to read, which hurts every decision after that. Separate pages cost little and show what is working.

How it works

How we work with you, step by step

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    Choose your towns

    We agree which towns you can serve at a sensible pace. That might be Birmingham postcodes, Solihull, one or two Black Country towns, or Coventry. Everything else is left out of the ad settings on purpose.

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    Give each job its own page

    Lettings, sales, cleaning and trades each get their own page and their own proof. A Solihull family sale and a city-centre rental never share wording or a form. That keeps each enquiry easy to sort.

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    Match each channel to a job

    Google Ads for people ready to book. SEO and your Google Business Profile for local results. Meta ads for reminders. Your phone number and your short form both run through tracking.

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    See results town by town

    Each month shows enquiries and booked work by town and by offer, in pounds. A strong area gets more budget. A weak one gets questions before it gets another penny.

Searches

What people search for

These are the searches your pages and ads are built around, and what each person is trying to do.

They search What they want
Birmingham property management An owner or landlord looking for a local managing firm, not a national portal
Birmingham letting agent A landlord comparing local agents, not a tenant browsing lets
Birmingham commercial property management A building owner or investor needing a firm for a whole commercial site
Birmingham commercial cleaning Contract cleaning for an office or unit, not a one-off house clean
Solihull plumber A high-intent trade search, usually typed 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

Other cities we cover

Same kind of programme, written for that market.

Marketing from $500 USD a month

Month to month, no commitment. One fee covers the pages, the search and ad work and the tracking. Ad spend is separate and stays in your own accounts.

Starting at

$500 USD per month

Free to cancel with 1 month's notice. Tell us what you sell and where. We come back with what the first month would fix.

Get a Free Audit

What $500 a month covers

  • Pages

    Included

    Pages built around the searches your buyers actually type.

  • Search and ads

    Included

    Search and ads aimed at people ready to enquire.

  • Tracking

    Included

    Calls, forms and bookings tagged to the search, ad or page behind them.

Our team

The same people on the audit and on the work

Martin writes every audit and takes the first call. The same team stays on the account. 160+ businesses since 2010.

Martin, Founder, strategy and audits

Martin

Founder, strategy and audits

Writes every audit and takes every first call. On your account from day one, running growth for SMEs since 2010.

Yoana, Social and app development

Yoana

Social and app development

Shapes social strategy and builds practical app experiences that turn attention into action.

Mike, SEO

Mike

SEO

Owns technical, local and content SEO so the right buyers find you when demand is highest.

Robert, Paid media

Robert

Paid media

Plans and manages paid search and social campaigns around qualified leads.

Elmer, Analytics

Elmer

Analytics

Connects tracking, attribution and reporting so decisions are based on revenue-quality data.

Dino, Design

Dino

Design

Creates clear brand and conversion-focused design across landing pages, campaigns and product experiences.

Certified and experienced

Certified where it matters. Accountable for the outcome.

Verified platform knowledge, 25+ years of hands-on experience, and an operating track record since 2010.

Google AdsCertified
Google AnalyticsCertified
Google Tag ManagerCertified
Operating since 2010Proven experience

FAQs

Questions about Birmingham

Straight answers about local coverage, campaigns, pages, and how we measure demand in Birmingham.

Do you have a Birmingham office? expand_more

No. HeyLead is an online team, so there is nowhere in Birmingham or the West Midlands to visit. We work with you by phone, video or WhatsApp and run campaigns for the towns you serve. Whatever appears on your pages matches the areas you cover.

Do Wolverhampton and Coventry get a page of their own? expand_more

Not as separate pages. This page and the service pages cover them when you serve those places, with wording written for each one. Coventry is a city with its own search habits, so we add it on purpose and keep its results apart.

Do you use Black Country words? expand_more

Yes, where you work in the Black Country. Local place names and phrases matter there. Generic Midlands wording tends to lose Dudley and Walsall searches to firms that sound like they live there.

Can we start with one town? expand_more

Yes, and that is often the sensible route. Choose the place where your team already turns up quickly and get the numbers right. Then add the next town.

Do SEO, Google Ads, Meta ads and web design have their own Birmingham pages? expand_more

Yes. Each of the four has a page that explains how it works across Birmingham and the West Midlands. Pick the page that matches your biggest gap.

How do you handle VAT in budgets and reports? expand_more

Agency fees normally carry VAT at 20 per cent, and we show it on its own line. You see the full cost before any spend starts. Reports then count booked work in pounds against that cost.

What do you need from me to start? expand_more

Access to your Google Business Profile, your ads account if you have one, and your website. We also need the towns you serve, your Gas Safe or agent details where they apply, and how many jobs you can take each week. The free audit covers all of this in one conversation.

Want more customers in Birmingham?

Tell us the areas you can serve. We will show you which searches are worth paying for and which pages you still need.