An excavation flyer needs five things: one clear service headline, a real photo of your equipment on a job, a phone number large enough to read across a room, your service area, and a QR code that opens your website. One offer beats a list of ten services. A clean flyer with a strong photo gets kept; a busy one gets tossed.
Here's the honest version: a flyer rarely closes an excavation job by itself. Buyers want to see your machines and your past digs before they call. The flyer's real job is to get someone to your site, where the actual selling happens. Below is what to put on it, what to leave off, and where the leads come from.
Lead with a single service — site prep, grading, drainage, or foundation digs — not all of them. A flyer with one strong headline reads in two seconds. A flyer listing everything you own reads like noise.
A photo of your own excavator on a real job beats stock art and clip art every time. It proves you have the iron and shows the scale of work you do. People hire excavators they can picture on their site.
The phone number should be the second thing the eye lands on after the headline. Big, bold, and dialable. If someone has to squint to find it, the flyer failed.
This is what turns paper into a lead you can track. A QR code that opens your site or a quote form lets someone see your machines and past digs, then request a bid on the spot.
Flyers are cheap, but they aren't always where your money should go first. Skip the flyer push when:
Print a clean flyer, place it where buyers are, and put the rest of your budget into the site it points to. That's where excavation jobs are won.
A flyer creates a moment of interest. The site is what converts it. When someone scans your QR code, they should land on a page that shows your machines, your past digs, and a one-tap quote request. We build that, and we run the same setup on our own home-service companies.
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One clear service headline, a real photo of your equipment on a job, a large phone number, your service area, licensed-and-insured status, and a QR code to your website. One offer beats a list of ten services.
Cramming every service, multiple fonts, and clip art onto one page. Pick one offer, show one strong photo, make the phone number huge, and add a QR code. Clean and specific beats busy.
Yes. A QR code turns a paper flyer into a tracked path to your site, where someone can see your machines, read reviews, and request a quote. It also lets you measure whether the flyer paid off.
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