Stock photos and logo ads
A smiling stock family or a logo with a phone number gives a homeowner no reason to stop scrolling. They want to see a slab like theirs fixed. Generic creative mostly pulls curiosity clicks.
Built for Concrete companies doing $1M+ a year
FACEBOOK & INSTAGRAM ADS FOR CONCRETE CONTRACTORS
Facebook ads for concrete contractors work because concrete is one of the most visual trades there is: a sunken driveway lifted back to level, or a tired slab turned into a stamped patio, sells itself in a single frame. DryScale runs Meta ads across Facebook and Instagram built on before/after creative shot on real jobs, a short form that checks homeownership and service area, and server-side tracking that tells the algorithm which leads became booked jobs. Every lead then gets a call within 60 seconds.
The pipeline
Follow one owner-led take from the edit to an estimate on the calendar.
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What's broken
A smiling stock family or a logo with a phone number gives a homeowner no reason to stop scrolling. They want to see a slab like theirs fixed. Generic creative mostly pulls curiosity clicks.
An open form with no screening fills the CRM with renters, out-of-area addresses and people who wanted a price on a bag of patch. After a few wasted drives, your estimators treat every Facebook lead as junk, and the good ones get worked slowly too.
Meta looks for more people like the ones it's told converted. If all it sees is a browser-pixel form fill, it finds more form fillers. Without server-side data on which leads booked, sat and signed, it has no way to find more buyers.
Why generic ads fail
The targeting is 100 miles wide, and more budget just buys more of the same garbage faster.
Patience is not a strategy if the creative is generic.
Your ad
Competitor's ad
Generic creative · 100-mile radius
How we run it
Ads come from before/after photos and short phone video shot in the field on your jobs: the sunken walkway, the crew at work, the finished floor in good light. It reads like a neighbor's post, which is the point. No stock, no renderings.
A short form asks whether they own the home and whether the job is inside your service area. Renters and out-of-area leads drop out before they reach the call center, so every dial goes to someone who can actually hire you.
Server-side Meta Conversions API reports each lead's progress (booked, sat, won) straight from the CRM. Over time the algorithm stops chasing form fills and starts finding homeowners who look like your actual customers.
Campaigns run broad inside your service area with geographic and homeowner layers instead of a stack of narrow interests. The creative and the form do most of the filtering.
New before/afters rotate in before the old ones wear out. Spend follows the season: heavier as spring and summer schedules fill, lighter through the off-season, and shifted toward whatever your crews can still install when it's cold.
What you get
Every channel runs inside the same 5-phase growth system: tracked to the dollar, followed up in 60 seconds, and visible on your live dashboard.
See the 5-phase systemWe call and book
We actually call and book the leads directly into your calendar, so you don't have to call when you're on the job site or when you're taking an estimate.
FAQ
Yes, when they're built around the work itself. Before/after footage from real jobs gives homeowners a reason to stop, a short form screens out renters and out-of-area leads, and server-side tracking teaches Meta which leads became jobs. They fail on stock images, open forms and slow follow-up.
Usually because of three fixable things: no screening on the form, no feedback to Meta about which leads actually closed, and follow-up slow enough that decent leads go cold. DryScale fixes all three with homeownership and service-area questions, CAPI tied to booked and won jobs, and a call within 60 seconds.
The most visual ones: concrete leveling and slab lifting, epoxy and polyaspartic garage floors, and stamped or stained decorative work, where one before/after tells the whole story. Flatwork and repair can work too with strong local photos. The creative plan follows the services you most want to sell.
The Conversions API (CAPI) sends conversion events from your server or CRM straight to Meta instead of relying only on the browser pixel, which can miss events when tracking is blocked. DryScale uses it to report booked estimates and closed jobs back to Meta, which gives the algorithm a better signal for finding buyers.
No. Phone footage from real job sites tends to feel more believable than polished brand video, because it looks like the homeowner's own driveway or garage. What matters is a clear before, a clear after, and enough fresh material to rotate new ads in before the old ones go stale.
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