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My Dad has been in the Roofing Industry for over 15 Years. Around 10 years ago when he started to hit his stride and wanted to grow further, he decided to reinvest in his business and hired a marketing agency to build a website for him and perform SEO. They charged him over $10,000 to build it. They signed him up for a 6 month contract. They billed over $1000 a month for directory services and listings management. He got ZERO leads from it. We chalked it up to a bad experience. We selected a large and established media company to help us. They had to rebuild the website from scratch, they made the same promises. Again, ZERO RESULTS. This process continued to repeat for years while getting hundreds of solicitations from so called experts who all offered the same features, made the same claims. WHO COULD WE TRUST?
So we decided that if we wanted something done right, you have to do it yourself. I poured thousands of hours into videos and self education. I consumed all the content and free resources that I could. We launched and failed on our first 3 iterations of his website, but through each failure we learned and got better. Finally after years of hard work, we arrived at a working, state of the art solution, from web design to conversion tracking and follow up, we mastered our craft. We curated the best tools and learned a lot along the way.
But when we started to talk to other contractors in the industry, to evaluate their digital presences, to look at the products and solutions that were being offered, we realized our experience wasn't unique. The marketplace was brimming with experts who consistently overpromised and underdelivered, but were happy to collect their check monthly until their clients raised a red flag. Most contractors didn't even realize that THEY WERE GETTING RIPPED OFF.
In 2018, I started ORB Solutions, along with my father Chris, to flip the script on this industry. To provide the right solutions and technologies for each contractors specific needs. To instill the hard learned lessons that we earned through our failures. To ensure contractors truly had a partner in the marketing and technology arena that they could trust and turn to.
-Austin Lee