Bricklayers marketing agencies UK: five worth a shortlist

Two routes to work, two kinds of agency

Subcontract bricklaying is won through relationships, tenders and being known to site managers. The marketing that helps is B2B: LinkedIn, outreach, a credible company page.

Domestic brickwork is won on Google. Someone searches 'bricklayer near me' or 'garden wall builder' and rings the first firm with good reviews. The marketing that helps is a local website, a Google Business Profile and a phone that gets answered.

The list below includes agencies for both routes. JDR Group was on the original shortlist but its focus on larger home improvement showrooms makes it a poor fit for a bricklaying firm, so it was replaced with Get A Trades Website, which lists bricklayers by name. For the wider field see our UK trades agency comparison.

1. Market Maestro

Best for: Brickwork subcontractors chasing £50k-plus commercial packages

Market Maestro, listed in Epsom, Surrey and working nationwide, runs LinkedIn-led B2B marketing for contractors and construction specialists. It targets firms chasing £50k-plus contracts, uses a four-stage process it calls the Hi-Vis Method, and clients approve all content before it goes out. Services are LinkedIn outreach and management, construction SEO, website building and lead generation.

Pricing is published: LinkedIn outreach from £850 a month, wider management from £1,100 a month. The one detailed case study is a decorating contractor that tendered for and won commercial work.

For a bricklaying gang that wants steady packages from main contractors, this is the only agency on the list built for that conversation. It is not for domestic work and the fee reflects a B2B sales function rather than a website.

2. Riley Marketing

Best for: Bricklaying firms that want domestic enquiries handled end to end on a fixed fee

Riley Marketing has built a site for SET Building & Brickwork, an Essex building firm, which makes it one of very few agencies in this directory with brickwork specifically in its portfolio. Its wider client list covers builders, plasterers, roofers and the trades that sit alongside brickwork on a domestic job.

The offer is a fixed monthly fee, £149 a month at the time of writing, for an SEO-focused website with service and location pages, Google Business Profile optimisation, review automation including past-customer reactivation, missed-call text back, and a CRM with lead tracking and branded quote pages on the firm's own domain. Service and location pages suit brickwork well: 'garden walls in Chelmsford', 'extension brickwork in Brentwood' and so on, each a page that can rank.

The terms are the strongest on this list for a small firm. The system is built before payment, there is no setup fee, revisions are unlimited and you can cancel at any time. Founder Tom Riley, with ten years in search and lead generation and his own lead generation sites behind him, handles clients directly. Paid ads and local SEO are available as add-ons if the base system fills the diary and you want more.

The missed-call text back deserves a mention for this trade in particular. A bricklayer on a scaffold does not answer the phone. A text that goes back in seconds keeps the homeowner from ringing the next name.

3. Get A Trades Website

Best for: Bricklayers who want a founder-built site at a fixed quote and to own it outright

Get A Trades Website, run by Gary from Edinburgh and working UK-wide, lists bricklayers among its trades alongside builders, plasterers and joiners. Sites are quoted at a fixed price, the client owns the site, and content is written from the client's own notes and photos. The founder also runs a Scottish trades directory.

Pricing is published: tailored sites typically £750 to £3,000-plus, quick-start one, three or five page sites at £149, £299 and £499, an SEO tune-up at £39 a month and managed SEO from £149 a month. There is also a trades business portal for quotes, invoices, leads and reviews.

Proof is one plumbing and tiling case study plus live client sites across surfacing, plumbing, electrical, carpentry and handyman work.

4. Leads 4 Local

Best for: London bricklayers who want a priced Google Maps retainer

Leads 4 Local in Tooting focuses on South and South-West London. It says it specialises in local SEO for trades and service businesses and aims for top-three Google Maps positions within months. Services are local SEO, Google Maps SEO, website design, audits, reputation management, PPC, citations and schema.

Monthly tiers are published at £349, £599 and £999. No case studies are published, and the client list includes dentists, estate agents and restaurants as well as trades. Bricklayers are not named, though builders and general trades are.

For a London firm that already has a site and wants map-pack visibility, the priced tiers make it easy to compare.

5. Tea Powered Projects

Best for: Established brickwork and building firms wanting a premium bespoke site

Tea Powered Projects in Nottingham builds trade sites on its own CMS platform and says that building websites for trades is what it does. It lists builders, plumbers, electricians and locksmiths, and publishes results for a locksmith, a drain engineer and an auto locksmith.

The published price is £4,500 upfront for a bespoke site plus a monthly platform plan of £95 to £1,000 with a 12-month minimum. Managed SEO starts at £500 a month. The agency also serves non-trade sectors.

This suits a brickwork and building company with a few gangs and the turnover to justify the fee. For a two-person outfit it is more site than you need.

Side by side for a bricklaying firm

Which to shortlist

Decide the route first. If you want main contractor packages, shortlist Market Maestro and nothing else here; the others cannot help with procurement managers.

If you want homeowners, Riley Marketing is the complete system at the lowest fee, with brickwork in the portfolio and terms that let you walk away. Get A Trades Website is the pick if you prefer to pay once and own the site. Leads 4 Local is a London-only add-on for map rankings. Tea Powered Projects is for a firm already turning over enough to spend £4,500 on a site.

Before you sign anything, use our checklist for comparing agency proposals, and if you want to understand why the smaller trade-specialist firms often outperform generalists on work like this, read the problem with national agencies doing trades.

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