Marketing for electricians, split by faults and installs
Marketing for electricians has to win two different jobs. A fault call
goes to the first licensed sparky who can get there today. A switchboard
upgrade or EV charger goes to whoever explains the cost best. We set up
the profile, website, follow-up and ads for both.
A fault callout and a switchboard quote need different marketing
These two customers search differently, decide differently and sit at
different distances from your van.
Faults
No power, tripping safety switch, burning smell
Often on a phone in a dark house. The customer wants a number, proof you are licensed and a sign you cover their suburb. They call one of the first few results and rarely compare.
What it needs: A map pack profile, fault pages with the phone on the first screen, a radius you can actually reach the same day, and someone answering.
Installs
Switchboards, EV chargers, solar and battery
Planned, quoted and worth far more per job. The customer researches cost, compares two or three electricians and checks licence and insurance before booking anyone in.
What it needs: A page per install with the cost detail people search for, quote requests by form, a wider service area, and follow-up on every quote.
// THE INSTALLS
Switchboards, EV chargers and solar each need their own pitch
Switchboard upgrades
Often prompted by a safety switch that keeps tripping, an old board with ceramic fuses, or an asbestos backing board in an older home. That means fault traffic can turn into an install, so the fault page links to the switchboard page. A free switchboard safety check is an offer homeowners understand.
EV charger installation
Buyers search the charger brand, the cost and whether their board can take the load. A page that answers those three, names the chargers you install and says when a board upgrade is needed gets the quote request a generic page does not.
Solar and battery
A separate buyer with a long research cycle and a crowded market of dedicated solar retailers. Give it its own page and its own budget, or leave it out. Folding it into a general services page wins neither the solar search nor the sparky search.
// THE ORDER
Electrical marketing, step by step
Each step makes the next one cheaper. Prices are ex GST and fixed before
work starts.
01
Google Business Profile, set up as a service area
"Electrician" as the primary category, honest secondaries for solar or EV charger work you actually do, the address hidden and the service area set to the suburbs you cover.
An electrical website with faults and installs split
Fault pages that put the call button first. A page each for switchboards, EV chargers, rewiring, safety switches and smoke alarms. Your licence and insurance on show, and the call-out fee published if you are comfortable with it.
Full website from $2,800 + GST, hosting included. Single landing page $1,500 + GST.
A review naming the job and the suburb carries more weight than five stars and no words. An automatic request when the job is closed means every customer is asked, with the link, while the job is fresh.
Review system $1,500 + GST setup, then $497/month + GST.
A fault caller who gets voicemail rings the next electrician. Text-back texts the caller from your number while you are in a roof space, and quote follow-up drafts messages for your approval on the EV and switchboard quotes that went quiet.
Missed-call text-back from $1,800 + GST. Quote follow-up from $900 + GST.
Google Ads with faults and installs in separate campaigns
Faults stay inside the radius you can reach the same day. Installs such as switchboards can run wider, because the work is quoted and the travel is priced in. Separate budgets stop one starving the other.
Management $650/month + GST. Ad spend is separate and paid straight to Google.
Organic work goes first to switchboard upgrades, EV chargers and rewiring, the cost searches buyers make before they ring anyone. It builds under the ads and takes over searches you were paying for.
One-off SEO builds from $3,500 + GST, scoped before we start.
A licence number is a credential a lead reseller or directory page
cannot fake. Homeowners pricing bigger electrical work look for it
before they ring, and Google reads it when it matches across your
site and profile.
Your electrical contractor licence number, with the state that issued it, in the website footer and on the contact page as real text.
The same licence details on the Google Business Profile and in every directory listing, so they match everywhere a customer checks.
Public liability cover stated in plain words. Customers pricing a switchboard upgrade do check.
Your state regulator sets rules on how licence details appear in advertising, including ads and vehicle signage. We build to them, and you confirm the specifics with your regulator.
// ONE ELECTRICIAN, THE WHOLE STACK
What this looked like for Joondalup Electrical
Joondalup Electrical came to us in July 2026 with four indexed pages
and work that came mostly from word of mouth. Switchboard upgrades
were the job the owner most wanted more of, and there was no page for
them anywhere. Here is what went in.
A 46 page website replacing a four page WordPress site, with fault pages, a page per install and suburb pages.
Switchboard landing pages: a Free Switchboard Safety Check offer, switchboard upgrades in Joondalup and asbestos switchboard replacement across Perth.
A Google Ads account built and ready to import, with switchboard work running Perth wide and faults kept inside the suburb corridor.
His licence, insurance and workmanship guarantee on the page as trust signals, and the call-out fee published.
Review figures measured 6 August 2026, roughly a month after kickoff.
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// QUESTIONS
Marketing for electricians, straight answers
Switchboards, EV chargers, licence details and budget, answered for Australian electrical contractors.
A Google Business Profile that shows in the map pack, a website with fault pages and a page per install, reviews that name the job, and fast answers to every call. Then Google Ads with faults and installs in separate campaigns, and SEO for the install searches worth the most.
How do electricians get more switchboard and EV charger work?
Give each install its own page, its own ad group and its own reviews. Answer what buyers search before they call: the cost, what is involved, whether the board needs an upgrade and which chargers you install. A free switchboard safety check is a clear offer that turns fault visits into upgrade quotes.
Should my electrical licence number be in my marketing?
Yes. Put it on the website, the Google Business Profile and directory listings, with the state that issued it. Your state regulator has rules on how licence details appear in advertising, so confirm those with them.
Is Facebook worth it for electricians?
Not for faults. Someone with no power searches Google. Meta ads can suit planned installs such as solar, batteries or EV chargers, usually once the Google side is converting.
How much should an electrician spend on marketing?
Start with the fixed pieces that keep working: profile, website, reviews and follow-up. Google Ads management with us is $650/month + GST, with ad spend paid to Google. For Joondalup Electrical, every keyword was checked against live Perth volume and cost per click before the budget was set.
Do I own the marketing you set up?
Yes. Your Google Business Profile, ad accounts, website and domain sit in your name. For Joondalup Electrical we moved the domain and hosting into accounts the owner controls. There is no lock-in contract.