What marketing really costs for a one-person home service business
September 19, 2026
Agencies want $2,000 a month. Ads eat your margin. Here is what each option really costs a solo contractor, and what is fair to pay.
Solo Contractor? You're Not Solo Anymore
AI that lets solo contractors just do the work.
SalesShortcut is the only AI agent made just for solo home service contractors. We run your website, your Google profile, your reviews and your posts. No tech skills. No new app. You just text us.
Free report · How you show up on Google, Maps and AI
- Grand Prize, Google Cloud AI agent hackathon
- 2 clients earned back a year's fee in jobs
- No contract. Cancel any month.
- You own your website
Why I Built It
Merdan Durdyyev
Founder and CEO of SalesShortcut
I’m an immigrant too. I know what it’s like to be great at your work and invisible online.
I watched contractors here in Cache Valley do excellent work all day, then lose the next job to whoever showed up first on Google.
So we built SalesShortcut with one goal: you should never have to think about the online side of your business. You focus on your craft. We handle the rest.
Story of SalesShortcut – by Merdan Durdyyev
Our Contractors
Real businesses in Logan, Utah. We run the online side, so they can keep working.
Bustillos Concrete LLC
Sergio Bustillos · Concrete Service · Logan, UT
Bishop Window Cleaning
Tristan Bishop · Window Cleaning · Logan, UT
Queen B Cleaning & Disinfecting
Lola Edwards · Cleaning Service · Logan, UT
Speedy Carpet Cleaning
Aaron Speedy · Carpet Cleaning · Logan, UT
No new app. Just text.
Most marketing tools give you one more app to log in to, learn and check. SalesShortcut works the other way. It is an AI agent you text like a friend who knows your business. It does the work, and it texts you first when something matters.
- It knows your story, your jobs and your town
- It watches your calls, your spot on the map and your competitors
- One photo from you becomes posts on your site, Google and social apps
Texts from SalesShortcut
The Pumpkin Festival is Saturday. Send me one photo. I’ll put it on your site, Google and TikTok.
A new window cleaner opened in North Logan. Let’s get 5 reviews this week. Here is the text to send.
You dropped to #5 on the map in Providence. I’m fixing it. You don’t need to do anything.
How it works
10 minutes to start. Then just send photos from your jobs.
That's all it takes to get what a $3,000-a-month agency does.
You do the work. We make it work.
10 minutes to start. Free.
Answer a few simple questions about your business. The same day, we build your logo, website and Google profile and connect your social pages. You see it all before you pay.
We work on it every week
A page for every service and town. Posts on Google, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and YouTube, made from your job photos. Every review answered.
We watch, learn and fix
We check your calls, your spot on the Google map and your competitors, then change what is not working. You get a text when something matters.
See it work in 3 minutes
Meet Aaron. He cleans carpets in Logan, Utah. Watch how his website, his posts and his review replies get done while he works.
Simple pricing. No surprises.
Two plans. You get the same work in both. The only difference is if one person is paid to work on your account by hand.
Scale
Most people choose this
Everything, done for you
- A page for every service and every town you cover
- 10 to 15 Google posts a month, sent out for you
- Every review answered — plus a tap card to get more
- 4 apps posted for you — Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube
- We watch your place on the map for 5 important words
- A text to your phone the second someone asks for you
Growth
One person working on your account
- Everything in Scale
- A person checks every change before it goes out
- New code written for your booking app
- We get you links from other websites
- Your messages answered first
Scale
Most people choose this
Everything, done for you
- A page for every service and every town you cover
- 10 to 15 Google posts a month, sent out for you
- Every review answered — plus a tap card to get more
- 4 apps posted for you — Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube
- We watch your place on the map for 5 important words
- A text to your phone the second someone asks for you
Growth
One person working on your account
- Everything in Scale
- A person checks every change before it goes out
- New code written for your booking app
- We get you links from other websites
- Your messages answered first
Straight talk about Google
Short notes on what changed on Google and what to do about it. No jargon.
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