For trades, construction and hands-on businesses too busy on site to chase the work
We help trades, construction and hands-on businesses fix what's leaking before it costs them jobs, and build the systems that fill next month's diary without adding hours to your week.
Trades We Build With
the names behind the work
We give trades and construction businesses the systems to win better work, without living on the phone every evening.
Work With Us ◥
JLH Office Interiors
Blue-chip
Amazon · Audi · BMW · WeWork
Blast Restoration
Specialist
Mobile blasting across Nottingham & Derby
Kennedy Damp Proofing
20-year
Guarantee on every job
LM Stone Creative
Bespoke
Every worktop laser-templated
Glazing Spaces
25+ yrs
Family-run, England & Wales
TyrEvo
7 days
Open every week, Birmingham
Trusted by trades and construction businesses
The problem
Word of mouth. One source of work. It only takes one quiet quarter, one main contractor going elsewhere, one listing sliding down the page, and the diary empties all at once. The more you lean on that single stem, the easier it topples.
The Trap: A job comes in at 11am while you're on site with your hands full. You ring back at six and they've already had someone round. The three quotes you sent last week sit unopened, and you haven't chased one of them because chasing feels like begging.
The Trap: You put a few hundred behind a post and get twelve enquiries. Eleven are price-shoppers forty miles outside your patch and one is a job you'd have won anyway. So you stop, and go back to hoping the phone rings.
The Trap: You finish a job that looks superb, take two photos on a dusty phone and never post them. The customer means it when they say they'll leave a review, then life happens. The outfit down the road doing worse work has forty reviews and sits above you.
The Trap: Leads live in your phone, quotes in a notebook, invoices in one app and the diary in another. Nothing talks to anything else. When someone asks what happened to that enquiry back in March, the honest answer is you've no idea.
The solution
We split your work across follow-up, paid, proof and referral, so you never live or die on one source of jobs. If one dips, there are plenty of others to pick up the slack. That's how the diary stops being a guess.
No enquiry ever goes cold. Every call, form and message lands in one place and gets answered in minutes rather than evenings. Quotes go out with a follow-up sequence already attached, so the chase happens whether you remember it or not.
Your spend buys work you actually want. Ads aimed at your catchment and the jobs worth having, with every enquiry landing in the same system as the rest. You can see what a lead cost and what it turned into, not just what it was quoted at.
Every job earns the next one. Before-and-afters get captured and posted properly, and the review request goes out the day the job signs off — when they're happiest, not three weeks later when they've forgotten your name.
One system, nothing slips through. Enquiries, quotes, follow-up, reviews and the diary run off a single dashboard instead of six apps and a notebook. Every job is tracked from first call to final invoice — and so is whoever's covering while you're away.
Some of the businesses we're building
JLH Office Interiors
Built
for bigger commercial projects
Glazing Spaces
A
clearer path from search to quote
Kennedy Damp Proofing
Turning
local searches into booked surveys
LM Stone Creative
Premium
positioning for bespoke stonework
TyrEvo
Built
to capture urgent local demand
WBCS
Turning
local searches into booked surveys
Book a call with us and we'll help you identify what's broken, breaking or missing in how the work comes in, and give you the plan to move forward calmly and with clarity.
Marcus is incredible. Before working with him, my business was struggling with systems and organization. I had so many different softwares for different things, and it felt overwhelming trying to manage everything.
With Business Box and Marcus’s help, we’ve been able to bring everything into one place, which has made such a huge difference for our business. Everything is more, organized, and efficient now.
Since starting this (2 months in), I’ve almost doubled my income while having less work to do, which has been amazing. Marcus has been a huge help and replies fast to all messages, super grateful for his support.
Highly recommend working with him!