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B2B Structural & Specialist Contractors · PPC Strategy

PPC Lead Generation Strategy for Structural & Specialist Contractor Firms

Your calculations are precise. Is your pipeline?

Structural surveys, building control and specialist mechanical work are low-volume, high-value searches, where a handful of the right enquiries beats hundreds of clicks. Most PPC campaigns are built for volume, not precision. This one isn't.

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What buyers are already typing

Real search terms already in use across your region

Pulled directly from regional search research. If your business isn't visible against these, a competitor is picking up the enquiry instead.

// Live regional search intent: Shropshire / Staffordshire corridor
commercial structural engineer Shropshire
structural engineering consultants
structural surveys Shropshire
building control engineering
civil engineering consultants Shropshire
commercial mechanical engineering Keele
industrial plumbing Staffordshire
commercial HVAC Stoke
Why now

UK consultant engineering services is a £69.8bn market, and search visibility is still largely unfought territory

£69.8bn
Size of the UK consultant engineering services market, 2025
Source: IBISWorld, 2025
1.5%
Year-on-year growth in 2025, after a contraction in 2020–2025
Source: IBISWorld, 2025
Low volume
Specialist structural/mechanical searches are inherently low-competition, precision beats budget here
Regional keyword research, Sharpstones Media, 2026
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Experience

20+ years of senior Google Ads experience, applied to a market built for precision over scale

I've spent two decades running Google Ads accounts at a senior level, and I have a specific read on this sector: it's under-served from a PPC perspective, and the search volumes are low enough that a handful of exact-match terms, properly targeted, can realistically capture most of the relevant local demand. You don't need scale here, you need precision.

That's the exact discipline exact-match keyword strategy is built for: low volume, high intent, zero tolerance for wasted spend.

The filtering problem

"Structural engineer near me" could be a homeowner's loft conversion or a commercial building control job

Generic structural and mechanical terms pull in a mix of domestic and commercial intent. The campaign is built to bid on commercial, project-stage intent and exclude the rest before it costs you anything.

  • ✕ "structural engineer near me house extension" / "DIY structural calculations": excluded from day one
  • ✕ "loft conversion structural engineer cost": excluded as domestic residential intent
  • ✓ "commercial structural survey [region]" / "building control engineer [region]": targeted, commercial project intent
  • ✓ "civil engineering consultant [region]": targeted, procurement-stage search behaviour
The pilot

A low-risk way to test whether this actually works for your enquiry pipeline

£500/month ad spend
This is the media budget only, paid straight to Google. It doesn't include Sharpstones Media's management fee, which gets scoped to your account and agreed with you on the call rather than fixed in advance. The £500 itself is spent entirely on exact-match keywords and an aggressive negative keyword list, so it goes toward commercial project enquiries, not domestic residential searches.
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How it works

Four steps, starting with a free look at what your competitors are already doing

01
Competitor & keyword audit
A free look at who's already bidding on structural/specialist terms in your region, and what it would cost to compete.
02
Campaign build
Exact-match keyword targeting and an aggressive negative keyword list built specifically to exclude domestic/residential search intent.
03
Conversion tracking
Every enquiry form and call tracked back to the exact search term that generated it.
04
Plain-English monthly reporting
No jargon, no vanity metrics: what it cost, what it generated, and what we'd change next.
What's included

No upsells, nothing extra

Full account audit or build
Exact-match keyword strategy
Aggressive negative keyword list
Call & form conversion tracking
Monthly plain-English reporting
Direct access to me, no account managers
No long-term contract
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About

Will Beavis, Sharpstones Media

20+ years of senior digital marketing experience. You deal directly with me, not an account manager. No long-term contracts. Based in Shropshire, working across Shropshire, Cheshire, Powys, Herefordshire, Staffordshire and Worcestershire.

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Worth a 15-minute conversation, Structural & Specialist Contractor Firms?

No pitch deck, no pressure. Just a look at what your competitors are doing and whether this is worth pursuing.

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See exactly who's already bidding on structural and specialist search terms in your region, and what it would cost you to compete. No obligation, just the numbers.