Two people filming on a misty dock at sunrise

Local service businesses · Niagara + Hamilton

You know you should run ads.

You just don’t know what to put in them.

Or you tried once. Boosted a post, spent a few hundred bucks, got three tire kickers and one guy asking if you’d do it for free. So you stopped. That wasn’t an ad. That was a photo with money behind it.

8

Ads built for you

10

Days start to handoff

$999

One payment, no contract

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Setup work on your end

Pick your poison

There are two kinds of owners reading this

Type one

You never started

You’ve watched three competitors show up in the feed for two years straight. Every time you sit down to do it yourself you don’t know what to film, what to say, or where the thing even goes when it’s done. So it goes back on the list. It’s been on that list since 2023.

Type two

You tried and got burned

You boosted some posts. Maybe you paid a guy $500 a month who sent reports full of impressions and reach and never once a phone call you could trace back. You spent real money and got nothing you could point at. Now when someone says “ads” your wallet closes on reflex.

Same problem, both of you. It was never the ads. It was what you were running in them.

Sound familiar? Takes 20 seconds to start.

Sound familiar?

Takes 20 seconds to start.

The part nobody says out loud

Sitting still isn’t free. It just never shows up on a bill.

Lost

The leads you never knew existed

Somebody in your service area needed exactly what you do this week. They didn’t know you existed, so they called the guy they’d seen before. You never saw that lead, so it never showed up in your numbers. Most expensive thing in your business and it’s completely invisible.

Margin

Paying for growth with your price

When you can’t create demand you compete on price. You drop the quote to win the job because nothing else makes you the obvious choice. That discount is your ad budget. You’re already spending it, you’re just handing it to the customer instead of buying more of them.

Ground

Losing to someone who isn’t better than you

The competitor eating your market probably doesn’t do better work. He’s just visible. Your customer can’t judge quality before they hire, so they hire the name they recognize. Visible beats better every single time, and it isn’t close.

Fix all three for $999.

Why we push video first

People don’t read ads anymore. They watch them.

1,200%

More shares from social video than text and images combined

95%

Of a message retained when watched, versus 10% when read

9 in 10

Customers say video influences what they buy

+45%

Leads from a social campaign we ran for a local service business

Industry figures on video consumption. The last one is ours.

Filming on location by the water at first light

Every frame shot and cut in house · Niagara + Hamilton

Here’s the good news

You don’t have to bet the year to find out if this works

No retainer. No twelve month contract. One payment, one project, and a real answer at the end of it.

Work order · TT-999

One time · No contract

The Taste Test

A full set of ad creative plus a working Meta ads account, built for your business, delivered ready to launch.

01

Video ad

Scripted, shot and edited for paid placement. Vertical, built for Reels, Stories and Feed.

05

Photo ads

Real photos of your business, your crew and your actual work. Nothing stock.

02

Graphic ads

Offer driven statics for promos, seasonal pushes and reviews. The ones that make the phone ring today.

01

Usage guide

A short video on what each ad is for, when to run it and what number to watch.

01

Meta ads account setup

Business Manager, ad account, pixel and audiences. Built and configured for you.

Total

$999

CAD · one time payment

Ad spend is separate and goes directly to Meta on your card. We never touch your budget.

Why is it only $999?

Straight answer: this is how we meet. Most businesses that run the Taste Test end up working with us monthly, because once you see what good creative does to your cost per lead you don’t go back. The ones that don’t still walk away with eight ads and an account that works. Either way you didn’t spend five grand to find out.

Three fields, that’s it

Start the Taste Test

Drop your details and we’ll come back within one business day with next steps and a shoot date. No pitch deck, no pressure.

We reply within one business day. We don’t sell your info and we don’t send junk.

Got it. Talk soon.

You’ll hear from Jarod within one business day. If you’d rather talk right now, call 365.880.7000.

So what do we actually make

Ads that answer what your customer is already asking

Video

What it actually costs

You on camera giving a real price range and why it lands there. Kills sticker shock before the call so you stop burning quotes on people who were never going to book.

Video

The job walkthrough

Start of the job to finish, ninety seconds. Nobody believes a claim about quality. Everybody believes watching the work get done right.

Video

The question you get every time

Whatever you answer on the phone twelve times a week. Answer it once on camera and let it do that job for you at 9pm on a Sunday.

Photo

Before and after

The highest performing format in trades and home services, and it costs nothing extra to shoot while we’re already on site.

Photo

The crew and the truck

Makes you look like a real company instead of a guy with a van. People hire companies they can picture pulling into their driveway.

Graphic

The seasonal push

The offer you run when the calendar gets thin. Built in advance so it’s ready the week you need bookings, not three weeks after.

We’ll pick the right ones for your business.

Start to finish

Ten days from first call to live ads

You spend about four hours on this whole thing. We handle everything else.

Jarod filming on location at sunrise

Day 3 · on location, wherever the work happens

Day 1

Kickoff call

Thirty minutes. Your offer, your customer, your busy season, and what one good lead is actually worth to you. We leave knowing exactly what we’re shooting and why.

Day 3

Shoot day

Half a day wherever the work happens. Your shop, a job site, the truck. You keep working while we shoot.

Day 7

First cut

Everything comes back in one link. You watch, you mark it up, you get a full round of changes. No email threads, no chasing.

Day 10

Handoff

Eight ads delivered, ad account built and configured, usage guide recorded. You can be live that afternoon. Files are yours forever.

Day 40

Thirty day check in

We get on a call and look at what the ads actually did. What to kill, what to scale, what to make more of. This happens whether or not you ever pay us another dollar.

Eight ads. Ten days. $999.

What changes

One month out, and six months out

30 days after the Taste Test

You finally have numbers

Eight ads running instead of a boosted post from March

You know your cost per lead for the first time, so marketing becomes math instead of a feeling

People call already knowing your price range and how you work, so they haggle less and book faster

Worst case you found out for $999 instead of $12,000 across a year of retainers

Six months working together

It stops being marketing and starts being a system

A library of 40 plus ads, so you’re never scrambling for something to run

You know the three hooks that work on your market and you run them on repeat

The slow season isn’t slow, because the pipeline got filled sixty days before it hit

You stopped thinking about marketing and started thinking about adding another truck

Start with the $999. Decide the rest later.

If it works and you want more

Where people go after the Taste Test

Nobody gets pushed into these. You go monthly when the numbers say it’s worth it, not a day before.

Growth

$2,999

/mo

4, 6 or 12 month terms

2 video, 10 photo and 4 graphic ads a month, plus ongoing Meta ad management and a monthly refinement call.

For you if: the ads pull and you want someone watching the numbers every week instead of you doing it at 10pm.

Full Service

$4,999

/mo

4, 6 or 12 month terms

6 video, 15 photo, 6 graphic and 2 YouTube ads a month, plus Meta and YouTube management, funnel build and ongoing maintenance.

For you if: you want two platforms, a funnel catching the leads and one team running all of it. This is where pipeline gets predictable.

Before you start

The questions everybody asks

Does the $999 include ad spend?

No. Your budget goes directly to Meta on your own card and you keep full control of it. We never touch your money. Most local service businesses start between $20 and $50 a day.

Does the $999 include ad spend?

I tried ads before and they didn’t work. Why is this different?

Because you probably weren’t running ads, you were boosting posts. Different button, completely different machine. And whatever you did run was made to fill a website, not to stop a thumb and get a call. Fix the creative and fix the account and it’s a different business.

I tried ads before and they didn’t work. Why is this different?

Do I own the content?

Yes. Everything we shoot is yours to keep and use anywhere, forever. Website, socials, email, print, other platforms. No licensing games.

Do I own the content?

Do I have to be on camera?

It helps, because people buy from people. But no. Plenty of the best local ads are the work itself, the crew, the before and after. We’ll figure out the right angle on the kickoff call.

Do I have to be on camera?

What kind of businesses is this for?

Trades, home services, auto, fitness, clinics, restaurants. Anything where the customer is local and one job is worth more than one click. If your customer lives within 45 minutes of you, this works.

What kind of businesses is this for?

What if I don’t like the ads?

You get a full round of revisions on the first cut and we don’t go quiet until you’re happy with it. The account setup is yours to keep regardless.

What if I don’t like the ads?

Do people like us

Same guy every time

You’re not getting handed to a junior or an account manager. Jarod shoots it, edits it and runs it.

Jarod, founder of Union Creative

Jarod · founder, and the guy who shows up

“Great photos and video on one of my listings. Sold in one week with multiple offers. I’ll keep working with him on my marketing.”

Caterina F.

“Seven years on and off and he consistently delivers top quality. Professional, knowledgeable, and everything comes back fast.”

Claire B.

“Very reliable. Quick at getting content back without compromising quality. Always great to work with.”

Denise E.

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Filming a night shoot on location

Limited spots each month

Eight ads. Ten days. $999.

Three fields and you’re done. We’ll be back to you within one business day.

We reply within one business day. We don’t sell your info and we don’t send junk.

Got it. Talk soon.

You’ll hear from Jarod within one business day. If you’d rather talk right now, call 365.880.7000.