Three options. Only one actually works for your business.
The customer bought a kit they don't want to assemble, and the council has rules they don't know about
Garden shed installation is a strange in-between trade. The customer isn't ringing a builder, isn't ringing a carpenter, isn't ringing a handyman. They've usually already gone to Stratco or Bunnings or EasyShed online, picked out a 3x6m Colorbond kit, looked at the assembly diagrams that come with it, and decided they don't want to spend three weekends in 35-degree heat trying to align twelve metres of steel cladding with a mate who'd rather be at the cricket. Or they're a custom-timber customer who wants a hand-built workshop shed that no kit-supplier sells, or a shipping-container conversion customer who needs the framing, cladding and ventilation done by someone who actually does that. Three structural problems. First, the 'I bought the kit, please install it' customer is brand-led: they Google 'Stratco shed installer [suburb]' or 'EasyShed installer near me' or 'Spanbilt assembly Sydney' and the generic 'shed installer' page loses to the dedicated brand one. Second, the council compliance layer (DA or CDC approval needed for sheds over 20m², boundary setbacks of 0.9-1.5m depending on council, slab-pour BCA requirements) trips up every customer and most installers don't explain it properly on their site, so the customer gets blindsided by an approval refusal and the installer cops the blame. Third, the high-margin custom-timber and shipping-container-conversion work has almost no marketing investment because the volume customer is the Stratco kit install, but margins on custom and container work are 2-3x and the competition is much weaker.
Good garden shed installer marketing is three hubs kept separate plus a council-compliance content spine plus a 'supply and install vs kit-only' positioning that wins the volume customer. Hub one: branded kit installs with separate pages per brand (Stratco shed installer, EasyShed installer, Spanbilt installer) and suburb-page libraries so 'Stratco shed installer Penrith' and 'EasyShed installer Mornington Peninsula' both rank. Hub two: custom-timber workshop and tilt-shed builds with photos of finished bespoke sheds, timber selection and roof-type (skillion, gable, lean-to) decision tree, and price-from bands that reflect the bespoke nature. Hub three: shipping-container conversions with photos of finished framing, cladding, insulation, ventilation and electrical fit-out. The council-compliance spine: a 'DA or CDC approval for sheds over 20m²' explainer that ranks for exactly that search, a boundary-setback page per council jurisdiction you work, and a slab-pour BCA-compliance page for the customer who wants to know the install will pass inspection. The 'supply and install vs kit-only' positioning: every brand hub has a 'why you don't want to assemble a 3x6m Colorbond shed yourself' explainer that wins the volume customer who's already at Bunnings staring at the kit diagram and dreading three weekends in the heat. Type-A licensed builder or qualified tradesperson trust signal where relevant. Ute and trailer access requirements called out so you don't waste site-visit time.
Six agents, working in your accounts.
Account Lead, Web, SEO, Advertising, Social Media, and Content. One platform, one bill, you approve the work.
Builds your annual plan around the pipeline mix that pays the bills: branded kit installs for volume (Stratco, EasyShed, Spanbilt), custom-timber and tilt-shed builds for the higher-margin custom customer, shipping-container conversions for the niche-but-lucrative storage-or-workshop customer. Briefs the other agents so the brand pages, the supply-and-install ads, the council-compliance content and the slab-pour social grid all push at the customer mix you actually want rather than chasing every 'shed' search.
Imports your existing site so you stop paying for hosting plus a CMS subscription, and ships three hubs (branded kit installs with brand-specific pages, custom-timber and tilt-shed, shipping-container conversion) plus the council-compliance spine instead of one generic 'shed' page. Per-suburb pages so 'Stratco shed installer Penrith' ranks separately from 'EasyShed installer Mornington Peninsula', supply-and-install positioning above the fold, council-specific boundary-setback tables, and a 'why you don't want to assemble it yourself' explainer that wins the volume customer. Two taps to push live.
Goes through your live site for what actually moves shed-installer rankings: brand-specific suburb H1s ('Stratco shed installer [suburb]', 'EasyShed installer [suburb]') because customers really do search by brand, shed-builder schema (not generic carpenter), internal links from brand hubs into the council-compliance pages so the considered customer benefits from cross-page authority, and a Google Business Profile that lists every brand, every shed type and every install option. Auto-applies the low-risk fixes.
Runs separate Google Ads ad groups per kit brand and shed type: 'Stratco shed installer [suburb]', 'EasyShed installer [suburb]', 'Spanbilt assembly [suburb]', 'custom timber shed builder [suburb]', 'shipping container conversion [suburb]'. Plus a council-compliance ad group on 'DA approval for garden shed [council]' that catches the customer worried about getting blindsided by the council. Drops broad 'shed' bids entirely (too much commercial-industrial-shed noise). Meta runs the slab-pour and assembly-timelapse video posts that win the considered buyer.
Turns every install into a post in your real accounts: a 3x6m Stratco Outback gable on a Caringbah slab, a custom-timber workshop shed with skillion roof in Bowral, a 20-foot shipping container conversion with insulation and electrical fit-out in the Yarra Valley, an EasyShed assembly in Mornington for a customer who didn't want to spend three weekends with it. Builds the supply-and-install trust signal that wins the volume customer staring at the Bunnings kit diagram. You upload one photo per job, the agent drafts the caption in your voice, you approve.
Drafts the long-form pieces customers Google before they buy or commit: 'do I need DA approval for a 4x6m garden shed in [council]', 'cost to have a Stratco shed installed vs assembling it yourself', 'concrete slab vs compacted base for a garden shed: which do you need', 'custom timber shed vs Colorbond kit: which is right for your block', 'shipping container conversion cost: framing, cladding, insulation, electrical'. Two drafts a month, in your voice, that catch the careful researcher before the council-compliance question blindsides them.
Your first 30 days.
- Site imported, hosting bill killed
- Annual plan with brand and pipeline mix delivered by Sam
- Google Business Profile rebuilt as 'Shed Builder', supply-and-install attribute set
- Brand hubs for Stratco, EasyShed and Spanbilt live with per-suburb landing pages
- Supply-and-install Google Ads live on '[brand] installer [suburb]' queries
- Council DA-approval and boundary-setback explainer drafted per council you work
- Custom-timber and shipping-container-conversion hubs live for the high-margin pipeline
- First fortnight of slab pour and Colorbond assembly captions queued in your voice
Garden shed installation is a brand-led volume market with a council-compliance trap and two high-margin niches (custom timber, shipping container) that almost no installer markets properly. The customers who matter are searching by kit brand and suburb, are worried about the DA-approval question, and don't want to spend three weekends assembling a Colorbond kit in 35-degree heat. The installers who win the next three years are the ones with brand-specific suburb pages, a council-compliance content spine, a 'supply and install vs kit-only' positioning, and proper marketing for the custom-timber and container work where the margin actually lives.
Agencies are too dear to ship a hub per kit brand with council-specific compliance content for $3.5k a month. Tools are cheap but the custom-timber pages stay drafts and the shipping-container hub never gets built. In-House is the third option: for $299 a month the agents ship the brand hubs, the council-compliance content, the supply-and-install ads, and the custom and container pages. You stay in the driver's seat, two taps to approve, minutes a day. Stop losing the next Stratco install because the customer found a footer-keyword installer first.