Water Damage Leads & Restoration Marketing Resource Hub

A no-fluff collection of playbooks, guides, and strategies for restoration business owners, brought to you by Justin Hess of Real Time Lead Gen.

TL;DR: Key Resource Silos

Content Silo What You'll Find Inside
Water Damage Leads The core of our expertise. Definitive guides on generating and converting high-quality, exclusive, real-time water damage leads.
Restoration Marketing Advanced strategies for building a dominant local brand, creating referral engines, and running profitable digital advertising campaigns.
How to Start a Restoration Company Step-by-step checklists and foundational playbooks for entrepreneurs building a successful restoration business from the ground up.

Welcome. This site was built on a simple premise: give away the best information for free. We believe in providing the exact, in-depth playbooks that successful restoration companies use to grow. While you now have the complete roadmap to implement these systems yourself, many owners find their time is better spent running their business. If you'd rather have a specialist with over a decade of niche experience handle it all for you, that's where we come in. Explore our primary resource hubs below to see the strategies we can deploy for your company.


Water Damage Leads

The core of our expertise. This silo contains definitive guides on generating and converting high-quality, exclusive water damage leads. We cover everything from the nuances of pay per click vs pay per lead, to advanced closing techniques for handling inbound emergency calls. You'll learn how to evaluate lead quality, maximize your ROI, and build a sustainable pipeline of profitable water mitigation jobs.

A smartphone ringing with an incoming call for water damage help.

Restoration Marketing

Go beyond simple lead generation and learn to build a true market-leading brand. This silo is dedicated to the art and science of getting more jobs through a holistic approach to restoration marketing services. We cover everything from advanced Local SEO and Google Ads strategies to building a dominant local brand that people trust, and creating a predictable referral engine with plumbers and agents. These are the systems that move you from being a commodity to the go-to expert in your area.

A restoration professional and a plumber shaking hands, symbolizing a referral partnership.

How to Start a Restoration Company

This is the A-to-Z playbook for entrepreneurs. We've compiled a comprehensive restoration startup checklist and foundational strategies for building a successful business from the ground up. We cover the critical early steps: legal structure, insurance, IICRC certifications, equipment purchasing, and launching your first 90-day marketing plan.

A new restoration technician receiving hands-on training with drying equipment.

About This Resource

This site was created by Justin Hess, founder of Real Time Lead Gen, with a simple mission: to provide restoration business owners with the transparent, no-fluff, actionable strategies they need to grow their companies. After spending years in the lead generation industry, it became painfully obvious that most marketing advice for contractors was either generic, ineffective, or intentionally opaque.

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Justin Hess - Founder of Real Time Lead Gen - We'll Make Your Phone Ring! - Generating exclusive restoration leads since 2015...lifelong internet marketer. I AM The Google Alchemist.

P.S. You now have access to the complete playbooks. If you're ready to implement them, we're cheering you on. If you'd rather have a specialist team build and run the entire engine for you, that's what we do.

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Justin Hess - Founder & Google Alchemist