Marco smiled. Then his phone rang again.
Three missed calls. Two texts. A voicemail from a property manager with twenty-seven townhomes. An email from a civil engineer who said, “I saw your case study on clay soil drainage. Can you bid on a school project?” drainage contractors seo
Within a month, he ranked for without ever having advertised it. The Third Trench: The Review Loop Marco hated asking for reviews. Felt like begging. Marco smiled
But Elena made him a deal: For every job, they’d leave a small flag marker in the newly dry part of the yard with a QR code. The flag said: “This dry spot brought to you by Marco. Scan to tell Google we showed up.” Two texts
He typed one more time.
Not completely. The calls that did come were from angry people three towns over who wanted him to “fix the ditch for fifty bucks.” The good jobs—the $15,000 French drains, the foundation waterproofing, the commercial lot grading—those had vanished.
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