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The 8-video trust system that answers buyer questions before the quote. Eight specific trust assets. Not eight random videos.
The 8-Video Trust Stack
Each video does a specific job. None of them are optional.
- VIDEO 01 Pre-quote
FAQ Video
The 7 questions you answer at every kitchen table. Recorded once.
Cuts quote time by a third. Buyers arrive already knowing the answers.
SIMPLER JOB Surface real questions and educate before selling.
Read the shoot guide - VIDEO 02 Pre-quote
Cost Video
The #1 Googled question. What drives cost up, what drives it down.
Every competitor hides this. Answering first owns the trust.
SIMPLER JOB Lower price fear by explaining the market range.
Read the shoot guide - VIDEO 03 Pre-quote
Pricing Video
How you charge. Hourly, fixed, tiered. Zero sticker shock on site.
Kills price as the biggest objection before you arrive.
SIMPLER JOB Increase perceived value and explain the commercial model.
Read the shoot guide - VIDEO 04 Pre-quote
Fit Video
Who you're NOT for. Jobs you won't touch. Clients who should call someone else.
Saying no publicly is the ultimate trust move. Tyre-kickers self-select out.
SIMPLER JOB Lower bad-fit risk and increase trust through honesty.
Read the shoot guide - VIDEO 05 First contact
Bio Video
90 seconds in your email signature. A handshake, not a showreel.
Buyer knows your face before you knock. Awkward first 5 minutes, gone.
SIMPLER JOB Build familiarity and make the owner visible.
Read the shoot guide - VIDEO 06 First contact
Landing Page Video
Defuses the 4 fears at the form: spam, hounding, privacy, what next.
Lifts form fills 80%+ on average. The Sheridan-tested mechanic.
SIMPLER JOB Make the path visible and lower form friction.
Read the shoot guide - VIDEO 07 Mid-funnel
Customer Journey
A real client's story. Before, during, after. Not a testimonial.
'That's exactly what happened to us.' The just-like-me effect.
SIMPLER JOB Revenue-loop the system with attributable proof.
Read the shoot guide - VIDEO 08 Mid-funnel
Claims Video
Licences, certs, reviews on camera. What you stand behind, where you draw the line.
Everyone says reliable. You prove it. Naming limits builds more trust than hiding them.
SIMPLER JOB Prove the promise.
Read the shoot guide
How It Gets Built
Three steps. One trust system.
- 01
Map the questions
The seven questions every buyer asks before they trust the quote. Cost. Process. Timeline. Comparison. Risk. Fit. Proof. Pull them out before you film a single frame.
- 02
Shoot the answers
Answer each question naturally, on camera, talking to one real buyer. First takes carry trust. No studio theatre.
- 03
Deploy the script
Authority Selling. Email signature. Landing page. Quote follow-up. The video stops being content and starts being revenue infrastructure.
For a crew, not just you
The point isn't more content. It's taking you out of the middle.
If every quote, every "are you any good", every reason-to-choose-you still runs through your mouth on a phone call, the business is capped at how many of those calls you can make in a week. That's the ceiling that keeps a good operator on the tools at sixty.
The eight videos do the explaining and the reassuring once, in your voice, so the work is done before you or anyone on your crew picks up the phone. A new estimator can send them. The website sends them at 11pm. The customer arrives already sold on why it's you. You stop being the only person in the business who can win a job.
Straight answers
Questions, answered
I hate being on camera. I'm a sparky, not a presenter. Does this still work?
You are not presenting. You are answering the seven questions you already answer at every kitchen table, on camera, talking to one real buyer. There is no autocue and no studio theatre, because first takes carry the trust. The awkward sparky who explains why a switchboard upgrade costs what it costs beats the polished stranger every time, because your buyer wants the person who is going to be up in their roof cavity, not a showreel.
How long does it take to film all 8 videos?
You shoot the answers, not a production. The build runs in three steps: map the seven questions, shoot the answers naturally on camera, then deploy the script into your email signature, landing page and quote follow-up. Because it is first takes with no studio theatre, the filming is the short part. Mapping the questions properly before you point a camera at anything is where the real work sits, and that is the part that makes the footage worth deploying.
Will this actually move my close rate, or is that just a marketing number?
Here is the honest version. There is a directional benchmark that runs from 30% to about 79 to 80%, drawn from They Ask You Answer by Marcus Sheridan. It is the number the system is built toward, not a result promised for your business, and anyone who promises you a close rate is guessing. What the videos actually do is answer cost, pricing and fit before you arrive, so price stops being the biggest objection on site and the tyre-kickers self-select out before they waste your ute diesel.
Do I actually need all 8, or can I just do the FAQ and Cost ones?
Each video does a specific job and none of them are optional. The FAQ and Cost videos work before the quote, the Bio and Landing Page videos work at first contact, and the Customer Journey and Claims videos work mid-funnel. Skip the Fit video and the tyre-kickers keep booking you. Skip the Claims video and you are just saying reliable like everyone else instead of proving it on camera. The stack is eight assets that hand the buyer from one to the next, not eight videos you pick from.
Who films and edits these? I don't have a videographer and I'm on the tools all day.
We build it. You bring the answers, on camera, in first takes with no studio theatre, and we handle mapping the seven questions and deploying the finished script across your signature, landing page and quote follow-up. The whole point is that you film once and it works forever, so you are not pulled off the tools for an ongoing content grind. Built once, then it runs.
My site already has a landing page with a form. What does a video actually add there?
A quiet form asks the buyer to trust you blind. The Landing Page video defuses the four fears a buyer feels at that form: getting spammed, getting hounded by a salesperson, where their details end up, and what happens next. It puts your face on the page and tells them exactly what happens after they hit submit, which is the difference between a filled form and a bounced one. That is the Sheridan-tested mechanic: answer the fear before you ask for the details.
Real work. Visible proof. Simple systems.
The Tradie Sales Engine is the flagship Sell My Service deployment. It is the difference between losing a job at the quote stage and closing one while you're on the tools.
Won the job? The Aftercare Engine keeps the customer