Social Spark helps electricians capture every enquiry, follow up automatically and show enough proof of qualified work to win the callout.
Electrical work is bought under pressure and on trust at the same time. A fault, a failed EICR or a booking deadline puts someone on the phone that day, and they will ring three numbers in the order they find them. Whoever answers, or answers back quickest, usually gets the job. That is a brutal market for a working electrician, because the hours when enquiries arrive are exactly the hours spent up a ladder with the phone in the van. Meanwhile the things that genuinely separate a good electrician from a bad one — registration, certification, testing done properly, work that will pass an inspection in ten years — are almost invisible to the person choosing. They cannot assess the wiring, so they assess the responsiveness, the reviews and whether the business looks real.
Calls arrive while you are on the tools
The enquiry does not wait. Someone with no power in half the house rings the next name on the list within minutes. A missed call during a job is not a message to return that evening — it is a job that has already been booked by somebody else.
Qualifications are the differentiator and nobody can see them
NICEIC or NAPIT registration, Part P, certification on completion — these are the whole basis for trusting an electrician, and most customers never learn whether you hold them. Stated plainly and repeatedly, they justify a higher price.
Domestic and commercial work get one shared feed
A landlord needing EICRs on a portfolio and a homeowner wanting extra sockets are different buyers with different urgency and different proof. One general presence speaks to neither of them clearly.
Completed work never becomes evidence
A consumer unit replaced, a fault traced, an EV charger installed — each is proof, and almost none of it is recorded. Without it the only evidence a customer has is price.
We work with electricians and around fifty other kinds of business, building the marketing and the follow-up system together rather than selling one and hoping the other works.
Content and ads bring people in. A CRM, an answering service and automated follow-up make sure the ones who arrive are actually dealt with. We do both, because doing only the first is how most marketing money gets wasted.
Every piece of work is costed in credits, and every plan on this page shows what it includes and what it costs. You never have to sit through a call to find out the price.
Your plan, your work in progress and your results live in a client portal. On the larger plans you get one named person who knows your business, not a rota.
Social Spark starts with the phone, because for most electricians that is where the money leaks. Missed-call text-back, an AI receptionist that takes the details when nobody can, and follow-up that keeps a quote alive rather than letting it go quiet. On top of that we make the qualifications and the completed work visible: registration stated where it will be read, jobs documented quickly enough to fit around real work, and separate content for domestic and commercial buyers so each one recognises themselves. For electricians moving into EV charging or solar, that work is treated as its own audience rather than folded into general trade content.
This is the pattern we see most often in electricians. It is not a client story — it is the situation, the fix, and the published evidence that the problem is common.
A consumer unit trips on a Tuesday morning and the homeowner rings three electricians off the first page of results. Two go to voicemail because both are on a job. The third answers, books it for that afternoon, and the work is gone — not on price, not on qualifications, on who picked up. The two who missed it never know the call happened.
We would put something between the missed call and the voicemail: a text back within seconds that takes the address, the fault and a callback window, so the customer has an answer while they are still deciding who to try next. Alongside it, registration and scheme number stated where they are actually read, and a short record of recent jobs — a fault traced, a unit replaced, a charger installed — so someone weighing three names has something to weigh other than who answered first.
The call that used to become a voicemail becomes a booking to confirm at the end of the job. The customer waiting on a fault gets a reply in seconds instead of a beep, which is usually all it takes to stop them ringing the next number. And when they do compare, they can see the certification rather than assume it.
Electrical work generated 655 suspected rogue trader reports across the UK in 2024 — the fourth most of any trade, from more than 9,700 reports in total — according to Freedom of Information data analysed by Electrical Safety First.
Almost every job starts with a phone call about something that has just gone wrong, and a missed call is a job that goes to the next name on the list. Call handling earns more here than reach does.
A one or two van outfit
Foundation
Every month
Included either way
Your enquiry system set up properly, an AI receptionist answering around the clock, missed calls texted back automatically, and a monthly check-in.
Opens with this plan already built — 33 credits, nothing to configure.
A team of electricians and commercial contracts
Managed
Every month
Included either way
A real person answering your phone and booking appointments 8 hours a day, Monday to Friday, one named contact who knows your business, a monthly strategy call, and same-day changes.
150 answered calls a month are included.
Opens with this plan already built — 123 credits, nothing to configure.
Credits are how the work is priced. Every plan includes a monthly allowance, they roll over and never expire, and extra credits are £10 each on every plan with no cap. If neither of these is quite right, you can change anything once the plan opens — these are a starting point, not a menu.
Audit how many enquiries you are losing
Look at what actually happens to calls and messages that arrive while you are working, and what they are worth
See call handling and follow-up options
Missed-call recovery, booking and quote follow-up — see what level of support fits a one-van or multi-van business
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Practical guidance on capturing enquiries, proving your certification and documenting jobs without losing evenings
Do you know how many calls went unanswered last week, and what happened to them?
Does someone or something reply to an enquiry within a few minutes during working hours?
Is your registration body and scheme number stated where a customer will actually read it?
Are quotes followed up automatically if the customer goes quiet?
Do domestic and commercial customers see content aimed at them, or one general feed?
Commercial context
The arithmetic here is unusually simple. A domestic callout is worth a few hundred pounds and a rewire or commercial contract far more, so recovering a handful of missed calls a month covers the cost of the system that recovers them. Nothing else in electrical marketing has that payback, because the demand already exists — people are already ringing. The work is making sure the phone call becomes a booking rather than a voicemail somebody else answered first.
We already get plenty of work from word of mouth. Why bother?
Referrals are the best work you get and nothing here replaces them. The question is what happens to the referral who rings while you are on a job and gets no answer — they were sent to you by name and still ended up with someone else. This is about not losing work you have already earned.
I do not have time to post content. Is that a problem?
No. The highest-return work for an electrician is call handling and follow-up, and none of it needs you to post anything. Content helps, but it is the second job, not the first — and when we do it, it is built around photos you were taking anyway.
Does an AI receptionist put customers off?
Less than a voicemail does. It takes the name, the number, the address and what has gone wrong, and it texts you the details — so the customer gets an immediate answer and you get a booking to return rather than a missed call notification.
We do mostly commercial contracts, not domestic. Does this still apply?
The mechanics change. Commercial work is won on relationships, compliance and being on the approved list, so the emphasis moves to documented certification, case studies of similar sites and outbound follow-up rather than local search. It is a different plan and we would treat it as one.
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