Who is One Base Media? The Essex trades agency explained

The basics in one table

Trade coverage

The list of trades One Base Media says it works with is the longest we have recorded: roofers, landscapers, driveway installers, plumbers, heating engineers and boiler installers, drainage contractors, building contractors, loft conversion firms, solar installers, electricians, double glazing companies, plasterers, joiners, tree surgeons, and bathroom and kitchen fitters.

Breadth cuts both ways. A roofer gets an agency that has run roofing campaigns many times over. A locksmith or a fencing contractor is not on the list, and would be relying on the agency's general trades experience rather than specific sector depth. Our listicles for fencing contractors and locksmiths weigh that trade-off for those sectors.

What the offer is built around

The pitch is more high quality local leads for tradespeople, with the leads described as exclusive to the client. The services that deliver that are web design, SEO and Google Ads, with branding alongside.

Meta or Facebook advertising is not listed as a named service. That is an important point for readers of this site. One Base Media is a search-led agency with a website and SEO core, so if your plan is Facebook-first you would be asking them to work outside their published offer.

The agency also publishes a large volume of free educational material: YouTube videos, a podcast and a blog. That is unusual in this sector and gives you a way to judge how they think before you ever speak to a salesperson.

Credentials and claims

The site highlights awards and Google Partner status, and claims to have helped more than 1,000 local trades businesses. We cannot independently verify the thousand figure, but the case study library is genuinely large, spanning roofing, driveways and landscaping, garden rooms, plumbing and drainage, loft conversions, shutters and blinds, scaffolding, heat pumps and windows.

Google Partner status indicates the agency meets Google's requirements for Ads account management and spend. It is not a quality guarantee, but it does confirm active, meaningful Google Ads work.

Commercial terms

One monthly payment and no contracts is the published model. The actual figures sit on a separate pricing page that our data does not capture, so you will need to visit it or ask. The absence of a long-term tie-in is consistent with the affordability message the agency pushes.

No contract is not the same as no cost to leave. Ask what happens to the website, the hosting, the Google Ads account and any landing pages if you cancel. Our guide on who owns the ad account when you use an agency explains why that matters.

Who this agency fits

It is a weaker fit if Facebook is your primary channel, if you are in a trade outside the published list, or if you specifically want a small founder-led shop where one person handles your account end to end.

• Trades businesses that want website, SEO and Google Ads from a single supplier rather than stitching together specialists.
• Owners who value a long track record and a visible body of case studies over a boutique relationship.
• Firms in the fifteen trades listed, where the agency can show directly relevant prior work.

Questions to take into the first call

• Which case studies are in my trade and my part of the country, and can I speak to one of those clients?
• Do you run Meta campaigns at all, and if so who manages them?
• What is included in the monthly payment, and what is billed separately?
• If I cancel, what do I keep: the site, the domain, the Ads account, the content?
• Who will I speak to week to week, and how many accounts does that person look after?

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