The SpeedRun Social blog
Post ideas and social tactics for trades
Concrete, stealable post ideas for the businesses we build for: plumbers, dentists, painters, HVAC crews, and the rest of the trades. Written to be useful even if you never use the product.
Every article, by trade
Plumbers
Social Media Post Ideas for Plumbers
Seven days of social media post ideas for plumbers, built from real jobs and a phone camera: before and afters, homeowner questions, and the posts people remember.
Landscapers
Social Media Post Ideas for Landscapers
A season by season calendar of landscaping post ideas, from first mow to dormant winter beds, each shot on a phone between jobs.
HVAC
Social Media Post Ideas for HVAC Companies
A season by season calendar of social media post ideas for HVAC companies, timed to what customers actually feel in their homes each quarter.
Dentists
Social Media Post Ideas for Dentists
Dental practice post ideas built from the questions patients already ask at the front desk, turned into posts that get saved and shared.
Barbers
Social Media Post Ideas for Barbers
Barbershop post ideas built to fix the mistakes most shop feeds make: named cuts, slow-day posts, and a shop page that never goes quiet.
Electricians
Social Media Post Ideas for Electricians
Phone camera post ideas for electricians: the panel shot, the torque driver, and the finished fixture, captured mid job and captioned in two sentences.
Gyms
Social Media Post Ideas for Gyms
Post ideas for gyms sorted by goal: fill the class, keep the member, and introduce the room to someone who has not walked in yet.
Cleaning services
Social Media Post Ideas for Cleaning Services
A month of post ideas for cleaning businesses on a weekly rhythm: plan, prove, teach, and be human, between the before and after shots.
Hair salons
Social Media Post Ideas for Hair Salons
A week of hair salon post ideas built around the appointment book: rebook reminders, open slots, and color transformations that fill chairs.
Med spas
Social Media Post Ideas for Med Spas
A season by season set of med spa post ideas, timed to when the client starts thinking, from the fall summer plan to the winter consult.
Auto repair
Social Media Post Ideas for Auto Repair Shops
Auto repair post ideas that prove the work: worn parts beside new ones, scan screens, and estimate lines, built to fix the mistakes most shop feeds make.
Countertops
Social Media Post Ideas for Countertop Shops
Before and after post ideas for countertop shops: slab to island, template to cut, and seam to polish, with shooting rules that make stone read on a phone.
Roofing
Social Media Post Ideas for Roofers
Before and after post ideas for roofers shot from the gutter line: tear-off, flashing, ridge, and gutter pairs, with captions and season timing.
Real estate agents
Social Media Post Ideas for Real Estate Agents
A month by month posting rhythm for real estate agents: plan, proof of work, education, and the human, held without depending on a new listing.
Restaurants
Social Media Post Ideas for Restaurants
A week of restaurant post ideas shot during service: the plate at the pass, the room at a third full, and the dish that changed.
Law firms
Social Media Post Ideas for Law Firms
Post ideas for law firms that answer client worry in plain words, safely: consultations, cost, timelines, and the terms clients do not know.
Pest control
Social Media Post Ideas for Pest Control
Post ideas for pest control that show the fix, not the infestation: entry points, seasonal checklists, and the quarterly plan explained.
Veterinarians
Social Media Post Ideas for Veterinarians
Veterinary clinic post ideas built from the questions owners already ask at the door, turned into posts that get saved and shared.
Nail salons
Social Media Post Ideas for Nail Salons
Nail salon post ideas built from the questions clients ask at the chair, so the feed stops repeating another color reveal.
Nonprofits
Social Media Post Ideas for Nonprofits
Post ideas for nonprofits, grouped by the goal each one moves: keeping donors close, filling the volunteer roster, and making the next event real.
Photographers
Social Media Post Ideas for Photographers
Post ideas for photographers that run on the frames you own outright, grouped by goal: fill the calendar now and sell the season that books next.
Chiropractors
Social Media Post Ideas for Chiropractors
A month of chiropractic post ideas, week by week: show the visit, show the work, teach one thing, then show the people.
General contractors
Social Media Post Ideas for General Contractors
Phone-camera post ideas for general contractors: demo, inspection, rough-in, and punch-list clips shot during the work, then turned into a week of posts.
Painters
Social Media Post Ideas for Painters
Before and after post ideas for painters, with the camera angles that make the difference visible: rooms, doors, cabinets, and exterior walls.
Accountants
Social Media Post Ideas for Accountants
A month by month posting rhythm for accountants: deadline reminders, plain terms, the checklist, and the people, held all year, not just at tax time.
Coffee shops
Social Media Post Ideas for Coffee Shops
Phone-camera post ideas for a coffee shop: the pour, the regular's usual, and the two o'clock room, all shot on the phone already on the counter.
Car detailing
Social Media Post Ideas for Car Detailers
Before and after post ideas for car detailing: fifty-fifty panels, extracted seats, cleared headlights, plus shooting rules that make correction visible.
Small business basics
How Often Should a Local Business Post on Social Media?
The honest answer to how often a local business should post: a cadence you can hold, decided by your capacity and your customers, not a magic number.
Small business basics
The Best Times to Post on Social Media (An Honest Guide)
The honest truth about the best times to post on social media: why the charts disagree, what actually decides it, and a test to find your own.
Reputation
How to Respond to Online Reviews Publicly
The public playbook for online review responses: how to answer the glowing one, the specific complaint, the vague one-star, and the fake one.
Content craft
Phone Photo Tips for Trades: Posts That Look Like Your Work
Five phone photo rules for trades, one per post: wipe the lens, square the frame, match before and after, shoot in daylight, and protect the customer.
Google Business Profile
Google Business Profile Posts: How to Use Them
What a Google Business Profile post is, the update, event, and offer types, the 1500-character summary cap, and the posts worth publishing.
This blog exists because the question behind every trade's social media is the same: what do I actually post? A plumber does not need a content strategy. They need to know what Tuesday's post is. So the articles here are built as answer sets: a week of posts, a season of posts, a month of posts, each one concrete enough to make this afternoon and honest enough to publish under the business's own name.
Every article follows the same working rule: no invented results, no fake testimonials, no claims about what posting will do for your revenue. The trade content is drawn from what the work itself looks like. When the product is mentioned, it says what the product actually ships, which is a free plan with one campaign a week, every week, and a human review step before anything publishes.
The blog is organized by trade because that is how the readers think. A dentist does not care what a roofer should post, and pretending they do makes both articles worse. Each article links to its trade page and to one of the free tools, so the reading path stays useful at every step.
How to use this site if you run one of these businesses: find your trade, read its article once, and make one post from it the same afternoon. Not all of them. The collection is a pantry, not a to-do list, and the habit that actually moves a local business is one honest post a week for a year, not forty posts in a weekend and silence after.
How to use it if you run an agency or a marketing team: the articles are written so a trade client can approve them without a meeting. Send the link, let the owner circle the three ideas that sound like their week, and build the month off that. The same content works as a new-client kickoff and as a renewal conversation six months later, because it shows the client the plan instead of describing one.
What you will not find here: trend pieces, growth hacks, or opinions about the platform of the week. Small business social media is a consistent, unglamorous job, and the articles reflect that. The most valuable piece of advice in the whole collection is the least exciting one: post the work, consistently, in the customer's own words, and let the months do what a single post cannot.
Have a week of posts made for your business
The free plan includes one campaign a week, every week, with no credit card. You approve everything before it publishes.