THIRD BAY MARKETING Marketing for independent auto repair shops

A site that books a job from a parking lot.

The person deciding whether to call you is standing next to a car that won't start, on a phone, in the sun, at 4% battery. We design for that person first.

What your site is doing to the people who find it.

"It looks fine on my laptop."

Most of the people who find it are on a phone.

"The phone number is part of the header image."

So it can't be tapped, can't be read aloud, and can't be tracked.

"I paid six grand for it in 2018."

And the Saturday hours are still wrong because nobody knows how to change them, and it loads a slider that takes four seconds.

Built for one job: getting the call.

01

The phone number under their thumb on every screen

Tap-to-call stays fixed at the bottom of the screen on a phone, where a thumb finds it.

02

A page for each repair you sell

Brakes, diagnostics, timing, transmissions, pre-purchase inspections. Each one a page an ad can point at and Google can rank.

03

Under two seconds on a phone

We skip sliders, background video, and fonts that hold up the page. Speed is the cheapest conversion work there is.

04

Booking that lands where you'll see it

Requests routed to text and email with year, make, model, and the symptom in the customer's own words.

05

Yours to keep

Domain, hosting, and files in your name. If you fire us, the site stays where it is.

Photos of your shop, your bays, and your techs.

A site sells on the bays, the techs, and the work. Third Bay Media, our sister studio, shot every shop photo on this site, and shoots the same for a website build.

See their work

Recent builds.

Every site here is live and owned by the shop that paid for it. Open one on your phone and time how long it takes to load.

Shannon Family Automotive home page: Honda and Toyota repair in Folsom, with Schedule Service and call buttons in the hero

Shannon Family Automotive

The home page, for a Honda and Toyota shop in Folsom, California.

M45 Automotive home page: independent Subaru specialists in Auburn, with Schedule Service and call buttons

M45 Automotive

The home page, for a Subaru shop in Auburn, California.

Sacramento Specialty Automotive home page: Subaru specialists since 2001, with a Subaru on a lift

Sacramento Specialty Automotive

The home page, for a Japanese import shop in Sacramento.

Ryan G. Motorworks home page: German auto repair in Auburn, with hours and phone in the header

Ryan G. Motorworks

The home page, for a German car specialist in Auburn, California.

Auto Analytx home page: honest auto repair in Auburn, with Schedule Your Appointment and call buttons

Auto Analytx

The home page, for a diagnostic and repair shop in Auburn, California.

Cryotune Performance home page: auto repair in Arvada, with Book Your Appointment and call buttons

Cryotune Performance

The home page, for a repair and tuning shop in Arvada, Colorado.

RVJ Machine home page: engine machining in Auburn, with a call button and a resurfaced flywheel on the machine

RVJ Machine

The home page, for an engine machine shop in Auburn, California.

Shannon Family Automotive's 2023 home page beside the rebuilt one

Shannon Family Automotive, 2023 and now

The 2023 home page beside the one we rebuilt.

Screens captured October 2026. Confirm each shop is fine being shown before launch.

About a month, start to launch.

Week 1

Content and structure

What you sell, what you turn away, and which repairs get their own page. One call and your RO mix answers most of it.

Weeks 2 to 3

Build

Pages, forms, tracking, and photos. You get a short shot list for your phone, or a shoot day with Third Bay Media for photos that look like the work you do.

Week 4

Launch and verify

Redirects mapped so you don't drop rankings, tracking tested with a real call and a real form, then we watch what comes in.

What shop owners ask about this one.

Do I have to move my hosting?

No, but we'll usually push for it. Cheap shared hosting is the most common reason a shop site takes six seconds to load on a phone.

Can I edit it myself?

You don't need to. Email or text us what changed, like new hours, a photo, or a service you added, and we update it. There's no login to remember and nothing for you to break.

What about reviews on the site?

Pulled live from your Google profile. Hand-typed testimonials read as fake because so many of them are.

What does a site cost?

A custom build averages $6,500 to $10,000, separate from monthly management. You'll have your number before the audit call ends.

Other ways to turn calls into jobs

In twenty minutes, you'll know where your car count is going.

Bring your last month of ad spend and your car count. We'll tell you what we'd change first, whether you hire us or not.

or call (704) 727-8220
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