Plumbing Owners Edge is an independent site for people who own plumbing companies and want more booked jobs without being sold a contract first.
Who writes it
Steve Meitler is the editor. He has spent years running marketing for local service businesses, including plumbing and drain companies, and has sat through enough sales pitches aimed at plumbers to know what is missing from them: numbers you can check. Everything here is written to be checked.
Where the benchmark numbers come from
The benchmark report is built from public Google Business Profile listings. We search Google Maps for plumbing companies in every US state, collect the public fields on each listing (review count, star rating, website link, hours, category, location), remove duplicates by place, and compute the statistics you see. Nothing is scraped from behind a login and no personal data is kept. The dataset currently holds 77,218 listings across 51 states and is refreshed monthly. Collection errors happen at that scale, so treat every figure as accurate to within a point or two, not to the decimal.
Editorial rules
- No pay-to-play. Nobody can buy a recommendation, a mention, or a ranking on this site.
- Every number is sourced, either to our dataset or to a primary source such as Google's own documentation. Where we give an opinion, it is marked as one.
- Guides are written for a plumber with a phone in one hand and a wrench in the other. If a step cannot be done by a busy owner or delegated to an office manager, it does not go in.
- We update guides when the platforms change, and we date every update.
How the free trial works
The site is funded by the marketing work we do for plumbing companies. We offer every service as a free 14-day trial because a plumber should see the phone ring before paying anyone. You text or call, tell us what you want to try (Google Ads, Meta ads, AI search optimization, local SEO, a website, social media, reviews, missed-call text-back, email and SMS, bookkeeping, or appointment setting), and we set it up in your own accounts, usually within 48 hours. It runs for 14 days. There is no card on file and nothing renews. At the end you keep it at a price quoted up front, switch to something else, or stop.
Text or call (385) 832-6175, or use the free trial page.