About Sam Conley

I'm the guy you call when you're done paying for marketing you can't measure.

I'm Sam Conley. I run Blueprinted Marketing. I've spent the last decade inside marketing teams, agencies, and operator seats — most of it in or adjacent to the home services industry. I take three to five clients at a time. Every engagement is hands-on.

Sam Conley, Fractional CMO and founder of Blueprinted Marketing
Why this, why me

Why I only work with contractors

Most marketing agencies serve everyone. I don't.

Sam works primarily with $2M+ HVAC, plumbing, roofing, and electrical contractors as a Fractional CMO.

Contractors between $750K and $2M may still be a fit for assessment, audit, or strategy roadmap work, but the full Fractional CMO engagement is designed for operators who have enough marketing spend, vendor complexity, and operational pressure to justify ongoing marketing leadership.

That specificity is the whole point. I know what a healthy cost-per-booked-job looks like in a competitive HVAC market. I know what a broken CSR script sounds like on a recorded call. I know the difference between a real lead-quality problem and a speed-to-lead problem wearing a lead-quality costume. A generalist fractional CMO will learn your industry on your dime. I already know it.

In the work, not on top of it

What "hands-on" actually means

I'm in your dashboards on Monday. I'm in your vendor reviews asking the questions your agency doesn't want to answer. I'm the person who calls your own business as a mystery shopper in week one and tells you what your CSR is actually doing.

If your marketing slows down when I'm out of town for three days, I've failed. The goal is a system that runs — and a scoreboard that tells you what's happening whether I'm in the call or not.

Boundaries

What I don't do

I don't run your ads. I don't write your blog posts. I don't manage your social. Your vendors do that.

My job is to decide what to build, in what order, with which dollar — and then hold the people you've already paid accountable for actually doing it.

I take three to five clients at a time. If you want to see if it's a fit, book a 30-minute call. No pitch deck — bring your numbers and we'll trace where the money's going in real time.

Where this came from

Built From Real Operator Problems

Blueprinted Marketing was built from the problems business owners actually deal with. Not theory.

The owner who has happy customers but weak visibility. The contractor who is getting leads but not enough booked jobs. The company spending real money while every vendor reports a different version of success. The business that has reviews, ads, SEO, calls, and follow-up all happening in separate places.

That is where the work lives.

Blueprinted Marketing brings those pieces into one system: clear diagnosis, better visibility, stronger customer proof, cleaner booking flow, weekly scoreboard, one person responsible for the plan.

That is the difference between having marketing activity and having marketing ownership.

What you're actually hiring

A leader on your team — not a vendor to manage

A vendor sells you hours and deliverables. An agency sells you a channel. A consultant sells you a deck. None of them are on the hook for the number that matters: booked revenue, traced back to source.

A fractional CMO is different. You're hiring a seat on your leadership team — someone who owns the marketing plan, decides where the money goes, directs the people executing it, and reports to you the way a full-time CMO would. The work still gets done. It just gets done from one plan, by people who are accountable to it.

This engagement installs the decision system most contractor teams are missing: one strategy, one scoreboard, one owner for marketing decisions. That's why I take three to five clients at a time, not thirty. Depth is the product.

If you want certainty about where your marketing is going, that's the conversation.

The right-fit filter

Read this before you book. It'll save us both a call.

This works if you:
  • Doing $2M+ in revenue (Fractional CMO seat); $750K–$2M welcome for audit, assessment, or strategy roadmap work
  • Spending real money on marketing — typically $8–15K+/month across channels
  • Have a team and/or vendors, and nobody accountable for the result
  • Can't answer "which channel made us money last month?"
  • Tired of being the marketing bottleneck after hours
This isn't the right fit if you:
  • Want a done-for-you agency, not a leader on your team
  • Want someone to run your ads or manage your social day-to-day
  • Not ready to look at recorded calls and real booking data
  • Looking for the cheapest option, not the right one

Book a Strategy Call

Working call. Bring last quarter's ad spend and your booked-revenue number — we'll trace the math live, you'll leave with a written next move, and I'll tell you straight whether a fractional CMO engagement makes sense for you.

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