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How BSPKN Built a Full Digital Growth System for a Regional Commercial Services Company

The Challenge: A Regional Leader Without a Digital Foundation

Twin City Outdoor Services (TCOS) is one of the Twin Cities metro’s most established commercial outdoor maintenance providers. From snow removal and de-icing to concrete repair, asphalt maintenance, landscaping, and trucking, TCOS serves property managers, facility directors, and commercial institutions across Minnesota with year-round services.

The problem was not the quality of work. TCOS had decades of reputation, a deep client base, and a growing service portfolio. What they lacked was a digital infrastructure that matched their operational sophistication.

When BSPKN engaged TCOS, the company was running on disconnected systems. No centralized CRM. No automated lead follow-up. No consistent content strategy. Email campaigns were sporadic, social media was inconsistent, and there was no clear picture of how digital channels were contributing to pipeline.

For a seasonal business where timing is everything (snow contracts close in September, asphalt repair peaks in spring, landscaping fills in between), the inability to reach the right buyer at the right time was a significant competitive disadvantage.

The Approach: Building a Full Digital Growth System

BSPKN’s engagement with TCOS was not a single project. It was a phased buildout of an integrated digital marketing and sales infrastructure, designed to grow with the business.

Phase 1: CRM Foundation (HubSpot Implementation)

BSPKN implemented HubSpot Marketing Hub Pro and Sales Hub Pro as TCOS’s central operating platform. This included:

  • Full CRM setup with contact segmentation by service type, property type, and buyer role
  • Sales pipeline configuration for tracking commercial contracts from inquiry to close
  • Automated workflows for lead assignment, follow-up sequences, and task management
  • Email campaign templates built and tested for each service vertical
  • Integration with existing communication tools to unify the sales team’s activity in one system

The goal was simple: no lead falls through the cracks, and every touchpoint is tracked.

Phase 2: SEO, GEO, and Content Strategy

BSPKN built a keyword-driven content strategy targeting the searches TCOS’s ideal buyers actually make. This covered both traditional SEO and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), which ensures TCOS surfaces in AI-powered search tools like ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, and Perplexity.

The content program includes:

  • Ongoing blog production (2+ posts per month) targeting commercial snow removal, asphalt repair, landscaping, and concrete services in the Twin Cities market
  • Service page optimization with structured data, FAQ schemas, and location-specific content
  • Google Business Profile management with regular posting and review monitoring
  • Content calendar aligned to seasonal demand cycles so TCOS is visible when buyers are actively searching

Phase 3: Email Marketing and Drip Campaigns

BSPKN developed targeted email sequences for each of TCOS’s core services, timed to seasonal buying windows:

  • Spring asphalt repair drip sequence targeting property managers after winter damage
  • Pre-season snow removal contract campaigns launching in late summer
  • De-icing and ice management awareness campaigns ahead of Minnesota’s first freeze
  • Re-engagement campaigns for past customers with new service offerings

Each campaign follows a multi-touch sequence with A/B tested subject lines, personalized sender profiles (sent from the TCOS sales team, not a generic address), and automated resends to unopened recipients.

Phase 4: Social Media and Brand Visibility

BSPKN manages TCOS’s social media presence through HubSpot, maintaining a consistent posting cadence across Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn. Content is built around real project photos, seasonal tips, and service spotlights, with all posts reviewed and approved by the TCOS team before publishing.

Phase 5: Call Tracking and Attribution

To close the loop on lead attribution, BSPKN implemented AirCall call tracking with a dedicated GMB tracking number. Every inbound call from Google Business Profile is logged in HubSpot with source attribution, call duration, and outcome. This gives TCOS leadership a clear picture of which digital channels are driving real commercial inquiries, not just website traffic.

Phase 6: AI-Powered Operations (In Progress)

BSPKN is currently expanding TCOS’s digital foundation with AI-driven tools, including automated review response drafting, sales rep activity monitoring, competitive intelligence reporting, and an operational dashboard that gives ownership a daily snapshot of pipeline health, marketing performance, and team activity.

The Results

BSPKN’s work with TCOS is an ongoing engagement that continues to expand in scope. Here is what the partnership has delivered:

  • Unified sales and marketing platform: TCOS now operates on a single CRM with full pipeline visibility, automated follow-ups, and clean data across every buyer interaction.
  • Consistent content engine: From zero digital content output to a structured program producing blog posts, email campaigns, social content, and GBP posts on a rolling calendar.
  • Seasonal campaign execution: Targeted campaigns now launch ahead of each buying window, reaching property managers and facility directors when they are actively making purchasing decisions.
  • Clear lead attribution: TCOS can now trace inbound leads back to their digital source (organic search, email, GMB, social) and measure which channels drive qualified commercial inquiries.
  • Scalable foundation: The infrastructure BSPKN built is designed to absorb new service lines (TCOS recently added trucking) and new markets without rebuilding from scratch.

Why This Matters for B2B Service Companies

TCOS is a textbook example of a company that had the reputation and the operational capacity to grow but lacked the digital infrastructure to capture demand at scale. The buyers they serve (property managers, facility directors, commercial real estate operators) research and evaluate vendors online before picking up the phone. If you are not visible, optimized, and responsive across digital channels, you are handing those contracts to competitors who are.

BSPKN’s approach with TCOS was not to run a single campaign and hope for results. It was to build a system: CRM, content, email, social, call tracking, and AI, all connected and all measurable. That system now operates year-round, adapting to TCOS’s seasonal cycles and expanding as the business adds new services.

Running a B2B Service Company? Let’s Talk.

BSPKN builds digital marketing and sales systems for commercial service companies, from PPC and SEO to CRM automation and AI-powered reporting. If your business depends on reaching the right buyer at the right time, we should talk.

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