FY26 · Prepared by LOVR
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You came to us with the brand already working. The content was landing. What sat underneath it was an old posting tool, and behind that the lag, the slipped posts and the backlog. You wanted one system that fixes the timing, runs the advertising, and shows you the whole picture in one place.
Today your engagement with us is a content retainer: monthly creative direction, shoot days, your videos, clips and stills, and the social strategy and posting for BARLOW and By BARLOW. It is a strong base. Everything in this document is built on top of it.
The gap is not attention. You get attention. The gap is what happens to a person between the moment they notice you and the moment they sign.
The whole Gold Coast market, from the largest developer down to the boutique builder next door, has left the same lane empty. Nobody runs founder-led, human, engaged content. Nobody puts the people behind the brand in front of the camera.
You are the only builder on the Coast positioned to own that lane, because the one thing no competitor can copy is Sam and Chelsea themselves.
So the year runs on a simple shape. We run a proper marketing engine. We put through it the content the field cannot replicate. And we measure the commercial return at every step, so the spend stops being the question and the result becomes the point.
This is the half of the year you can already see. The rest of this document is the half you cannot.
LOVR-Sphere™ is the single connected system that captures the people your content attracts, looks after them, and turns attention into clients. Run quietly in the background while you stay on the work you do best. You never log into a platform, learn a tool or chase a vendor. It runs under your name, managed by us, and reported back to you in one read.
You run four service lines, not one: New Builds, Alterations and Additions, Continued Care, and Development. Each attracts a different person on a different timeline, and today all four arrive through a single contact form. So the system splits them into your real lanes.
A custom home at your price band is commonly twelve to twenty four months from first enquiry to signed contract, then another twelve to eighteen months in build. Almost nothing in standard marketing infrastructure is designed for that. A follow-up sequence that gives up after three weeks is not a follow-up sequence for your business.
The single most valuable thing this system does is keep a serious buyer warm for two years without anyone at BARLOW having to remember them.
Continued Care is an asset nobody is using. Your own words: your involvement is long-term, supporting both the home and the client past completion. Right now that lives in people's heads. In the system it becomes a maintenance schedule, a referral request at the right moment, a review invitation, and a supply of real content from finished homes that still look their best.
And you run two brands. BARLOW and By BARLOW speak to different audiences, and they need to be separable in the data, so you can tell what each one actually produces.
Both are real systems. Neither is a trial. Option A stops enquiries going cold. Option B adds the part that works the two-year decision.
Option A means no enquiry is ever lost. Option B means no enquiry is ever lost and the ones who are not ready today are still there in eighteen months when they are.
1. The system cannot sort what the form does not ask. Today there is one project enquiry form. A new build, an architect sending a referral, a renovation and a potential backer for Somewhere all arrive through the same field and land the same way. Every lane depends on the form asking two or three more questions. This work is a dependency of the leads system, not an accessory to it.
2. The founder strategy needs somewhere to land. The whole year is founder-led. Every named Gold Coast builder above the $1.5M band publishes founders and team. A team page is what turns that content into credibility.
3. Your process is already written. It has just never been published. The eleven-step framework from the Cali Residence build exists in your strategy work. GRAYA, Hampton Homes and Burleigh Constructions all publish a process page. Yours is the most persuasive document you own for a client deciding between three builders, and it is currently invisible.
4. Somewhere on Jefferson has nowhere to land. It is pre-launch, it carries a teaser series, and it reaches both buyers and potential backers.
Plus the full search, answer engine and tracking foundations on the next two pages, delivered inside this same line.
BARLOW is the owner of record on every asset built. The account and the database with full export rights. The analytics properties and the tag container. The pixels and the audiences. The pipelines, the automations and the message templates. The website pages and the schema. The Google Business Profile and the Houzz profile. And the written Architecture Document.
If the relationship ever ends, you keep all of it, in full, at no cost, with the documentation to run it. LOVR's access is manager-level and revocable.
An implementation is a handover. Somebody builds a system, passes over the keys and leaves, and what you own afterwards is a well-built empty machine. A CRM is only worth what flows through it. Your decision cycle runs twelve to twenty four months before a contract and another twelve to eighteen through the build, so almost nothing that matters in your business happens inside a quarter.
What decides whether this database is worth nothing or worth a year of work is not the build. It is everything that runs through it afterwards: the campaigns, the creative, the nurture that holds someone for two years, the search visibility that compounds, and the new automations each project needs.
The commercial test. One additional new build at your price band is worth several years of this entire engagement, monthly included. The system does not have to transform the business to justify itself. It has to stop one serious enquiry going cold.
The result is not a longer list of leads. It is a database that gets more valuable every month: every architect who has ever referred you, every client you have handed over to, every serious buyer who was eighteen months early, and every enquiry traced back to the thing that produced it.
Built once, owned by you, and worth more with every project that follows.
Tell us where you want to start, and we will map the rest to you. We think the right shape is the engine first, the founders and the system running together from the top of the year, with the films, the awards and the rest layered in as the year builds. But it is your call, and we will set it to suit you.