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Why builder marketing feels like a gamble

Three beliefs nearly every builder holds about marketing. All three feel like common sense. All three are quietly expensive.

Emily Williams and Helena Tivey delivering the keynote at the APB Summit 2026 in Sydney
Run time
35 to 40 minutes, or extended to 60
Built for
Rooms full of residential builders, and the suppliers, associations and advisers who serve them.
Delivered at
APB Summit 2026, Sydney. Master Builders, February 2025

The premise

Three beliefs. All three expensive.

Every builder in the room is holding at least one of them. Most are holding all three, and none of them feel like mistakes.

Belief one, on the house

Marketing is a gamble.

Helena and Emily take this one apart on stage using real builder numbers rather than theory. It is the fastest way to show a room what structured marketing actually looks like.

Beliefs two and three

Saved for the room

The other two are where the session earns its slot. Those stay on the stage.

What they leave with

The bit that matters to your audience

Your audience leaves able to look at their own marketing and tell, honestly, whether it is a system or a gamble.

  • A straight answer on whether their marketing is a system or a punt.
  • The reason their advertising looks like it fails when it is actually working.
  • What it really costs to keep putting marketing off until things go quiet.

And on the way out: Attendees leave with the Builders Profitable Marketing Checklist.

See it delivered

The full keynote

Formats

However your programme is built

The same material works as a keynote, a panel or a virtual session.

Keynote

30 to 60 minutes on the main stage, delivered as a two hander.

Panel or fireside

A moderated conversation with room for the audience to push back.

Webinar or virtual

Delivered online for members, partners or a national audience.

Podcast guest

A recorded conversation for an industry show.

Want this in front of your builders?

Tell us the audience, the date and the slot. We will come back with how we would shape it.

Available Australia wide, plus virtual sessions.

Helena & Emily

Keynote speakers for the residential building industry.

Available Australia wide, plus virtual sessions.

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helena@thearrowagency.com.au

Co-founders of

The Arrow Agency

Digital Marketing for Builders

Helena & Emily are Helena Tivey and Emily Williams, co-founders of The Arrow Agency.