For consulting foresters, timber buyers, loggers and mills
How to get more qualified timber leads as a consulting forester, timber buyer or logger
Nearly 11 million American families own a piece of woods. Most tracts are small. Fewer than one in five of those owners has ever had professional forestry advice, and most have never sold a stick of timber.
When one of them decides to sell, they don't know your name. They pick up a phone and search. TimberClear is where a growing share of those searches land, and every landowner who reads a county page here is shown the foresters and buyers who cover that county. This page is about being the one they call: what they're asking before they dial, what you can do this week to get more of those calls, and how to make sure the listing they see for you is the one you'd want them to see.
Three things worth twenty minutes
Read in order. The first tells you who's calling and why. The second is a checklist you can finish in an afternoon. The third explains the one thing a solo business can't do alone, and what to do instead.
How Landowners Find a Forester or Timber Buyer Now
Where the call actually starts: a family with 20 acres, a phone, and a question they've never asked before. What the surveys say, and what this site sees.
8 min read 2. Your Own SiteWhat to Fix on Your Own Website and Google Profile
Nine things a one-truck forestry business can do in an afternoon that change whether a landowner finds you. Written from Google's own rules, not a marketing agency's.
9 min read 3. Your Listing HereWhy a Directory Shows Up Above Your Website, and What to Do About It
You searched your own trade and county, and a list of your competitors outranked you. That isn't a mistake in the algorithm. Here's why it happens, and the two-track fix.
8 min readSee what a landowner sees when they find you
Your listing was built from what you already publish. It may be missing a county you've worked for twenty years, or the one phone number that actually gets answered. Type your business name, look at your page the way a landowner does, and send us anything to change. It's live within the week.
A first-time seller is choosing on five things. Check each one:
- 1.The counties you'll actually drive to. You appear on every county page you list. A missing county is a page you're not on.
- 2.What you buy, or what you do. Species, products, services, in words. Pine sawtimber. Hardwood pulpwood. Cruises. Sale administration. Land clearing.
- 3.How you're paid. Commission, per acre, per day, lump sum. The shape, not the number. It's the first question they're afraid to ask.
- 4.Your license or registration. If your state registers or licenses foresters, the number belongs on the listing. It's the one credential a landowner can check.
- 5.One phone number that gets answered, and a website that says the same things the listing does.
Not listed yet? Add your business and it goes on every county page you cover.
Know where your calls come from
Each month you'll get a short report: how many landowners found your listing on TimberClear, how many clicked through to your website or tapped your number, and which counties they were looking at when they did.
The counts come from our own click tracking and are checked against Google Analytics, so the number you see is the number that happened.
With it: what landowners in your counties were searching for, the acreages and species they're reporting, and what changed since last month. Most foresters can't say which county their last five calls came from. You'll be able to.
Do you clear sites for builders? Developers and site superintendents search for that too. There's a guide written for them, Your North Carolina building site has timber on it, and the loggers whose listings say they do development clearing are the ones it points to.