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Home services & local lead gen

Local demand, captured before your competitors bid it up.

Pay-per-click for home services and local lead gen, run with the measurement rigor that keeps cost per lead profitable in expensive auctions.

Some of the 45+ companies we've worked with

  • Million Star
  • Inkit
  • Taggart Media Group
  • OnSched
  • GoingVC
  • Fluks
  • Martian Designers
  • Oceans Optics
  • Tillak
  • Copy That Publishing
  • Doctor Vein
  • Empower Tutoring

The challenge

Local service auctions are crowded and the clicks are expensive. Bid blindly and your cost per lead climbs until the channel stops paying. The winners are not the ones who bid the most, they are the ones who know exactly which searches turn into booked jobs.

What we optimize to

booked, profitable jobs.

Not clicks and form fills.

A click on a service ad is not a customer, and a form fill from the wrong town is worse than nothing. We push booking and job-value data back into bidding, so the account spends on the searches that turn into work you can take at a price that pays.

How we run it

What changes when the work is run like a research desk.

Proof

What that looks like in a real account.

Home services, local lead generation

#1 position, held
Situation
A local services company fighting for visibility in a competitive auction where rivals were bidding aggressively for the same high-intent searches.
What we changed
We moved the account off low-quality campaign types and onto a robust search campaign built around high-intent queries, backed by continuous auction monitoring.
Result
Established and maintained the #1 position in the auction, holding a stable cost per lead and lead volume.

Client anonymized to protect their competitive data.

Questions

What clients ask before they start.

We serve a specific area, not a whole metro. Can you keep spend inside it?

Yes. Campaigns are drawn around your real service area, not a radius the platform picks. Out-of-area clicks get cut as the data comes in, so budget stays on the towns you can actually drive to.

Most of our leads come in as phone calls. Do those get tracked?

They do. We set up call tracking and feed booked, qualified calls back as conversions, so bidding optimizes to the calls that become jobs, not just the ones that ring.

Our cost per lead spikes in peak season. Can you hold it?

That is what the continuous monitoring is for. We watch cost per lead daily, not at month-end, so when an auction heats up or a competitor pushes bids, the account is adjusted while it still changes the outcome.

Who actually runs the account?

One senior operator, backed by a system that catches drift early. You are not handed to a junior, and you are not one of fifty accounts on a manager's spreadsheet.

Which platforms do you run for local lead gen?

For lead generation we run Google Search, and Performance Max with video ads where we can set up the offline conversion tracking to feed it.

How quickly will we see a difference?

In weeks, not days. We set up clean tracking first and watch the account closely so problems get caught early, but moving cost per lead to a better, stable level takes a few weeks as changes take effect and the data comes in. We would rather be straight about that than promise overnight wins.

Will you work with our existing account or build a new one?

We look at what is already running and work with what you have: we keep the campaigns that perform, cut the ones that do not, and add our own strategies on top. We avoid shocking an account unless it is not performing at all. On a fresh build we launch on carefully selected search clusters, and on an existing account we add new campaigns where coverage is missing, always benchmarking what is there against what the account could realistically do if it were managed well.

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