What a booked job should cost — and how to check yours
Cost per click and cost per lead hide the real number. Here is the benchmark by industry and a 10-minute way to calculate your own.
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Google Ads, Local Services Ads and retargeting for local businesses: what a booked job should cost and how to get more of them from the same budget.
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Local Services Ads vs Search Ads: where the calls really are
We ran both for 40 home-service companies for a year. LSA wins on cost per call, Search wins on job size — and the split that works is not 50/50.
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The 97% who left your site — and the ads that bring them back
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Cost per lead is a vanity metric. Track cost per booked job
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Caps and windows that keep the brand visible without following people for a month — and the ads that work in that window.
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