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Nobody scrolls looking for a plumber. That is the point.

Paid social does not catch demand, it builds familiarity before the demand exists, so that when the water heater goes your name is the one they already recognise. That makes it valuable and it makes it the hardest channel on this site to measure honestly.

Garage door technician replacing a torsion spring above an open door

What actually goes wrong with paid social.

Last-click reporting makes it look worthless
The homeowner sees you on Facebook in April and searches your name in July. Credit the search, and the channel that created the search looks like it produced nothing
Posting is mistaken for marketing
Organic posting to an audience of past customers and staff is not a growth channel. It is maintenance, and it should be priced accordingly
Retargeting turned on with no audience
Retargeting needs a minimum audience size to function. Run it before the site has traffic and it spends without delivering
Creative fatigue nobody watches
The same four images running for eight months, with frequency climbing and results falling, is the most common reason a working account stops working

When somebody calls and says they have seen your name around, where did they see it?

That sentence gets said on the phone constantly and it almost never gets recorded anywhere. It is also the honest evidence that this channel is doing its job, which is why we report assisted conversions separately rather than folding them into a single return figure that flatters whichever channel touched last.

If that is the picture, here is what we run.

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Monsoon season took a few shingles with it? We will send a drone up, send you the photos, and tell you honestly whether it is a repair or a replacement. No ladder on your lawn, no pressure.
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Before the quote, you see the roof
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What we run.

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Prospecting to your actual service area

Built around the homeowner profile that produces your best work rather than around a broad radius.

02

Retargeting, once there is an audience

Turned on when the traffic supports it and not before, because running it early is how the investment gets wasted.

03

Creative built for the trade

Photorealistic and human. Frequency and performance watched so fatigue gets caught before results fall rather than after.

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Assisted conversions reported separately

So the channel that started the decision is visible instead of being erased by whatever closed it.

When we would tell you this is not your gap.

If search is not yet capturing the demand that already exists, building more demand is the wrong order. Paid social is usually a second or third fix rather than a first one, and we will say which it is for you before you invest in it.

Questions owners ask about paid social

Does Facebook advertising work for home services?

For building familiarity before the emergency, yes. For catching somebody who needs a plumber right now, search is better. They do different jobs and running one instead of the other is a common and expensive mistake.

How do I know if social advertising is working?

By tracking assisted conversions rather than only last click. If you measure it the same way you measure search, it will always look worse than it is.

Should I be posting organically as well?

It helps credibility when somebody checks you out, which they will. It is not a growth channel on its own and should not be priced as one.

How long before paid social produces anything?

Weeks for direct response, longer for the familiarity effect that makes everything else cheaper. Judging it after 30 days on last-click data will produce the wrong decision.

What about TikTok?

Not for this customer. We would rather tell you that than sell you a channel your buyers are not on.

Take the guess work out of where your revenue is coming from.

Random acts of marketing don't produce revenue that is sustainable, get your report that shows:

  • What this channel is producing for you today
  • How that compares to the companies ahead of you
  • Whether this is your first fix or your third
  • What it would take, and how long before it shows
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