The cause
Ads go on in a panic and off when things pick up, so campaigns never run long enough to settle.
The fix
Campaigns that run every month at a budget matched to your capacity, turned down when you’re full instead of shut off.
Meta AdsPROBLEM · INCONSISTENT LEAD FLOW
Inconsistent lead flow: slammed one month, scrambling the next.
When work is busy, marketing stops. When it slows, you scramble, and the leads you start then take weeks to turn into jobs.
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At a glance
- Who it’s for
- Contractor owners seeing these signs in their pipeline
- Where it comes from
- Attention: Ads go on in a panic and off when things pick up, so campaigns never run long enough to settle.
- Offer: There’s one offer for one service, so when demand for that job dips, everything dips.
- Sales: Old estimates and unbooked inquiries get written off, even though they’re the quickest work to bring back in a slow month.
- System: Nobody watches booked estimates week to week, so a slowdown only shows up when the crew’s schedule is empty.
- Fix first
- Keep one source running at a level you can handle
SOUND FAMILIAR?
The signs you’re losing jobs here.
- We shut the ads off when we got busy and paid for it two months later.
- One slow month and we’re discounting to fill the schedule.
- Seasons swing hard, and we don’t plan for them.
- I find out we’re slow when the crew has nothing scheduled.
THE DIAGNOSIS
Four places it breaks. Four fixes.
Attention × Offer × Sales × System. The problem usually lives in one part and shows up in another.
The cause
There’s one offer for one service, so when demand for that job dips, everything dips.
The fix
A second project offer with its own page and ads, so one slow service doesn’t empty the calendar.
Project PagesThe cause
Old estimates and unbooked inquiries get written off, even though they’re the quickest work to bring back in a slow month.
The fix
Past-estimate follow-up on a schedule, so there’s always a list of warm homeowners to work.
Lead ReactivationThe cause
Nobody watches booked estimates week to week, so a slowdown only shows up when the crew’s schedule is empty.
The fix
A pipeline view of booked estimates and signed jobs by week, so you see the dip early enough to act.
CRM and AutomationWHAT WE’D FIX FIRST
Keep one source running at a level you can handle
We don’t chase a spike. We set up one source that runs every month, sized to the work your crew can take, and a follow-up program for past estimates you can lean on in a slow stretch. Then we watch booked estimates weekly, so the next dip shows up while there’s still time to act.
PUT A NUMBER ON IT
Lead value calculator: what’s one lead worth to you?
Before you judge what a lead costs, know what it’s worth. Enter your numbers and see the revenue and gross profit behind every lead that comes in.
Each lead is worth (revenue): $2,625
Each lead is worth (revenue)$2,625
- Gross profit per lead
- $919
- Leads per signed job
- 9.5
$25,000 project, 35% margin, 35% of leads booked, 30% of estimates closed.
See what we’d build for these numbersStarts with example numbers. Change them to yours. Arithmetic only, not a promise of results.
STRAIGHT ANSWERS
Questions we hear.
Should we keep ads running when we’re booked out?
Usually at a lower level, not off. Restarting from zero means weeks before new estimates turn into jobs. Turning down keeps the campaign and the follow-up warm.
How do we plan around a slow season?
Start the push before the slow season, not during it. There’s a lag between the first click and a signed job, so the work you want in a slow month starts the month before.
Is a second service worth adding?
If one service carries the whole business and its demand swings, often yes. We’d only build it once the first offer is working and your crew can deliver the second.
How do we know a slowdown is coming?
Watch booked estimates by week, not revenue by month. Revenue lags. A drop in booked visits shows up weeks earlier.
Find out where yours breaks.
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