What you are actually paying for

The work, in the order
it actually happens

Most agency process pages describe meetings. This one describes what changes in your account, on which day, and why it makes the next month cheaper than the last.

The rhythm

Somebody looks at your account every weekday morning

Not a rules engine, not a monthly check-in. A person who knows your trade opens the account, reads yesterday’s search terms, and cuts the ones that wasted your money.

The reason this is worth paying for is compounding. A negative keyword list built over a year is worth more than any single clever decision, and it is exactly the work that disappears the moment nobody is doing it daily.

Every weekday

Search terms reviewed

  • Yesterday's actual search queries read line by line
  • Waste negated, at the campaign or account level as appropriate
  • Bids and budgets adjusted where the data moved
  • Ad and account policy status checked before it becomes a suspension

Every week

Copy and structure

  • Negative keyword lists consolidated and applied across campaigns
  • New ad copy written and put into rotation against the current winner
  • Yelp and Meta placements reviewed alongside search, not separately
  • Call recordings sampled for lead quality, not just lead count

Every month

Testing and reporting

  • One landing page variant tested against the control, one change at a time
  • A walkthrough of what changed, what it did, and what it did not
  • Budget moved between channels based on what the accounts show
  • Reporting separates branded searches from new demand

Every quarter

Strategy reset

  • Results measured against jobs closed, not clicks delivered
  • Campaign structure revisited as the business changes shape
  • Seasonal ramps planned before the season rather than during it
  • Scope and plan reviewed honestly, including downward
Onboarding

The first ninety days

The order matters more than the speed. Restructuring before the tracking is right means measuring the new account with the old instruments, and testing landing pages before the search terms are clean means testing against traffic that was never going to convert.

What happens when, and what you should be able to see at each point.
Window What we do What you can see
Week 1 Access, audit, and a written list of what is wrong with what you are running now. Accounts opened in your name where they do not exist. The audit itself, whether or not you continue.
Weeks 1–2 Campaign structure built around your service clusters. Landing pages written and built. Call tracking and conversion tracking installed and verified. The pages before they go live. Nothing launches that you have not read.
Weeks 2–4 Launch, then daily search term review from day one. Early spend is deliberately used to find out what your market actually searches. Live spend, leads and recordings in the portal, updated daily.
Days 30–60 The negative list starts to bite. First landing page test. Budget begins moving between channels on evidence rather than assumption. Cost per lead by channel, and the first month-over-month comparison.
Days 60–90 Enough of your own history to make decisions from your data instead of the trade in general. Structure revisited where the first version was wrong. A quarterly review against jobs closed, not clicks bought.

Cost per lead typically improves within 60 to 90 days, measured across our own accounts.

Who does the work

A named person, not a pool

You get one person who knows your trade and who you can reach. They open your account in the morning, they make the cuts, and they are the one on the monthly walkthrough. When something breaks you are not explaining your business to somebody new.

This is the part of the fee that scales with nothing except attention, and it is the reason a $400 a month provider cannot offer it. At that price nobody can afford to look at your account for twenty minutes a day.

What that price actually buys instead

Process questions

How long until my ads are live?

14 days from signature in most cases. The gate is usually access: getting into existing accounts, Google Business Profile and Yelp takes longer than building anything.

What do you need from me to start?

Access to your existing ad accounts, your Google Business Profile and your Yelp listing, a list of the services you want the phone to ring for, your service area, and photographs of real jobs. The photographs are the one thing we cannot produce ourselves and the one that moves Meta most.

How often will I hear from you?

The account is worked on every weekday and the portal updates daily, so you never have to ask what happened. On top of that there is a monthly walkthrough of what changed and what it did, and a quarterly reset against what actually closed rather than what generated a click.

What happens in the first ninety days?

Restructure, then negatives, then landing pages, then tracking, in that order. The first month is mostly subtraction and measurement. The second is testing. By the third there is enough of your own account history to make decisions from your data rather than from the trade in general.

Who actually works on my account?

A named person who knows your trade, not a rotating pool and not a rules engine. You will know who they are and you can reach them. That is most of what the fee pays for, and it is the part a $400 a month provider structurally cannot offer.

Platform credentials

Fifteen minutes, and you will know whether this is worth doing.

Bring your numbers if you have them: what you spend, what a lead costs you, what a closed job is worth. We will tell you what we would change, whether or not you hire us.