A maybe. Someone glanced, tapped, and may already be gone. You paid for the glance.
A person on your phone, asking about a job. You pay for the conversation, not the curiosity. A better trade, provided the profile they land on is worth landing on.
What you get, and what each part is worth.
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The campaign, built properlyCategories matched to the jobs you want. Service area set to where you’d actually drive. |
Loose setup buys calls you can’t service. |
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Google Verified, guidedBackground check, licence, insurance. It earns the badge and lets you run at all. |
It’s why they tap you and not the next name. |
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Every lead reviewed, weeklyEvery lead reviewed, tagged, and costed. Weekly, not a monthly glance. |
You catch a bad category in week one, not a quarter. |
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Budget and bid pacingSpend watched and adjusted, so you don’t burn the month in a fortnight. |
Pacing is where the waste hides. |
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Lead quality worked, monthlyGoogle’s crediting is automated now. Its feedback loop is the only lever left, and we pull it. |
The difference between eating bad leads and recovering some. |
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Your ad budget goes to GoogleYou pay Google directly, at cost. We never mark it up or take a cut. |
No blended invoice hiding a margin. |
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Folded into your reportingSpend, leads, cost per lead, in the same report as everything else. |
Split reporting hides which channel is carrying you. |
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Why it matters.
There is nothing above it
For an urgent job, the slab is moving, the pump has died, the top of the page is the whole ballgame.
You pay for contact, not curiosity
Per-lead beats per-click for a business that answers its phone.
It only works on a real profile
These ads point at your listing. Pointed at a weak one, they buy expensive proof it wasn’t ready.
The rules keep moving
Badges renamed, crediting automated, reviews moved. Most people running these are on three-year-old assumptions.
How it fits.
A profile that converts. We will not point paid traffic at a listing that isn’t ready to receive it.
It goes live as a milestone, not a launch. Your profile earned the right to have ads on top of it.
Some markets never clear the bar, and that is a fine answer. The Snapshot tells us which yours is.