You're spread too thin
across everything.
Local businesses waste more marketing budget than anyone — not because they spend a lot, but because they spread a little across everything. 23% of SMBs say their #1 frustration is not knowing what's driving results. Six channels, no call tracking, no idea which one drives jobs. We tear open your local marketing and tell you exactly what to cut and what to double down on.
The problems we see in every local business business.
These aren't theoretical. These are the exact issues we find in audit after audit for local business businesses. If any of them sound familiar, you're bleeding money right now.
No call tracking means you can't attribute a single job
You're running Google Ads, Facebook, a website, maybe a directory — and you have no idea which one drives phone calls. Every decision is a guess. Every dollar is a hope.
Budget is spread evenly across channels that don't perform equally
Google Ads drives 80% of your jobs but gets 25% of your budget. The rest goes to channels that look active but don't ring the phone. You're starving what works to feed what doesn't.
Your Google Business Profile is underoptimized
The single most important free marketing asset for a local business — your Google Business Profile — is sitting there incomplete, unoptimized, and invisible in the map pack.
Reviews are inconsistent or nonexistent
Your reputation is your conversion engine for local search, and you're not systematically generating reviews. Every job without a review is a future customer who chooses your competitor instead.
Email list is 70% stale
You're sending to a list that hasn't been cleaned in years. Sends to dead addresses hurt your deliverability and waste your time. Your owned audience is rotting.
You're on channels your customers don't use
You're posting on Instagram because you 'should be.' Your customers are on Google searching for your service. You're spending time and money where your customers aren't.
Exactly what we look at.
Every local business audit is tailored to the channels and challenges that matter for your industry. Here's what we tear open:
- Call tracking audit — install tracking on every channel so you know exactly what drives calls
- Channel ROI analysis — find which channels drive jobs and which to cut today
- Google Business Profile optimization — get visible in the local map pack
- Review generation system — turn completed jobs into a reputation engine
- Email list cleanup — remove dead contacts and protect your deliverability
- Channel consolidation — cut the channels your customers don't use and double down on the ones they do
What local business owners get after the audit.
"The hard truth hurt. Then it saved us. We refocused on two channels, cut the rest, and finally knew what was actually driving jobs. I wish I'd done this sooner."
— Dave R., CEO, Home services
Get the truth about
your local business marketing.
Five business days from now you could know exactly what's broken, what's wasting your money, and what to fix first. Or you could keep guessing.
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