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The Ad-Ready Check

Before you spend another dollar on ads, run this 9-point check.

Most ad money for home-service businesses is wasted before a single ad runs — not because ads don't work, but because the business wasn't ready to catch what they bring in. Tick the boxes you can honestly say yes to. The blanks are where your money leaks.

How to score it: give yourself 1 point per box you can truthfully check. 7–9: you're ready — ads will compound. 4–6: close; fix the blanks first. 0–3: ads would burn money today — fix these and you'll print money later.

1. A human answers — fast.

78% of customers hire whoever responds first. A lead called back in 5 minutes is ~21× more likely to book than one called back in 30.

Good = live answer or callback within minutes, every time.

2. 25+ Google reviews, and they're recent.

Ads make people look you up. Your Google profile is what they find. Thin or stale reviews kill the click you paid for.

Good = 25+ reviews, 4.5★+, a few in the last 90 days.

3. Somewhere to land that loads fast.

A new visitor decides in ~50 milliseconds whether you look trustworthy. A slow or clunky site loses them before they read a word.

Good = mobile-first, loads under ~2.5s, one obvious next step.

4. They can book or request in under a minute.

Half your clicks happen after hours. A phone number alone isn't enough — give them a way to act at 9pm.

Good = online booking or a 60-second request form.

5. Tap-to-call works on mobile.

Most local searches are on a phone. If your number isn't tappable, you've added friction at the exact moment they're ready.

Good = number is a tap-to-call link everywhere it appears.

6. You know what a customer costs you today.

If you don't know your current cost per job, you can't tell whether ads beat it. You're flying blind.

Good = you can name your rough cost per new customer.

7. You can trace a job back to a dollar.

Pixel + call tracking tell the platforms which clicks become jobs — so they stop wasting spend on the ones that never will.

Good = pixel/tag installed and calls + forms are tracked.

8. You have room to take the work.

Ads multiply demand; they can't multiply trucks or seats. Solve capacity first or you'll pay to disappoint people.

Good = real room on the schedule next month.

9. A real budget for 90 days.

Too little spend can't gather enough data to optimize. Give the machine enough fuel to actually learn.

Good = a media budget you can sustain for a full quarter.

Want the blanks turned into a plan?

Book a free 5-minute call. We'll put your gaps in order for your trade and your town — no pitch, just where the booked jobs are hiding.

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jtfallongrowth.com · Hudson, MA · hello@jtfallongrowth.com Benchmarks reflect conservative industry figures — patterns, not a promise.