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Most service businesses waste 20 to 40 percent of their Google ad spend on five fixable leaks: searches that can never become jobs, clicks sent to a homepage that books nothing, missed calls, a service area wider than the business actually serves, and campaigns judged on clicks instead of booked jobs. For home services, the typical click costs around $8.33 and the typical enquiry costs around $90.92, so every wasted click is real money, and every missed call is a booked job handed to a competitor. This audit walks through all five leaks in order, with the fix for each, and most businesses recover the wasted spend within one month of fixing them. 7Coxmos runs this audit as the first step of every Google ads engagement for service businesses. Book a free discovery call: https://7coxmos.com
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