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00Division home 01How it works 02Results 03Industries 04Verification 05Pricing 06The Audit 07Franchise marketing 08PE platforms (904) 341-5986

Industries chosen on the math.

We lead where the unit economics, the buyer landscape and our own track record line up, and we publish the reasoning. Three lead verticals, three secondary, and an honest note on the trades we take only by referral.

Benchmark cost per lead · competitive US markets
Waste services · junk removal$35–$65
Garage doors · repair$40–$80
Garage doors · install$110–$220
Restoration · water damage$100–$300
Published industry ranges, not promises · a lead always costs more than a click
Lead verticals

Three trades where we win the auction and the buyer.

Each one has a reason to be here that we can defend with numbers: an operational moat, a verification moat, or an auction expensive enough to reward discipline.

Lead vertical 1Our deepest vertical

Waste services

Dumpster rental, porta potty rental, junk removal, roll-off. This is where we run our largest campaign portfolios and where the market is most under-served: no large specialist agency farms the vertical, and the buyers are real, from franchise systems and roll-off platforms to junk-removal brands and multi-market independents.

The structural edge: Google offers no Local Services Ads category for dumpster or porta potty rental, so paid search is the whole auction. Nothing cannibalizes it, and a brand that runs it well owns the market's demand.

  • Seasonality pacing: spring and summer peaks, construction cycles, event calendars
  • Size-and-price landing pages that convert (10-, 20-, 30-yard, unit counts, delivery windows)
  • Multi-brand portfolios on one board: sister brands, shared dispatch, separate P&Ls
Benchmark cost per leadjunk removal, competitive markets$35–$65
Local Services Ads categorydumpster · porta pottyNone · no cannibalization
Peak seasonSpring – summer
Case studieswaste-services portfolioIn production · permission pending
Typical buyer3–50 locationsFranchise · platform · independent
Lead vertical 2The verified lane

Garage doors

Repair and installation, residential and commercial. One of the most actively acquired trades in home services, with the cheapest click costs of any urgent trade, and a moat most agencies never get through: Google's Advanced Verification, required before any garage door ad can run in the United States, typically 6 to 8 weeks, re-triggered by every rebrand.

For a platform buying and renaming garage door companies, that moat matters more than any bidding trick. We have taken operators through it, we build the sites that pass the review, and we schedule the filing into the integration plan so acquisitions never go dark. Florida operators also carry the new state garage-door specialty license; we know it.

  • Repair vs. install campaign split, each with its own cost-per-lead target
  • Compliant landing pages: real hours, all-in ranges, verifiable licenses, guarantees with terms
  • Verification status for every entity in the monthly board pack
Benchmark cost per leadrepair$40–$80
Benchmark cost per leadinstallation$110–$220
Advanced Verificationrequired before ads serve6–8 weeks
Re-verificationon name, address or license changeYes
Local Services AdsCategory exists · per location
Lead vertical 3The elite auction

Restoration

Water damage, fire, mold, storm. The highest tickets and the truest urgency in local services: $10,000-plus jobs, demand that arrives at 3 a.m., and insurance-funded work. Leads cost $100 to $300 in competitive markets, an auction expensive enough to price out mediocre agencies and mediocre operators alike.

Because the leak is rarely the ad, we check answer rate and intake before we take a restoration account. An operator that misses 30% of after-hours calls does not need more clicks; it needs a dispatcher. We say so, and we build dayparting and call handling into the program.

  • 24/7 intake audit before launch; dayparting matched to real dispatch coverage
  • Insurance-work funnel: adjuster and property-manager landing pages alongside homeowner demand
  • Storm-surge pacing: budgets that move within hours when weather moves
Benchmark cost per leadwater damage$100–$300
Average job value$10,000+
Demand pattern24/7 · storm-driven
Qualification gatebefore we take the accountAnswer rate · intake
Local Services AdsCategory exists · per location
Secondary verticals

Three more trades we know cold.

Served on the same system and the same published pricing. Each is a natural neighbor of a lead vertical.

Secondary · recurring revenue

Septic services

Near-zero specialist competition, a natural cross-sell from porta potty operators, and recurring pumping revenue that rewards a retention program as much as an acquisition one.

Local Services category exists · per-location verification
Secondary · densest buyer pool

Pest control

Heavily served by agencies at the single-location level, but the densest private-equity buyer pool in home services and recurring contract value that makes cost per lead only half the story.

Best entered through platforms, not single branches
Secondary · storm urgency

Tree service

High tickets, storm-driven urgency, and only micro-specialists competing for the agency work. Pairs with restoration on the same storm-surge pacing model.

Local Services category exists · per-location verification
An honest note

Trades we take by referral, not by lead.

We are good at these. We do not lead with them, and here is why.

HVAC, plumbing, electrical

Winnable auctions, crowded agency market: large specialists have farmed these trades for a decade and most platforms arrive with vendors attached. We take them when a client's sponsor or franchisor brings us into a sister brand, on the same published pricing, and we do the work well. We just do not spend our marketing budget competing for them.

Roofing, locksmith, towing, moving, solar

Roofing pairs expensive leads with heavy agency competition. Locksmith has strong conversion and the same Advanced Verification moat as garage doors, but few multi-location buyers; we serve locksmiths through our core team and the Verification Desk. Towing, moving and solar do not fit the per-location model well. Any of them with three or more locations and the math to match is welcome to ask.

Not on this page? Any local-service brand with three or more locations gets the same answer: we run the numbers in the audit and tell you whether we are the right team. Our core team serves 69 industries; this division serves the ones where multi-location scale changes the math.
Industry questions

Why these industries, and what to expect.

Three lead verticals: waste services (dumpster rental, porta potty rental, junk removal), garage doors, and water damage restoration. Three secondary verticals: septic services, pest control and tree service. Other local-service verticals with three or more locations are welcome where the unit economics work; we publish our reasoning either way.
Because it is our deepest vertical and the market's most under-served one. We run our largest campaign portfolios in dumpster and porta potty rental, no large specialist agency farms the vertical, and Google offers no Local Services Ads category for dumpster or porta potty rental, so paid search is the whole auction and nothing cannibalizes it. Real multi-location buyers exist: franchise systems, roll-off platforms and junk-removal brands.
Garage doors are one of the most actively acquired trades in home services, with the cheapest click costs of any urgent trade, and they sit behind Google's Advanced Verification: a 6-to-8-week gate that most agencies fumble and that re-triggers on every rebrand. We have taken garage door operators through it. That moat is worth more to a platform buying and renaming companies than any bidding trick.
The highest tickets and the truest urgency in local services: $10,000-plus jobs, 24/7 demand, insurance-funded work. Leads cost $100 to $300 in competitive markets, which prices out mediocre agencies and mediocre operators. We qualify restoration clients on intake and answer rate before taking the account, because the leak is rarely the ad.
Yes, when a client's sponsor or franchisor brings us in, and we are good at them. We do not lead with them because those verticals are heavily served by large specialist agencies and often arrive with vendors attached. When the math and the fit are right, we take them on exactly the same published pricing.
They are published industry ranges for competitive US markets, useful for knowing whether your locations are in range, not promises about your account. Cost per lead is always higher than cost per click, because a click is not a lead. The audit places every one of your locations against the benchmark for its vertical and market.
Where Google offers a category, yes: garage door, restoration, pest control, tree service and septic all have Local Services categories, verified location by location. Dumpster rental and porta potty rental have no category, so those programs are built entirely on Google Ads and local presence, and we say so upfront so budget goes where it can work.

Your vertical, your markets, your numbers.

The Multi-Location Revenue Audit benchmarks every location against its vertical and its market, and tells you where the money is going. Two weeks. Credited in full when we go to work.

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