Answer Engine OptimizationNew

Get named by ChatGPT, Gemini & AI Overviews, in AI and SI

→

Google Business ProfileAdd-on

Maps, reviews & reputation. Bundles with any plan

→

Content marketing comes with every website build. Reputation management comes with Google Business Profile. No bloated bundles, just the channels that grow your business.

Google Premier Partner · Top 3% Clutch 5.0 Month-to-month · No contracts
4.9 on Google Google Premier Partner · Top 3%
00Division home 01How it works 02Results 03Industries 04Verification 05Pricing 06The Audit 07Franchise marketing 08PE platforms (904) 341-5986
Multi-Location & Franchise/Private Equity Platforms

Portfolio marketing your IC can underwrite.

For operating partners and Group VPs of Marketing running home-services platforms: per-brand execution, CAC by location, one rollup report, and booked-revenue ROAS wired through offline conversion import. Rebrands are verification-managed so acquisitions never go dark. Every add-on follows the same 100-day integration plan.

Portfolio engagement at a glance
Reporting unitLocation · brand · portfolio
AttributionBooked-revenue ROAS
Rebrand verificationScheduled pre-close
Integration plan100 days, fixed phases
PricingPublished per brand
Month to month · platform owns every account
The problem

Rollups break marketing in predictable places.

Four failures show up in nearly every platform we audit. Each one is an operating problem before it is a marketing problem, and each has a fix that belongs in the integration plan.

Failure 1Reporting

Five brands, five versions of the truth

Each brand arrives with its own agency, its own dashboard and its own definition of a lead. The platform marketing review becomes an argument about whose numbers are real. The fix: one measurement system, every location on the same metrics, one rollup.

Failure 2Attribution

Spend is visible; revenue is not

Agencies report clicks and calls. The P&L reports booked jobs. Nothing connects them, so marketing spend is defended with anecdotes in front of an IC that underwrites everything else. The fix: offline conversion import, booked revenue back into the ad platforms and the report.

Failure 3Acquisitions

The acquired brand goes dark

Rebrand a garage-door or locksmith acquisition and Google re-verification can keep it off ads for 6 to 8 weeks, longer on a rejected first pass, in the exact quarter the deal model assumes growth. The fix: verification filed before close, scheduled like any other integration workstream.

Failure 4Vendor sprawl

Agency per brand, accountability nowhere

Legacy vendors hold the accounts, the data and sometimes the websites of the brands you just bought. The fix: platform-owned accounts from day one, vendors consolidated as contracts allow, everything in writing.

Integration

The 100-day integration marketing plan.

Every add-on follows the same plan, so the fifth acquisition looks like the first: no improvisation, no dark weeks, a baseline in the board pack from month one. Timelines below are the standard plan; verified trades start their filings before day 0.

Workstream
Day 0–30 · Stabilize
Day 31–60 · Standardize
Day 61–100 · Integrate
Access & ownership
  • Ad accounts, site, data transferred to platform ownership
  • Legacy vendor access audited
  • Account structure rebuilt to platform standard
  • Legacy vendors wound down as contracts allow
Local presence
  • Business Profiles, listings, call tracking moved to platform standard
  • Baseline scorecard for every acquired location
  • Location pages rebuilt on the platform template
  • Review program started per location
  • Acquired locations live on the per-location schedule
Verification
  • Filed before close in verified trades (6–8 week clock)
  • Site prepared to pass Google’s content review
  • Video call completed, documents matched to entity
  • Approval lands; ads serve under the new brand
  • Zero-to-one-week residual gap is the target
Paid media
  • Existing campaigns kept live; waste flagged
  • Campaigns rebuilt on the platform playbook
  • Dayparting matched to real dispatch coverage
  • Budgets reallocated on per-location unit economics
Attribution
  • Call outcomes tagged; CRM or FSM export mapped
  • Offline conversion import wired
  • Booked-revenue ROAS by location in the board pack
Standard plan · sequenced by the integration team’s calendarBrand stays visible in the rollup from month one

Verification timelines follow Google’s published typical ranges and our case history; Google sets the actual clock. The rest of the plan is ours to schedule, and we do.

The rollup

One report. Portfolio, brand, location. Same numbers.

The operating partner opens the portfolio view; the brand president opens the brand view; the GM opens their own row. All three come from the same measurement system, so nobody argues about whose numbers are real. This is the actual reporting format, rendered with illustrative figures.

reports.mediaspearhead.com/network/northline-sample/augustSample · illustrative

The board above is a rendering of our reporting format with illustrative figures, not client data. The portfolio tab shows three brands the way a platform sees them: spend, CAC, booked revenue and ROAS per brand, with verification state on the row. Full walkthrough on the how-it-works page.

Attribution

Booked-revenue ROAS, not lead-count optimism.

The single highest-leverage change in a platform’s marketing is wiring booked outcomes back to the ad platforms. Bidding sharpens, and the board pack starts reporting the number the IC actually underwrites.

How it is wired

Call tracking sits on every location number. Form fills are tagged. The field-service software holds the job, the ticket and the outcome. Offline conversion import sends booked jobs and revenue back to Google Ads, so Smart Bidding optimizes to the outcome that pays, and the rollup reports CAC and ROAS per location in dollars.

Where a brand runs on ServiceTitan, Jobber, Housecall Pro or another system, the wiring differs but the destination is the same: marketing numbers that reconcile to the P&L closely enough to survive diligence.

LayerStatusWhat it carries
Google Ads & LSAPer locationSpend, clicks, calls, forms, impression share
Call trackingPer numberAnswer rate, outcomes, recordings (yours)
CRM / field-servicePer jobBooked jobs, ticket size, revenue by source
Offline conversion importNightlyBooked outcomes back to Google for bidding
Board packMonthlyCAC and booked-revenue ROAS, per location, per brand

Attribution engineering is a one-time setup scoped per platform, from $2,500 per brand on the published add-on table.

The M&A trap

Rebrand an acquisition and Google restarts the clock.

In verified trades, a change to business name, address or license can re-trigger verification, and ads stop serving until it clears. Advanced Verification for garage door and locksmith brands typically runs 6 to 8 weeks; a rejected first pass adds 6 to 8 more. That is a full quarter of lost demand in the exact period the deal model underwrites growth.

The fix is scheduling, not luck: entities, licenses and DBAs prepared before close; the acquired site rebuilt to pass Google’s content review before the rename goes live; the application filed the day the rebrand is legal; the video call booked with a briefed owner. Approval lands around the rebrand date, and the brand never leaves the board pack.

The full playbook, including the dark-window calculator and the 15-point site compliance sweep, lives on the Verification Desk.

If unplanned

6–8 weeks dark

Filed after the rebrand goes live: the acquired brand sits off Google Ads for the full review. A rejected first pass doubles it.

If managed

0–1 week gap

Filed before close with a site prepared to pass: approval lands around the rebrand date. The gap becomes a scheduling detail.

At stake

12–17% of a year

Six to nine dark weeks is 12 to 17% of a year’s Google-sourced demand for that brand, lost in the integration quarter.

In the board pack

Never invisible

Acquired brands show their verification state on their row from month one, so the status is a line item, not a surprise.

Exit readiness runs the same math in reverse. A platform with platform-owned accounts, clean attribution and current verification is a measurably better asset at exit. We build for that from day one.
Engagement model

Priced per brand. Published, like everything else here.

Platform pricing is the same published schedule the whole division runs on: brand leadership per brand, presence per location, media management on spend, with the rate falling as you scale. Additional brands add $1,500 a month of brand leadership each.

Scope

Per-brand execution

Each brand keeps its identity, its offers and its campaigns, run on the platform playbook by a senior team that knows the trades.

  • Campaigns and landing pages per brand, not blended
  • Brand-level marketers keep their seat; we run the system
Measure

CAC by location

Every location on the same metrics, so capital allocation debates happen on one table, not five dashboards.

  • Spend, leads, CAC, booked revenue per location
  • Best-to-worst spread visible in one column
Report

Rollup your IC can read

A monthly pack that starts at the portfolio line and drills to the location row, built to be forwarded upstairs without edits.

  • Booked-revenue ROAS via offline conversion import
  • Ships on the 3rd business day, every month
Start with the portfolio audit. The Multi-Location Revenue Audit scores every location in every brand on one set of metrics, quantifies wasted spend in dollars, and hands you a 12-month roadmap. From $4,500, credited in full when we go to work. Schedules and the calculator are on the pricing page.
Platform questions

What operating partners ask, answered in writing.

Every location in every brand is measured on the same metrics: spend, leads, cost per lead, and where the CRM or field-service software allows it, booked jobs and revenue. The rollup aggregates brands without flattening them: you see the portfolio line, each brand's line, and each location's row. CAC by location is a sortable column, so the spread between the best and worst market in the portfolio is one view, not a project.
Ads platforms see clicks and calls; your field-service software sees booked jobs and revenue. Offline conversion import sends the booked outcomes back to Google Ads, so bidding optimizes to revenue instead of phone calls, and the board pack can report booked-revenue ROAS by location. For an investment committee it replaces marketing is working anecdotes with a number that reconciles to the P&L.
It follows the 100-day integration marketing plan. Days 0 to 30: access, tracking, Business Profiles and listings moved to the platform standard, baseline scorecard. Days 31 to 60: campaigns rebuilt on the platform playbook, call routing fixed, review program started. Days 61 to 100: revenue attribution wired, the acquired brand on the rollup, verification cleared where the trade requires it. The acquired location never goes dark in the report, even mid-integration.
In verified trades like garage doors and locksmiths, any change to business name, address or license can re-trigger Google's verification, and ads stop serving until it clears, typically 6 to 8 weeks, plus another 6 to 8 if the first pass is rejected. Rebrand an acquired garage-door brand without planning this and it goes revenue-dark in the same quarter you underwrote its growth. We file verification into the integration plan so approval lands around the rebrand date, not months after it.
Yes. Platforms commonly arrive with a marketing manager per brand and a mix of legacy vendors. We typically take paid media, local presence and reporting platform-wide, coordinate with the brand-level marketers, and wind down legacy vendors as their contracts allow. The rollup becomes the single set of numbers everyone argues from.
Per brand, on the published schedules: Brand Leadership from $2,000 a month per brand, Location Presence from $125 to $200 per location per month by volume, Media Management at 8 to 15% of ad spend depending on scale. Additional brands add $1,500 a month of brand leadership each. A 3-brand, 25-location platform spending $80,000 a month prices itself on the pricing page calculator; the schedules are the same ones we publish.
Waste services, garage doors and restoration are our lead verticals, but the system is trade-agnostic: per-location presence, paid media, verification management and rollup reporting work in any local-service trade. Sponsors regularly bring us from a portfolio brand into a sister platform; that referral path is how most of our multi-trade work starts.

Bring the portfolio. We bring the rollup.

The Multi-Location Revenue Audit: every brand, every location, one set of numbers, a 12-month roadmap your investment committee can underwrite. Two weeks. Credited in full when we go to work.

(904) 341-5986