Ad platforms can show clicks and form submissions, but a home-service owner needs a more practical
answer: which marketing sources create qualified leads, booked jobs, collected revenue, and enough
return to justify the spend?
The short version
Follow the money past the form submission.
- Keep campaign and UTM context on the lead.
- Measure leads, booked jobs, collected revenue, and cost together.
- Compare ROAS with close rate and job value before changing budget.
- Separate reported marketing attribution from confirmed operational data.
What ROAS tells a home-service company
Return on ad spend compares revenue attributed to advertising with the amount spent. Divide
attributed revenue by ad spend. A result of 4× means four dollars of revenue were attributed for
every advertising dollar. It does not automatically mean four dollars of profit.
Use the free marketing ROAS calculator to
compare spend, leads, booked jobs, close rate, cost per lead, cost per booked job, and collected
revenue. Those companion metrics explain why ROAS moved.
Important: ROAS measures attributed revenue. Job margin and overhead determine
whether that revenue is profitable.
Build a measurement chain from click to payment
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Capture the source. Preserve source, medium, campaign, ad, form, and
landing-page context when available. -
Create one lead. Keep marketing data with the customer request instead of a
disconnected spreadsheet. -
Record the outcome. Track contact, qualification, booking, estimate, job,
invoice, and payment. -
Use collected value. Separate quoted or invoiced value from money actually
received. -
Review by business. Keep each company or brand’s ad accounts, conversions, and
reporting separate.
Fieldiz connects lead management with
marketing reporting. The operating record supplies
the business outcome while connected platforms supply spend and campaign context.
Read the metrics together
| Metric | Question it answers | Watch for |
|---|---|---|
| Cost per lead | How much did each captured inquiry cost? | Cheap leads that do not qualify |
| Close rate | What share became booked jobs? | Slow response or poor service fit |
| Cost per booked job | What did it cost to put work on the schedule? | Sources with volume but weak booking |
| Average collected job value | How much paid revenue did booked work produce? | Large estimates that remain unpaid |
| ROAS | How much attributed revenue came back per ad dollar? | Revenue without margin context |
Choose a conversion that matches the decision
A form submission is useful when optimizing lead volume. A booked job is stronger when the goal is
schedule quality. Collected revenue is the clearest business outcome, although it arrives later.
There is no single conversion event for every question.
Keep early and late events visible, label them clearly, and avoid presenting modelled platform
attribution as accounting truth. Connected
Google Ads and Analytics data can provide spend
and selected conversions while Fieldiz provides lead, booking, invoice, and collected-value
context.
Review marketing without overreacting
Compare similar periods and allow enough time for leads to become jobs and payments. Check whether
a campaign changed service mix, geography, urgency, or average value. A campaign may have a higher
cost per lead and still produce better booked work.
Before reducing budget, inspect response time, missed calls, unassigned leads, available capacity,
and estimate follow-up. Marketing cannot compensate for an operational handoff that loses the
opportunity after it arrives.
A calm monthly ROAS review
Start with spend by source. Compare leads, qualified leads, booked jobs, collected revenue, and
job margin. Investigate large changes, document the explanation, and choose one adjustment for the
next period. Keep the original numbers so the team can learn whether the change worked.
Better reporting is not another dashboard to maintain. It is a shared view of what the company
spent, what the team converted, and what customers actually paid. That is the connection Fieldiz
is designed to make clear.
