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A home services company was running ads that clicked. Good click-through rate, decent cost per lead, and the owner was like the campaign was working.
The leads though weren't closing. He was sitting at a 13% close rate and couldn't figure out why the quality felt off. He'd tried adjusting the targeting. He'd tried a different offer and nothing moved.
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ON THE PATH
The Ad Made a Promise. Everything after It Broke One.
The first break was on the landing page. The ad led with a specific outcome — fast turnaround, a concrete result the buyer could picture. The landing page talked about the company. Its history, its team, its service menu. The buyer who clicked expecting an answer to their specific problem landed on a page that made them start over.
Some of them still filled out the form. But they arrived confused, not convinced. And a confused buyer doesn't close as easily as one whose question just got answered.
The second break was the form itself. It asked for name, email, phone, and service type: five fields before any value was exchanged. No confirmation that someone would actually call. No indication of when. Just a submit button and a generic thank-you page.
The third break was response time. The leads that came in after 5pm sat until the next morning. The ones that came in during the day averaged four hours to first contact. By then, the buyer's urgency had cooled or they'd already found someone else.
Three breaks. None of them visible in the campaign report. The ad's click-through rate looked fine because the ad was fine. The path it handed the buyer off to wasn't.
The buyer clicked because the ad spoke to them. By the time the path was done with them, they'd forgotten why they came.
1. Read your ad and then open your landing page cold. Pretend you've never seen neither. Ask one question: does the page answer what the ad promised?
2. Cut your form to three fields and add a response commitment. Name, phone, and one qualifying question. Before the submit button: "We'll call you within one hour during business hours."
3. Set-up an after-hours response that fires immediately for leads that come in outside business hours and not a generic auto-reply. A message that names the specific thing they asked about, confirms you have it, and tells them exactly when they'll hear from a person.
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