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SERVICE 02 – GOOGLE ADS & LSA

Google Ads management that filters out homeowners and puts property managers on your phone.

Commercial-only campaigns for fire and security contractors. The paid competition in this vertical is thin, so your ad dollar stretches further here than in any consumer trade, as long as it only ever reaches the buyers who sign contracts.

$0.25–$15
COST PER CLICK ACROSS 30+ COMMERCIAL FIRE AND SECURITY SEARCHES (AHREFS)
Commercial-only from day one
Every call tracked to its source
THE POST-MORTEM

Why did your last campaign waste money?

Residential calls ate the budget.

No commercial filtering, so you paid commercial CPCs for homeowners asking about chirping smoke detectors.

The agency didn’t know LSA existed.

Local Services Ads sit above the paid results and charge per lead, not per click. Most generalists never set them up.

No negative keyword list.

“Free,” “DIY,” “home,” “battery”: every one of those searches cost you money before anyone read your ad.

Reports counted clicks, not calls.

You got a PDF of impressions. You never learned which dollar produced which call.

GENERALIST AGENCY VS INDIGO TONES

The difference is in the build, not the budget.

GENERALIST AGENCY
INDIGO TONES
Keyword strategy
GENERALIST AGENCY

“Fire alarm” broad match and hope

INDIGO TONES

Only the searches a commercial buyer runs, never a homeowner’s

Negative keywords
GENERALIST AGENCY

A dozen, added after the damage

INDIGO TONES

Residential and DIY clicks filtered out from day one

Local Services Ads
GENERALIST AGENCY

Never mentioned

INDIGO TONES

Set up, verified, and managed alongside search campaigns

Landing pages
GENERALIST AGENCY

Your homepage

INDIGO TONES

Every click lands where it’s most likely to become a call

Reporting
GENERALIST AGENCY

Clicks and impressions

INDIGO TONES

Calls booked and leads captured, tracked to the keyword

Contract terms
GENERALIST AGENCY

6–12 month lock-in

INDIGO TONES

Month to month, your ad account stays yours

THE FILTER

Your budget never bids on a homeowner.

Every junk call has a search behind it, and we know which ones to keep out. From your first dollar, the homeowners, the job seekers, and the DIY-forum questions never reach your ad, so the only clicks you pay for are the ones that can turn into contracts. That’s the difference between commercial ad spend and lighting money on fire.

BLOCKED BEFORE LAUNCH
smoke detector battery home alarm diy fire alarm sound effect fire alarm jobs free smoke alarm
WHAT YOUR BUDGET ACTUALLY BUYS
✓ fire alarm inspection cost commercial ✓ NFPA 72 testing company ✓ fire alarm monitoring for business ✓ commercial fire alarm installation
THE MATH
$3

Median cost per click across those searches. Thin paid competition keeps clicks cheap.

46K+

Monthly US searches for fire alarm, sprinkler, and security services (Ahrefs).

100%

Of calls tracked to the keyword and campaign that produced them.

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LOCAL SERVICES ADS

The results above the results.

Local Services Ads sit above every paid and organic result, carry a Google Guaranteed badge, and charge per lead instead of per click. For licensed contractors, they are often the cheapest commercial calls available, and most fire and security companies have never been set up. We handle the licensing verification, background-check process, and dispute management for junk leads, so the channel runs clean.

→ Per-lead pricing: you pay for calls, not clicks

→ Google Guaranteed badge builds instant trust

→ Lead disputes filed for you, junk leads credited back

GOOGLE GUARANTEED
Your company
★ 4.8
Fire alarm services · Licensed C-10
ATTRIBUTION

We report the calls and leads your ads produce, and we show our work.

Every campaign gets a tracked phone number and recorded calls (with consent), so the monthly report reads like a ledger, not a brochure: this keyword cost this much and produced these calls and form fills. When something underperforms, you see it the same month we do, and you see what we changed.

EVERY LINE IN YOUR REPORT
every keyword → its cost → its calls
LSA → leads → recordings
junk call → disputed → credited back
THE ROLLOUT

How a launch unfolds.

01

Build

Campaign architecture, negative list loaded, tracking numbers live.

02

Live

Ads serving on commercial-intent searches; LSA verification underway.

03

First commercial calls

Recorded and source-tagged, so you hear exactly what the buyer asked for. Your market sets the pace; you see it either way.

04

Cost baseline

Enough data to know your true cost per commercial lead and where to scale.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Ads questions, answered straight.

What budget do we actually need?

Most fire and security markets support a productive campaign between $1,500 and $5,000 per month in ad spend, because commercial CPCs in this vertical are low and competition is thin. The audit tells you the real number for your metro before you commit a dollar.

Do you mark up ad spend?

No. Ad spend goes from your card to Google, in your own ad account, which you own. Our management fee is flat and separate. You will never wonder how much of “the budget” was actually the agency.

Are we eligible for Local Services Ads?

If you hold a current contractor license (C-10, C-16, or your state’s equivalent) and carry insurance, almost certainly yes. We run the verification and background-check process for you. It’s paperwork, not strategy, and we’ve done it many times.

How do you stop residential calls from leaking through?

Several ways, working together. Your campaigns are built so residential searches don’t trigger your ads, the copy itself screens out consumers, and junk leads on Local Services Ads get disputed and credited back. A few will always slip through, that’s the nature of search, but they cost you dollars, not budgets.

Is this month-to-month too?

Yes. Same terms as everything we do. And because the ad account is yours, if you ever leave, the campaign history, the negative list, and the data all stay with you.

FREE AUDIT

We’ll audit the campaign you already ran, for free, before you spend again.

Send us the wreckage. We’ll show you where the money went, what a commercial-only rebuild looks like, and what your market’s lead math should be.

Wasted-spend audit of your current or past campaigns
Your negative-keyword gap count
LSA eligibility check for your license and market

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Takes 2 minutes to request. Delivered within 48 hours.

No contracts. No pitch. Just data.