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Awareness
Interest is emerging. They may not be searching for a provider yet.
A demand-recovery system for established home-service companies
Turn more of your market's existing demand into booked work.
Most agencies start by selling you more advertising. We start by finding where the work you should be winning is disappearing.
The Demand Collapse Diagnostic™ identifies the failure point. EngageEngine™ uses enterprise-grade buyer-signal intelligence to help recover the opportunity before a competitor wins the job.
Get Your Five-Part Demand Recovery Plan
Start with twelve questions. See your preliminary failure mode immediately. Qualified home-service companies can receive a personalized recovery plan at no cost.
Every agency you've ever hired also works for your competition.
I only work for one of you.
One company per trade, per market.
Robbie Butt · Columbia, South Carolina
41 yearsAdvertising and public relations
31 yearsOwner, Marketing Performance
22 yearsAdjunct professor, University of South Carolina
The Guttermen
70 estimate bookings to 140 in 45 days.
Advertising, intent-based email follow-up, and a connected website and inquiry system supported a doubling of estimate bookings within the first 45 days of working together.
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Punch List Pros
$5.20 in booked work per Google Ads dollar.
August 2026 reporting connected Google advertising to uploaded closed-job values. Alongside search, the Meta program generated 97 lead-form submissions at approximately $29 each over the April–September reporting window.
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Midlands Landscape
20% growth. In a market that grew 6%.
A coordinated marketing program connected intent-based audiences, advertising, and email follow-up across landscaping, hardscaping, and landscape supply.
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The Problem
Most businesses don't lose work because people aren't interested.
They lose it when confidence collapses after interest, under decision pressure. It usually looks like plenty of activity with no predictable outcome, results that swing month to month with nobody able to explain why, and advice to add more: more ads, more posts, more spend. Nobody tells you what's actually broken.
That isn't a tactics problem. It's a confidence problem. And it happens in a small number of specific places, which is the useful part: if there are only a few places it can break, you can go find out which one it is instead of guessing.
That's the first thing I do. Not execution. Not a campaign. Identifying where confidence is collapsing between interest and decision. Once that's clear the correction is usually straightforward. Until it's clear, everything else is guessing.
The Four Moments
There are only a few places a sale can break.
Nearly every revenue problem I see comes down to one of four moments.
Not Seen When the Decision Is Made
You weren't there when they decided.
People were looking for what you do. You just weren't in front of them at the moment they picked somebody.
Seen But Not Trusted
They found you and didn't trust you yet.
They looked, and they left. The interest was real. The confidence wasn't.
Trusted But Still Compared
They trusted you and shopped you anyway.
You gave the estimate, they compared, and you lost some you should have won, usually on price, because the difference between you and the other fellow never got made clear.
Selected But No Action
They meant to hire you and never got to it.
They said they'd call back, and they meant it. Most of those jobs aren't lost. They're stuck.
Different problems, different fixes, and the fix for one does nothing for the other three.
Here's the trouble. From where you sit, you can only see one of the four. You know about the estimates you lost. You don't know about the people who never came back, never called, or never found you at all.
More advertising doesn't fix lost demand.
Finding the failure point does.
The Demand Collapse Diagnostic™ looks at all four, not by asking you to guess, but by reading what your own numbers already say: where you land when somebody nearby is choosing, what people do on your site before they leave, what they type before they hire, and who came looking and never called.
The Solution
Diagnose first. Then deploy.
01
Diagnose
Find where demand is disappearing across the four failure modes.
02
Detect
Use buyer-signal intelligence to understand where demand is forming and where buyers are moving toward a decision.
03
Recover
Use EngageEngine™ to coordinate advertising, follow-up, visibility and conversion around the confirmed failure point.
EngageEngine™ applies enterprise-grade buyer-signal intelligence to a single local market, helping us recognize when demand is forming, where buyers are in the decision process and what should happen next.
See demand forming earlier. Reach buyers sooner. Lose fewer jobs between interest and action.
How EngageEngine™ works
Find buyers before they search.
We detect signs of interest, score how close someone is to buying, and reach them with the right message as they move toward a decision.
Buyer moves to
Research
They explore options, read reviews, and compare businesses.
Buyer moves to
Decision
They are ready to call, request an estimate, or choose.
EngageEngine™ watches for signals across the journey, not just the final search.
- 01
Detect
Spot relevant interest signals early.
- 02
Score
Distinguish awareness, research, and decision.
- 03
Reach
Coordinate ads and email where contactable.
- 04
Win & learn
Earn the inquiry, trace the source, improve.
- Search
- Maps
- AI answers
- Your website
- Reviews
- Follow-up
all support the same journey.
After the Launch
We catch it before it costs you.
Campaigns don't fail loudly. They fail quietly, in ways you'd never see on an invoice. Every account gets watched every week. Recent catches:
- A plumbing client's campaign delivery collapsed 90% overnight. Caught the same day, diagnosed as a campaign issue, not a market issue, and restored. Conversions never dipped.
- An email campaign started silently dropping one in four sends. Caught before the next send went out, fixed before the client ever saw it.
- Visitors on three client sites were clicking buttons that didn't respond, at the exact moment they were trying to act. Found it in the behavior recordings. Fixed it.
The launch is the easy part. The watching is what you're paying for.
Five-Part Demand Recovery Plan™
Take the diagnostic. Get the plan. Implement it yourself or have EngageEngine™ do it for you.
Start with the 12-question Demand Collapse Diagnostic™. See your primary failure mode immediately. Qualified home-service companies can receive a personalized diagnosis, market snapshot, fix sequence, prescription and recovery sprint at no cost.
- Demand Collapse Diagnosis. Which failure mode is costing you the most work, and why.
- Market Demand and Buyer-Signal Snapshot. How demand is forming in your service area and where your marketing fails to connect.
- Fix Sequence Priority Matrix. What to fix first, what comes next and what should wait.
- Prescription. The recommended correction, including what not to do.
- 30-, 90- or 120-Day Recovery Sprint. Week-by-week actions, checkpoints and measurable targets.
You keep the plan whether or not you hire Marketing Performance Group.
Your risk
You carry none of it.
- It costs nothing. Qualified companies receive the plan at no cost. No payment information.
- No obligation. You don't have to hire Marketing Performance Group. That conversation happens only after you've seen the plan.
- You keep it. All five documents are yours, whether you implement them yourself or ask us to.
- No wasted time. If a direct competitor has already claimed your territory, Robbie tells you before preparing the full plan.
One company per trade, per market
We lock your market. Then we point the work at you.
One company per trade, per market. The day you claim yours, your competitor can't. That is the product, not a bonus.
And because the seat is yours alone, every job it produces is a job the guy across town didn't get. That is what taking your market looks like.
Because every plan is researched and prepared individually, Marketing Performance Group accepts a limited number of qualified companies each month.
Questions
Is the plan really free?
Yes. Qualified companies in available territories receive the plan without paying for it. You keep the plan whether you implement it yourself or ask Marketing Performance Group to help.
Why do I have to qualify?
Every plan is researched and prepared for a specific company and market. The review is designed for established home-service companies where the findings can support a meaningful recovery plan.
Is the scorecard the complete diagnosis?
No. The twelve questions identify the first failure point to investigate. The personalized review examines the company, market, competitive position and available evidence before the plan is prepared.
Do I have to hire Marketing Performance Group afterward?
No. The plan is yours. You may implement it yourself. If you want Marketing Performance Group to implement it through EngageEngine™, that conversation happens only after you have seen the plan.
What information do you need?
The application asks for basic company information, your website, trade, service area and current challenge. Robbie begins with publicly available information and the answers you provide. Any request for additional access should be explained and approved separately.
What if my territory is already claimed?
Marketing Performance Group works with one company per trade, per market. If a direct competitor has already claimed the territory, Robbie will tell you before preparing the full plan.
How is EngageEngine™ different from ordinary advertising?
Ordinary advertising usually starts with channels and budgets. EngageEngine™ starts with the confirmed failure point, applies buyer-signal intelligence to the local market and coordinates the work around where demand is actually being lost.
Is your territory still open?
Find out in twelve questions.
We can't sell your market twice. That's the whole point. If your competitor claims it first, we start sending him the work.
Get Your Five-Part Demand Recovery Plan
Twelve questions. About ten minutes. Your preliminary result on screen, no email required.