Electrical Quick Audit: License, Pack, Calls

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FREE QUICK AUDIT FOR ELECTRICIANS

Find out what’s costing you electrical calls. In about five minutes.

A former Yahoo search engineer looks at your Google profile, your ads and your tracking, and tells you where the calls are leaking and what to fix first. No pitch, and the report is yours to keep either way.

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Two minutes with Dennis:

40+ states served  ·  thousands of Quick Audits run  ·  Nike & Domino’s among the brands we’ve helped

Is this for you?

We built this for one kind of person: the owner who does great work and just wants to know if their marketing is pulling its weight. Quick gut-check.

This is for you if…

You own or run an electrical company with real customers and real reviews.

You rely on local search and Google Maps to bring in work.

You’re spending on marketing and want to know what that money is doing.

You’d rather own your marketing than keep renting it from an agency.

It’s probably not for you if…

You’re an agency or freelancer looking for ideas to resell.

You’re pre-revenue or just getting started.

You just want a free strategy call with no real data behind it.

Why so many electricians get burned by agencies

Chances are you’ve been through this once or twice already. An agency reels you in with a slick pitch, then hands the real work to someone in the back you never meet. A lot of them quietly pass it to yet another agency. (Search “white label agency” sometime. It’s a rabbit hole.)

The old setup, where an account manager just buys your ads, doesn’t cut it anymore. Google, Facebook and YouTube reward whoever can read the data and feed the right signals back. Someone who only knows how to “run ads” can’t do that. The way out is to own your marketing. It’s less complicated than they want you to believe, and you understand your customers better than they do anyway.

The longer version:

We diagnose before we prescribe

If a marketer starts recommending things before they’ve looked at your numbers, walk away. That’s guesswork, and you’re the one who pays for it. A full SEO audit is like an MRI; the Quick Audit is the physical exam. It catches the urgent stuff fast and tells you in plain English what’s healthy, what’s broken, and what to deal with first.

How you actually rank on Google and Google Maps

Most “SEO” sold to electricians is guesswork with a nice invoice attached. What Google really weighs in the local pack comes down to three things: how relevant you are, how close you are, and how well known you are.

Relevance is whether your profile and your pages clearly say what you do, and where. The page Google trusts for “electrician in Flagstaff” has to be genuinely about that, not a copy of your last page with the town swapped.

Distance you can’t fake, but you can stretch it with real service-area pages, reviews that mention those towns, and links from other local businesses. When your rankings fall off a cliff a few miles out, that’s a missing local signal, not bad luck.

Prominence is where most owners have the most room to grow: reviews (how many, how recent, and whether you answer them), your name, address and phone matching everywhere, and real proof of the work. Do good work, get customers talking, put it everywhere, and back the winners with a little ad spend. That’s the whole game, and it runs with Google’s own guidelines instead of against them. It’s also the thinking behind the Maps Visibility component inside the Home Service Growth System. If the audit shows we can help, the one public done-for-you offer is the $3,500/month Home Service Growth System—not a separate Maps package.

Dennis walks through it here:

What we check

Not a generic six-pack. For Electrical, we Google “electrician your city”, confirm the category Google expects, and score Get Found → Get Chosen → Get Booked. Structural leaks stay hidden until someone looks under the hood.

The Electrical exam — not the generic six-pack

Get Found → Get Chosen → Get Booked, scored for a electrical company.

Get Found

36 pts of the 100

GBP primary is Electrician. Panel upgrade, EV charger, and generator are additional — not a different business.

In the pack for “electrician {city}”. License number on the profile and the site, same string.

No “electrical contractor” vs “electrician” split that creates a duplicate listing.

Get Chosen

34 pts of the 100

Photos of panels, meters, EVSE — not stock kitchens.

License # and insurance in the About block. Homeowners search it.

Separate pages for repair, panel upgrade, and EV charger if those are real offers.

Get Booked

30 pts of the 100

Click-to-call. Electrical emergencies do not fill out a Squarespace form.

Permit / inspection language that is true for this state, not copied from another market.

Tracking on LSA. Electrician LSA is the channel; blog posts about “history of electricity” are not.

Money keyword we actually Google: electrician your city

Categories we expect: Electrician, Electrical installation service, Electrician service, Generator installation service (LSA-eligible)

What a generic audit misses on this trade

! A missing license number is a conversion leak and a compliance leak.

! EV charger pages that rank in a city you do not pull permits in are a complaint waiting.

! Do not treat this as HVAC-with-the-word-electrical. Categories, license, and permit copy are the exam.

Scoring: Found 36 / Chosen 34 / Booked 30. A skipped check is UNKNOWN, not a zero. Agents load this pack from Audit-Factory config/local_verticals.json.

Get Chosen

34 pts of the 100

Job photos of equipment (condensers, furnaces, thermostats) — not stock living rooms.

NATE / manufacturer badges on GBP and the site, if they are real.

Separate pages for AC repair, furnace, and maintenance — not one “HVAC services” blob.

Get Booked

34 pts of the 100

Click-to-call and a membership / tune-up offer. HVAC books on the plan, not only the breakdown.

Call tracking on LSA and Ads. A dump of “website leads” with no source is a fail.

Financing mentioned where ticket size is replacement, not filter changes.

Money keyword we actually Google: ac repair your city

Categories we expect: Air conditioning contractor, Heating contractor, Furnace repair service, electrician (LSA-eligible)

What a generic audit misses on this trade

! Seasonal landing pages: a furnace page that 404s in January is a ranking leak.

! Indoor air quality and thermostat upsells need their own GBP additional categories if you actually sell them.

! Do not invert to a booking widget before the map pack. Nobody books a company they cannot find.

Scoring: Found 32 / Chosen 34 / Booked 34. A skipped check is UNKNOWN, not a zero. Agents load this pack from Audit-Factory config/local_verticals.json.

What the Quick Audit gives you

Two things, both yours to keep: a clear read on what’s going on, and a plan for what to do about it.

A written Snapshot Report across Get Found, Get Chosen, and Get Booked — the HVAC exam — with findings for your business.

A prioritized action plan that ranks the fixes by impact, so you know what to touch first.

A competitive snapshot showing where you sit next to the competition in your market.

A 30-minute walkthrough where we go through it with you, so nothing’s a mystery.

To set expectations: the Quick Audit is the analysis and the plan. It does not include doing the work. You can run with the plan yourself, or bring us in to implement it, which is a separate step.

Here’s what you actually get to hold

Not a vague “strategy session.” A real written report. This is the shape of it:

QUICK AUDIT · SNAPSHOT REPORT

Prepared for: Your Electric Co., Houston TX

Google Business Profile: claimed, 4.9 stars. Strong.

Reviews: solid, but coming in slower lately.

Call tracking: not connected. Calls can’t be tied to a source.

Google Ads: paying for clicks that aren’t converting.

Website: thin location pages, missing real job photos.

Action plan: 7 fixes, ranked by what puts money in the door first.

What one of these actually turns up

Here’s a real one: Donnivin Brown, who owns Southern Comfort Heating & Air in Houston.

BEFORE

$20,000 spent, and almost nothing to show.

City pages for three suburbs that were the same page copied three times, monthly reports bragging about growth while his traffic slid, and nearly every call coming from his Google profile, not the SEO he was paying for.

That’s the kind of breakdown most owners never get to see of their own marketing. It’s the whole point of the audit.

WHAT WE KEEP FINDING WITH ELECTRICIANS

$20,000   one Houston home-service owner spent on SEO with almost nothing to show for it.

DR 9   a 4.7-star electrical company was stuck at, with missing pixels and thin content.

11 keywords   was all a 200-review electrical company ranked on, its profile locked by an ex-employee.

$5,000/mo   a nearby contractor was spending on ads, with little to show for it.

Real electrical audits we’ve run

Same exam shape, scored for an electrician — license, panel photos, the pack for “electrician {city}.”

We come from inside the trades

This isn’t theory from an agency that’s never stood on a job site. Dennis works with Roger Wakefield, the plumber a big chunk of YouTube learns from, and with Joe Crisara, whose service-sales training contractors across the country swear by. He’s gone on Tommy Mello’s Home Service Expert podcast, the biggest show in home services, and interviewed home-service leaders — HVAC, plumbing, and electrical on the floor of the AHR Expo. Over the years the same approach has helped local pros in more than 40 states, along with national names like Nike and Domino’s.

Why this isn’t just another agency

Most agencies execute first and diagnose later, if at all. We start with the boring structural questions. Is your tracking telling the truth? Can you trace a call back to its source? Are your ads built around real intent? Is your proof showing up where buyers look? Get those wrong and spending more just burns money faster. Diagnosis comes first, every recommendation ties back to something you can measure, and you leave knowing what’s working, what isn’t, and what to fix first.

How the Electrical audit works

  1. Step 1. You submit the city you pull permits in.
  2. Step 2. We Google “electrician {city}” and match license # on GBP vs the site.
  3. Step 3. You get Found → Chosen → Booked, with panel/EV/generator category hygiene called out.
  4. Then your call. Run the plan yourself, or bring us in. The exam is not the implementation.

Have these ready for the Electrical walkthrough

Google Business Profile login

State electrical license number (exactly as it should appear)

Local Services Ads (Electrician)

The phone that gets after-hours calls

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