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The multi-location marketing audit your operating partner will actually read.

Every location scored on the same metrics. Wasted ad spend in dollars, not adjectives. Attribution traced from click to booked job. A 12-month roadmap with budgets. Delivered as a deck, a recorded walkthrough and a live working session, in two weeks. Not a free consult. Yours either way.

Scope at a glance
Up to 15 locations$4,500
16 to 50 locations$7,500
Above 50 · multi-brandscoped
Access to delivery14 days
Credited to your first month100%
Deck · recorded walkthrough · working session · roadmap
Why the audit costs money

A free audit is a sales call with a PDF attached.

Every agency offers a free audit. It takes an hour, it finds exactly the problems that agency happens to sell the fix for, and it is written to close, not to inform. You cannot hand it to a board. You would not want to.

The Multi-Location Revenue Audit is the opposite kind of document. It takes about two weeks of senior time. It scores every location on the same metrics so the outliers cannot hide. It puts a dollar figure on the spend that is not working, and it ends with a roadmap sequenced by return, with budgets, that any competent team could run.

That is why it has a price. And it is why the price is credited in full when we go on to work together: the audit is the first two weeks of the engagement, done before you commit to anything.

Measured onFree agency auditThe Revenue Audit
Who it is written forThe agency’s sales teamYour operating partner, CEO or board
ScopeOne account, one afternoonEvery location, five modules, two weeks
Wasted spend“Significant opportunity”A dollar figure per campaign, per market
AttributionNot examinedTraced from click to booked revenue; gaps documented
CompetitorsGenericThe strongest player in each of your markets, named
OutputA proposalDeck, recording, working session, roadmap with budgets
Price$0$4,500–$7,500, credited 100%
What we examine

Five modules. One set of numbers.

Each module pulls its own data, answers its own question and produces its own pages in the deck. Together they explain where your marketing dollars go, what comes back, and what to change first.

M1

Per-location scorecard

Every location scored on Business Profile health, listings consistency, reviews, local rankings, location page and lead flow.

You getA heat map of every location on six metrics, ranked.
M2

Ad-account forensics

Google Ads and Local Services Ads by campaign, market and location: spend, cost per lead, search terms, dayparting, wasted clicks.

You getWasted spend in dollars, by cause, with the fix for each.
M3

Attribution check

How calls and forms become jobs today: call tracking, CRM or field-service software, GA4, offline conversion import.

You getA wiring diagram of what is connected, what is broken and what it would take to report revenue.
M4

Competitive benchmark

Your position against the strongest competitor in each market: impression share, Local Services presence, reviews, verification status.

You getA market-by-market table naming who wins each market today, and why.
M5

12-month roadmap

Every finding turned into a sequenced action with an owner, a budget and an expected effect, including verification work in verified trades.

You getA quarter-by-quarter plan your board can underwrite.
The deliverable

This is what lands in your inbox. Page through it.

A sample of the audit deck for an illustrative 12-location waste-services brand. Every chart below is built from illustrative figures, so you can see the structure of the report before you buy it. Your deck runs 30 to 50 pages on your real data.

Multi-Location Revenue Audit · Northline Waste Services (sample) · 12 locations · August 2026Sample · illustrative

Executive summary

For the operating partner · 4-minute read

Northline spends $52,200 a month across 11 live markets and books 1,255 leads, a blended $41.59 per lead. Three markets carry cost per lead 20% above the network; one acquisition (Columbus) has run zero ads for 9 weeks because verification was never scheduled. We found $9,340 a month of spend that is not producing booked jobs, and a reporting stack that cannot yet show revenue by location.

Monthly ad spend
$52,200
11 live · 1 dark
Wasted spend found
$9,340
17.9% of spend · 6 causes
Blended cost / lead
$41.59
best $34 · worst $50
Revenue attribution
Partial
calls tracked · jobs not imported
Finding 1
Columbus is dark. The acquired brand was renamed in June; Google verification re-triggered and nobody filed. Estimated 9 weeks of lost demand.
Finding 2
Atlanta and Houston overpay. Broad-match terms and after-hours bidding produce leads at $46–$50 while the network runs at $36–$40.
Finding 3
Revenue is invisible. Calls are tracked; booked jobs never flow back to Google. Smart bidding is optimizing to calls, not to rentals.

M1 · Location scorecard

Six metrics · every location · ranked

Each location is scored 0–100 on the same six measures. Reds are the first 90 days of the roadmap. The network average is 68; the spread between the best and worst location is 61 points, which is the gap one team closes.

M2 · Ad-account forensics

Wasted spend by cause · last 90 days, monthly average

$9,340 of $52,200 a month is not producing booked jobs. Each cause has a fix, an owner and a week in the roadmap. Recovering it funds the Columbus relaunch and the attribution work without a budget increase.

  • Broad match on commercial termsAtlanta, Houston · 214 irrelevant clicks/mo$2,860
  • After-hours bidding at full bidno dispatcher 7pm–7am · 41% missed$2,110
  • Duplicate keywords across marketscampaigns bidding against each other$1,540
  • Landing pages with no phone above the fold4 markets · conversion rate half the network$1,320
  • Display network opt-in on search campaignslegacy setting, 3 campaigns$930
  • Geo bleed into non-service ZIPsSavannah, Raleigh$580

M3 · Attribution wiring

From click to booked job · what connects today

Calls and forms are tracked. Jobs are not. Smart bidding is optimizing to phone calls, including the 31% that never become rentals. Wiring the field-service software back to Google Ads through offline conversion import lets bidding optimize to booked revenue, and lets the board pack report it.

Ads & LSAGoogle Ads, Local Services Ads across 11 marketsLive
Calls & formsCall tracking on every location number; forms taggedTracked
Dispatch / CRMField-service software holds the job, the price and the outcomeNot connected
Offline conversion importBooked jobs and revenue back to Google AdsMissing
Board packRevenue by location, CAC, ROASNot possible yet
Roadmap item 3.1: attribution engineering, weeks 3–6. Estimated effect: bidding optimizes to rentals instead of calls; cost per booked job becomes reportable per location.

M4 · Competitive benchmark

Strongest competitor per market · who wins today, and why

In 5 of 11 markets the strongest competitor is a PE-backed brand with more reviews and Local Services presence. Northline wins on price and speed but loses on visibility in Atlanta and Houston, where impression share sits below 40%.

Green = we lead the marketRed = the competitor leadsShare of searches = how often our ad shows when someone searches, out of all searches (impression share)
MarketStrongest competitorCompetitor reviewsOur reviewsOur share of searchesWho wins today
JacksonvilleRegional independent41268871%We lead
AtlantaPE-backed platform1,94023138%Competitor leads · low visibility
HoustonPE-backed platform1,21030236%Competitor leads · low visibility
DallasNational franchise87751454%Contested · even
CharlotteLocal independent19837766%We lead
ColumbusPE-backed platform640440%Off Google Ads · verification pending

Six of eleven markets shown. Dumpster and porta potty rental have no Local Services Ads category, so paid search is the whole auction; that is one reason this vertical is our lead focus.

M5 · 12-month roadmap

Sequenced by return · budgets attached

Quarter one recovers wasted spend and relights Columbus. Quarter two wires revenue attribution and rebuilds the four weak landing pages. Quarters three and four expand into the two markets where the math already works. Net new budget required in Q1: $0.

Appendix · Sources and method

What was pulled, from where, for which period

Every number in the deck traces to a source you can open. The appendix lists each export, its date range and the spreadsheet tab it feeds, so your finance team can check our arithmetic.

SourcePeriodUsed for
Google Ads · read-only90 daysM2 forensics, search terms, dayparting, geo reports; M4 impression share
Local Services Ads90 daysPresence, verification status per location (where a category exists)
Business Profile manager12 monthsM1 scorecard: profile completeness, reviews, response rate, photos, categories
Call tracking export90 daysAnswer rate, after-hours volume, call outcomes by location
CRM / field-service export6 monthsJobs and revenue by source and location; M3 gap analysis
Location rostercurrentLegal names, addresses, phones, licenses; verification readiness
Sample deck · illustrative figures · not client data1 / 7
Delivered three ways

The deck, the recording, the room.

A deck is only as good as the person walking you through it. So every audit ships with a recorded walkthrough your whole team can replay, and ends in a live working session where priorities get agreed. The 38-second film on the left is the division in brief; the chapter list on the right is what your own recording covers.

  • 00:00Executive summaryThe three findings and the one number the board will ask about
  • 03:40The scorecard, location by locationWhy the reds are red, and which ones are quick
  • 09:10Inside the ad accountScreen-share of the actual waste, campaign by campaign
  • 15:20Attribution: what is missingThe wiring diagram, in plain words
  • 19:30Your markets and who wins themBenchmarks, verification status, the M&A trap where it applies
  • 23:00The roadmap, quarter by quarterWhat to do first, what it costs, what it should return
Days 1–3

Access & intake

Checklist on day one. Read-only ad access, Business Profiles, analytics, exports, location roster. A 30-minute call with whoever owns marketing.

Days 4–11

Analysis

Five modules run in parallel by a senior strategist and an analyst. Questions to your team are batched so nobody gets pinged all week.

Day 12

The recording lands

The full deck and the 20–30 minute walkthrough arrive together, so you walk into the session already briefed.

Day 14

The working session

60–90 minutes, your team and ours. Every finding challenged, every priority agreed. The roadmap leaves the room as a plan.

What we need from you

The access list. Read-only where possible.

  • Google Ads: read-only access to every account and MCC
  • Local Services Ads: read access per location (verified trades)
  • Google Analytics 4 and Tag Manager: viewer access
  • Google Business Profiles: manager access to the location group
  • Call tracking: 90-day export with outcomes, if you have it
  • CRM or field-service software: 6-month job and revenue export
  • Location roster: legal names, addresses, phones, licenses, GM names
  • Brand assets: current offers, landing pages, ad creative
  • Franchise systems: brand-fund and co-op rules, if any
  • Acquisition list: any rebrand or entity change in the last 12 months

We never take ownership of anything during the audit. Access is granted to a named Media Spearhead user and removed on request the day after the working session.

The audit is for you if Fit

  • You run 3 to 300 locations under one or more brands
  • You spend $10,000 a month or more on marketing in total
  • Someone above you reads the numbers: a CEO, a board, an operating partner
  • You are acquiring, rebranding or opening locations this year
  • You want a plan you could run with anyone, not a proposal

It is not for you if Not yet

  • You run one or two locations: our core team is built and priced for that
  • You are looking for a free consultation
  • You want a proposal by Friday, not an analysis in two weeks
  • You are not able to grant read-only access to the ad accounts
Request the audit

Two weeks from access to a plan your board can underwrite.

Tell us the shape of the system. A senior strategist replies within one business day with the scope, the access checklist and a time for the intake call.

Request the Revenue Audit

No newsletter, no drip. One reply from the person who would run your audit.

Received. A senior strategist replies within one business day with the scope and the access checklist.

Prefer to talk first? Call (904) 341-5986 and ask for the enterprise desk. Under 3 locations? Our core team at mediaspearhead.com is the right fit.

Pricing · credited in full
$4,500Up to 15 locations
one brand
$7,50016 to 50 locations
one or two brands
ScopedAbove 50 locations
multi-brand portfolios
100% credited to your first month when you start an engagement within 90 days of the working session. If you never hire us, the deck, the recording and the roadmap are still yours. Every engagement that follows is priced exactly as published on the pricing page.
Due diligence

Questions boards ask. Answers in writing.

A structured review of how every location in a brand is found, chosen and converted online, done on one set of metrics so locations can be compared. Ours covers five modules: a per-location scorecard, Google Ads and Local Services Ads forensics with wasted spend in dollars, an attribution check from click to booked revenue, a competitive benchmark against the strongest player in each market, and a 12-month roadmap with budgets. It is delivered as a deck, a recorded walkthrough and a live working session.
$4,500 for brands with up to 15 locations and $7,500 for 16 to 50 locations. Above 50 locations we scope it to the portfolio. 100% of the fee is credited against your first month if you start an engagement within 90 days. If you never hire us, the deck, the recording and the roadmap are still yours.
A free audit is a sales call with a PDF attached. It is built to find reasons to hire the agency, not to give you a plan you can hand to anyone. Ours takes about two weeks of senior time across five modules, ends in a roadmap argued in dollars, and is built to be forwarded to an operating partner or a board. Charging for it is what makes it honest.
Two weeks from access to delivery. Days 1 to 3: access and intake, including the location roster and a 30-minute call with whoever owns marketing. Days 4 to 11: analysis. Day 12: the recorded walkthrough lands in your inbox. Day 14: the live working session, 60 to 90 minutes, with your questions answered and priorities agreed.
Read-only access to Google Ads, Local Services Ads and Google Analytics 4; manager access to your Business Profiles; an export from your call-tracking platform if you have one; a lead or job export from your CRM or field-service software; and a location roster with legal names, addresses, phone numbers and licenses. We provide a checklist on day one and a secure way to share it.
A 30-to-50-page deck with a scorecard for every location, wasted spend quantified, attribution gaps documented, market-by-market benchmarks and a 12-month roadmap with budgets; a 20-to-30-minute recorded walkthrough your team can replay; a 60-to-90-minute working session; and the underlying spreadsheets. All of it is yours, whatever you decide next.
Yes. The per-location scorecard covers the location page, the Business Profile, listings consistency, reviews and local rankings for each location. In verified trades like garage doors and locksmith work, the scorecard also flags every website element that would fail Google's verification review.
Yes. Private-equity platforms often bring two or three brands. Each brand gets its own scorecard and forensics; the roadmap is written at the portfolio level so integration work is sequenced across brands. Multi-brand audits are scoped on the total location count.
Operators with one or two locations, brands spending under about $10,000 a month in total on marketing, and anyone who wants a free consultation. Our core team at mediaspearhead.com serves single-location businesses well and is priced for them. The audit is built for the decisions that come with 3 to 300 locations.
You decide. If you start an engagement within 90 days, the audit fee is credited to month one and the roadmap becomes the scope, priced exactly as published on our pricing page. If you take the roadmap to another agency or run it in-house, that is a fine outcome too; it is what the fee paid for.

Two weeks. Every location. One plan.

The Multi-Location Revenue Audit: scored, quantified, sequenced and recorded. From $4,500, credited in full when we go to work.

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