Revenue integrity for home-services operators, owners & investors

Make the revenue engine more profitable, provable, and transferable.

TractionMRG reconciles demand, calls, bookings, completed jobs, customer records, and collected revenue—helping home-services operators improve performance, owners prepare for future optionality, and investors underwrite and integrate acquisitions.

Principal-led · fixed-scope · no agency layer · transaction-grade work product

Build value now. Prove it when needed. Protect it through change.
Improve executionFor operators building long-term value
Prepare optionalityFor owners before a formal process
Transact with evidenceFor buyers, sellers, and platforms

Choose your operating moment

The same revenue chain. A different decision.

TractionMRG stays specialized in home-services revenue integrity while meeting the business before, during, or entirely outside a transaction.

01 / Improve the business

Revenue Integrity Review

Find where demand, bookings, completed work, and revenue stop reconciling—and convert the findings into a prioritized operating plan.

Best for: operators with no immediate sale plan who want more profitable, measurable growth.
Explore the operator review
03 / Underwrite the business

Revenue & Marketing Diligence

Test whether the reported growth story reconciles to the operating data before the next deal gate.

Best for: buyers, sellers, sponsors, and deal teams in an active transaction.
Open the transaction pathway
04 / Protect the business

Integration & Revenue Governance

Repair what ownership change disrupts, standardize definitions, and create portfolio-wide accountability.

Best for: recently closed acquisitions, multi-location operators, and platform leadership teams.
See integration and governance

Signature methodology

The revenue chain is where value becomes visible.

Every engagement follows the same path: trace the signal, reconcile the systems, quantify the exception, and identify the operating owner.

The management question

Which channels are producing profitable work—not merely leads?

Common exception

Platform reports reward leads and modeled conversions that do not reconcile to completed jobs or customer value.

Evidence examined

Channel spend, Google Ads, Local Services Ads, Google Business Profile, attribution records, and source data inside the FSM.

One durable business outcome

A better-run, more measurable company is more valuable—whether you hold it, recapitalize it, sell it, or acquire another.

Profitable
Recover value already inside the revenue engine.

Channel allocation, call conversion, booking discipline, customer reactivation, and operating capacity.

Provable
Replace reporting claims with reconciled evidence.

Common definitions and a documented path from demand source to completed and collected revenue.

Transferable
Reduce dependence on tribal knowledge and vendor narratives.

System ownership, governance, repeatable reporting, and operating standards that survive change.

Case file 01 / recent revenue-integrity reviewClient identity withheld

What management reporting said—and what reconciled data showed.

Multi-trade plumbing and HVAC operator with eight-figure revenue. The review moved from raw channel and call data through FSM job records, customer history, and revenue outcomes. The findings mattered whether the owner held, sold, or recapitalized the business.

$670K+Recoverable / year

What the evidence showed

Residential revenue opportunity was present inside existing job and customer records but absent from the growth narrative.

Evidence reconciled

FSM job history, conversion patterns, customer records, retention signals, and completed-work outcomes.

Business implication

Near-term value creation did not depend entirely on acquiring more leads; conversion and retention repair could surface existing demand.

$152KCSR leakage / year

What the evidence showed

Qualified inbound demand was being lost to hangups, inconsistent intake, and mishandled calls before a booked appointment.

Evidence reconciled

Call recordings, disposition data, booking outcomes, call-center patterns, and downstream job value.

Business implication

The company carried a measurable revenue leak that required an operating fix, not an increase in media spend.

~41×LSA return

What the evidence showed

A standout Local Services Ads channel remained underfunded while lower-return directory spend continued.

Evidence reconciled

Channel spend, call and booking records, completed jobs, revenue attribution, and comparative vendor performance.

Business implication

Budget reallocation offered a faster value path than simply increasing total marketing expense.

The work product

Evidence an operator can act on—and a future buyer can follow.

Every exception is tied to evidence, materiality, an owner, and a dated action. The package changes by engagement, but the standard of proof does not.

TRM / FS-01

Findings Schedule

FindingRevenue path does not reconcile
MaterialityHigh / operating impact
OwnerRevenue operations
Exception logged · evidence linked
TRM / RR-02

Revenue Reconciliation

SourceChannel and campaign
BookedCall disposition matched
JobCompleted revenue verified
Source → call → job → revenue
TRM / CA-03

Call Disposition Audit

SampleInbound qualified calls
LeakHangup / mishandled
ValueAnnualized booked revenue
Revenue leakage quantified
TRM / RD-04

Readiness Roadmap

NowRepair material leakage
NextNormalize evidence
FuturePackage transferable process
Priority · owner · horizon
TRM / KPI-05

KPI Dictionary

MetricBooked-call revenue
RuleCommon definition
SystemAuthoritative source
One definition across locations
TRM / 100-06

Action or Integration Plan

ActionRepair tracking ownership
DueDated milestone
AcceptEvidence-based criterion
Owner · dependency · due date

Systems reconciled

Platform-agnostic because the revenue chain is universal.

The system of record may change. The management questions do not. TractionMRG follows the evidence across the stack and identifies where definitions or ownership diverge.

01 / Demand

Acquisition channels

Spend, lead claims, location coverage, and channel performance.

Google AdsLocal Services AdsGoogle Business ProfileDirectory spend
02 / Contact

Call and form capture

Source persistence, tracking ownership, routing, missed contacts, and data custody.

Call trackingForm recordsRecordingsRouting
03 / Intake

CSR performance

Disposition discipline, qualified-call handling, booking consistency, and leakage.

Call auditDispositionsBooking rateQuality review
04 / Operations

Field service management

Booked work, dispatch, completion, customer history, memberships, and job revenue.

ServiceTitanFieldEdgeHousecall ProJobberService FusionSuccesswareSera
05 / Measurement

Analytics and reporting

Definitions, conversion configuration, cross-location consistency, and reporting logic.

GA4DashboardsAttributionKPI dictionary
06 / Revenue

Financial outcome

Completed work, collected revenue, channel economics, and materiality to the operating thesis.

Job revenueAccounting exportsCustomer valueROAS

Who fits best

Qualify by operating complexity—not by a sale date.

The strongest engagements have enough systems, spend, and operating history to support evidence-based analysis and meaningful action.

01 / SYSTEM
An established FSM

Job, customer, dispatch, membership, and revenue history exist in a system of record.

02 / DEMAND
Meaningful marketing spend

Multiple channels, vendors, markets, or locations create allocation and attribution complexity.

03 / INTAKE
A CSR or call-center function

Qualified demand passes through people and processes that can be measured and improved.

04 / SCALE
Operational complexity

Multiple trades, service lines, brands, locations, or rapid growth create definition and governance risk.

05 / MINDSET
Management wants evidence

The leadership team is prepared to reconcile claims, assign owners, and act on material findings.

TractionMRG is not positioned as a general marketing agency, business broker, valuation firm, accounting QoE provider, or all-purpose exit-planning practice.

Three audiences, one fact base

Translate the same evidence into the decision each leader owns.

Operators, future sellers, and investors ask different questions. They still need the same revenue chain to reconcile.

01 / OPERATORS

Build long-term value

Improve channel economics, call conversion, customer value, reporting reliability, and management accountability.

Explore Improve
02 / OWNERS

Prepare future optionality

Repair leakage, normalize evidence, reduce key-person dependence, and make the revenue story more defensible.

Explore Prepare
03 / INVESTORS

Underwrite and integrate

Quantify material findings, test the growth thesis, and carry the evidence directly into the first 100 days.

Explore Transact
ME

Portrait position reserved for final principal photography

The operator in the room

Mike Emerich, Principal

Marketing performance is not accepted at the platform-report level. It is reconciled to calls, booked appointments, completed jobs, customer records, and revenue.

TractionMRG is led by a strategist with three decades in home-services marketing operations—deep in FSM data governance, Google Ads and Local Services Ads, Google Business Profile at portfolio scale, GA4, call-center performance, and vendor accountability.

30+Years in home-services marketing operations
DirectNo junior-team handoff
FixedDefined scope and dated work product

Free diagnostic · No data export required

Eleven questions. Four minutes.
How much of your revenue can you actually trace?

The RAD Check tests whether an owner can answer eleven questions about where revenue comes from. No logins, no exports, nothing to request from a marketing vendor. It returns a Revenue Attribution Debt score and an estimated range of untraceable revenue.

Confidentiality & conflicts

TractionMRG works with operators, owners, sellers, investors, and platforms. It does not represent opposing parties in the same transaction, and every engagement is subject to confidentiality and conflict review.

Confidential review

Tell me what the revenue engine needs to do next.

No sale plan is required. Share your current operating moment, the trade and location count, and the decision you need to make.

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