What Is Amazon Home Services? Is It Worth It?

Amazon launched its Home Services operation in early 2015 to help its customers find home repair and maintenance professionals, and it looks like it’s here to stay. But is it a smart choice for local service professionals? Scheduling Has Never Been Easier Amazon makes the process very simple for its customers to schedule a home […]

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6 Digital Marketing Tools We Use to Get You More Leads

Generating leads online without digital marketing tools is in the same vein as building a house without a hammer: technically possible, but extremely inefficient. VitalStorm uses several digital marketing tools that get you the upper-hand when generating new leads. With years of digital marketing experience and expertise working with the home service industry, we’ve gathered the information needed to narrow down which ones are the most viable.

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What More Can I Do to Generate Online Leads?

In the world of digital marketing, traditional Google Pay Per Click (PPC) ads remain the best way to grow your business by providing motivated and quick-to-book leads from people needing service now. But after years of running traditional PPC, you may start to question: what other kind of online lead sources are out there? What more could I be doing to reach potential clients in the digital market?

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What Google Local Service Ads Mean for your Business

  Google is constantly introducing new features to its search platform. Here at VitalStorm, we determine what kind of impact these changes will have on our Home Service clients and if these updates are a cost-effective addition to their bottom line. The biggest Google news to hit the home service industry is the recent release […]

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Google Local Services Ads Roll Out to 30 Major Cities By 2018

If you’ve tried searching for local garage door repair, duct cleaning, or almost any other home service on Google recently, you may have noticed a new Local Services ad box at the top of the search results. We wrote about Google’s Home Services Beta Test back in 2015, but the program is now beyond its […]

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