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Specialist trades · Blinds & shading

Doubling booked jobs at the same ad spend

Specialist trades business had a strong product and a quiet calendar. The Meta account looked fine, the website looked fine, the quotes were not landing. We rewrote the path a homeowner walks from ad to in-home measure - without changing the budget.

Engagement · 10 weeksScope · Paid Acquisition Funnel+Decisive by NOVI

Booked jobs

2.4×

Cost per lead

−46%

Quote-to-job rate

31% → 58%

Ad spend

unchanged

01 - The situation

Specialist trades business had been running paid social against the standard category playbook - discount-led offers, lifestyle imagery, generic landing page. Click-through was healthy. Form-fills were dropping. The team had cycled through three creative refreshes in a year and the booked-job number had not moved.

On the call, the answer was already visible. The ad was selling a product. The homeowner was buying a decision they had been putting off for two years. The funnel had no language for that decision anywhere.

02 - What we did

Two weeks of customer interviews and quote-call recordings surfaced the actual hesitation - not price, not style, but trust in who would turn up at the front door. We rebuilt the offer, the page, and the post-enquiry sequence around that single hesitation.

  • New page architecture - installer-led proof above the fold; product range pushed below.
  • Lead form rewritten to qualify on readiness, not budget. Junk enquiries dropped immediately.
  • Post-enquiry sequence - three short messages from the installer who would actually attend, sent in the first 36 hours.
  • Ad creative rebuilt around the same three hooks the page proved out - not the other way round.
Homeowners weren't choosing blinds. They were choosing a person to let into the house.

03 - The outcome

Booked jobs more than doubled inside the quarter on the same ad budget. The quote-to-job conversion rate almost doubled in parallel, which is the number the business actually compounds on. Specialist trades business now run the funnel as an ongoing engagement.