AI Security & Governance
What should we look for in an AI vendor's data agreement?
Six things: who processes your data and where, whether it can be used to train models, how long it is retained during and after the relationship, who the …
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Voice & Automation
Why did the same customer end up with two appointments on the schedule?
Usually one of three causes: the customer contacted you twice through different channels and nothing linked the two, an automation retried a write after a…
Meta & Social
Do Facebook ads actually work for home service businesses?
They work for work people can postpone and fail for work people need immediately. Meta interrupts someone scrolling; it does not find someone searching. T…
Home Services Operations
How can I tell whether my dispatch board is genuinely full or just looks full?
Compare scheduled hours against completed billable hours for the same day. A board that looks full but produces few billable hours is padded — oversized a…
Local SEO & Listings
How do I read Google Business Profile performance data without fooling myself?
Split every metric by whether the searcher already knew you. Searches that used your business name are demand you created elsewhere; searches that used a …
Marketing Intelligence
What should count as marketing spend when we calculate cost per job?
Everything you would stop paying for if you stopped marketing: media, agency or management fees, call tracking, website and landing page costs, creative p…
Operational AI
Why do impressive AI demos fall apart in real operations?
Demos run on clean, curated, small data with a person steering. Production has messy records, duplicate customers, missing fields, systems that time out a…
Custom Software
How do I evaluate a development partner beyond looking at their portfolio?
Portfolios show what shipped, not what happened. Evaluate on three things instead: how they respond when you describe a bad idea, whether they can explain…
Google LSA
How do I tell if Local Services Ads is adding leads or just taking them from my map listing?
Total lead count cannot answer this, because the LSA unit sits above the map pack and intercepts demand that might have reached you anyway. The only hones…
Google Ads
How does conversion lag mess up smart bidding, and what do I do about it?
Lag is the time between the click and the moment the conversion is recorded. The bidder sees an incomplete picture of recent days, so recent performance a…
Dashboards & Reporting
Two reports disagree. How do I find out which one is wrong?
Usually neither is wrong; they are answering different questions. Work through four causes in order: date basis, filters, definition, then source system. …
Field Service Software
What does field service management software actually do that a calendar and an accounting package don't?
Field service software is a state machine for work. It carries one thread — request, quote, job, invoice — through defined stages, stamps every transition…
Call Intelligence
How much should I trust sentiment scoring on service calls?
Treat it as a rough filter, not a measurement. Sentiment captures expressed emotion, which correlates only loosely with outcome. Emergency callers sound n…
CRM & Customer Data
Someone asked us to stop texting them. How do we make sure it actually stops everywhere?
Opt-out has to be a customer-level fact stored once and read by every system that sends, with the most restrictive value winning any conflict. In practice…
Content Automation
What does a human actually have to review on AI-drafted content?
Four things: every factual claim, every number, every statement about what your business does or promises, and anything with legal or licensing exposure. …
Attribution & Measurement
What does data-driven attribution in Google Ads actually change?
It replaces a fixed credit rule with weights fitted from your own conversion paths, so credit moves toward the touch patterns that historically preceded c…
Coaching & QA
What evidence should an AI call score include so a rep can actually dispute it?
The criterion exactly as written, the score given, and the specific moment that produced it: a timestamp and the quoted line, or an explicit statement tha…
Voice & Automation
Do we have to tell callers they are talking to AI?
Requirements vary by state and are changing, so confirm your specific obligations with counsel — that goes for AI disclosure and for call recording consen…
AI Search
How do I tell whether an AI Overview took my clicks or demand just changed?
Compare a fixed set of queries across two periods instead of looking at sitewide totals. If impressions held steady and clicks fell while your position st…
AI Integration
How would we know if the AI's output is still good six months after launch?
Keep a fixed set of real examples with agreed correct answers, and re-run it whenever anything changes - the model, the instructions, or the data feeding …
AI Security & Governance
What happens when a rep says the AI scored their call wrong?
You need a defined path: the rep flags the item, a human listens to the cited moment, and the record is either corrected or explained. Both outcomes are u…
APIs & Data
Why do integrations create duplicate records, and how do you stop it?
Duplicates come from retries after ambiguous failures and from at-least-once event delivery. The write succeeded but the response never got back, so the i…
Revenue Intelligence
How do I compare revenue across locations fairly?
Normalize for the three things that differ most: capacity, market size and job mix. Raw revenue ranks locations by how big they are. Revenue per technicia…
Meta & Social
Meta says I got 40 leads but only 12 are in my CRM. Where did the rest go?
Almost always one of three places: the CRM connection quietly broke and the leads are sitting in Meta's Leads Center, the leads arrived but landed in a qu…
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