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Google's Home Services Trends & How to Win Today's Homeowner

Google’s Jessie Hochhalter shares the latest trends and insights into how the homeowner journey is evolving. She reveals how to better reach people using ‘near me’ searches, ideas for finding keywords that are relevant to people searching for home services professionals in your region, and tips on generating high ROI on your Google ad spend. Watch this webinar on-demand at: http://sfsoc.us/2h1wXuW

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Confidential + Proprietary Jessie Hochhalter Partner Enablement and how to win today’s homeowner Home Services Trends
2 THE SUREFIRE LOCAL MARKETING CLOUD THE ONLY HARD THING ABOUT IT IS HOW HARD IT WORKS
Confidential + Proprietary Jessie Hochhalter Jessie Hochhalter is on the Partner Enablement team at Google. In her career, she has held roles ranging from Digital Advertising Operations Manager to Multimedia Advertising Director. She has an MBA from California Lutheran University, a BA in Philosophy from UC Berkeley and a BS in Business from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. She is very passionate about helping businesses thrive in an ever-changing advertising landscape, as well as music, fitness and pitbull rescue. Global Programs Lead, Partner Enablement
Confidential & Proprietary We don’t go online. We live online.
Confidential & ProprietarySources: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, KPCB % of Time Spent per Day per Activity Use Digital Devices 5.6 hours/day Sleep Do Other Things We spend nearly ¼ of our time connected 9.9 hours of screen time! More than we sleep!!!
Confidential & Proprietary Profound Changes Across Industries...
Confidential & Proprietary ...Including Media! Digital 2010 2018 17.1% 37.3% = $83B % of Spend Across All Media (USA) Source: eMarketer
Confidential & Proprietary 2013 Now 2019 Source: eMarketer Mobile Ad Spend as a % of Digital Ad Spend (USA) Mobile is the Main Driver
Mobile has changed the consumer journey Immediacy of action Acting on any stimulus, whenever we’re motivated to High expectations for relevance and for frictionless experiences Unscripted decisions More loyalty to the need in the moment vs. a brand
Confidential & Proprietary Mobile: a way of life for consumers
Confidential + Proprietary 68%Mobile search share Home Services has Source: The 2016 LSA Local Media Tracking Study is conducted by Burke, Inc. to obtain and track media usage for local product/service searching. The 2016 survey was conducted online from Jan to Dec, with participants recruited from an online panel partner.
Confidential + Proprietary Home Services Mobile Queries Exceeds Desktop late 2015 Source: Google Internal Data, 2017
Confidential + Proprietary And Mobile search is skyrocketing… 62% YoY Growth Source: The 2016 LSA Local Media Tracking Study is conducted by Burke, Inc. to obtain and track media usage for local product/service searching. The 2016 survey was conducted online from Jan to Dec, with participants recruited from an online panel partner.
Confidential & Proprietary “Near Me” Search Trend google.com/trends
Confidential + Proprietary 61%of people are using a search engine to find home services providers Source: The 2016 LSA Local Media Tracking Study is conducted by Burke, Inc. to obtain and track media usage for local product/service searching. The 2016 survey was conducted online from Jan to Dec, with participants recruited from an online panel partner. New Clients
Confidential + Proprietary avg. number of businesses considered for transaction in last 12 months 1.2 of those people did not have a company in mind when searching 67% Source: The 2016 LSA Local Media Tracking Study is conducted by Burke, Inc. to obtain and track media usage for local product/service searching. The 2016 survey was conducted online from Jan to Dec, with participants recruited from an online panel partner. New Clients
Confidential + Proprietary of those surveyed who searched last week have already made a purchasing decision Source: The 2016 LSA Local Media Tracking Study is conducted by Burke, Inc. to obtain and track media usage for local product/service searching. The 2016 survey was conducted online from Jan to Dec, with participants recruited from an online panel partner. 48% New Clients
Confidential + Proprietary HVAC Trends
Confidential + Proprietary Roofing Search Trends
Confidential + Proprietary Plumbing Search Trends
Confidential + Proprietary Landscaping Search Trends
Confidential + Proprietary ARE YOU THERE FOR NEW CUSTOMERS?
Confidential + Proprietary PUT YOUR DIGITAL MARKETING BACK TO WORK Schedule a 15 min intro to the Surefire Cloud After the call, you’ll receive...
Schedule a 15-minute introductory call to the Surefire Cloud ❏ Tuesday, November 7 ❏ Thursday, November 9 ❏ Please email me to schedule a call
Confidential + Proprietary Proprietary + Confidential Proprietary + Confidential ● ● ● ● ● The 2017 LSA Local Media Tracking Study is conducted by Burke, Inc. to obtain and track media usage for local product/service searching. The 2016 survey was conducted online from Jan to Dec, with participants recruited from an online panel partner. A general population sample of n=8,014 age 18+ were obtained for 2016, balanced by key demographics to the U.S. Census. Source: The 2016 LSA Local Media Tracking Study is conducted by Burke, Inc. to obtain and track media usage for local product/service searching. The 2016 survey was conducted online from Jan to Dec, with participants recruited from an online panel partner.
Confidential + Proprietary Male Born in 1948 Grew up in England Married twice Two children Successful Wealthy Dog-lover
Confidential + Proprietary Male Born in 1948 Grew up in England Married twice Two children Successful Wealthy Dog-lover Prince Charles Ozzy Osbourne
Confidential & Proprietary Search “What is zeroscaping” Read News article for advice on different landscaping techniques Email friend for advice Visit Landscaping site to read reviews and compare Search “Landscaper near me” Call business Re-marketing Display Ads Understand the Customer Journey
Confidential & Proprietary Understand Display & Video Roughly 80% of our time is spent outside of search 96% of visitors don’t convert the first time they visit a site Source: thinkwithgoogle.com
Confidential & ProprietarySource: wordstream Be there with both paid and organic
Confidential & Proprietary “Advertisers that pause their search advertising campaigns sometimes cite concerns about how much of the traffic to the sites is truly incremental to clicks on natural search results.” Studies show search ads drive 89% incremental traffic on avg Be there with both paid and organic Source: Studies Show Search Ads Drive 89% Incremental Traffic, Research @ Google, July 21, 2013.
Confidential & Proprietary Google Adwords - Value Proposition 1 2 3 REACH RELEVANCY ROI
Confidential & Proprietary REACH 80% of people use search engines to find local information online -- and Google is the largest search engine in the world (100B+ searches every month) Target your ads so that whenever potential customers in your country, region, city, or local area are looking for business like yours, your business will show up next to their search results Source: Consumer Barometer – 2016 (US)
Confidential & Proprietary RELEVANCY AdWords is about reaching potential customers in your region, who are showing a clear interest in your products or services by searching for your selected keywords on Google. At the EXACT MOMENT they’re looking for you.
Confidential & Proprietary RETURN ON INVESTMENT Only pay when your ad is being clicked. Impressions are free Measure beyond the click Analytics
Confidential + ProprietarySource: Criteo State of Mobile Commerce Report Q2 2015 Non-Optimized Site Optimized Site Conversion Rate: 1.6% Conversion Rate: 3.4% Is Your Site Mobile Optimized?
Confidential & Proprietary How do we reach these constantly connected consumers?
Confidential & Proprietary Let’s go back.
Confidential & Proprietary Your Business
Confidential & Proprietary URL domain Your Business website content Problem with the Internet?
Confidential & Proprietary Your Business SEO SEM quality score website
Confidential & Proprietary Your Business website web 2.0
Confidential & Proprietary Your Business website web 2.0mobile 50%+ of all queries
Confidential & Proprietary Your Business website web 2.0mobile 50%+ of all queries
Confidential & Proprietary Your Business URL domain website content quality score SEO SEM web 2.0 mobile
Confidential & Proprietary What’s Next?
Confidential & Proprietary Search Video Mobile Offers Local Display 300 x 250 Site Social How to Manage Effectively at Scale?
Confidential & Proprietary PROBLEMS business owners face: time desire knowledge resources
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Confidential & Proprietary Key Takeaways ● The advertising landscape continues to change ● Search and mobile are critical in the Home Services field ● A cohesive advertising strategy is key (search, display, video, TM, etc.) ● Work with a Partner to get the most out of your advertising efforts
Confidential + Proprietary PUT YOUR DIGITAL MARKETING BACK TO WORK Schedule a 15 min intro to the Surefire Cloud After the call, you’ll receive...
Schedule a 15-minute introductory call to the Surefire Cloud ❏ Tuesday, November 7 ❏ Thursday, November 9 ❏ Please email me to schedule a call
Confidential & Proprietary Jessie Hochhalter Partner Enablement Thank You!
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