The Home Service Expert Podcast Why Home Service Owners Lose Customers Before They Ever Pick Up the Phone
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Jun 10, 2026 Senja Spellman, a fractional CMO who scaled brands like Bath Works and Home Genius Exteriors, breaks down practical marketing moves for home service companies. She covers TV/CTV attribution, omnichannel pairing of direct mail and CTV, using LLMs to audit brand visibility, owner-on-camera storytelling to build trust, and rapid testing of creative before costly buys.
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Hold Weekly Marketing Sales Source Reviews
- Make marketing and sales partners with weekly reviews.
- Senja recommends meeting sales leaders weekly to compare close rates by source and diagnose mismatched messaging or expectations.
Scaling By Replicating Top Call Center Talent
- Senja grew a door-to-door company from $11M to pacing $24M after restructuring call center roles.
- She removed the top rep from phones to replicate him, then achieved 200% revenue growth while lowering cost of marketing to under 16%.
Use Revenue Percentages To Budget Marketing
- Set marketing spend as a percent of revenue by stage.
- Use 20–22% of revenue while aggressively growing, and 15–18% for maintenance growth, per Senja's benchmarks.
