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Structured paid search for cleaning companies.

Traffic alone didn't scale this cleaning operator from $10K to $100K a month — the structure behind it did.

Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, and per-city landing pages built around how cleaning buyers actually search.

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16+ yrs
Digital marketing pattern recognition
2 hrs
Answer-speed for active clients
100%
Account ownership stays yours
How we engage

A disciplined process, not a sales pitch.

We work the way good business owners work — define the problem before solving it, measure before changing anything, name the gap before proposing the fix.

01 Define

Name the real problem

We define the actual problem, not the assumed one.

02 Measure

Baseline before changing

We baseline your funnel honestly before we touch anything.

03 Analyze

Diagnose the leak

We diagnose where the funnel actually leaks — usually not where you'd guess.

04 Improve

Build the fix

Structured paid search and landing pages, calibrated to your gap.

05 Control

Run the discipline

Ongoing reviews against baseline. The work doesn't end at launch.

Each engagement is calibrated to your business and your market. The framework is consistent; the calibration is bespoke.

How we work

Most agencies buy clicks. We run the math.

Search demand and landing-page conversion. The two stages that decide whether paid search works.

01

Audit before action

Week 1 is diagnosis, not launch. Account structure, search term waste, tracking gaps, landing page speed. You see what's broken before we touch a campaign.

02

We skip Local Services Ads on purpose

LSAs invite dispute hell. You end up paying for tire kickers and complaints about jobs you never quoted. We bypass that channel entirely and bid on high-intent search instead.

03

Optimize against real conversion signal

Cheap clicks look great in dashboards — they don't fill the calendar. We optimize against the leads, calls, and form submissions that actually represent qualified demand. What your sales team or front desk does with those leads is your work; getting the right leads in front of you is ours.

04

Fast pages capture more inquiries

Standard templates lose qualified clicks while loading. We use hand-coded HTML or properly cached environments so your page renders before customers hit back. A click that bounces before the page loads is a lead you never had a chance to win.

05

Add Microsoft Ads when ready

Same buyers, lower CPCs, less competition. Almost no cleaning-company agency bothers with Microsoft Ads. That's the wedge — and the case study above is where it paid off. Included automatically at the $15K+ combined-spend tier.

06

You own every account

Your Google Ads, your Microsoft Ads, your data. We work inside your accounts as a manager — never as the owner. If you leave, nothing breaks, because nothing was ever locked.

The 90-day proof of concept

How the first 90 days actually unfold.

No magic. A structured sequence designed so you see real progress before any long-term commitment.

WK 1

Audit & baseline

Full diagnostic. You see what's broken in writing before we touch a campaign.

WK 2

Rebuild & launch

Tracking fixed. First landing page deployed. Campaigns live by day 14, typical.

WK 3–4

Data & tune

Real conversion data starts flowing. We tune CPA caps and kill waste daily.

DAY 90

Performance review

A written review against the baseline we set in week one. Numbers in hand, you decide whether to continue.

The honest comparison

Three paths most owners consider.

The real comparison isn't "best agency" — it's "what are my options?" Here's how working with us compares to the two other paths most cleaning operators weigh.

Recommended
The Internet Funnel
Paid-search specialists for cleaning companies
Business economics built into the bid logic
Senior-led account handling
2-hour answer-speed, weekdays
Google + Microsoft Ads in one engagement
High-intent search · LSAs skipped by design
Landing pages built per service, per metro
Live dashboard, not monthly PDFs
You own every account and tool
Pricing on this page
90-day proof period, written review at day 90
Running ads yourself
DIY or a freelancer
Hours pulled from running the business
No vertical pattern recognition
Microsoft Ads usually skipped
Landing page work is a separate vendor
Hard to benchmark what "good" is
Freelancer continuity varies
Lowest direct cost
Full control of every decision
No defined proof period
A generalist agency
Multi-vertical, 50+ employees
Small accounts buried in large book
Account manager turnover
24–72 hour response times
Playbooks shared across industries
Long contracts, tooling lock-in
Pricing behind "request a quote"
Larger headcount
Polished reporting layer
Awards and certifications
Flagship case study

$10K to $100K monthly revenue in 12 months.

A multi-city US cleaning company. Paid search across two platforms. Anonymized at client's request. The strategy, the numbers, and the breakdown — in full.

★ Flagship engagement

Transforming a cleaning company's revenue growth with Google & Microsoft Ads

A US cleaning company approached us aiming to scale across multiple major metros — Chicago, Phoenix, Denver, Austin, Washington DC, Charlotte, Bellevue, and Orange County (Anaheim, Santa Ana, and Irvine). Within twelve months, a targeted dual-platform paid search strategy — built around the company's own sales conversion strength — supported tenfold revenue growth across the engagement.

Industry Residential cleaning
Footprint 8 US metros
Starting revenue $10K / month
Outcome $100K / month in 12 months

About the engagement

The client opened the engagement with a baseline of $10,000 per month from a single market and a goal to scale into a multi-city cleaning company. The objective was clear: tenfold revenue growth, expanded geographic reach, and a sustainable cost-per-acquisition that wouldn't break as ad spend grew. Cleaning is a high-intent search vertical with brutal local competition — winning required precision, not volume.

The challenges

  • High competition in every target local cleaning market
  • A constrained initial ad budget that left no room for waste
  • Expanding reach to multiple cities while keeping CPA low and stable
  • No room for a cold-start CPL spike when launching each new metro

The approach

Five pillars, executed in sequence
1
Keyword research & targeting

In-depth keyword analysis to surface high-intent search terms before any campaign launched. Short-tail ("cleaning services") and long-tail intent ("affordable house cleaning in Denver"), mapped to local buyer language and city-specific search volume.

2
Landing page optimization

Conversion-focused landing pages built per city before traffic was sent — clear CTAs, trust signals, and user-friendly navigation. A/B testing on headlines, forms, and visuals to push conversion rate hard. Pages had to be ready before paid traffic could land.

3
Google Ads campaign optimization

Geo-specific ad groups launched for each city. Responsive search ads to lift relevance and CTR. Call, location, and sitelink extensions to maximize visibility and direct-response engagement.

4
Microsoft Ads (Bing) domination

Added in parallel: the less competitive Bing platform, where we captured over 60% of cleaning services traffic share. Optimized for desktop and older demographics where Bing over-indexes — the cheap, underrated channel most agencies ignore.

5
Remarketing & segmentation

Once baseline traffic was flowing, remarketing campaigns deployed to re-engage visitors who didn't convert. Audience segments by behavior — "requested a quote", "reviewed testimonials" — and real-time scaling on the winning combinations.

The results

What twelve months of disciplined execution looked like
10×
Revenue growth
$10K / mo to $100K / mo within 12 months
7.2%
Google Ads CTR
Up from a 3.5% baseline at engagement start
9.1%
Microsoft Ads CTR
Average across the seven metro campaigns
$45
Cost per acquisition
Down from $129 — a 40% reduction
35%+
Conversion rate
Currently exceeding 35%, up from a 6% baseline through ongoing landing page work
300%
Lead volume growth
More qualified leads, lower cost per lead
8
Metros launched
Chicago, Phoenix, Denver, Austin, Washington DC, Charlotte, Bellevue, and Orange County (Anaheim, Santa Ana, Irvine)
12 mo
Total timeframe
From baseline to target revenue
Traffic share captured

The unusual move that paid off: while most cleaning agencies fight for Google scraps, we captured the dominant share of Microsoft Ads traffic in target cities — cheaper clicks, less competition, and a demographic where high-intent local-service search has been historically under-bid by competitors. That gave the company's sales team more inquiries to work with at lower cost-per-lead.

The thing most agencies miss

Ads don't grow cleaning companies. The right inquiries do.

A campaign is working when high-intent customers — people actively searching for what you sell — find your business and have a clear path to inquire. What happens after the inquiry is your team's work. Our job is to make sure the right inquiries arrive in the first place, in volume and at sustainable cost.

How the engagement is structured

Built to earn your business, not lock you in.

Most agencies hide behind 12-month contracts and show results in month five — after you've already spent enough that leaving feels expensive. We structured it the other way around.

COMMITMENT 01

Campaigns live and inquiries flowing in month one — or month one is half price

Within your first month of engagement, we commit to: structured Google and Microsoft Ads campaigns live, landing pages built and tested, measurement framework deployed, and qualified inquiries arriving in your funnel. If that work hasn't shipped and produced visible inquiry flow by the end of month one, your first month's management fee is reduced by 50% — applied directly to your invoice, no claims process, no paperwork. You'll still pay Google and Microsoft for ad spend, but our share of the work runs at half until we've delivered ours.

Applies to engagements with agreed minimum ad spend and standard onboarding cooperation. "Inquiry flow" means measurable inbound activity from the campaigns — not a guaranteed lead count, which depends on your market and budget. Full terms in the engagement contract.
COMMITMENT 02

A 90-day proof period — then you decide

Your first 90 days are a defined proof period, not a contract trap. On day 90, we present a written performance review against the baseline metrics we agreed in week one — CPA trend, conversion lift, lead volume, traffic share. The numbers go on the table, and you decide whether to continue. After day 90, the engagement runs month-to-month with 30 days' notice either way. No long-term lock-in, no exit penalties.

Performance measured against the agreed baseline established at engagement start. Continuation is your decision based on documented results.
Why us, specifically

16 years in digital marketing. Applied to your funnel.

The Internet Funnel was built around a simple observation: most cleaning companies don't lose money because Google Ads failed. They lose it because nobody noticed bad leads until three months later.

We've shipped paid campaigns through three platform eras — AdWords' early auction days, the mobile-first shift, the AI-driven era we're in now. We know which platform changes are structural and which are hype. We've burned budgets on bad assumptions and watched launch months look ugly before they looked good. Pattern recognition like that doesn't come from a course.

Strategy from the seat with 16 years of pattern recognition. Execution from a focused team operating against documented SOPs.

How this works in practice: Senior lead shapes every account's strategy — audit framing, campaign architecture, escalations. Day-to-day work runs against documented SOPs and weekly account reviews. Quality doesn't depend on who's online.
★ Founder's take
Most agencies still optimize for clicks. Clicks aren't customers, and they aren't promises. We optimize for the qualified inquiries that give business owners something real to work with — then we get out of the way and let them run their business.
Mrigank Pandit
Founder, The Internet Funnel
The AI question

AI is reshaping paid search. Experience-driven judgment still decides whether it works for you.

What's changed.

Bid management, ad variant testing, audience expansion, creative optimization at scale — these are increasingly handled by machine learning faster and more reliably than any human team can match. The agencies still selling these as their core service are selling something the platforms now do automatically.

What hasn't.

The AI doesn't decide what your business considers a real conversion. It doesn't know that a cleaning company's recurring commercial contract is worth far more than a one-time residential job — or that a booked deep-clean and a quote request that never answers shouldn't count the same. It doesn't recognize when measurement infrastructure is broken — it just optimizes against whatever signal you feed it, broken or not.

Where we sit.

Our work is in the data layer the AI sees. Building conversion architecture. Bridging ad performance to operational revenue, even when platforms don't expose API access. Defining what counts as a qualified inquiry for your business specifically. Recalibrating when the AI starts optimizing toward the wrong target. That's not a tactical task — it's a judgment task. And judgment is what sixteen years of pattern recognition produces.

Across every cleaning engagement, the same pattern holds: outcomes follow data quality. Build the measurement layer correctly and the AI does the rest. Get it wrong and no amount of bidding sophistication will save the campaign.

Pricing

Pricing on this page. Not behind a sales call.

Fees scale with paid ads spend — tier-based, not commission. Structured for single-location, multi-market, and growth-stage cleaning operators alike.

Standard across every tier

No upsells. No upgrades hidden behind higher tiers.
2-hour answer-speed, weekdays
Senior-led account handling
Free funnel audit before engagement
Week-1 account + week-2 funnel audit
Live performance dashboard, 24/7
Daily search term review for waste
Ad copy A/B testing every 2 weeks
Campaigns live in month 1, or month 1 is 50% off
90-day proof period with day-90 review
You own every ad account and tool
Call tracking + CRM configuration help
Month-to-month after day 90
Combined Ad Spend Management Fee Platforms Managed Landing Pages
Up to $5,000/month $500 flat monthly fee Google or Microsoft Ads You pick one platform 1 page included
$5,001 – $15,000/month $1,000 flat monthly fee Google or Microsoft Ads Your choice of platform 2 pages included
$30,000+/month combined $1,500 + 5% of combined ad spend Google + Microsoft Ads Both platforms, full optimization Built around your campaigns pages added and rebuilt on performance data

Not sure which tier you'd be in? Send us your current ad spend and we'll tell you exactly what you'd pay — plus a free audit of your existing account, whether you sign or not.

Get my free cleaning-account audit →

How combined spend works: At $15,001+ combined ad spend, both platforms run together as a single integrated engagement. Combined spend across both determines your tier.
5% of spend only on the top tier. Below $30,000 combined spend, it's a flat fee. Above $30,000, the 5% scales naturally with your business.
Ad spend is paid directly to the platforms, separate from our management fee.

FAQ

Questions worth asking.

And our honest answers.

How does your pricing work?

Pricing is published on this page — see the pricing section for the full structure. The short version: a flat monthly management fee that tracks your combined Google + Microsoft Ads spend, with both platforms running together once you're above a certain spend threshold. Ad spend is paid directly to the platforms, separate from the management fee.

Which tier fits you depends on your current spend, the markets you're in, and what you're trying to scale. Easiest to walk through on a 30-minute call once we've understood the business — book one when you're ready and we'll map it out.

Who owns my ad account?

You do. Always. We work inside your Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, GA4, and call tracking accounts as a manager — not as the owner. If you ever leave, the accounts remain yours with no migration headache. We never gate-keep your data.

What's the minimum ad spend for working with you?

No formal minimum. Our entry tier starts at $500/mo management fee for combined ad spend up to $5,000/month. Below about $2,000–$3,000/month in ad spend, the math gets harder for both sides — there isn't enough volume to optimize against. But we'll have an honest conversation about whether paid ads is the right move for your business at any spend level.

Ad spend is paid directly to Google and Microsoft, separate from our management fee.

How long is the contract?

A 90-day proof period to start, then month-to-month with 30 days' notice. No long-term lock-in, no auto-renew clauses.

The 90-day window exists so we have time to rebuild what's broken, optimize against real data, and prove the math. On day 90, you receive a written performance review against the baseline we established in week one — and the decision to continue sits with you, informed by documented results from your own account.

Where is your team based, and how does that affect day-to-day work?

Our team operates from India with working hours that overlap North American business days. Most clients reach us faster than they reach agencies in their own city — when you send a message at 5 PM Eastern, it lands on a team that's mid-afternoon.

Quality is structural, not personal. The team operates against documented SOPs — every audit, every campaign launch, every weekly review follows the same checklist regardless of who is online. Strategic decisions on every account — audit framing, campaign architecture, escalations — pass through Mrigank, so a 16-year veteran is in the loop on every engagement. Your dashboards and reports are live and visible to you around the clock; you don't wait for our updates to see what is happening.

We research US local markets specifically — competitor SERP data, regional search trends, local-language ad copy variants. The team has shipped paid search campaigns across major US metros including Chicago, Phoenix, Denver, Austin, Washington DC, Charlotte, Bellevue, and Orange County.

Who will I actually work with day-to-day?

You'll have a dedicated point of contact for day-to-day campaign work — weekly check-ins, optimization, reporting, and replies to your messages. The same person, every time, so context never gets lost.

Strategy is led by Mrigank, who frames every account's initial audit, signs off on campaign architecture, joins quarterly reviews, and is the escalation point for anything that matters. This isn't a bait-and-switch where the founder sells and juniors deliver — execution runs against Mrigank's methodology and documented SOPs. The founder is in the loop, not in every meeting. That's how you get 16-year-veteran thinking with full-time execution coverage at our price point.

On the Scale tier (combined ad spend $30K+), Mrigank joins the monthly strategy session directly.

How well do you understand the business behind the ads?

Deeply — and cleaning is where we go deepest. Running paid search for cleaning companies day-in, day-out means we think about the things generalist ads agencies often don't: how residential cleaning search behaves differently city to city, why a campaign structure built per metro outperforms one national account, how cost-per-acquisition holds (or breaks) as you add markets, and how answer-speed on a missed inquiry quietly costs you booked work. These shape how we construct and bid the campaigns. They don't change what we're responsible for — qualified inquiries into your funnel — but they change how well we do that part.

Our flagship case study is a residential cleaning company we supported from $10K/month to $100K/month across eight US metros over twelve months — full breakdown in the case study above.

Do you run Local Services Ads (LSAs)?

No, and that's a deliberate choice for cleaning companies. LSAs sound good on paper, but in practice cleaning operators end up paying for disputed leads, "tire kicker" inquiries, and complaints about jobs they never quoted. The dispute process is opaque and the lead quality is inconsistent.

Instead, we put your budget on high-intent search traffic — people typing a cleaning service into the search bar with clear buying intent. That traffic lands on a fast, controlled landing page we built specifically for the service and the city. You get fewer wasted dollars, more qualified inquiries arriving at your sales team, and a campaign you can actually optimize.

The same logic applies to location extensions in service businesses where physical drop-ins hurt operations. We skip them on purpose.

What should I realistically expect in the first 30 days?

Honest answer: the first 30 days is mostly about getting the foundation right and buying the data we need. Week 1 is audit and tracking fixes. Week 2 is rebuilding account structure and shipping the first landing page. Weeks 3–4 is launch and initial optimization.

You'll see leads coming in by the end of month one — that's the commitment. But the first month is rarely the most efficient. Conversion data has to accumulate before we can set the right CPA caps and let the algorithms work properly. The real ROI inflection usually happens in months 2–3, which is why our 90-day proof of concept is structured the way it is.

If month one is genuinely empty — no real leads at all — the half-price month-one commitment applies. We don't promise overnight miracles, but we don't bill full rate for a month that didn't deliver either.

What tools will I need to pay for separately?

You pay Google and Microsoft directly for ad spend. You also typically pay for call tracking (we recommend WhatConverts or CallRail — your choice), and any CRM or follow-up software you choose to use.

We don't get kickbacks from these vendors, we don't host your tools on our infrastructure, and we don't lock you into a platform. Recommendations are based on what fits your situation, not what pays us a commission.

What's your response time really like?

2-hour response TAT during reasonable working hours, and most responses are immediate. Outside business hours, you'll have a reply by morning.

The structural reason this works: we have a distributed team across India and US time zones. Someone is online for almost every hour you'd be working.

How do you use AI in our campaigns?

We've watched paid ads evolve through three platform eras — AdWords gold rush, mobile/automation, and now AI-driven everything. That perspective shapes how we use AI: where it actually moves the needle, not where it sounds good in marketing copy.

AI gets used in specific places: daily search term classification (flagging waste and opportunity), ad copy variant generation (drafted weekly, reviewed by humans), audit generation (5-page audits produced overnight), lead quality scoring (call tagging where compatible), and weekly report drafting.

What stays human: strategy, account structure decisions, bid adjustments, relationship work, and anything that touches your money. AI removes the tedium, not the judgment. After 16 years, we know the difference.

What if it isn't working out?

Two structural protections. First, if campaigns aren't live and producing visible inquiry flow by the end of month one from engagement start, your first month's management fee is reduced by 50% — applied to your invoice directly. Second, at day 90 you receive a written performance review against the agreed baseline, and you decide whether to continue. If the numbers aren't there, the engagement closes on day 90. No long-term contract, no exit penalty, no notice-period fees.

Beyond the formal commitments: we'd rather you leave on month four than stay on month six unhappy. Long retention through unhappy clients isn't a business we want to run.

Real growth starts here.

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