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How to Track Marketing ROI for a Trades Business

From Google Ads to van wraps — how UK trades attribute every lead to a channel, calculate true cost per job and double down on what works.

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"Half my marketing works, I just don't know which half." If you're spending £2k+ a month, you can do better.

Step 1: Unique tracking number per channel

Google Ads, Bing, Meta, organic, van wraps, leaflets, affiliates — each gets its own.

Step 2: Capture source on every web lead

Pass UTMs into your CRM so form leads carry the same source data.

Step 3: Tag outcome on every call

Booked / Quoted / No answer / Wrong number.

Step 4: Push offline conversions back

Send booked-job events to Google Ads and Meta so algorithms learn.

Step 5: Calculate true cost per job

Channel spend ÷ booked jobs = true CPJ.

Step 6: Kill what doesn't pay

Most trades find 2–3 channels carry 80% of profitable jobs.

Why most trades get this wrong

They measure leads instead of booked jobs. Tryoup's call tracking and ads integration ties every call, booking and invoice to its source — and pushes data back to Google, Bing and Meta. Full walkthrough in our offline conversions guide.

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