Case study · Lawn care

Three seasons in, and he keeps renewing

Epic Lawn Care runs recurring lawn programs out of Lexington and Nicholasville. Dave Miller started with us on Facebook ads. In his own words, three years later it is Facebook, Google and a website we built for him.

See the results Every figure below comes with the account it came out of, and the ones we are not printing yet say so.
The client Lawn care · Recurring

Epic Lawn Care

Lexington and Nicholasville, Kentucky. Meta is the main paid channel, Google Ads went on this season, and the site is ours.

Epic Lawn Care. Shot and cut in house.
At a glance
Industry
Lawn care. Recurring fertilization and weed control, aeration and overseeding
Based in
Lexington and Nicholasville, Kentucky
What we run
Meta ads, Google Ads and the website
Working with us since
TBD
The website

Every click lands here so the site gets audited like the ads do

Meta and Google both send traffic to one site, and paid spend cannot outrun a page that loses the visitor after the click. So the site is treated as part of the ad account rather than as somebody else's problem. In September we crawled all of it, measured where it shows up across the metro, read it against the Google listing, and put the fixes in order of how much ad traffic each page carries.

epiclawncareky.com
The live Epic Lawn Care site.
What the September audit covered
  • 01 Every page crawled and sorted by what it actually carries: which ones bring traffic, which ones nothing links to, which ones say the same thing twice
  • 02 The service pages checked against the services Dave sells and against the words homeowners type, which are not the same words
  • 03 Visibility measured on a grid across the metro rather than from one point, so a gap shows up by neighbourhood instead of averaging away
  • 04 The Google Business Profile read next to the site, because a listing and a site that disagree lose the same click twice
  • 05 Phone number, address and review count checked on every surface they appear on, the site, the listing and Facebook
  • 06 Backlinks reviewed, which is how we found a spam network pointing at the domain that nobody here paid for

No performance figures in this section. The numbers are in the results ledger, next to the account each one came out of. The audit is dated September 2026 and its fix list is shared with the client rather than published here.

The results

Two months of spend. And only what it can prove.

This covers one window, 3 May to 29 June, rather than the whole engagement. Every figure below is read straight off the ad account it came from. Where our own records and the platform disagree, this section says so instead of quietly picking the better number.

Google Ads and Meta · 3 May to 29 June 2026
$8,438
Ad spend
Exactly $8,437.93. Google Ads $6,051.96 and Meta $2,385.97.
193
Conversions Google recorded
Google Ads, same window. A conversion is an action it counted, a call or a form, not a person.
$31.36
Cost per conversion on Google
$6,051.96 over 193. Google spend against Google conversions, nothing mixed in.
TBD
Cost per lead
Held back until call and form tracking is on the account. See below.

Why there is no cost per lead here yet

Google recorded 193 conversions on this spend. Our own records for the same channel and the same weeks hold 58 leads. A conversion is an action and a lead is a person, so those two were never going to match exactly, but they are far enough apart that cost per lead would come out anywhere between $31 and $104 depending on which one you believed. We are not going to print the flattering end of that range and call it a result. Call and form tracking goes on the account next, and the figure arrives with it.

Spend is from the Google Ads and Meta accounts, 3 May to 29 June 2026. Conversions are Google's own count for the same window. Meta runs no conversion tracking on this account, so no Meta figure is claimed here. Nothing on this page claims revenue, jobs booked or return on spend.
The work

Five services, run as one account.

A site, three paid channels around it, and the footage that feeds all of them. Point at one to see what it covers.

Everything else lands on the site

It comes first, because paid traffic and search both land on it and neither can outrun a page that loses the visitor
A page for each service they sell: fertilization and weed control, aeration and overseeding, mowing, bed cleanouts, trimming and mulch
Written so the recurring programme is what a visitor understands they are buying, rather than a single job
Audited again in September, top to bottom, instead of being left alone once it launched
This section covers what they signed for. Results are reported separately, from the ad accounts themselves. Local Services Ads is not in that ledger: there are no LSA figures on this account yet, and the results section only reports what an account can answer for.
SHOT ON LOCATION

The main cut, and the one that runs as the ad.

Epic Lawn Care Lexington, KY

The vertical, cut for the feed rather than cropped into it.

Vertical Meta

The shoot day itself, cut as its own piece.

Behind the scenes On location

4.9 from around 370 reviews

Every ad starts on a shoot day

Nothing on this account is licensed from a stock library. A crew drives out to a Lexington lawn and shoots the work as it happens, and one day on site produces the piece that runs as the ad, the vertical cut for Meta, and the behind the scenes. When creative fatigues we go back and shoot again rather than recycling what is already tired.

Why this works

It works because a season buys a customer

A lawn care company can buy clicks, or a website, or a stack of five star reviews. What moves the number is a cheap job in September turning into a programme that renews every spring, and every piece of this account being pointed at that.

Nothing in this section claims a result. The results are above, next to the account each figure came from and the one we are not printing yet. The review figures are public and can be checked on the listing.

One call

Fifteen minutes on the phone.

Tell us what you sell and which towns you drive to. We will tell you what we would do first, and whether it is worth doing at all.

1 (859) 710-5943 Weekdays. Somebody who has been on a job site this month picks up.
Or
Pick a time instead Takes about twenty seconds.
What the call is not
No deck
Nobody is going to share a screen at you for forty minutes
No contract on the call
We will not ask you to decide anything while we are still talking
No follow up sequence
If it is not a fit, you hear that once and never again