Performance Marketing

Performance marketing for home improvement, measured on sat appointments — not clicks.

Performance marketing in home improvement is a different sport than DTC. The lead is worth $8,000–$45,000, the sale happens in a living room, and the ROAS that matters is calculated 45 days after the click. ZIP is the performance marketing intelligence layer built for this exact reality.

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45 days
Median lag from click to closed sale in home improvement
20%
Typical last-click over-attribution to Google Ads
2–5x
ROAS spread between top and bottom ZIP quintiles
Weekly
Cadence of ZIP-shift recommendations delivered

How ZIP optimizes performance marketing

Wire up every performance channel

Google Ads, Meta, LSAs, TikTok, YouTube performance, programmatic display, retargeting stacks, and aggregator invoices — every dollar that's supposed to produce a measurable outcome gets tracked by ZIP.

Grade every campaign on sat-demo ROAS with a 45-day lag

Not click ROAS. Not lead ROAS. Sat-demo ROAS — the number that survives the 45-day sales cycle and reflects the actual cash-on-cash return of the campaign. Reported weekly with confidence intervals.

Automate ZIP-level budget reallocation

ZIP integrates with Google Ads and Meta APIs to push ZIP-level bid modifiers and geo-exclusions weekly. Your team approves, ZIP executes. No more spreadsheets, no more manual copy-paste.

Why home-improvement operators need this

Performance marketing ROAS is a lagging indicator

The lead you generated in September closes (or doesn't) in November. Most performance teams optimize on September's CPL and only find out in December they wasted six weeks of budget. ZIP models the lag.

Sat rate is the hidden variable in every CPL

A $180 lead that sits at 22% is $818 per sat demo. A $260 lead that sits at 42% is $619. The 'cheaper' lead is the more expensive customer. Performance marketing teams that don't have this math get outmaneuvered.

Every performance channel has a ZIP ceiling

In every ZIP, Google Ads, Meta, and LSAs each have a saturation point where the next dollar produces zero incremental sat demos. ZIP finds the ceiling per channel per ZIP so you don't over-fund saturated markets.

PE-backed operators are judged on performance media efficiency

Sponsor-backed home improvement platforms live and die on efficient customer acquisition. Every 100 bps of performance ROAS is a real EBITDA line. ZIP is the artifact that shows the operating partner the number is moving.

Windows & Doors · 51 showrooms · National

"Our performance marketing agency was optimizing Google Ads and Meta on 7-day CPL. ZIP showed us that our lowest-CPL ZIPs had a sit rate under 20% — meaning our 'best performing' campaigns were actually our worst customers. Reversed the optimization target to sat-demo ROAS. Sat demos up 34%, blended CAC down 19%, over the same 90-day window."

VP Performance Marketing, national windows & doors retailer

Frequently asked

How is ZIP different from tools like Triple Whale or Northbeam?

Those tools optimize DTC performance marketing — fast feedback loops, pixel attribution, high-frequency purchase. Home improvement is 45-day sales cycles, in-home consultation, and ZIP-level geo variance. ZIP is purpose-built for the home-improvement performance-marketing use case.

Does ZIP handle Local Services Ads?

Yes. LSAs are the least transparent, highest-volume channel in home services performance marketing. ZIP triangulates ZIP-level LSA performance from your CRM lookup data — the ZIP-level view Google's LSA dashboard won't give you.

Can ZIP push bid changes directly to Google Ads and Meta?

Yes. With API access, ZIP publishes ZIP-level bid modifiers and geo-exclusions on a weekly cadence. Your team approves each week's changes; ZIP handles the mechanics.

How does ZIP handle creative fatigue in performance channels?

Every creative gets scored on ZIP-level sat-demo cost over its lifetime. When a creative crosses a fatigue threshold in a specific ZIP or ZIP cluster, ZIP flags it in the weekly brief with the replacement recommendation.

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