You don’t have a marketing problem.
You have a systems problem.
Rankings, clicks, and lead counts are symptoms. The real question is whether your business is growing. For 15 years, City Ranked has installed the proven system that makes growth repeatable, then backed it with revenue you can actually audit.
Inc 5000 Honoree 2023 and 2024 15 years in business Closed-loop revenue tracking
You’re shopping for the symptom.
Almost every business that goes looking for an agency starts in the same place. They decide the problem is their rankings, their ads, or their website, then go hire someone to do those things better. Those frustrations are real. They are not the reason the business stopped growing.
- Higher search rankings
- A lower cost per click
- A better looking website
- Another agency to try
- A repeatable system, run the same way every time
- Every qualified lead captured in your CRM
- Marketing measured against sales, not clicks
- Revenue you can trace back to the dollar
Better rankings do not equal growth. A lower cost per click does not equal growth. A system does. And there is one gap in that system most owners never see.
Most of your best leads never reach your CRM.
We studied more than $7 million in tracked advertising spend with two large home-services operators. The number we found is the one almost no agency will show you.
of high-intent inbound calls were recorded in the CRM, before introducing the Skout IVR. That percentage was the better of the two operators we studied. Not 37% that closed. 37% that were even entered into the CRM.
This is a risk when you depend on ‘Human Judgement’ to enter the lead manually.
Here is how it happens. The customer service rep tells the owner the leads are bad. Spam. Bot calls. Existing customers calling back. The agency points to call volume and click reports and insists the leads are qualified. Neither side has the data to prove it.
So the owner does the math, decides they have a marketing problem, and hires a new agency. A year later, nothing has changed, because nothing was ever fixed.
The leads were not bad. They were lost.
Tactics don’t scale. Systems do.
Most businesses never grow past their first few million in revenue. Not because their ads were bad or their rankings were low, but because nothing they did was repeatable. Growth you cannot repeat is not growth. It is luck, and luck runs out.
Repeatable
The same proven process runs every month, so results do not depend on who happens to be in the room that day.
Predictable
Every engagement is measured weekly against one number: qualified leads delivered. You always know exactly where you stand.
Scalable
A documented system deploys the same way in a new market or a new acquisition as it did in the first. Performance compounds.
City Ranked built its own company on these systems. A two-time Inc 5000 honoree in 2023 and 2024, we install that same discipline in your business, then run it for you. See the Digital Ramp process
One roof. One team. One number.
Most agencies hand you a stack of disconnected services and a pile of reports. City Ranked runs a single managed system, a proven process plus the technology to execute it, accountable for one outcome: qualified leads delivered into your CRM, reported every week.
Digital Ramp
A repeatable customer-acquisition process refined since 2010 and built on agile sprints. We establish your current state, deliver results in the first 90 days, then ramp into a full engagement measured weekly against the KPIs you agree to.
See the Digital RampAscent Toolkit
A suite of proprietary tools we built, tested, and operate in-house, so the system works as one instead of a pile of third-party logins.
Marketing Qualified Leads delivered, reported weekly. We track the full cycle, lead to MQL to sale to revenue, pulled straight from your CRM. At full Voice Intelligence, the lead arrives sales-ready: name, phone, email, the specific request, and the service address, inserted with no human intervention.
Ten ways to grow. One way to measure it.
Most agencies pull one or two levers and report on clicks. City Ranked runs all of them at once, from one expert team, in one managed environment, and holds every one to the same number.
and many more, activated together as your growth requires
The biggest names tried to buy this. We built it.
Two of the largest software companies in home services tried to acquire their way into this model. Both struggled to make it work. City Ranked built it from the inside over fifteen years, with one team owning the technology, the advertising, and the revenue together. That head start cannot be closed with a capital raise.
One team, one goal
We own the technology, manage the advertising, and track the revenue. No vendor handoffs. No finger-pointing when results need to improve.
Integrated with your CRM
Our system plugs directly into the CRM your sales team already runs, so marketing and sales work from the same record and growth is verifiable.
We manage the MarTech
API changes, automations, security, user management. We run the technology stack as part of the engagement. Most agencies cannot.
Closed-loop proof
Lead to MQL to sale to revenue, pulled from your CRM. The question “is our advertising making money” finally has an auditable answer.
We measure growth, not activity.
Most agencies report on clicks and call volume. We report on what actually reached your CRM, and what it became. Here is what the system does to lead capture.
Lead capture into the CRM. From a study of more than $7 million in tracked ad spend across two large home-services operators.
Trusted by service brands, franchises, and PE-backed platforms, including Senior Care Authority, Golden Corral, and Save A Lot.
Built for how you grow.
The system works the same way for every business. How we talk about it depends on who you are.
You run the business.
You want growth without micromanaging marketing. We become your outside advertising department, often for less than one in-house manager, and hand you back your time.
Home services businessesYou own the number.
You are judged on pipeline and revenue. We give you attribution your leadership trusts: MQLs, CRM-integrated tracking, and a weekly number you can defend.
See the systemYou scale across markets.
You need a repeatable system that de-risks new market entry and compounds across acquisitions. The same playbook, deployed and measured the same way, every time.
Enterprise and M&ASee the leads you’re already losing.
The Revenue Recovery Audit is a no-commitment look at how many qualified leads your advertising produces, how many actually reach your CRM, and what the gap is costing you every month. Most businesses are losing more than they think before a single sale is attempted.
No commitment. We show you the real number.