Fees, not enquiries
Rank channels by fees earned so one signed matter outweighs fifty enquiries.
For Criminal Defense
Match retained matters and fees to the calls and campaigns that produced them, in a market where the decision is made within hours.
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The blind spot
Defence enquiries are urgent and price-sensitive, and a large share never retain. Call volume tells you which channel produces urgency, not which produces clients.
Rank channels by fees earned so one signed matter outweighs fifty enquiries.
A matter signed this year and resolved next still traces to the ad behind it.
Only exact matches count automatically; anything weaker is flagged rather than assumed.
Not impressions, not leads, not cost per click. Closed revenue, by the channel that produced it, for a period you choose — with the portion we could not trace shown rather than quietly shared out across your paid channels.
| Channel | Sales | Revenue | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Ads | 42 | $208,000 | |
| Meta Ads | 5 | $24,000 | |
| Email marketing | 2 | $12,000 | |
| Direct / Unknown | 31 | $156,000 |
Defence decisions are often made the same day, which makes the funnel short but does nothing to reduce the variance between channels. A channel producing many calls that do not retain is still the expensive one.
Ranking on retained fees separates them. It also shows which channels produce the matter types a firm actually wants rather than whichever arrives first.
Bail bondsmen, former clients and other attorneys refer a significant share of matters, and that is normally treated as invisible while advertising is measured precisely.
Uploaded as a source file, referral becomes comparable on the same basis, which frequently reframes where the marketing effort should go.
"We generated 400 leads" invites an argument. "This channel closed $186,400 last quarter, here is the reconciliation" ends one. The teams that can show closed revenue by channel are the teams that get the next increase approved, because they are asking with evidence rather than with conviction.
Killing spend is politically harder than adding it, because someone always owns the channel being cut. A number that reconciles to the sales export takes the argument out of the room — you are not overruling a colleague's judgement, you are reading the same ledger they are.
Platform-reported conversions do not reconcile to revenue, and eventually someone in finance notices. Reporting built from your own closed-sales export starts from the number finance already trusts, which is why it holds up when it is checked.
Because this reconciles exports rather than tracking visitors, it works on months that have already closed. You are not instrumenting now to learn something in ninety days — you can answer for last quarter today, which is usually when the question is being asked.
Which the report handles fine — a short cycle is easier than a long one. The variance between channels is the thing being measured.
Which is why ranking on fees rather than matter count matters.
A contact detail, a fee and a date. No charge, no matter details, nothing else.
Flat monthly pricing with no per-call, per-minute or per-form fees. The number here is the number on the invoice. Most criminal defense land on Growth.
A single business getting started
$49/mo
billed monthly
A business scaling ad spend
$199/mo
billed monthly
One business closing at volume
$499/mo
billed monthly
Reporting on many clients at once
$799/mo
billed monthly
Retained matters: a client contact email or phone, the fee, and a date.
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