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For Supermove

Are the leads you buy better than the ads you run?

Supermove already reports revenue by referral source. This adds the campaign behind it — and prices bought leads against your own advertising.

No API key Nothing to install in Supermove No card required

The gap

You buy leads shared with two competitors and you run your own ads, and you have never compared the two on anything but cost per lead.

Supermove sees

What was sold, to whom, and for how much.

no shared row
Your ad account sees

The click, the keyword, the call, and what each one cost.

The file

What the export needs in it.

Three things carry the match: who, how much, and when. Anything else is optional and only changes how the report can be sliced.

  1. Needed

    Customer phone or email

    The customer on the job. Phone is the stronger key — moving is quoted and booked on the phone.

  2. Needed

    Invoiced amount

    The final invoice after the weigh-in, not the estimate. On interstate work the two differ enough to change the ranking.

  3. Needed

    Invoice or move date

    Consistent between uploads. Most movers use the invoice date because that is what their accounts recognise.

  4. Optional

    Move type

    Long-distance and local are different businesses on one phone line and should never be averaged.

Step by step

Getting the file out of Supermove.

Written for somebody with Supermove open in the next tab. Report names vary by edition, so each step says what to look for.

  1. Start from the revenue-by-referral-source report

    Supermove reports revenue against referral source and exports to CSV, so the revenue side of this is already the shape you need.

  2. Export invoiced jobs with customer contact details

    The contact detail is what lets the report go a level deeper than the source name — to the campaign, the keyword and the call.

  3. Add a move-type column

    An interstate move invoices thousands and a local move hundreds. Blended, the average describes neither.

  4. Upload the lead vendor exports

    Each vendor's delivered-leads file becomes a source file, ranked on invoiced revenue rather than on leads delivered.

  5. Add your own ad and call exports

    This is the comparison the exercise exists for: bought leads against owned demand, on the same measure.

What comes back

The page Supermove cannot show you.

Revenue by channel, the count of sales behind each figure, and an honest bucket for the ones nobody could trace. Sample figures, from the worked example on the Long-Distance Movers page — not from a Supermove account.

Traced to a channel$3,287,00066% of $4,980,000
Sales matched530 of 803high confidence only
Average sale$6,200per paid sale
ChannelShareSalesRevenue
Google Ads209$1,295,000
Purchased leads185$1,145,500
Organic search96$597,500
Meta Ads40$249,000
Direct / Unknown273$1,693,000

Unmatched sales stay in Direct / Unknown. They are never spread across the paid channels to make the total look better.

The argument

What changes when the move and the ad share a row.

The lead vendor grades its own homework

A large share of this industry's demand is purchased, frequently shared with two or three competitors, and speed of response decides who wins the job. The vendors report leads delivered, because leads are the product they sell.

That leaves a mover comparing a vendor's cost per lead against their own cost per lead, when the question that matters is cost per invoiced job. Two sources delivering leads at identical prices can differ by more than double on close rate and average invoice.

Because Supermove already reports revenue against referral source, the revenue half of this is solved. What it cannot do is rank the vendor's file against your Google Ads account on the same axis, because it never receives the ad data. That is the layer this adds.

Estimates and invoices diverge exactly where it matters

Interstate moves are quoted on an estimate and invoiced on actual weight and services. The difference is largest on the biggest jobs, which are the ones that decide which source is worth buying from.

Exporting the final invoice rather than the booked estimate is a one-column decision that changes the ranking, and it makes the report reconcile to the company's accounts rather than to a sales figure.

Long-distance and local do not belong in one number

An interstate move is quoted, surveyed and booked weeks ahead and invoices thousands. A local move books in days and invoices hundreds. They share a brand, a phone number and usually one ad account.

Blended, the average job value describes neither, and the sources that bring the large moves look identical to those that bring small ones. A move-type column separates them so each can be funded on its own numbers.

Speed to contact is measurable, and it is the whole game

On shared leads the first mover to reach the customer usually wins. That makes response time the operational lever, and it is testable: upload the lead file with its timestamp and the invoiced jobs, and the report can show win rate against time to first contact.

That is a different question from which channel is best, and for a company buying shared leads it is frequently the more valuable one.

What to renegotiate with once you have the number

The practical output of this exercise in a moving company is leverage. Lead vendors sell on volume and price per lead, and a mover with no revenue data can only negotiate on those terms.

A table showing invoiced revenue per source, with close rate and average invoice beside it, changes the conversation. It supports asking for a lower price on a source that closes poorly, more volume on one that closes well, or exclusivity on shared leads that would otherwise be worth walking away from.

It also tells you when your own advertising has quietly become cheaper per invoiced job than the leads you buy, which is the point at which the budget should move and usually does not, because nobody has checked.

Fair questions

“Supermove already does that.” Not quite.

They say

“Supermove already reports revenue by referral source.”

We say

It does, and that is the strongest starting point in this segment. What it cannot do is put your ad account and your lead vendor on one axis, because it never sees the ad data.

They say

“Our leads are shared and we lose most of them.”

We say

Which is the point — the report shows what you won from each source, not what you were sent.

They say

“Estimates change after the weigh-in.”

We say

Export the final invoice and the report uses the real number, which is the more honest column anyway.

Questions

Supermove, specifically.

Something else? Ask us and a person answers.

Invoiced jobs with a customer phone or email, the amount, and a date. The revenue-by-referral-source report is a good starting point.

Supermove and the other product names and logos on this page belong to their owners and are shown to identify the software a file comes from. CloseRev is not affiliated with or endorsed by them, and connects to none of them: it reads a file you export.

Start today

Two exports, and you will know.

Nothing to install in Supermove, no API key, and no need to have been tracking anything until now. Last year works as well as this month.