Ironhorse Heavy Recovery × TicTakMedia

~3× the Network's Typical Profit per Job

A specialist account built around the premium end of the job mix: two-way tows and recovery work that carry roughly 10× the per-job profit of a lockout call.

TowingUSAPerformance Marketing
Profit per Job vs Network Norm~3×
Profit-to-Ad-Spend Ratio1.68 : 1
Job Mix FocusTwo-way tow + recovery
Two-Way Tow vs Lockout Profit~10×

What changed for Ironhorse Heavy Recovery

The challenge

Every missed call is a tow on someone else’s truck.

In towing, not all jobs are equal: a two-way tow carries roughly ten times the gross profit of a lockout. Most accounts chase call volume and let the job mix fall where it may.

The job: invert that. Build the account around the premium job types and accept a higher cost per call in exchange for a radically better profit per job.

01

Missed Emergency Calls = Lost Tows

A stranded driver calls the first listing that answers. Every missed inbound is a tow that went to the next truck. There is no second touch in roadside.

02

Calls Tracked, Jobs Invisible

Most towing operators know their call volume but not which campaigns create actual dispatched jobs. Optimizing for calls instead of jobs burns budget on junk volume.

03

Junk-Call Budget Drain

Lockouts, gas runs, and tire calls carry a fraction of the per-job profit of a real tow. Untracked, they quietly eat the ad budget that should be winning two-way tows.

04

No After-Hours Engine

Roadside demand peaks at night and on weekends, exactly when most operators stop answering. The demand does not pause; it just converts on a competitor's number.

Our approach

Built on answered calls and job-level economics.

Towing is won on answered calls and job-level economics. We run emergency-intent paid search, wire every campaign to tracked call routing, and grade every call to the job it becomes, so budget flows to the jobs that actually pay.

01

Emergency-Intent Paid Search

Campaigns built exclusively on high-intent roadside queries like tow truck near me, winch out, and flatbed, scheduled around when breakdowns actually happen, not business hours.

02

Tracked Call Routing

Every campaign gets a dedicated tracking number feeding a monitored ring group. Every inbound is answered, logged, and attributed back to the exact campaign and keyword that produced it.

03

Job-Level Profit Steering

Every call is graded to its job type. Two-way tows carry roughly 10× the per-job profit of a lockout, so budget is continuously steered toward the job mix that pays.

The results

Jobs dispatched. Economics held.

~0×

Profit per Job

~3× the typical account

1.68 : 1

Profit vs Ad Spend

$1 ads → $1.68 profit

~0×

Job-Mix Economics

Two-way tows vs lockout

How it unfolded

Timeline

4 phases
1

Phase 01: Tracking Foundation

Dedicated tracking numbers, ring-group routing, and job-level logging stood up before scaling spend. No optimization happens on data you don’t have.

2

Phase 02: Campaign Launch + Restructure

Emergency-intent search campaigns launched and restructured around answered-call rate and call-to-job conversion, not vanity click metrics.

3

Phase 03: Job-Mix Optimization

Call grading data steers budget toward high-profit job types. Junk-call sources get cut; two-way tow and recovery queries get the headroom.

4

Phase 04: Scaled Steady-State

Volume scales while cost per job holds inside the target band. The account compounds with more calls, more jobs, and the same unit economics.

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