Site Sourcery · Of Record · Plate IV §04 · The Meter

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Proof, every month

We don’t ask you to trust us. We show you.

Once a month. In plain English. Signed by a real person.

Most web people promise the world, then go quiet the week after your site is live. We do the opposite. Once a month, one short note lands in your inbox: what your site actually did. How many people called. How many became customers. Your new reviews. Where you show up when someone searches. You read it in a minute — no dashboard to log into, nothing to learn. This page shows you exactly what one looks like.

It is
one plain note, sent to you every month
It isn’t
a dashboard you log into, learn, and babysit
It shows
calls, new customers, reviews, and where you show up
Good news or bad
you get it either way — that’s the whole point

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One sample month

Here’s a whole month’s note, start to finish.

This is a made-up month for one of our example shops — not a real customer’s results. Because these numbers aren’t real yet, they stay in plain ink. When it’s your real month, they get a color we save only for the truth. First, the scoreboard.

 A sample of the monthly note — not a real customer’s month

The Meter · Tidewater Plumbing & Heating · a sample Junesample
14calls from the site
6new jobs booked
9new Google reviews
#7  #3Google map spot
2AI assistants name you
Every figure here is a sample, so it stays in ink. When it’s your real month — counted from your real calls and real reviews — the numbers earn the proof color, a green we keep only for the truth.

And the note that comes with it — the part no dashboard sends:

The Meter — Tidewater Plumbing & Heating June · sample note

Here’s what your site did in June.

Fourteen people called you straight from the site — most tapped the call button right on their phone. Six turned into booked jobs, and three of those came in after hours, when your old site would’ve sent them to voicemail. The burst-pipe / no-heat section you asked for is already catching people who used to scroll right past.

You picked up nine new Google reviews from the follow-up we send after each job, and you climbed the map: for “emergency plumber Woodbury” you moved from the 7th spot to the 3rd over four weeks.

The one we like best: when we asked a few AI assistants this week for the best emergency plumber in Woodbury, two of the three named Tidewater.

  • What we did on your site this monthAdded the burst-pipe / no-heat section, right up top where it’s seen first
  • Made the 24/7 call button one tap, so an emergency never hunts for your number
  • Posted two job photos from the Mullica Hill repair
  • Updated your hours for the holiday weekend

Sent by a real person in South Jersey. Reply to this note and you reach them — not a bot, not a ticket. If a number ever dips, you’ll hear why, and what we’re already doing about it.

 Sample figures for an example shop — not a real customer’s month


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How we count it

Every number is a real thing that happened — or it doesn’t go in.

No meaningless clicks, no puffed-up “views.” The Meter counts the things a business owner actually cares about, each the plain way.

Calls
taps on your call button — counted, not guessed
New jobs
the calls that became work — you tell us which ones, we don’t assume
Reviews
new reviews, counted on Google where they land
Where you show up
your spot on the Google map for the searches that matter to your trade
AI answers
whether the assistants name you when someone asks for your trade in your town — we check

There’s a color on the Meter you’ll never see on this page: a green we save for the truth. A sample can’t wear it. Only your real, counted month can.

That’s not a design touch — it’s a promise built into the page. Sample numbers, like the ones above, show in plain ink. The proof color only ever touches a number we’ve counted from your real calls and your real reviews. If it’s green, it’s true. The page itself won’t let us fake it.


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No dashboards

You never log into anything.

The whole idea is that you keep running your business, not a marketing app. The Meter comes to you — first week of the month, in your inbox, in plain words. Read it in a minute. Reply to a real person. That’s it.

Proof you can read in a minute, every month — whether the news is good or bad. That’s the difference between someone who sells you a website and someone who stays on the hook for it.

Anyone can show you a chart that only goes up. We show you the real month — and when something slips, we tell you why before you have to ask. The Meter is how we stay honest out loud, every thirty days, for as long as you’re with us. It’s also why leaving is easy: there’s never a mystery about what you’re paying for.

The free preview is a real sketch of your own site in about a minute — not the finished thing. Your real one is built from scratch, with your photos, and looks better. Rather talk to a person first? That door’s on every page.