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Marketing Is Broken: Why You’re So Busy and Still Not Getting Anything Done

October 14, 2025
Danny Peavey

Meetings That Practically Run Themselves.

Bring Scorecard into company huddles, one-on-ones, or interviews. Visible stats keep conversations focused, clear, and drama-free. No bias, no guessing — just facts that guide the next play. Unstructured, unproductive, or emotional meetings.

Most home service teams don’t need more meetings—they need more momentum. A TV scoreboard in the break room does what spreadsheets never could: it makes performance visible, exciting, and real. When your team walks past a screen that shows today’s revenue, conversion rate, or booked jobs climbing toward a goal, something clicks. The numbers stop being abstract. They become a game everyone’s playing together.

Unlike a dashboard buried in an office computer, a scoreboard commands attention. It broadcasts success like a stadium jumbotron—bold, colorful, and alive with progress bars, leaderboards, and daily wins. Techs start competing to see their names rise; CSRs cheer when the day’s goal lights up green. It’s not about micromanagement; it’s about pride. You’re not asking people to “track their metrics.” You’re giving them something worth watching.

That shift builds self-motivation.

Instead of waiting for a performance review, your team gets feedback in real time—and they respond with action. High performers push even harder; new hires catch on faster. The energy spills out of the break room and into the field, where every job feels like a chance to add another point to the board. That’s how culture changes—not through pressure, but through play.

When gross margin starts to slip, most owners feel it before they see it. The numbers just don’t look right—profit feels thin, jobs that should’ve been wins suddenly aren’t. The problem is, by the time that gut feeling hits, it’s usually too late. The month’s almost over, and you’re left piecing together what went wrong. Was it labor? Materials? Discount creep? Without real-time visibility, you’re flying blind while the leak keeps widening.

The fix starts with catching problems early.

Daily scoreboards pull live data straight from ServiceTitan, so when margins dip below target, you know immediately. Not just “something’s off,” but exactly where it’s off. Scorecard flags the top jobs that dragged down profitability—showing the techs, invoices, and ticket sizes behind the dip. Instead of combing through endless reports, you can address issues that same day: adjust pricing, rebalance workloads, or schedule a quick training touch-up.

That kind of speed changes the game. You stop managing from the rearview mirror and start coaching in real time. Teams begin to take ownership of their numbers, watching the scoreboard and making their own course corrections. Over time, gross margin stops being a monthly surprise and becomes a daily pulse check—a sign of a company that doesn’t wait for problems to grow before fixing them.

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