Homeowners are not only judging price and technical skill. They are deciding who they will let into the house, and that hesitation sits in the middle of the funnel where most contractors have nothing to show.
Profitability is decided by how the targeting is drawn, long before the first impression is served. Why zip-code boundaries waste budget, and what radius targeting and address exclusions fix.
Retargeting is one of the few places a contractor genuinely needs new creative. But rotation only helps if the audience is not already exhausted, usually it is.
Segmentation is presented as straightforwardly good. For a local contractor it usually is not, dividing a small audience produces several too small to deliver.