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“Alexa find me a plumber” gets 588 searches a month in 2026 — voice search now drives 30% of home-services queries. The 3 ranking factors that decide which pro Alexa recommends, and why $40-per-lead platforms lose voice search.
Pros pay $50-$80 per plumbing/HVAC lead, $15-$25 for cleaning — same lead sold to 4 other pros. Win rate runs 11-20%. Calculate your true cost-per-won-job + savings on AllBetter’s 15% completion-only model.
Blackstone bought Champions Group Holdings for $2.5B in February 2026 — 22 HVAC/plumbing/electrical brands, 7 states, 1,800 technicians. Here’s the brand list, the BXPE perpetual-capital math, and how the 18× EBITDA gets to your kitchen-table quote.
Why your “local” contractor might be a private-equity front — and how to tell in under 10 seconds.
AI-generated fake reviews + bot-built contractor websites are the fastest-growing scam category of 2026. The 7 red flags + why Stripe Identity verification is the only reliable defense.
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