Seven Front Doors: The Recap and Your One-Week Plan
All seven doors from the series in one table, the numbers that define them, and a one-door-a-day plan to fix each this week.
Three posts, seven doors, a lot of numbers. This page puts the whole series on one screen: what each door is, the number that decides it, and one small fix you can finish this week. If you missed Parts 1 through 3, the table below catches you up. If you read them all, this is the part you print.
The seven doors in one table
Every door, its number, and where it was covered:
- Search - 46% of Google searches carry local intent, and your profile drives up to 32% of the local pack (Part 2)
- Reviews - 47% of consumers won't use a business with fewer than 20; 89% expect replies; 74% weigh the last three months (Part 2)
- Social - 49% find new small businesses here first; cadence beats budget (Part 2)
- AI assistants - 52% of consumers asked one to find a local business this month (Part 2)
- Website - 70% of small business sites lack a call to action (Part 3)
- Mobile - 73% of local searches start on a phone; every 0.1 second of load time moves conversions 8.4% (Part 3)
- Word of mouth + the phone - referrals get fact-checked online, and 62% of calls to small businesses go unanswered (Part 3)
The two currencies
Every door in the series runs on one of two currencies. The discovery doors, search, reviews, social, AI, run on recency: they reward whoever is current and bury whoever went stale. The conversion doors, website, mobile, the phone, run on friction: they reward whoever removed resistance. Before you spend an hour anywhere, ask which currency that door trades in. Freshness work on a friction door, or polish on a recency door, is an hour spent in the wrong economy.
And remember what the whole spread costs if you run it alone: 3 to 10 hours a week on social alone comes to 4 to 13 full work weeks a year. The week plan below is the cheaper path, because each day is one door, one fix, done.
Your one-week plan
One door a day. Each action fits inside an hour.
- Monday, search: check your primary category and hours on your listing, add one photo from this month, post one update
- Tuesday, reviews: send the review link to your last five happy customers, and reply to every review sitting unanswered
- Wednesday, social: pick the one platform your customers use, post Tuesday's job, and put a repeating 30-minute block on your calendar
- Thursday, AI: state your name, address, services, and hours identically on your site and listing, so assistants can assemble you
- Friday, website: put one button above the fold that says exactly what a ready customer should do, and check your price page exists
- Saturday, mobile: time your homepage on your phone over cell data; compress the biggest images until it loads in three seconds
- Sunday, the phone: call your own business mid-task. If three rings pass, decide who answers it from now on
When the week is already full
Some owners will run that week and enjoy it. Most already gave those hours away somewhere else. That is the gap the CompeteFocus AI team was built for, without heroics: reviews get read and replies drafted for your approval, a month of posts gets planned around your real work and waits for your sign-off, your site stays fast and legible to both customers and assistants, and the phone gets answered in under a minute, around the clock. You keep every judgment call. The team keeps the treadmill.
Seven doors. Two currencies. One week, or one team.
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