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How Far Should You Travel? The Service Area Decision

Drive time is unpaid time. Drawing the map your business actually serves — deliberately, not by whoever called last week.

12 min read·Updated Aug 2026·The Clear Point Decision Framework

A job forty minutes away pays the same as a job five minutes away, but one of them just cost you an hour and a half of unpaid driving there and back. Most home services businesses never actually decide their service area — it grows one accepted booking at a time, until the van spends more time on the highway than in a driveway. This Conversation is about drawing that map on purpose.

01What? Understand the issue
02Why? Understand why it matters
03How? Explore practical approaches
04When? Understand timing
05Who? Identify the people involved
06The Decision

This Sector Conversation is for Momentum members.

The full walk-through — What, Why, How, When, Who, then The Decision — plus the follow-on prompts to continue the Conversation with Veran, your Momentum AI.

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