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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 ClearPoint 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
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