Duration is a floor, not a scorecard. A two-minute call can be a wrong product. A six-minute call can be a tire-kicker who will never buy. Buyers who only watch billable minutes find out too late that close rates fell while invoices stayed 'healthy.' If your QA never listens, you are buying talk time, not intake.
Track answer rate on your side first. If your team misses transfers, no network can fix that. Then dispositions: wrong geo, already insured, not the decision-maker, retained counsel, below debt threshold. Source-level trends matter. One publisher can drag an otherwise clean campaign. Exclusive vs shared should show up in how you judge intent, not just in the rate card. Related verticals: HVAC pay-per-call filters, life insurance call quality.
Write the invalid list before launch. Wrong state. Renter when you required owner. Already a customer if you can prove it. Prank. Duration miss if you set one. Gray areas (shade on a solar roof, credit on a loan) only count if you put them in the billable definition. Don't try to reverse a call because the closer didn't book. That's intake, not traffic.
Honest limit: networks can enforce qualification scripts, recording review, and cutoffs on bad sources. They can't make your agents close. If talk tracks are weak or hours don't match when callers actually ring, you'll blame media for an intake problem. We can cut a path that fails the brief. We can't staff your floor.
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