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The exact 11-category audit Riley runs on every free Favze consultation, so you know exactly where you're losing leads and money, whether you're a lead generation business chasing form fills or a local business chasing foot traffic.

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The Real Problem

You're Losing Leads Somewhere. Most Owners Don't Know Where.

Every business leaks money in the same three places: buyers who never find you, leads who never get a fast enough follow-up, and customers who leave and never hear from you again. Most owners can feel that something's off, but can't point to exactly where the leak is, so they either do nothing or throw money at a random tactic and hope.

The Hidden Cost
You Can't Fix What You Can't See

If you don't know whether your problem is visibility, conversion, or follow-up speed, every dollar you spend is a guess.

The Frustration
Agencies Sell Audits to Sell You Something

Most "free audits" are a thinly veiled pitch deck. You get a generic PDF and a sales call, not an honest answer.

What You Actually Need
A Real Answer, Not a Sales Script

You need to see, category by category, exactly where the leak is and what it's costing you, before anyone asks you to buy anything.

The Guide

Riley Built This Checklist Because Guesswork Costs You Money

We Get It

Riley Catalano built Favze after watching lead generation and local businesses get sold vague "audits" that were really just sales pitches in disguise. That's backwards. You should be able to see exactly what's broken before anyone asks for a dime.

Why This Checklist Works

This is the exact 11-category process Riley runs on every consultation, covering findability, conversion, follow-up speed, and retention, the same categories that make up the Favze Framework. Riley holds more than 135 certifications and personally reviews every audit himself.

11
Categories audited, live, on your call
135+
Certifications held by founder Riley Catalano
$0
Cost to find out where you're leaking money

Below is the exact checklist Riley works through on every free consultation call for businesses across Northern Indiana and Michiana. Covering local visibility, technical SEO, AI search readiness, paid media, email, SMS, social, and CRM. Use it to see exactly where your business might be leaking customers, category by category.

01
How you show up when nearby customers search
  • Google Business Profile completeness (categories, hours, service areas, photos)
  • Review count, rating, and response history
  • NAP (name, address, phone) consistency across directories
  • Local map pack ranking for core service keywords
  • Citation coverage across local directories
02
The technical and organic foundation of your site
  • Organic keyword rankings for priority terms
  • Site architecture and internal linking
  • Page speed and Core Web Vitals
  • Mobile responsiveness
  • Meta titles, descriptions, and header structure
  • Schema markup presence
  • Backlink profile
  • Crawl errors and orphan pages
  • Content gaps versus competitors
03
AEO, GEO & AI Optimization
How AI tools find and describe your business
  • Presence in AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and Perplexity answers
  • FAQ and structured data implementation
  • Entity clarity, how AI tools describe the business
  • Content structured for direct-answer extraction, part of GEO
04
Whether visitors actually become leads
  • Overall site speed
  • Mobile usability
  • Conversion path clarity (CTAs, forms, click-to-call)
  • Trust signals (testimonials, certifications, reviews)
  • Basic accessibility check
05
Where ad spend is working, and where it's wasted
  • Existing campaign structure, if any
  • Ad spend efficiency and wasted spend
  • Landing page relevance to ad copy
  • Conversion tracking setup
  • Audience targeting review
06
How well your list is being used and protected
  • List size and growth rate
  • Open and click rates versus industry benchmark
  • Existing automation and nurture sequences
  • Deliverability health (SPF, DKIM, DMARC)
  • Segmentation strategy
07
A direct, high-open-rate channel most local businesses skip
  • Opt-in list size
  • Compliance language and consent capture
  • Current use cases
08
Whether your profiles build trust or sit stale
  • Posting consistency across platforms
  • Engagement rate
  • Content quality and brand consistency
  • Profile completeness
09
What happens to a lead after they reach out
  • Lead capture process
  • Pipeline and stage tracking
  • Follow-up speed and automation triggers
  • Data hygiene
10
Competitor Analysis
Where the competition is beating you, and why
  • Top 3 to 5 local competitors identified
  • Where they're outranking you and why
  • Their ad presence and offers
  • Review volume and rating comparison
11
Wrap-Up
What you leave the call with
  • Prioritized action list
  • Realistic timeline
  • Honest cost range
If You Skip the Audit
The Leak Keeps Draining Money
  • Ad spend keeps going toward clicks and keywords nobody's checked in months.
  • Leads keep slipping through because nobody can say how fast follow-up actually happens.
  • Competitors keep outranking you in places you've never even looked.
  • You keep guessing at what to fix next, based on a hunch instead of a number.
  • Six months from now, you've spent more and you still don't know what's actually working.
If You Book the Audit
You Know Exactly Where the Money Is
  • You see, category by category, exactly where leads are being lost and why.
  • You get a prioritized list of what to fix first, ranked by actual impact, not guesswork.
  • You get an honest cost range before you spend a dollar on fixing anything.
  • You walk away with a clear answer, whether you hire Favze or fix it yourself.
  • You stop wondering if your marketing is working, because now you can actually see it.
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