05/08/2026
If you run any digital ads as a trades business, install Google Tag Manager on day one.
GTM is Google's free container that holds every tracking pixel — Google Ads, Meta, GA4, call-tracking, Microsoft Ads — in one place. You manage all of them from a single dashboard. No more dev tickets to add a pixel.
Per Google's Tag Manager documentation, install is a single snippet in the head of your site. Once it is in, every future tag adds in minutes, not days.
The trades businesses that skip GTM end up with multiple pixels installed by different developers, none of which the owner can see or update. The lock-in is silent.
Install GTM this week. Future-you will thank present-you.