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My 1st 3 full weeks of business running Facebook ads
I'm writing to you guys about this win, because I think some of you need to hear it. You need to hear that this business is real and you can do it if you follow the plan that @Austin Gray laid out so perfectly for us. Follow it and do exactly what he says. You just need to act. Cowboy up, and start buckin. Disclaimer: I have a full-time management job in aviation, so any of this new business idea stuff has to be weekends and afternoons. So keep that in mind while you read this. 5 weeks ago, I had nothing but a plan. No machine, no mulcher, no money. Nothing. I knew i had a small bonus from work coming, so I'd use that as ad money and operating capital. But I started with nothing. But I knew I could do this. I came across OwnrOps on YouTube and started soaking everything up. And I mean I watched it all. Luckily I didn't join any fb groups first, because I probably wouldn't have taken the leap. Most of that crowd is made up of losers and dream busters anyway. I watched all of Austin's starter info and got more excited and pumped the deeper I dove. I finally messaged Austin and asked him if he thought running ads without a machine and booking jobs was a good idea to test my market and my resolve. Well... the first 3 days of running ads, I booked 3 jobs from 4 leads. I was HOOKED. It was thrilling. Here I am... no machine and I'm scheduling jobs. Crazy, right!?! 😆 I needed to see if I could prove my business case to myself, and if it was worth me going and buying a machine. I thought, well... if I can book 3 jobs in 3 days from 4 leads, I'm good to go! So I did. I got financed (easier than financing a 30k car, which was scary) and bought a machine that costs more than my first house. Nuts, right?! It was going great for the first 5 days, then boom! I got stalled by fb- I started running ads 5 weeks ago, but Facebook shut me down for 2 weeks due to card verification problems. So truly my ads have only been spending for 3 solid weeks. Since they started spending, almost everyday I've been quoting jobs after my 9-5. Sometimes 3 and 4 in an afternoon.
My 1st 3 full weeks of business running Facebook ads
2 likes • 29d
@Seth and Emma Thomas Market is pretty good here. I have about a dozen competitors within a 20 mile radius
0 likes • 23d
@Phil Ostroski I booked the first job 3 weeks out. Kinda just hoped I had a machine by then. It worked out 😄. Now I can barely keep up with the work. 3 jobs last week while daughter graduated HS last Monday and all those events. Quoted 4 yesterday (scheduled 1 with deposit) , just got back from a job tonight and 3 more to complete this week. Just do it man. It's a lot of fun.
Pipeline too full? (looking for opinions)
So this season is going gang busters. I now have over $100k of jobs on the books and my schedule is full almost to the end of June. Today I did another 10 estimate appointments, have another 10 next Friday, another 6 the Friday after that and another 10 leads I'm still chasing down and more coming in each day! For all of today's estimates I had to tell them I was booking new jobs in June. I booked 8 of those jobs with the other 2 being strong maybes. When I told each of them that my first available dates were in June they were all a little shocked but were already sold on the work so it wasn't a deal killer. Here's my dilemma; when I do next week's estimates I'll be telling some of them that I'm booking new jobs in *JULY* which is 3+ months away. In the past I've observed that jobs booked out too far are subject to more cancellations when the time gets closer to the job date. I'm considering pausing my ads for a bit (or maybe reducing the daily spend from $50 down to $10 or something?) So, has anyone else run into this problem? Am I crazy to think about pausing/slowing the ads down for 4-6 weeks? Any other suggestions/opinions? Before you suggest it, I'm just not at a place where I feel like I could or even want to find/train/equip other employees. Being the boss that just drives ads & estimates is a future goal but not yet.
7 likes • Apr 4
You need another machine and operator. There's never a good time to hire and train, but sounds like you need to. It's really not that hard to learn to mulch. You need to listen to the live podcast from today. I'll need to hire soon too. Once I get my equipment in order, I've got to start looking that direction, then another machine, etc.... Fantastic problem to have tho! Keep killing it!
0 likes • 27d
@Justin Surine I need to find one soon. Still in the beginning phase, so I'm learning the business trends before I make that leap.
Are there any folks from Alabama?
Let me know where your from I’d like to get to know as many people as I can. My face book page and website Is being built. Hoping to have it running by the end of the weekend. I’M ready to start running adds.
1 like • May 15
@Roy Campbell I've gotten a few requests for quotes in Greenville. Do you have equipment yet? I'll give you some leads
0 likes • 29d
@Roy Campbell other end of the state. Spanish Fort
Completed $13.5k jobs in first 3 Weeks
@Jesse Reding shares a snapshot since joining OPS Training: - $13,500 collected in his first 3 weeks - Another $2,500 job on the books for Monday - 10 more jobs in the pipeline from the same system Watch Jesse’s quick video below to hear how he did it and what changed in his business after installing the OPS Training Playbook ⬇️
0 likes • May 11
Right on, bro!
Competition survey.
On one of the other Ownr Ops pages I was reading they recommend seeing how many other companies offer forestry mulching / fire mitigation, as a service, with 50 miles of your location. How many of you did this and what did you find? I'm trying to figure out if my area is oversaturated. Thanks in advance.
1 like • May 1
@Matt Lohrey nope, Lol. I wanted to rent a machine first, but i could not bring myself to spend that much, when a monthly payment on a new setup was half of what a week's rental fee is. I just scheduled them for a month out. The very first day I went out to do job estimates and I booked 3 in a row after running fb ads for 1 week. That was good enough for me to go buy a machine. I thought... if i can book jobs after only that much time, then I could really hit a home run with this if I put effort into it. Since then, I can't keep up with all the work.
0 likes • May 1
@Matt Lohrey smart move
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Josh Reaper
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Owner Reaper Field and Forest

Active 12d ago
Joined Feb 17, 2026
Spanish Fort, Alabama
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