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.

Just wrapped this week’s Accelerator call. Couple big wins: @Ryan Hollis is crankin’ – booked out 8 weeks, made his first equipment‑operator hire, and is getting off the machine and into sales/PM mode. Pulled $53k this month… I’m betting he blows past his $500k goal @Colby McArthur leveled up (again) – bought new iron (KX-040) and hired a Project Manager so he can stay locked in on quoting and closing. My money’s on him crossing $1M this year @Chris Vangsnes smashed 30 acres for $58k and captured some killer footage on the job Snow’s gone here in CO and we’re back to full-send season with a new 3‑man crew starting next week. Your turn: What’s ONE win from your week? Big or small, drop it in the comments so we can stack ’em up 🔥

Have had 3 fb ads going for about 2 weeks or so, totaling $1200 ish as of today! Week days at $100-150 daily spend and weekends daily spend goes to about $400 (between the 3) Total they have generated 17 leads - costing 50-60 per lead with one lead from one ad costing the $190 (the test ad - and ads manager is saying it’s the winner… somehow). Of these leads have quoted 8 jobs for roughly $68k and haven’t closed any of those jobs. Still trying to close them. The other 11, I have 3-5 touch points so far with depending on when the lead has come in and still reaching for that 7-12. I have been trying to get get to the leads as soon as they come in but I have I haven’t noticed they don’t load immediately in the app so I’m around the 30-60min response time pretty consistently - I haven’t figured out to get the app to be faster, not using any of the automations things yet) So I’m in the process of trying to figure out what needs to change to get a higher close rate whether it be sales or price. First thing I’m focusing on right now is sales. If I continuing quoting after changing some of the sales stuff in person and still not closes then I will start to look into price as last resort

First job booked today. Two weeks after starting ads. 25K in estimates sent out and the jobs are starting to book.