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Every story below comes from a recorded interview with the owner or marketing manager, on camera, saying it themselves. The numbers are theirs. So are the qualifiers — where a client said marketing was one part of the growth rather than all of it, we left that in.

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600+Contractors served
96%+Average monthly client retention
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3Trades only: plumbing, HVAC, electrical

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Documented results from real clients. No projections, no estimates without sourcing.

Cardinal Heating, Cooling, Plumbing & Electric

Featured case study

Google AdsLocal Service AdsSEO

Cardinal Heating, Cooling, Plumbing & Electric

Sun Prairie, Wisconsin · Multi-service home services · Seven-year partnership

A full-service home services company that turned digital marketing into one of its strongest business assets. Google Ads and Local Service Ads campaigns now operate at a profitable margin while competitors in the same market struggle to break even — and the budget has grown by more than 100% across the partnership because the returns justified it.

7Years as a client
100%+Budget growth over the partnership
Top 3Local search rankings

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Honest Abe’s Home Services

SEO

Lake of the Ozarks, MO · Plumbing, HVAC

Honest Abe’s Home Services

1 → 8 trucksin roughly two years

One man and one truck in February 2018. Eight trucks and $2.5M+ projected two years later — with no PPC spend, because we advised against it.

8Trucks, up from 1
$2.5M+Projected revenue
$0PPC spend

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Plumbing Nerds

Fort Myers, FL · Plumbing

Plumbing Nerds

$1.9M → $4.3Mannual revenue pace

John Verhoff left a generalist agency getting “mediocre results,” and more than doubled revenue in under two years.

2.2xRevenue pace
<2 yrsTime frame
1Niche agency, after a generalist

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Jerry Brittingham A/C & Heat

Local Service Ads

Daytona Beach, FL · HVAC

Jerry Brittingham A/C & Heat

374 → 621leads per month, same budget

66% more leads year over year with no increase in marketing spend — enough confidence to hire techs and buy vans.

+66%Leads year over year
621Leads per month
FlatMarketing spend

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Paul The Plumber

Southern New Hampshire · Plumbing, HVAC

Paul The Plumber

$36.74 → $20.48cost per lead, while volume rose 64%

285 to 468 monthly leads with cost per lead nearly halved. The largest single source wasn’t paid — it was Google Maps.

-44%Cost per lead
+64%Lead volume
468Leads per month

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The Meridian Company

Lansing, MI · Plumbing, HVAC, Electrical

The Meridian Company

Almost 2xcompany size since the change

Craig Phillipitch’s company had plateaued. Now there are stretches where they turn paid search off because they can’t handle the calls.

~2xCompany size
3Trades served
CapacityThe new constraint

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All Service

Northwest Indiana · HVAC, Electrical

All Service

2 → 5service technicians

Ryan Ferry grew service demand until he could walk away from construction work entirely and run a service-only business.

5Service technicians, up from 2
0Construction work remaining
ServiceBusiness model, by choice

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Valley Plumbing & Drain Cleaning

Salt Lake & Utah County, UT · Plumbing

Valley Plumbing & Drain Cleaning

+1 truckroughly every nine months

Not a hockey stick — something better. Years of lead flow reliable enough to keep justifying the next truck.

+1Truck, roughly every 9 months
YearsOf consistent lead flow
SteadyGrowth curve, not a spike

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Acosta Heating, Cooling & Electrical

SEOWeb DesignLocal Visibility

Charlotte, NC · HVAC, Electrical

Acosta Heating, Cooling & Electrical

2,000+ reviews4.7 rating, 50+ team members

Family-owned in Charlotte since 1972, now third generation. A rebuilt website, regular performance meetings and a reputation engine that compounds year over year.

4.7Google rating
2,000+Reviews
50+Team members

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John the Plumber

SEOGoogle AdsLocal Service AdsReputation

Pompano Beach, FL · Plumbing

John the Plumber

$200K+best single week on record

A third-generation South Florida plumbing business: fewer than 100 Google reviews to more than 2,000, and their best profit month on record in January 2026.

RecordProfit month, Jan 2026
2,000+Reviews, up from under 100
$200K+Single-week revenue

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How to read these

01Measurable, or it doesn’t count

Where we give you a number, it’s a number we can stand behind, tied to a source and a date. Different reporting periods and different channels are different measurements — stacking them into one impressive-sounding figure is how contractors get sold things that don’t work.

02Industry specialists

We work exclusively with plumbing, HVAC and electrical contractors. Every story on this page is from that world, which is why the numbers and the constraints will look familiar to you.

03Long-term partners

These results compound. Several of the clients here have been with us for the better part of a decade, and our average monthly client retention is 96%+.

These results depend on market, capacity, pricing, call handling, recruiting and operations. We don’t promise any contractor will repeat them. What you should look for instead is the pattern — in almost every story here, the marketing worked and then the constraint moved somewhere else in the business.

These stories, and others, appear in Josh Nelson’s book How to Triple Your Sales by Getting Your Digital Marketing Right. Read it free — it comes with the Growth Training Library: recorded workshops, the keyword tool, the Marketing Plan Builder and the lead-gap calculator.

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